THE ROMAN  M35

 

Courtesy of Fleetwood Maritime Heritage Trust and The Bosun's Watch

Official No:  128749     Port Number and Year:   8th in Milford, 1909

                                                                                 -    in Cardiff, 1910 (CF29)

                                                                                 -    in Fleetwood, (FD151)

Description:  Steel side / beam trawler; steam screw coal burner. Ketch rigged: foresail, mainsail and mizzen

Crew: 9 men

Registered at Milford: 16 Oct 1909

Built: 1909, Smith's Docks Co., North Shields. (Yard no. 414)

Tonnage: 223.62 grt  85.97 net

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 120.3 / 21.6 / 11.65

Engine: T-3Cyl, 57 rhp; 10kts.  Engine and boiler by MacColl & Pollack, Sunderland.

Owners:

 

27 Oct 1909:  Wilfred Neale, 4 Boreton St., Cardiff              (Fish salesman)

Howard Kingsley Neale,  )                                                    (Clerk)

Joshua Symonds Neale,   )                                                    (Fish salesman)

Morley Havelock Neale   )  Lynwood Park Rd., Penarth       (Fish salesman)

Douglas Emery Neale      )                                                    (Ice salesman)

Manager: James Thomas, 'Tredegar House', Great North Rd., Milford.

 

As CF29

15 Dec 1910: Neale & West, Hope St., Cardiff

 

As FD151

1919: Saxon Steam Trawling, Sidings, Fleetwood

Managers: New Docks Steam Trawling (Fleetwood) Co.

 

1947:  Clifton Steam Trawling, Station Rd., Fleetwood

Managers: J. A. & H. Taylor

 

Landed at Milford:  7 Nov 1909 - 10 Dec 1910

Skippers: H. Hewer cert. 6526, age 40, born Gorleston; residing Waterloo Rd., Hakin; signed on 23 Oct 109; 18 Jan 1910.

Notes:  Nov 1914: Requisitioned by Admiralty and converted to a minesweeper (Admy no. 195); 1 x 6 pdr  AA.

1919: Returned to owners.

Dec 1939: Requisitioned and converted to an auxiliary patrol vessel.

Jul 1940:  Converted to a minesweeper (P.No.FY.1530).

Mar 1944: Converted to an Esso (P.No. Y7.5)

Aug 1946: Returned to owners.

1952: Broken up.

Cert. Cancelled & Milford Registry Closed: 15 Dec 1910. Transferred to the port of Cardiff.

 

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