NAIRANA M238
Official No: 128766 Port Number and Year: 4th in Milford 1913
- in Grimsby, 1919 (GY630)
- in Hull, 1942 (H528)
- in Aberdeen, 1943 (A616)
Description: Steel side / beam trawler; steam screw; coal burner. Ketch rigged: foresail, mainsail and mizzen
Crew: 9 men
Registered at Milford: 12 Dec 1913
Built: Hall Russell & Co., Aberdeen, 1913. (Yard no. 537)
Tonnage: 222.85 gross 86.95 net
Length / breadth / depth (feet): 117.8 / 22.5 / 12.15
Engine: T.3-cyl. 75.5 nhp. 10.5 kts. Engine and boiler by builders.
Owners:
As M238
12 Dec 1913: Edward Brand, Great North Rd., Milford
James Tidman, Gorleston on Sea
Walter Humphrey Podd, 387 London Rd., Lowestoft (Smack owner)
Charlie Thomas Pannell, 31 Berg Cres., Stamford Hill, London. (Trawler owner)
Manager: Edward Brand
26 Nov 1917: Mills Steam Co., 5 Fen Court, Fenchurch, London.
20 Feb 1918: Henry Smethurst )
Henry Carl Smethurst )
John Wint Smethurst ) Fish Docks, Grimsby
William Wint Smethurst )
30 Mar 1918: Henry Smethurst, Fish Docks, Grimsby
Manager: J. W. Smethurst
24 Nov 1919: Registered as GY630
May 1924: Trawlers (White Sea & Grimsby)
Managers: J. N. & H. Bacon. (1941: C. G. Mastin)
Jan 1942: Trawlers Grimsby.
Manager: C. G. Mastin
As H528
Aug 1942: Hull Merchants Amalgamated Trawlers
1944: George Robb & Sons, Aberdeen.
By 1948: Renamed VIKING ENDEAVOUR A616
Landed at Milford: 14 Dec 1913 - 25 Jan 1916
Skippers: J. D. Bryant, 1915
Notes: Nov 1915: Requisitioned for war service and converted to a minesweeper (Admy.No.2513).
Mar 1917: Renamed NAIRANA II.
1919: Returned to owners.
Nov 1939: Requisitioned for war service and converted to an armed patrol vessel.
Feb 1940: Returned to owners.
Cert. Cancelled & Milford Registry Closed: 24 Nov 1919. Vessel transferred to the port of Grimsby.
Accidents and Incidents:
From the Haverfordwest and Milford Haven Telegraph of Wednesday 17th December 1913:
The new steam trawler which had been built at Aberdeen to the order of Messrs. Brand and Co., and named the Nairana, arrived at Milford Docks for Monday's market. She is a fine craft, built on the latest principles, and her maiden catch realised £160. The same firm, we understand, expect delivery of another similar vessel about February next, and both will be a welcome addition to the port's fleet, which is sadly in need of augmentation. Another dozen or something like twenty trawlers is necessary to keep a regular supply to the market at the present time. Mr. Brand and Co. have disposed of their smaller vessels, viz. Halcyon, Teal, Osprey and Cygnet, to Mr Curzon, the owner of the steam trawler Quebec, and they will remain in the port. These vessels, known as the little London boats, have done remarkably well ever since they came to the port.
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Transcription of a letter in the Les Jones Archive:
Brand & Company,
Fish Salesman & Steam Trawler Owner.
Milford Haven
September 20th, 1915
Commander Beresford White, R.N.,
Minesweeper Supply for the Admiralty.
Dear Sir,
Your son sent for me this morning and asked me to write to you, giving my reasons why the Admiralty should not take our latest vessel, the "Nairana". They say we have four other vessels, but these belong to Mr. Curzon and his friends, and when Mr. C. E. Curzon took a minesweeping commission, he asked me to look after his interests while he was away, and it would be very unfair for us to lose our only chance of carrying on our business through this. We are also paying three of our shore staff who have joined the army half their wages, and we cannot do this, neither keep on our old servants, if we lose the "Nairana".
I hope you will be able to make the Admiralty look at this in a fair light, as they have already had our "Koorah", "Noogana", "W.H. Podd", "Salome", "Joseph and Sarah Miles" and "Alpha". The last three were under our management.
Yours faithfully,
E. Brand.
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