MILFORD KNIGHT M176
Courtesy of Robert Kettle
Official No: 164419 Port Number and Year: 25th in Grimsby,1936 (GY331)
11th in Lowestoft, 1945 (LT93)
2nd in Milford, 1947
- in Lowestoft, 1949 (LT52)
Description: Steel side trawler; motor vessel, oil. Cruiser stern. Ketch rigged: mizzen.
Crew: 10 men
Registered in Milford: 30 Apr 1947
Built: 1936, by by Cochrane & Sons, Selby. (Yard no. 1160)
Tonnage: 146.28 grt 53.24 net.
Length / breadth / depth (feet): 101.2 / 21 / 10
Engine: Internal combustion direct acting reciprocating combustion vertical diesel (British 1936). 6-Cyl. 91.3 nhp. 10.5 kts. Ruston & Hornsby, Lincoln
Owners:
As BRITISH GUIANA GY331
Oct 1936: Grimsby Motor Trawlers, Grimsby
Mar 1943: Allen & Cooke (Trawlers), Lowestoft.
Renamed SUNLIT WATERS LT93
As M176
30 Apr 1947: Milford Steam Trawlers, Docks, Milford
Manager: James Carpenter Ward.
3 Jan 1948: Renamed MILFORD KNIGHT
26 May 1949: Claridge Trawlers, Lowestoft
Manager: Gordon David Claridge, White Cottage, Waterend, Wheathampton, Hereford.
4 Jan 1950: Renamed BRITISH GUIANA LT52
Landed at Milford: As SUNLIT WATERS: 12 May - 20 Dec 1947
As MILFORD KNIGHT: 3 Jan - 17 Dec1948
Skippers: Harry ('Wampo') Thompson
Notes: Nov 1939: Requisitioned as BRITISH GUIANA and converted for anti-submarine duties.(P.No.FY.271).
Mar 1946: Returned to owners.
Cert. Cancelled & Milford Registry Closed: 26 May 1949. Vessel transferred to the port of Lowestoft.
Accidents and Incidents:
From the Western Telegraph & Cymric Times of Wednesday 13th April 1949:
Mr Billy Lawrence, 87, Robert Street, bosun of the "Milford Knight", was badly injured in an accident at sea last Thursday. The trawl was being hauled and it is understood that the messenger hook parted and struck him. Skipper Harry Thompson immediately put the trawler about and when the vessel came into the Haven on Friday, Doctor W. Burnett Evans went on board and diagnosed a suspected fractured pelvis. When the trawler docked alongside the Hakin stage, bosun Lawrence was put on a sea stretcher and lifted by crane to the waiting ambulance. After attention at the County Hospital he was allowed to return home, and is now under medical attention.
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