GOODLEIGH  M294

Official No:  144327     Port Number and Year:  28th in London, 1920 (LO311)                                                                                    -   in Hull, 1922 (H662)                                                                                   1st in Milford, 1948                                                                                    -   in Hull, 1950? (H134)

Description: Mersey Class steel side trawler; steam screw, coal burning. Ketch rigged: mainsail,  mizzen.

Crew: 12 men

Registered at Milford: 15 May 1948

Built: Cochrane & Son, Selby, in 1918.  (Yard no. 836). Launched and completed as JAMES WRIGHT

Tonnage: 325.85 grt  130.35 net

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 138.5 / 23.7 / 12.8

Engine: T 3-Cyl. 68.9 nhp.11 kts.  Engine and boiler by Charles D. Holmes & Co., Hull

Owners:   As JAMES WRIGHT LO311 1920:  Unknown owner.   Renamed LORD ANCASTER H662 2 Aug 1922: Pickering & Haldane's Steam Trawling Co., Hull.   15 Jul 1935: J. Marr & Son, Fleetwood. 4 Nov 1935: Renamed WESTCOATES [Operated through City Steam Fishing Co., Hull, and fished from Hull.]   Renamed LOCH MOIDART Sep 1939: Loch Fishing Co., Hull   1945: A. & M. Smith, Hull?   15 May 1948:  H. J. Richards, 'Goodleigh House', Bulford Rd., Johnston. Manager Owner   Renamed GOODLEIGH M294 7 Jun 1948: Goodleigh Fisheries, Docks, Milford Manager: Henry John Richards   As H134 8 Aug 1950: Associated Fisheries Trawling Co., St. Andrews Dock, Hull Manager Thomas William Boyd Renamed LORD LYNWOOD

Landed at Milford:  21 Jul 1948 - 22 Mar 1949

Skippers:

Notes: 15 Mar 1918: Delivered as JAMES WRIGHT to Admiralty (No. 3576) Jun 1940: Requisitioned as LOCH MOIDART, and converted to Armed Patrol Vessel. Feb 1942: Converted to minesweeper, and joined 34th M/S Group based at Grimsby. 1945: 179th M/S Group, Grimsby. Jan 1946: Returned to owners. Oct 1952: Broken up at Dunston. [Information kindly supplied by Gil Mayes.]

Cert. Cancelled & Milford Registry Closed: 8 Aug 1950

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