JENNET M120

As WEST HERON H465

John Stevenson Collection

Official No:  149045    Port Number and Year:    -  in Hull, 1926 (H269)                                                                               4th in Milford, 1946                                                                                 -   in Hull, 1947 (H465)

Description: Steel side trawler, steam screw, coal burning. Ketch rigged: mizzen sail

Crew:  12 men

Registered at Milford: 6 May 1946

Built: 1926 by Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Beverley.  (Yard no. 475)

Tonnage: 357.22 grt  138.53 net.

Length / breadth / depth (feet):  140.4  / 24 / 13.2

Engine: T 3-Cyl. 96 rhp. 10 kts.  Engine and boiler by Amos & Smith, Albert Docks, Hull

Owners:   As BUNSEN H269 6. Jan 1926: F. & T. Ross, West Dock, Hull   Renamed JENNET M120 6 May 1946: The Prescelly Dredger Co., 23A Hamilton Tce., Milford Manager: Reginald Llewellyn Hancock   As JENNET H465 5 Nov 1947: John Charles Llewellyn (Trawlers), Docks, Milford Manager Owner. Renamed WEST HERON   1950: Lord Line, Hull.  Renamed LORD BANN   1951: Acquired by Belgian owners as a stores hulk.

Landed at Milford: 12 Jan 1946 - 2 Nov 1947

Skippers:

Notes:  April 1939: Purchased into the RN as BUNSEN, fitted out as a Boom Trawler and renamed JENNET.  Served in the Clyde through the war. Jan 1946: Sold to mercantile under the same name Dec 1951. Broken up at Antwerp.

Cert. Cancelled & Milford Registry Closed: 5 Nov 1947

Accidents and Incidents

From the West Wales Guardian of Friday 19th July 1946:

 

    The Milford steam trawler 'Jennet' (Messrs. Peter Hancock) arrived back in harbour last night with a live 250 lb. bomb on her deck.  The bomb was hauled up in the trawl some 50 miles out, and the first Skipper Robson knew of it was when it dropped onto the deck when the cod-end was opened.  A bomb-disposal squad from Swansea were waiting the trawler's arrival, and after the bomb had been made safe and removed, the 'Jennet' returned to sea.

 

 

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