PARAMOUNT R193
From a newspaper cutting in the Les Jones Archive
Official No: 130026 Port and Year: Lowestoft, 1911, (LT1116)
Ramsgate, 1920 (R193)
Description: Steel side drifter trawler, steam, coal fired, single screw. Ketch rigged
Crew:
Built: 1911; Cochrane & Son, Selby. (Yard no. 492)
Tonnage: 95 grt 42 net.
Length / breadth / depth (feet): 87 / 18.6 / 9.6
Engine: 35 hp.
Owners:
As LT111624 May 1911: J. Mitchell & R. Sillett, Lowestoft
As R193
Mar 1920: Ramsgate Steam Trawling Co., Ramsgate
Manager?: H. E. Rees, Docks, Milford.
c.1945: Drifter Trawlers Co. (H.E. Rees), Docks, Milford.
Landed at Milford: 19 Jun 1922 - 12 Nov 1939; 28 May 1949 - 17 Jun 1955.
Skippers: Harry Gander (1955); W. G. Setterfield
Notes: Dec 1914: Requisitioned by the Admiralty and converted to a patrol boat; later minesweeper. 1 x 6 pdr AA
1919: Returned to owners.
Nov 1939: Requisitioned by the Admiralty and converted to a minesweeper (P. No. FY.954).
Jan 1946: Returned to owners.
Aug 1955: Broken up at Llanelly.
Accidents and Incidents
From the West Wales Guardian of Friday 11th August 1950:
The number of ships held up in the docks has dwindled from the 32 of recent weeks to 18, and two of these, the Paramount and Caswell, are expected to return to sea this weekend. The St. Vincent, which has been laid up for many months, leaves on Saturday in charge of Skipper E. Satchell.
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L to R, back row: 2nd Eng. Reg Edwards, Deckhand Terence Negan, Deckhand/Trimmer Ronnie Thompson
Front row: Ch.Eng. Fred Williams, Deckhand Willie Musk, Cook George Straiton, Skipper Harry Gander, Mate Gerwyn 'Blondie' Coombes, Deckhand Charles Ellis
From a photograph taken for the West Wales Guardian of Friday 4th March 1955
John Stevenson Collection
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From the West Wales Guardian of Friday 5th August 1955:
Mr. Desmond Donelly (M.P.) saw Sir Louis Chick, Chairman of the White Fish Authority, and as a result is hopeful that the Government may underwrite the whole of the extra costs involved in the latest increase in coal prices.
Meantime the situation remains grave. On Wednesday morning, two more drifter trawlers left for the scrap yard at Llanelly. They were the Burnhaven, owned by Merchants (Milford Haven), built at Aberdeen in 1918, and the Paramount, owned by Messrs. Harry Eastoe Rees. She was built at Selby in 1916.
This brings the number of ships at Milford Docks to 55, of which 15 are at present laid up, so that only 40 vessels are now operating.
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