JOSEPH HODGKINS A186

Official No:  139809    Port Number and Year:   Aberdeen 1919

Description: Castle Class  steel side trawler; steam screw, coal burning. Ketch rigged

Crew:

Built: 1919 by Hepple & Co., South Shields (Yard no. 650)

Tonnage: 275 grt  120 net

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 125  / 23.4  / 12.6

Engine: T.3-cyl; 48 ihp = 10.5  kts.;  by Belliss & Morcom Ltd, Birmingham

Owners:   1919: F. R. Samson, London Managers: Brand & Curzon, Docks, Milford   Apr 1921: S & B Trawling Co., Fleetwood

Landed at Milford: 9 May 1920 - 21 Mar 1921.

Skippers:

Notes: 20 Jun 1919: Completed as a fishing vessel, and sold to mercantile. 28 Dec 1921: During WNW Force 8 gale, in collision off Maughold Head, Isle of Man with CUIRASS (GY436). Subsequently foundered and crew picked up by JACINTA (FD325). [Information supplied by the Fleetwood Maritime Trust and the Bosun's Watch website.]   Note by Les Jones: "Went to sea on a Saturday forenoon, landed on Tuesday morning's market a catch of two hundred prime kits of gutted hake from the fish room, and one hundred and fifty kits of ungutted hake still on the deck.  The crew were out on their feet with fatigue."

 

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