OCEAN'S SHIELD LT386
Official No: 106532 Port and Year: Aberdeen, 1896 (A782)
Lowestoft, 1919? (LT386)
Description: Iron side trawler, steam, coal fired, single screw. Liner. Ketch rigged.
Crew:
Built: 1896, by Hall, Russel & Co., Aberdeen. . (Yard no.298)
Tonnage: 112 grt 44 net.
Length / breadth / depth (feet): 90.4 / 19.6 / 10
Engine:
Owners:
As CRAIGIEVAR A782
1896: Craigievar Steam Fishing Co., Aberdeen
1902: Aberdeen Steam Trawling & Fishing Co, Aberdeen.
1907: Thomas Davidson, Aberdeen.
1909: J. Main & Others, Aberdeen
Renamed Ocean's Shield LT3861919?: Provincial Fishing Co., Lowestoft.
By 1930: Manager: A. C. Gouldby.
1934: S. J. Reid, Lowestoft.
1940: F. S. Reid, Lowestoft
c.1950: William Picton, Docks, Milford, & Frederick Samuel Read, Oulton Broad, Lowestoft.
Managers: H. G. Bricknell.
Landed at Milford: 4 Mar 1930 - 19 Feb 1948
Skippers:
Notes: 1914-19: Fishery trawler.
1951: Broken up at Gellyswick Beach, Hakin, by D. V. Howells.
Accidents and Incidents
From the West Wales Guardian of Friday 20th February 1948:
The drifter-trawler Ocean Shield [sic], under the management of H. G. Bricknell and Son, will land her last catch at the port today. She is to be scrapped. As a replacement, the drifter Lord Anson has been purchased.
[ She was actually broken up in 1951. ]
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From the West Wales Guardian of Friday 25th April 1952:
The trawler Norrard, one of the smaller vessels belonging to Messrs. Goodleigh Fisheries, has this week gone to the breakers' yard at Pill Point, bringing the total of trawlers scrapped during the past year to eight.
She was preceded by the Phoebe, Ellesmere, Tresco, Lavenham, Framlingham, St.Vincent and Ocean Shield. All these vessels were seaworthy but had become uneconomical to run.
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