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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