MILFORD QUEEN M225

Official No:  143932    Port Number and Year:  701st in London, 1919

                                                                                  2nd in Boston, 1922

                                                                                56th in Hull, 1933 (H530)

                                                                                  3rd in Milford, 1936

                                                                                    -   in Aberdeen, 1947 (A492)

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

Crew:  10 - 14 men

Registered: 21 Jul 1936

Built: 1917 by Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Beverley as WILLIAM BROWIS.  (Yard no. 377)

Tonnage: 290.14 grt  118.07 net.

Length / breadth / depth (feet):125.5 / 23.5 / 12.7

Engine: T 3-Cyl. 86.4 nhp.10 kts.  Engine and boiler by Amos & Smith, Hull.

Owners:

 

Renamed GONERBY

1922: Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co., Boston

Manager: F. Parkes

 

Renamed JOHN

1923: Pecheries a Vap. Soc. Anon., Avenue du Vindictive 5, Ostend.

 

Renamed SPANIARD H530

1933: Hull owners

 

Renamed MILFORD QUEEN M225

21 Jul 1936: James Carpenter Ward, Docks, Milford

Manager: Harry Eastoe Rees, 'Mirador', The Rath, Milford

 

8 Aug 1936: Milford Steam Trawling, Docks, Milford

Manager: Harry Eastoe Rees, 'Mirador', The Rath, Milford

9 Sep 1938: James Carpenter Ward, 'Thornton House', Thornton, Milford

1 May 1953: Daniel Charles Bruton, 'Tregenna', St. Ishmaels

 

29 Dec 1947: Joseph Craig, Craig Stores, (Milburn Fishing), Aberdeen.

Manager Owner

1948: Renamed MILBURN A492.

 

Landed at Milford: As SPANIARD: 25 Jun - 30 Jul1936

As MILFORD QUEEN: 3 Aug 1936 - 29 Aug 1939; 12 Nov 1946 - 18 Nov 1947.

Skippers: Cecil Coombs (1936)

Notes: Built as WILLIAM BROWIS for Admiralty service as a minesweeper, no. 3582

1923: Sold to mercantile; renamed GONERBY

Aug 1939: Requisitioned for war service as MILFORD QUEEN and converted to a minesweeper.

May 1940: Took part in Operations Quentin / Quidnunt / Quixote on 18/19 May; cutting the telephone cables between Germany and the UK in the North Sea, with the MILFORD PRINCESS and JAMES LAY

Dec 1945: Returned to Owners.

Apr 1960: Broken up.

Cert. Cancelled & Registry Closed: 29 Dec 1947.  Vessel broken up

 Accidents and Incidents

From an unknown local newspaper of the week beginning 5th July 1936:

 

    The steam trawlers Malvolio, Bengali and Spaniard, recently purchased at Hull for the new company, the Milford Haven Steam Trawling Company Limited, arrived on Thursday evening.  Friday was taken up with minor adjustments and equipping the vessels with fishing gear, coaling, ice andprovisions.  On Saturday morning's tide all three trawlers put to sea for their first trips from the port.  The skippers in charge of them were Messrs. Charles Silcock, Albert Woods and Cecil Coombs.

    During their stay in dock the ships were much admired, and they are in excellent condition.  Their arrival, it goes without saying, has brought new hope to the industry.  They are to be renamed and the new names will be decided upon shortly

 

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The Times, Saturday, Mar 15, 1941; pg. 2; Issue 48875; col A

 

DORNIER HIT BY TRAWLER'S GUN

 

engine set on fire

 

The following Admiralty communiqué was issued yesterday: -

 

    A Dornier 17 was probably destroyed on Thursday by HM Trawler Milford Queen (Temporary Skipper R. H. Soanes, D.S.C., R.N.R.)   The first shell from the Milford Queen burst close under the nose of the aircraft and threw it off its course.  The second shell burst close under the starboard engine, which caught fire.  Tracer bullets from the trawler's Lewis gun were also seen to be entering the aircraft.

    The Dornier was not seen to crash but disappeared in the haze, losing height with smoke and flames coming from its starboard engine.  A few seconds later the crew of the Milford Queen heard a loud explosion.  No damage or casualties were sustained by HM Trawler Milford Queen .

 

 

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