MALVERN M295

LADY JILL M295

John Stevenson Collection

Official No:  181009     Port Number and Year:  3rd in Aberdeen, 1946 (A234)                                                                                 13th in Milford, 1948

Description: Mersey Class steel side trawler; steam screw, coal burning. Ketch rigged: mizzen.

Crew: 14 men (19 Oct 1949: 15)

Registered at Milford: 9 Sep1948

Built: Cochrane & Son, Selby, in 1918  (Yard no. 851)

Tonnage: 326.82 grt  151.91 net

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 138.5 / 23.7 / 12.8

Engine: T 3-Cyl. 87 nhp.10 kts.  Engine and boiler by Charles D. Holmes & Co., Hull

Owners:   As MALVERN A234 Jun 1946: Malvern Fishing Co., Aberdeen   As M295 9 Sep 1948:  Yolland Bros., Docks, Milford Manager: John Yolland (Jnr.) Renamed LADY JILL.

Landed at Milford:  20 Aug 1948 - 15 Dec 1953

Skippers:

Notes: 4 Dec 1918: Delivered as ANDREW JEWER to Admiralty (No. 3844); employed as Gunnery Tender. Sep1920: Renamed NITH (Admiralty) Jun 1922: Renamed EXCELLENT (Admiralty) Jun 1946: Sold to mercantile

Cert. Cancelled & Milford Registry Closed: 18 Nov 1954.  Broken up at Passage West.

 Accidents and Incidents:

From the West Wales Guardian of Friday 15th April 1949:

 

    "Probably a record for the port," was the comment in docks' circles on Wednesday, on the £4,745 made by the steam trawler Malvern (Messrs. Yolland Bros.), from her first Icelandic trip.

    The Malvern landed 832 kits of fish, of which 390 were plaice, and the rest mostly cod and haddock, and an interesting fact is that she did not catch a single hake on her three weeks voyage north.

    The trawler was in charge of Skipper Fred Whitely of Hull, who recently landed over 900 kits in the steam trawler Alamein, for the same firm.  With her was a Milford master, Skipper Jack Foster (learning the ropes), and the crew consisted entirely of local fishermen.

    This is the second big Icelandic trip to be landed locally within a week, the other being by the steam trawler Swansea Bay (Goodleigh Fisheries), which put ashore a catch of over 1,000 kit last Thursday.

    With landings from the south-western grounds diminishing week by week, local owners are gradually turning their attention to the far northern waters.

 

[The MALVERN was renamed LADY JILL later in the same year.]

 

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From the West Wales Guardian of Friday 5th November 1954:

 

    The steam trawler Lady Jill (Messrs. Yolland Bros.) left on her last voyage on Thursday to a breakers' yard in Ireland.  She was taken there by a skeleton crew in charge of Skipper Grenville Phillips, with Mr. Jack Scoble as mate.

 

 

 

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