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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