MANOR  M238

Official No:  132414    Port Number and Year:     -   in Fleetwood, 1913 (FD174)

                                                                                 -   in La Rochelle, 1924

                                                                              10th in Milford, 1929

Description: Steel side trawler; steam screw, coal burning. Ketch rigged: mizzen sail.

Crew:  10 men

Registered at Milford: 21 Feb 1928

Built: 1913, by John Duthie Torry Shipbuilding Co., Aberdeen.  (Yard no. 384)

Tonnage: 313.57 grt  125.13 net.

Length / breadth / depth (feet):  130.05  / 23.65 / 14.8

Engine: T 3-Cyl. 69.1  nhp.; engine and boiler by James Abernethy & Co., Aberdeen

Owners:

 

As MANOR FD174

1913: Clifton Steam Trawlers, Fish Docks, Fleetwood

Managers: Taylor & Thompson

 

Renamed VERDUNOIS

1924: H. Veron & Cie., 21 Rue Massiou, La Rochelle, France

 

Renamed MANOR M238

21 Feb1938: Reginald Llewellyn Hancock, Docks, Milford

Manager Owner

 

13 Sep 1938: Hancock's Ship Building Co., Pembroke Dock

Manager: R. L. Hancock

 

21 Apr 1939:  Reginald Llewellyn Hancock, 'Beachways', Picton Rd., Hakin

Frederick Lovell Hancock

Alan Hancock, Trevose

Wilfred Lovell Hancock, 20 Great North Rd., Milford

Manager: R. L. Hancock

 

1 May 1942: J. Bennett (Wholesale), 'Neptune House', Great Turner St., Lowestoft.

 

Landed at Milford: 20 Jan 1938 - 29 Aug 1939

Skippers:

Notes:  Aug 1914: Requisitioned and converted to minesweeper (Admy. no. 299)

1919: Returned to owners.

Aug 1939: Requisitioned for anti-submarine operations.

9 Jul 1942: Torpedoed by German E-boat whilst escorting Convoy WP183 in the Channel. One survivor, picked up by RUBY

Cert. Cancelled & Milford Registry Closed: 8 Oct 1943

 

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