KEYES LT580
Official No: 139341 Port Number and Year: Hull, 1919 (H66)
Lowestoft, 1919 (LT580)
Aberdeen, 1932 (A215)
Description: Strath Class steel side trawler; steam screw, coal burning. Ketch rigged
Crew:
Built: 1918 by Hall, Russell & Co., Aberdeen. (Yard no. 631)
Tonnage: 203 grt 87 net
Length / breadth / depth (feet): 115.4 / 22.1 / 12
Engine: T.3-cyl; 74 rhp; by W. H. Allen & Co., Bedford.
Owners:
As KEYES H66 (Jun) >LT580 (Sep)
1919: Vanessa Fishing Co., Wivenhoe
Manager: L. C. Cockrell
Mar 1923: Arthur S. Bowlby, Harlow.
Manager: Edward D. W. Lawford
c.1924: Vanessa Fishing Co., Milford
Manager: Edward D. W. Lawford
Feb? 1932: Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co., Fleetwood
Manager: B. A. Parkes
Renamed BUCHANS A215 (Nov - Dec)
20 May 1932: W. Buchan, Victoria Rd., Aberdeen.
1939: David Buchan, Aberdeen.
1955: Nigg Fishing Co., 207 Union St., Aberdeen
Manager: William Brebner, West Sefton, Bieldside, Aberdeen.
Landed at Milford: 30 Jan 1920 - 6 Mar 1930; 6 Feb - 22 Mar 1932
Skippers: John William Setterfield (1926); J. Thomas (1928) Notes: 30 Apr 1918: Launched for the Admiralty as TIMOTHY BRANNON (Admy.no. 3641);
1 x 12 pdr. AA, 1 x 3.5" bomb thrower.
1919: Sold to mercantile.
28 Jun 1960: Broken up at Granton.
[Information supplied by the Fleetwood Maritime Trust and the Bosun's Watch website.]
Accidents and Incidents
From The Irish Times of 14th November 1925, p.7:
THREE SKIPPERS FINED AT GALWAY
Fines totalling £350 were imposed by District Justice Sean Ford at Aran District Court on Wednesday on the skippers of three steam trawlers which had been found within the prohibited area. The trawlers were the s.s. Keyes, the s.s. Phineas Beard, and the s.s. Caldy.
The skipper of the Keyes - Captain Setterfield - was also prosecuted for having been found within the prohibited area at night without lights, and for this offence he was fined an additional £50.
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