WELLVALE FD140
Courtesy of Fleetwood Maritime Heritage Trust and The Bosun's Watch
Official No: 148227 Port and Year: Fleetwood, 1926
Description: Canadian Castle Class steel side trawler, steam, coal fired, single screw. Ketch rigged.
Crew:
Built: Canadian Vickers Ltd, Montreal, Canada; in 1918. (Yard no. ?)
Tonnage: 271 grt 124 net.
Length / breadth / depth (feet): 125.7 / 23.5 / 12.7
Engine: T.3-Cyl., 62 rhp.; by builders.
Owners:
Aug 1926: Sold as TR 28
Renamed WELLVALE FD140
1926: Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co., Fleetwood.
1927: Iago Steam Trawling Co., Docks, Milford
Manager: Edward D. W. Lawford
c.1933: Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co., Fleetwood
Manager: B. A. Parkes, Cleveleys
Landed at Milford: 1 Feb 1928 - 4 Mar 1930
Skippers:
Notes: May 1918: Completed as TR 28 for the RCN.
31 Jan 1919: Paid off and laid up pending sale to mercantile.
5-6 Jul 1933: Chartered for by Italian Government to provide support for a trans Atlantic flight involving 20 to 30 aeroplanes.
12 Sep 1939: Missing, presumed lost by enemy action off the Hebrides (U-35 being in the vicinity). Skipper and twelve crew lost.
[Information supplied by the Fleetwood Maritime Heritage Trust, and the Bosun's Watch website.]
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