LE TOUQUET M169

John Stevenson Collection

Official No:    301704    Port Number and Year: 6th in Milford, 1959

Description:  Steel side trawler; steam screw, oil burner.

Crew:

Registered at Milford: 28 Jul 1959

Built: by Chantiers Navale de Caen, Blainville, France, in 1949.  (Yard no. 17)

Tonnage: 290.14 gross 128.1 net

Length / breadth / depth (feet):  130.2 / 24.7 / 12

Engine: Steam double compound direct acting 4-Cyl; 108 nhp, 540 bhp; 10 kts.  Engine and boiler by A. Reliers et Chantiers de France, Blainville.

Owners:   1949: Pollet Freres & Cie, 70 Rue du Moulin-a-Vapeur, Boulogne.   28 Jul 1959: Milford Fisheries, Docks, Milford Manager: Owen Willie Limbrick, 'Windyridge', The Rath, Milford   3 Feb 1960: Reynold James Parry, 10 Hakinville, Hakin.                                                        (From 16 May 1961: 2 Point Fields Cres., Hakin.)   Renamed FOSNAVAG 1962: Unknown Norwegian owners.   Renamed SEMLE FEDERSON 1981: Unknown owners

Landed at Milford: 1 Jul 1959 - 24 May 1961

Skippers:

Notes:  1986: Scuttled off Pange Point, Vanuatu.

Cert. Cancelled & Milford Registry Closed: 16 Mar 1962.  Vessel sold to Norwegian owners.

 Accidents and Incidents:

From the West Wales Guardian of Friday 26th June 1959:

 

    A crew left Milford by train on Wednesday evening for Fecamp, France, to bring back to Milford the oil-burning trawler that was recently purchased by Milford Fisheries Ltd.  No fewer than five certificated skippers are in the crew: Messrs. Reggie High (Skipper), Jimmy Jobson (Mate), Bert Spindler and Billy Blockwell (deckhands) and J. Smith (cook).  The trawler is expected in Milford at the weekend.

    Another Fisheries trawler, the Almandine, has entered Messrs. R. S. Hayes, Pembroke Dock for conversion from coal to oil fuel power.

 

From the West Wales Guardian of Friday 3rd July 1959:

 

    The ten year old oil-burning trawler Le Touquet arrived at Milford Haven for her new owners Milford Fisheries Ltd.  The ship, similar in length to the 125ft. Castle class trawlers, was brought from Fecamp, France by a Milford crew.  Her addition to the Fisheries fleet, the biggest in the Hake class boats at the port, means that the firm will own five oil-fired vessels when conversion of the Almandine is completed at Hayes, Pembroke Dock.  The other oil-fired trawlers are the Arthur Cavanagh, Nobel, Boston Herald, Le Touquet and Almandine.

 

 

 

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