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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