LANGLAND BAY SA72

 

As MASONA FD16

Photo by Peter Brady, Fleetwood Maritime Heritage Trust.  

Official No:  160890   Port Number and Year:  Hull, 1930 (H209)

                                                                              Swansea, 1947 (SA72)

                                                                              Fleetwood, 1954 (FD16)

Description: Steel side trawler, steam, coal fired, single screw. Ketch rigged. Cruiser stern

Crew:

Built: 1930, by Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Beverley. (Yard no. 539)

Tonnage: 363  grt  148 net.

[1937: Lengthened to 151.5 ft (378 grt). Work carried out by Smiths Dock Co Ltd, Middlesborough.]

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 140.3  / 24.6 / 13.3

Engine: T.3-Cyl., 96 rhp = 11 kts.; by Charles D. Holmes, Hull. 

Owners:

 

As KINGSTON OLIVINE H209

1930: Kingston Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull

 

Renamed LANGLAND BAY SA72

1947:   Swansea Trawlers, Swansea

 

26 May 1950: Eton Fishing Co, Hull.

 

1 Jan 1953:  Milford Haven Steam Trawling Co., Milford (Managers)

 

Renamed MASONA FD16

1954: Mason Trawlers Fleetwood

 

Landed at Milford: 4 Jan - 20 Dec 1953

Skippers: Alfred Beckett; Albert Saunders.

Notes: 8 Aug 1939: Requisitioned by the Admiralty as the anti submarine trawler FY 193. Joined the 19th AS Group based at Harwich. Employed on East Coast convoys.

Jul 1942: Converted to a minesweeper.

11 May 1945:  Returned to owners.

1956: Broken up at Troon

[Information from the Fleetwood Maritime Trust and the Bosun's Watch website.]

Accidents and Incidents

From the West Wales Guardian of Friday 19th December 1952:

 

    The 150 foot trawler Langland Bay, belonging to a Swansea firm and fishing out of Hull, will shortly arrive in Milford to be managed by the Milford Steam Trawling Company. 

    She will have a local skipper and crew, and should be an acquisition to the port.

 

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From the West Wales Guardian of Friday 25th June 1954:

 

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    On Thursday the largest steam trawler based at the port, the s.t. Langland Bay, left for new owners, Mason Trawlers Ltd., Fleetwood.  The Langland Bay, owned by Swansea Trawlers Ltd., has been managed by the Milford Steam Trawling Company for three years.  She was formerly in command of the late Albert Saunders and had been laid up since last November, also for economic reasons.

 

 

 

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