AVANCE M119

Official No:  128758   Port Number and Year: 14th in Milford 1911                                                                             1st in Milford, 1916.

Description: Wooden sailing smack, beam trawling.  Ketch rigged: 2 masts: foresail, mainsail and mizzen.

Crew:  5 men.

Registered: 9 Nov 1911

Built: by Kitto & Sons, Porthleven, in 1911

Tonnage: 57.19 grt  32.89 net.

Length / breadth / depth (feet):69 / 19 / 9.2

Engine: Inverted direct action oil motor, 2 Cyl. 36 bhp, 8 kts. Made by B. A. Hjorth & Co., Stockholm.

Owners:   9 Nov 1911: William Rouse, 'Melville House, Hazelbeach, Llanstadwell. Ernest Isadore Cecil Rouse, 'Melville House, Hazelbeach, Llanstadwell. Frank Andrew Rouse, 'Melville House, Hazelbeach, Llanstadwell. Hubert Stanley Rouse, 'Melville House, Hazelbeach, Llanstadwell.   5 Jan 1914: Richard Llewellyn Hancock, 83 St Ann's Rd., Hakin (later, 5 Picton Rd., Hakin (64/64).

Landed at Milford: 25 Mar 1924 - 22 Mar 1930

Skippers:Charles Vincent Brusey, cert. 6904, born Brixham, residing 38 Furzeham Terr., Brixham; signed on 9 Nov 1911, 10 Jan 1912 A. Day -, 23, Glasgow, - ; 11 Mar 1912 S. W. Richards 1953, 57, Tenby, 24 Trafalgar Rd., Milford; 6 Jun 1912 T. Bray 8232. 25, Brixham, - ; 6 Sep 1912 S. Feoy 2926, 55, Brixham, - ; 9 Sep 1912 Samuel Mummery -. - , 16 Station Rd., Brixham; 15 Jan 1913.

Notes: Feb 1916: In severe gales, lost mainmast, gaff, mizzen, and small boat.

Cert. Cancelled & Registry Closed: 3 May 1917.  Vessel lost in the English Channel on 21 Mar 1917; sunk by enemy submarine. Fishing certificate lost with the vessel

 Accidents and Incidents

Log book entries:

 

08.09.1912

Ten miles south west from St. Ann's.

Skipper Bray scalded - safety valve of donkey engine gave out.

    C. Bray (Second hand)

    E. Romans

 

11.09.1912

Came in from sea Wednesday night, anchored off Milford at 2 a.m., three parts flood, got under way at 10 a.m. on Thursday, slack water.  We had to make short trips for Neyland as the wind was south east.  On tacking from the north shore above I observed a steamer coming up the channel about half a mile distant and he would persist in going across my bow.  We collided with him carrying away my bowsprite.

    S.Feoy (Skipper)

 

 

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