ARIES M97
John Stevenson Collection
Official No: 110203 Port Number and Year: - in Granton, 1899 (GN62)
- in Aberdeen, 1910 (A295)
12th in Scarborough, 1913 (SH ? )
1st in Milford, 1917
Description: Steel side trawler; steam screw; coal burning. Ketch rigged - foresail, mainsail and mizzen
Crew: 10 men
Registered at Milford: 13 Feb 1917
Built: 1899; by Ramage & Ferguson, Leith. (Yard no. 165)
Tonnage: 158.58 grt 58.86 net.
Length / breadth / depth (feet):105.2 / 20.6 / 10.9
Engine: T 3-Cyl. 54 hp.10¾ kts. Engine and boiler 1898, by builders
Owners:
As GN62
Apr 1899: Newhaven Trawling Co., Edinburgh
As A295
1910: Aberdeen owners.
As SH ?
1913: North Sea Steam Trawling, 4 West Pier, Scarborough
As M97
13 Feb 1917: Thomas George Hancock, 'Hill House', Hill St., Hakin (32/64)
John Davies Harris, The Rath, Milford (32/64)
Manager: T.G. Hancock
19 Aug 1919: Thomas George Hancock, 'Hill House', Hill St., Hakin (64/64)
Landed at Milford: 15 May 1917 - 12 Nov 1921
Skippers: Walter Smith 7150
Wm. Henry Burder 2479
Walter Allen 11316
Reginald Webb Hannaford.
Notes: 1918: Requisitioned for war service as auxiliary patrol vessel ARIES III and returned 1919. [See ISA O-81]
Cert. Cancelled & Milford Registry Closed: 18 Nov 1921, after foundering (see below)
Accidents and Incidents:
Transcription of a statement by the skipper from the Les Jones Archive:
Left the port of Milford Haven on the 1st November 1921. At around seven o' clock p.m. on the 3rd November, the trawler suddenly started to take in water. Despite all efforts by the crew using pumps (donkey) she still took in more water than we were pumping out. We then took to the ship's small boat. She foundered around the nine o' clock the same day, no loss of life.
(Signed) R.W. Hannaford, Skipper
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