BEATRICE M212
Official No: 127408 Port Number and Year: 16th in Milford, 1907 - in Grimsby, 1918 (GY1114)
Description: Steel side / beam trawler; steam screw, coal burning. Ketch rigged: foresail, mainsail and mizzen
Crew: 9 men
Registered at Milford: 3 Nov 1907
Built: by Smiths Dock Co., North Shields in 1907. (Yard no. 362)
Tonnage: 239.14 gross 72.63 net
Length / breadth / depth (feet): 120.3 / 21.6 / 11.65
Engine: T 3-Cyl. 57 hp. 10 kts. Engine & Boiler: 1907, MacColl & Pollock, Sunderland
Owners:
30 Nov 1907: John Thomas, Tredegar House, Great North Road, Milford. (64/64)
Manager / Owner.
16 Oct 1917: The Wyre Steam Trawling Co., 114, Docks, Fleetwood.
8 Apr 1918: Walter Harold Beeley, Fish Docks, Grimsby.
Apr 1919: Hartlepool owners.
Renamed BERGEN.
1927: Dutch owners.
Landed at Milford: 15 Dec 1907 - 11 Aug 1914
Skippers:
William Aldridge cert. 5849, age 29, born Newcastle, residing 57 Great North Road, Milford; signed on 11 Jan, 12 May, 8 Jul 1908; 8 Jan, 11 Jul 1910; 3 Jan, 13 Jan 1911.
Edward Firth 7423, 33, Bradford, - ; 13 Apr 1908.
G. Cooper 7765, 28, Reedham, - ; 19 Dec 1910
Henry James Hewer 6526, 36, Gorleston, 75 Waterloo Rd., Hakin; 9 Jul 1912; 6 Feb 1913
A. King 7776, 32, Gorleston, - ; 26 Nov 1911.
Notes: Aug 1914: Requisitioned for war service and converted for minesweeping duties, (Admy. no. 362)
Dec 1914: Renamed BEATRICE II in Dec 1914.
!919: Returned to owners.
Cert. Cancelled & Milford Registry Closed: 8 Apr 1918. Vessel transferred to the port of Grimsby.
Accidents and Incidents
Log book entries:
22.11.1910
50 miles W from St. Ann's Head.
Main shaft of winch, spur wheel and brasses broken - cause unknown.
W. Aldridge (Skipper)
12.12.1910
245 miles W 1 S from St. Ann's Head.
Rudder head broken and gratings washed away - cause, heavy gale.
W. Aldridge (Skipper)
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