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EPHRATAH M292
RECENIA M46
As RECENIA
John Stevenson Collection
Official No:144781 Port Number and Year: 28th in Aberdeen, 1920 (A394)
- in Peterhead, 1924, (PD5)
- in Aberdeen, 1932, (A180)
- in Peterhead, 1932 (PD7, PD170)
10th in Milford, 1948
5th in Milford, 1948, (M46)
Description: Admiralty Steel Drifter / side trawler; steam screw, coal burning. Ketch rigged: mizzen sail.
Crew: 9 men
Registered at Milford: 11 Aug 1948
Built: 1919, by Colby Brothers, Oulton Broad, Lowestoft
Tonnage: 96.43 grt 42.4 net
Length / breadth / depth (feet): 86.2 / 18.5 / 9.3
Engine: T 3-Cyl. 34 rhp.9.5 kts. Engine by Pollitt & Wigzell, Sowerby Bridge, 1918; boiler by Danks & Co., Oldbury, Birmingham, 1918.
Owners:
As QUICKSAND A394
1920: W. H. Gore, 10 Palmerston Place, Aberdeen.
Manager: Ben Allenby
As PD5
1924: George and Robert Ritchie, 9 Victoria Road, Peterhead
As A180
1932: A. Hay, Aberdeen
Renamed EPHRATAH PD170
1932: A. Hay, Whinnyfold,Aberdeen
George Foreman, Peterhead
1945: William Wilcox & H. E. Rees, Milford
As M 292
11 Aug 1948: William Wilcox, 22 Greville Rd., Milford (32/64)
Henry Eastoe Rees, 'Mirador House', The Rath, Milford (32/64)
Manager: W. Wilcox.
Renamed RECENIA M46
1949: Manor Steamship Company, Milford
Renamed SALMOOR (Mooring vessel.)
1952: Air Ministry.
Landed at Milford: As EPHRATAH: 1 Jan - 6 Sep 1948
As RECENIA: 13 May 1950 - 8 Jun 1951
Skippers: M. A. Smith,1929
Notes:5 Mar 1919: Launched for the Admiralty (No.3991) as H.M. Drifter QUICKSAND, and completed as a fishing vessel.
4 Aug 1919: Transferred to Fisheries Board, Scotland, for disposal.
1940: Requisitioned for war service (P.No. FY310) and employed on Harbour Patrol Defence duties.
4 Sep 1948: Went aground in Fishguard harbour; constructive total loss [see below], but sold on and renamed RECENIA.
1952: Converted to Auxiliary RAF mooring vessel, and registered in London in 1953
1955/56: Broken up by Haulbowline Industries, Passage West, County Cork.
Cert. Cancelled & Milford Registry Closed: As EPHRATAH 9 Jan 1949; as RECENIA 24 Mar 1952
Accidents and Incidents:
From the West Wales Guardian of Friday 10th September 1948:
Caught in last week-end's stormy weather in the Irish sea, the Milford trawler "Ephratah" put into Fishguard harbour for shelter on Friday, but this was not the end of her troubles, for in the early hours of Saturday the "Ephratah's" anchor chain broke and she drifted helplessly onto the rocks at the Marine Point. With the storm still raging the Fishguard lifeboat put out and succeeded in taking off seven members of the crew who were aboard. The skipper and two members of the crew were already ashore when the anchor chain parted.
The members of the crew who jumped from the drifting vessel to the safety of the lifeboat included sixteen year old deckhand learner D. O. Jones, 62, Waterloo Road, Hakin, who was making his first trip.
The others were:
Skipper Fred Sutton, 20, Eastleigh Drive, Milford.
Mate C. D. Picton, 28, Upper Hill Street, Hakin.
Third Hand A. Beamish, Glenside House, Llanreath, Pembroke Dock.
Decky G. Coombs, 36, Glebelands, Hakin.
H. S. Mann, 33, Minden Road, Lowestoft.
Decky Trimmer R. Taylor, Lower Ferry Castle, Tiers Cross.
Cook W. Peek, 38, Church Street, Padstow.
Chief Engineer J. Jones, Brooke Avenue, Milford.
Second Engineer H. Edwards, 14, Point Street, Hakin.
Fortunately the "Ephratah", owned by Mr W. Wilcox, Milford, was little damaged and was refloated on Saturday morning. It landed sixty eight kits of fish at Milford on Monday.
[EPHRATAH was later declared a Constructive Total Loss, but was recovered and renamed RECENIA.]
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From The Irish Times of Wednesday 4th April 1951, p.4:
Trawler Rushes Ill Seaman to Hospital
While the Milford Haven trawler, Recenia, was fishing near the Coningbeg light vessel off the Wexford coast, yesterday, one of the crew became seriously ill. The trawler made a full-speed dash to Rosslare after sending a radio message to have a doctor standing by.
As SALMOOR
Courtesy Gil Mayes
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