MARY BRUCE  M147

John Stevenson Collection

Official No:  129283     Port Number and Year:  36th in Hull, 1910 (H131)                                                                                 44th in Aberdeen, 1935 (A393)                                                                                    1st in Milford, 1941                                                                                   -     in Lowestoft, 1948 (LT368)

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

Crew: 10 -12 men

Registered at Milford: 21 Nov 1941

Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Beverley, in 1910.  (Yard no. 196)

Tonnage: 207.57 grt  82.12 net

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 112 / 22.5 / 12.17

Engine: T 3-Cyl. 45 nhp.10 kts.  Engine and boiler by Amos & Smith & Co., Albert Docks, Hull

Owners:   As PERICLES H131 1910: Hellyers Steam Fishing Co., St. Andrew's Dock, Hull Managers: Hellyers & Co.   By 1930: Ocean Steam Fishing, Hull Manager: G. Altoft. (1934: W. C. Farrow)   Renamed MARY BRUCE A393 1936: A. R. Buthlay, Aberdeen   As M147 21 Nov 1941: Fort Rona Trawlers Co., Docks, Milford Manager: Henry John Horwood, Harbour Walls, Pier Rd., Milford   23 Jul 1945: United Trawlers, Docks, Milford Manager: H. J. Horwood   As LT368 25 Mar 1948: Shoals Fishing Co., Waverley Chambers, Lowestoft Manager: David Frederick Cartwright, 'Woodlands', Elm Tree Rd., Lowestoft.

Landed at Milford:  7 Nov 1941 - 15 Dec 1945

Skippers:

Notes: 1917 - 1919: Requisitioned into the Fishery Reserve. 12 Jun 1945: Bought for £11,000; sold in 1948 for £8,750 Mar 1953: Broken up at Gateshead.

Cert. Cancelled & Milford Registry Closed: 25 Mar 1948.  Transferred to the port of Lowestoft.

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