STRENUOUS LT112

Official No:  137617    Port Number and Year:   Lowestoft, 1920 (LT ? )                                                                                Lowestoft, 1932? (LT112)

Description: Admiralty Steel Drifter , steam screw, coal burning. Ketch rigged

Crew:

Built: 1919, by A. Hall & Co., Aberdeen.  (Yard no. 573)

Tonnage: 95 grt  41 net

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 86 (93.25 oa)  / 18.5  / 9.25

Engine: TE 270 ihp = 9 kts.

Owners:   1919: Sold by the Admiralty as WATERFALL   Renamed  HOMOCEA 1920: E. A. Baker, Great Yarmouth   Renamed NITU 1926: Alvargonzales, San Sebastian, Spain.   1932: T Parkes, Lowestoft.   Renamed HOMOCEA 1934:  William Barnard, Lowestoft   c.1945: Mrs. E. A. Barnard, Lowestoft   c.1950: Mrs. Ethel A. Barnard, Lowestoft, & Stephen J. Smith, Newlyn   Renamed STRENUOUS c.1960: Putford Enterprises. Paignton. [Not in Olsen's 1973.]

Landed at Milford: 7 Jul 1961 - 23 Jan 1962

Skippers: Steve Pembroke.

Notes: 16 Sep 1919: Delivered to the Admiralty as WATERFALL (Admy.no.4132), and sold to mercantile. 1940-45: Requisitioned by the Admiralty as a minesweeper; later for harbour service. (P.No. FY.1782)

Accidents and Incidents

From the West Wales Guardian of Friday 30th June 1961:

 

    The diesel drifter trawler Strenuous has joined Messrs. Kerr's fleet from Lowestoft, and sailed on Tuesday in charge of Skipper Steve Pembroke, with Mr. J. F. Finn as his mate.

 

 

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