Official No:  137640  Port and Year:   Leith?, c.1923 (LH ? )                                                                Buckie, 1926? (BCK271)                                                                Lowestoft, c.1940 (LT129)

Description: Admiralty steel drifter / liner; single screw, coal burning.  Ketch rigged.

Crew:

Built: 1918: John Lewis & Sons, Aberdeen.  (Yard no. 65)

Tonnage:  97 grt  42 net.

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 86.25   / 18.6 / 10

Engine:

Owners:   As MIRAGE 6 Jul 1920: Fishery Board of Scotland   Renamed: THORNTREE  LH ? 1923: J & A S Horns, Prestonpans   Renamed MARY & JANE BK271 1926?:  J T Graham & A Vyse, Kirkcaldy.   Renamed JACKORA LT129 Mar1940: Mitchell Bros. (Jackora Ltd.), Docks, Milford Manager: A. C. Mitchell

Landed at Milford:  As MARY & JANE BCK271: 18 Sep 1939 - 24 Mar 1940 As JACKORA LT129: 2 Apr 1940 - 9 Jun 1945.  [Landed during the summer months only, from 1948 - 1955.]

Skippers:

Notes: 16 Dec 1918:  Delivered to the Admiralty (No.3926) as MIRAGE. 1 x 6 pdr. 1943: Diesel engine fitted.