ONE ACCORD LT324
Courtesy of Barry Banham
Official No: 149198 Port Number and Year: Lowestoft, 1927
Description: Steel side drifter trawler, steam, coal fired, single screw. Ketch rigged
Crew:
Built: 1927, by Cochrane & Sons, Selby. (Yard no. 999)
Tonnage: 102 grt 43 net
Length / breadth / depth (feet): 90.3 / 19.1 / 9.2
Engine: T.3-Cyl., 36 rhp; by Crabtree & Co., Great Yarmouth. 1958: Oil, 6 v.e.b.m.; 335 h.p. Ruston
Owners:
1927: O. F. Mullender & Co., Lowestoft
Manager: Fred Ingram, Docks, Milford
1934: F. E. Catchpole, Kessingland, & Others.
1945: Accord (Lowestoft) Ltd., Lowestoft.
Manager: F. E. Catchpole.
c.1950: Gilbert & Co., 6 Battery Green Rd., Lowestoft
Manager: Arthur G. Gilbert, 54 Kirley Park Rd., Lowestoft
1958: Picton Bros., Docks, Milford
Landed at Milford: 19 Jun 1927 - 16 Nov 1939; 14 Jun 1948 - 26 Feb 1951; 9 Jan 1953 - 11 Dec 1969
Skippers: Bill Phillips (1969)
Notes: Sep 1939: Requisitioned by the Admiralty and converted to a minesweeper (P.No. FY.983).
1944: Returned to owners.
1970: Broken up, following damage in a collision. [See below.]
Accidents and Incidents
From the West Wales Guardian of Friday 11th April 1958:
The drifter trawler One Accord is now being fitted out in Milford Haven before sailing on her first voyage for her new owners, Messrs. Picton Brothers, Ltd., trawler owners and coal factors of Cromwell Road, Milford Haven. She arrived from Lowestoft last week. ...........
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From the West Wales Guardian of Friday 6th March 1959:
With the Merchants Ltd. trawler Merchant Valour being tied up this week, the number of trawler skippers now unemployed at Milford has risen to a score. In recent months the trawlers Merchant Victor and Merchant Valour, the Lorraine, Peter Carey, Night Hawk and One Accord have all gone to the wall.
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From the West Wales Guardian of Friday 23rd September 1960:
The drifter trawler One Accord landed her first trip at Milford last week after being converted from coal to diesel. She is owned by Picton Brothers. This latest conversion means that there are only four coal burning trawlers now left in the Milford fleet, and their continued sailing is threatened by the coal price increase.
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From the Western Mail, of Thursday 11th December 1969:
Trawler holed in crash
A Milford Haven trawler was holed in a collision with a German tanker off the Pembrokeshire coast yesterday.
The trawler, One Accord, returned to Milford Haven at a slow speed with a large hole in the stern.
None of the crew was injured.
The trawler and the tanker, Yorkfand, collided two-and-a-half miles off the Smalls lighthouse.
A coastguard said visibility was good.
The Yorkfand, which was leaving the Bristol Channel, stood by the trawler, but later left to continue to the Continent.
Earlier in the day the One Accord left Milford Haven with a seven-man crew, skippered by Mr. Bill Phillips.
The vessel, owned by Picton Brothers, of Milford Haven, was built in 1928 and has been fishing from Milford Haven since the last war.
The trawler was accompanied back into Milford Haven by another trawler, the Ross Fame which had been in the Cardigan Bay.
A Mayday message was sent after the collision, and officials of the company were at St. Ann's Head to try to make an inspection of the boat as it entered the bay.
[ "Paragraphing" (one for each sentence!) as in the original. ]
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From a local newspaper, probably the West Wales Guardian of Friday 6th February 1970:
The One Accord, managed by Norrard Trawlers Ltd., which was severely damaged in a collision several weeks ago, is to be scrapped.
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