THOMAS CONNOLLY LO285 / M270

Official No:  143861    Port Number and Year:  629th in London, 1919 (LO285)                                                                                   2nd in Milford, 1938

Description: Castle Class steel side trawler; steam screw, coal burning. Ketch rigged: mizzen sail

Crew:  10 men

Registered in Milford: 23 May 1938

Built: 1918 by Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Beverely,  for the Admiralty. (Yard no. 384)

Tonnage: 290.28 grt  119.39 net.

Length / breadth / depth (feet):  125.5  / 23.5 / 12.7

Engine: T 3-Cyl. 60.7 nhp.10 kts.  Engine and boiler by Amos & Smith, Albert Docks, Hull.

Owners:   As LO285 11 May 1920: Brand & Curzon, Docks, Milford   As M270 23 May 1938:  Milford Fisheries, Docks, Milford Manager: Owen Willie Limbrick, Pill Lane, Milford

Landed at Milford: 26 Jan 1920 - 30 Nov 1939

Skippers:

Notes:  10 Apr 1918: Completed for Admiralty as a minesweeper. 1 x 12 pdr. 1919: Sold to mercantile. Nov 1939: Requisitioned by the Admiralty  and converted to a boom defence vessel, based at Sheerness.  17 Dec 1940: Mined off Sheerness.

Cert. Cancelled & Milford Registry Closed: 10 Feb 1941

Accidents and Incidents

From the West Wales Guardian of Friday 21st January 1938:

 

    Milford trawler fishermen have good cause to remember the hurricane, for most of them were in the thick of it, and boats docking on Sunday and Monday bore many signs of their battering - lifeboats were missing and damaged, gear smashed.  Skippers spoke of waves mountains high.  ..................

    In the Dock, too, the Brand and Curzon trawler "Thomas Connolly" was blown from her moorings and ended up under Hakin Bridge, with her foremast damaged.  She was refloated on the afternoon tide on Saturday.

 

 

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