WILLIAM HALLETT  LO353

Official No:  144522   Port and Year: London, 1919 (LO250)

Description: Strath Class steel side trawler; single screw, coal burning. Ketch rigged.

Crew:  12 men

Built: 1919,  Rennie Forrestt Shipbuilding, Engineering & Drydock Co., Wivenhoe.  (Yard no. -)

Tonnage:  202 grt  78 net.

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 115.4 / 22.1 / 12.1

Engine: T 3-Cyl. 78 rhp; by A. G. Mumford, Colchester.

Owners:   1921: Ivey Steam Trawling Co., Docks, Milford Manager: Robert J. Williams.   1932: T. B. Bilton & Sons, North Shields.

Landed at Milford: 4 Feb 1920 - 19 Jun 1931.

Skippers: William Francis Reynolds (1926)

Notes: 7 Jan 1919: Completed for the Admiralty (no.3776) as WILLIAM HALLETT.  1921: Sold to mercantile and retained same name. Dec 1930: Grounded at Ballycotton. [See below.] 19 Jun 1931 - 18 Nov 1932: Laid up at Milford. Nov 1939: Requisitioned by the Admiralty and converted to an auxiliary patrol vessel (P.No. FY.354). 13 Dec 1939: Mined off the Tyne.

 

 

From The Irish Times, of 22nd December 1930; p.7:

 

[The first part of the articles relates to the drowning of a crew member of the German tug SEEFALKE.]

 

STEAMER ON ROCKS

    Seven hours later the Seefalke, in company with the Dutch tug, Zwartezee, was racing out of the harbour and proceeding eastwards to render assistance to a Milford Haven steam trawler, William Hallett, which had stranded at the mouth of Ballycotton Bay, situate about five miles east of Roche's Point.

    As far as can be ascertained the William Hallett had been engaged fishing off the Irish coast, and was putting into Ballycotton Bay for provisions and stores before proceeding to her home port to dispose of her catch.

    A dense fog had enveloped the coast when she neared Ballycotton, and in making her entry she ran her bows on to a reef of rocks at Shanagarry, at the mouth of Ballycotton Bay.

    Immediately the news of the stranding was received the Ballycotton lifeboat was launched and proceeded to the scene, but later returned to her station, the captain and crew o the vessel having elected to remain aboard their vessel.  At 5.30 yesterday afternoon the Zwartezee took the vessel in tow and succeeded in refloating the trawler.  The extent of damage, if any, is not known.

    The William Hallett, of 202 tons gross, is owned by the Ivey Steam Trawling Company of Milford haven, and was launched at Wivenhoe in 1919.

 

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