REVESBY  M28

GWMAHO M28

Official No:  143853    Port Number and Year:    -   in Plymouth, 1920 (PH174)

                                                                              3rd in Fleetwood, 1922 (FD400)

                                                                              8th in Milford, 1929

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

Crew:  10 men

Registered at Milford:15 Aug 1929

Built: 1917; by Bow McLachlan & Co., Paisley , for the Admiralty.  (Yard no. 341)

Tonnage: 276 grt  125 net.

Length / breadth / depth (feet):  125.5  / 23.5 / 12.7

Engine: T 3-Cyl. 60.7 nhp.10 kts.  Engine by Fawcett, Preston & Co., Liverpool; boiler by Dunsmuir & Jackson, Govan

Owners:

 

As THOMAS CROFTON PH174

4 May1920: H. Ford, Plymouth

Manager: J. Maxwell Jones.

 

1921: Crofton Steam Fishing Company, Fleetwood

Manager: J Nierinck

21 Feb 1922:  Registered as THOMAS CROFTON FD400

 

1924: Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co., 232 Dock St., Fleetwood.

Manager: Fred Parkes

 

9 Mar 1925: Renamed REVESBY FD400

 

As REVESBY M28

15 Aug 1929: John McRae Knight, 'Cunjic House', Hakin (19/64)

James Carpenter Ward, 'Harbour House', Milford (15/64)

George Knight, 27 Hamilton Tce., Milford (15/64)

Morgan Watkin Howells, 'Havenhurst', The Rath, Milford

Manager: J. M. Knight

 

1931: Harry Eastoe Rees, 'Mirador House', The Rath, Milford

Manager Owner

 

20 Oct 1933: Morgan Watkin Howells, 'Havenhurst', The Rath, Milford

Manager Owner (Died 3 Feb 1936)

9 Nov 1933: Renamed GWMAHO M28

 

23 Oct 1936: Gwenllian Howells (Widow)

Charles Edmund Morris, 'Rathbank', Milford

Manager: James Gwyther (from 4 Nov 1936)

 

Landed at Milford: As REVESBY:  9 Jun 1929 - 19 Apr 1933;

As GWMAHO: 1 Jan 1934 - 26 Jul 1940

Skippers:

Notes:  Jun 1917: Launched as Admiralty Castle THOMAS CROFTON (Admy. no. 3661). Fitted with listening hydrophones.

1920: Sold to mercantile.

Nov 1939: Requisitioned as GWMAHO and converted to boom defence vessel.

Jan 1946: Returned to owners, and sold for breaking up.

Cert. Cancelled & Milford Registry Closed: 2 Feb 1946. 

 

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