SCHIESTROOM  M202

Courtesy of Ian Wilson and Andrew Jaggers: Bangor Bay and Harbour, and John B. Inchliff, Ship's Nostalgia website.

Official No:  303255     Port Number and Year:  8th in Milford, 1962

Description: Steel side trawler; seine nets. Single screw motor vessel, oil.

Crew:  3 men

Registered at Milford: 28 Dec 1962

Built: Worst & Dutmer, Scheepsbouwer, Meppel , Netherlands, in 1949

Tonnage: 118 grt  77 net

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 103 / 18 / 6.7

Engine: Kromhaut oil engine 120 bhp.

Owners:   1962: Rederij Koppe N.V., Amsterdam   As M202 28 Dec 1962: Roy Thomas Eynon, Angle. Owner Manager   Nov 1965: Bernard Williams & Co., Swansea   30 Jun 1969: Load Line Shipping, Bangor. Robert Bradley, 114 Donaghadee Rd., Bangor, Co. Down Manager: James Falconer Milhench, 11 Grange Cres., Bangor.   Dec 1973:  Scotts of Toomebridge.

Landed at Milford:  8 Jul 1962 - 10 Oct 1965

Skippers:

Notes: Built as a coaster. Dec 1962: Fitted out for trawling and seining. Jun 1969: Based at Newhaven, engaged in survey work for Brighton Marina. Dec 1969: Returned to Bangor with cargo of dinghies ex Cowes (Capt Mike Savage). Jan 1970: Harland & Wolff, Belfast for steel work including raising bow and plating saloon windows. 1970: Trading Irish Sea. 13 Dec1970: Last coaster to discharge at Annalong, Co. Down (road salt ex Weston Point). 1972: Last coaster to visit Portpatrick. Sep 1973: Final trip to Castletown. Then laid up at Bangor. Dec1973: Engaged in  sand carrying on Lough Neagh. Jan 1974: Towed from Bangor to Coleraine by trawler ROS MOR B89 Feb1974: Delivered to Lough Neagh. 1977: New wheelhouse and Gardner diesel engine fitted. 1986: Reported broken up on Lough Neagh.

Cert. Cancelled & Milford Registry Closed: 28 Dec 1971.  Vessel no longer fishing.

[Information supplied by several contributors.] 

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