HAWTHORNBANK  LT237 / M237 / M82

JACKETA LT237

Courtesy of Barry Banham

Official No:  144996    Port Number and Year: 6th in Milford, 1937                                                                               5th in Berwick, 1937 (BK ?)                                                                               9th in Milford, 1945                                                                                 -   in Lowestoft, 1946 (LT237)

Description: Admiralty steel drifter / side trawler, steam screw, coal burning. Ketch rigged: mizzen sail

Crew:  9 men

Registered at Milford: M237: 24 Aug 1937;  M82: 28 Dec 1945

Built: 1918 by Alexander Hall & Co., Aberdeen, for the Admiralty. (Yard no. 551)

Tonnage: 96.27 grt  35.55 net.

Length / breadth / depth (feet):  86.2  / 18.5 / 10.8

Engine: T 3-Cyl. 42 nhp.9 kts.  Engine and boiler by builders

Owners:   1918: Launched for Admiralty as FAIR WIND   1919: Renamed HAWTHORNBANK Unknown owners.   Renamed JEHAN ANGO D896 Date?: Soc. Anon. de Peche & Arm. de Dieppe   Renamed HAWTHORNBANK M237 24 Aug 1937: Reginald Llewellyn Hancock, 'Beachways', Picton Rd., Hakin Manager Owner   As BK ? 1 Oct 1937: Alexander Collin, Beach Ave., Eyemouth, Berwick (32/64) James Jamieson, Ebba Rd., Eyemouth, Berwick (32/64)   As M82: 28 Dec 1945:  Prescelly Dredging Co., 26 Hamilton Tce., Milford Manager: Reginald Llewellyn Hancock, Docks, Milford   16 Jul 1946: Arthur Claude Mitchell, 'Stradbroke Lodge', The Rath, Milford Manager Owner Transferred to the port of Lowestoft as LT237   1951: Renamed JACKETA LT237 A. C. Mitchell, 2 Gunton Cliff, Lowestoft.

Landed at Milford: 1 Jun, 2 Jul 1937; 12 Jul 1946; 20, 25 Mar 1949; 16 May - 7 Jul 1950; 5 Jan 1954 - 25 Apr 1956

Skippers:

Notes:  6 Aug 1918: Launched as FAIR WIND for the Admiralty May 1919: Renamed ATTENTIVE II 21 Jun 1920: Transferred to Fishery Board, Scotland, and renamed HAWTHORNBANK Feb 1940 - Oct 1945: Hired by Admiralty as boom tender.  (Renamed HAWTHORN ?)

Cert. Cancelled & Milford Registry Closed: M237: 11 Oct 1937; M82: 16 Jul 1946.

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