JACKEVE LT116

John Stevenson Collection

Official No:  131875    Port and Year: Kirkcaldy, 1920? (KY45)                                                                Fraserburgh, ? (FR54)                                                                Lowestoft, 1929 (LT116)

Description: Admiralty steel drifter. Side trawler, steam screw, coal burning. Ketch rigged.

Crew:  9 men

Built: 1920 by Lea Shipbuilding, Canning Town, London, for the Admiralty. (Yard no. 859)

Tonnage: 96 grt  36 net.

Length / breadth / depth (feet):  86.2  / 18.5 / 9.3

Engine: T 3-Cyl. 43 nhp.10 kts.

Owners:   Launched as WHIRLBLAST 31 Jul 1920: Fishery Board of Scotland.   Renamed STELLA AURORAE KY45 Unknown date and owners   As FR54 Unknown date and owners   Renamed ABIDING FRIEND LT116 26 Nov 1929: A.C. & G. Mitchell, Lowestoft.   By 1933: H. H. Catchpole, Lowestoft.   Renamed JACKEVE LT116 19 Apr 1938: Mitchell Bros., (Jackora Ltd.) Docks, Milford   c.1946: Hamilton Fishing Co., Docks, Milford Manager: J. C. Llewellin (Trawlers), Docks, Milford

Landed at Milford: 28 Apr 1938 - 16 Nov 1939; 21 Jul 1946 - 5 Feb 1954

Skippers:

Notes:  1920: Delivered as WHIRLBLAST for the Admiralty Nov 1939 - Nov 1945: Hired by Admiralty as a minesweeper (P.No. FY.958).  1954: Broken up at Ward's Yard, Castle Pill.

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