SILVER CREST LT46

 

As LARUS (1928-29)

Barry Banham Maritime Collection

Official No:  149202    Port and Year:  Lowestoft, 1928  (LT381)

                                                                Lowestoft, 1929 (LT46)      

Description: Steel side drifter trawler; coal fired. Ketch rigged

Crew:

Built: by Cochrane & Sons, Selby; in 1928.  (Yard no.1005 )

Tonnage:   100.74 grt  43.68 net.  Rebuilt 1929: 94.02 grt  40.55 net.

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 86.3 / 18.6 / 9

Engine:  3 Cyl; 210 bhp / 278 ihp; by Plenty-Still Oil Engines, Newbury. Aux. steam boiler by Cochranes of Arran.

1929: Converted to steam at Lowestoft.  T-3 Cyl; 275 ihp / 43 nhp; by Elliot & Garrood, Beccles

[Information kindly supplied by Barry Banham.]

Owners:

 

As LARUS LT381

5 Mar 1928: Alexandra Fishing Co.,  Lowestoft.

 

As SILVER CREST LT46

23 Jul 1929: A. G. Catchpole (Alexandra Fishing Co.), Lowestoft.

Manager: Benjamin Utting.

 

1940: Silver Fishing Co., Lowestoft.

Managers: Lowestoft Fish Selling Co., Docks, Milford.

 

[Same owners in Olsen's 1951; not in 1963 edition.]

 

Landed at Milford: LARUS: 24 Apr - 2 Jun 1928.

SILVER CREST:  Jan or Feb - May, 1930-39; Jan or Feb - Apr or May, 1947-58; except 1 Feb -  4 Oct 1949, and 29 Jan - 2 Aug 1951.

Skippers: R. Utting

Notes: 2 Jun 1928: Engine (an experimental design) broke down; towed 80 miles to Milford Haven by PLUMER LT596.  Subsequently towed to Lowestoft for conversion to steam.

12 Dec 1928: Lowestoft registration closed; no longer used for fishing.  Converted to steam.  (See Engine above.)

Oct 1939: Requisitioned by the Admiralty and converted to a minesweeper, later Fleet Air Arm safety vessel.  (P.No. FY.733)

Feb 1945: Returned to owners.

Nov 1960: Broken up at Brugge.

[Information kindly supplied by Barry Banham and Gil Mayes.]

As SILVER CREST

John Stevenson Collection

 

 

Accidents and Incidents

From the West Wales Guardian of Friday 20th May 1949:

 

    The 500 ton coastal vessel, The Bug, registered in London and conveying china clay from Cornwall to the North, developed engine trouble three miles off Skomer Island at about 11 a.m. on Sunday, and her SOS was answered by the drifter-trawler Silver Crest.

    The Silver Crest, a Lowestoft liner at the present time, was on her last trip out of Milford before leaving for the East Coast.

 

 

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