PEACEFUL STAR LT201

Courtesy of Barry Banham

Official No:  149250   Port Number and Year:   Lowestoft, 1931 (LT201)                                                                               Aberdeen, c.1960 (A61)

Description: Steel side drifter / trawler, steam, coal fired, single screw.

Crew:

Built: 1931, by Cochrane & Sons, Selby. (Yard no.1102)

Tonnage: 121 grt  54.98 net

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 94.1  / 20.1 / 10

Engine: T.3-Cyl., 350 hp; by Elliot & Garrod, Beccles.  1961: Oil, 4 SA, by A.K. Diesels.

Owners:   As QUIET WATERS 1931: F. E. Catchpole, 'Eddystone House', Kessingland, Lowestoft.   c.1946: Star Drift Fishing, 406 London Rd., Lowestoft. c.1950: Renamed PEACEFUL STAR   c.1955: Lowestoft Fish Selling Co., Docks, Milford.   As A61 c.1960: Wood & Davidson, Aberdeen Manager: John Wood Group.   c. 1975: Robert Dick, London W12

Landed at Milford: 13 Jul 1955 - 19 Nov 1959

Skippers:

Notes: Sep 1939: Requisitioned by the Admiralty as QUIET WATERS and converted to a mine watcher; later target service.  (P.No. FY.1776). Feb 1946: Returned to owners. [Fate unknown.]

Accidents and Incidents

From the West Wales Guardian of Friday 15th November 1957:

 

    The drifter-trawler Peaceful Star (Picton Trawlers) returned to port on Wednesday to land the master, Skipper George Knight, Lowestoft, with an injured foot.

 

John Stevenson Collection

 

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