TRANIO M 196

TRANIO M196

As LADY STANLEY A543 (1948-60)

John Stevenson Collection

Official No:  143910    Port Number and Year:  633rd in London, 1919 (LO412)
                                                                                 85th in Hull, 1923 (H885)
                                                                                   1st in Milford, 1936
                                                                                   -   in Aberdeen, 1937 (A543)

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

Crew: 10 men

Registered at Milford: 13 Feb 1936

Built: 1917 by J. P. Rennoldson & Sons, South Shields. (Yard no. 305)

Tonnage: 276 grt

Length / breadth / depth (feet):125.3 / 23.4 / 12.6

Engine: T 3-Cyl. 83 nhp.10 kts. Engine by builders; boiler by North East Marine Engineering Co., Sunderland.

Owners:

Launched as GEORGE CLARK

Renamed TRANIO

As H885

1923: Hull Northern Fishing Co., St. Andrew's Dock, Hull

Managers: W.R. Nowell (Later, Hellyer Bros.)

As M196

13 Feb 1936: Harry Eastoe Rees, Docks, Milford

Manager Owner

28 Feb 1936: Harry Eastoe Rees, Docks, Milford (32/64)

Bernard L. Koppehagen, 'Alton House', Bessborough Rd., Roehampton. (32/64)

Manager: H. E. Rees

Nov 1938: Saint Andrew's Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull

Manager: B. A. Parkes

Renamed LADY STANLEY FD125

1939: Boston Deep Sea Fishing Co., Fleetwood

1945:   J. C. Llewellin (Trawlers), Milford

Manager: John Charles Llewellin

[Fishing from Hull under Saint Andrew's Steam Fishing Co ]

Renamed LADY STANLEY A543

1948: Stephen Fishing Co., Aberdeen

Manager: John N. Stephen

Post 1956: Seafield Fishing Co.,Aberdeen.

Landed at Milford: 8 Jan - 25 Dec 1922; 21 Feb 1936 - 21 Dec 1938

Skippers:

Notes: 2 Oct 1917: Launched as GEORGE CLARK and completed as a minesweeper (Admy. no. 3714). 1 x 12 pdr.
1919: On temporary loan to USN
1922: Sold to mercantile and renamed TRANIO
18 Nov 1938: Stranded on rocks off Aran Islands, Co. Galway. Declared a total loss and abandoned to the underwriters, but salved by islanders. [See story below.]
1940: Requisitioned as LADY STANLEY and converted to auxiliary patrol vessel (P.No. 4.233)

May 1941: Converted to a minesweeper.

1945: Returned to owners.

1960: Broken up at Charlestown, Fife.

Cert. Cancelled & Milford Registry Closed: 13 May 1938. Vessel transferred to the port of Aberdeen.

Accidents and Incidents

From The Irish Times of 7th March 1938, p.8:

MAY BECOME TOTAL WRECK

TRAWLER ASHORE OFF ARAN ISLANDS

FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT

GALWAY, Sunday

"It seems to be most unlikely that they will be able to refloat her," said the first mate of the Dun Aengus, on Saturday, when asked if he thought it would be possible to save the steam trawler Tranio, of Milford Haven, which went aground at Killiney, Aran Islands, on Friday night. Another trawler, Prince, also from Milford Haven, is ready to render assistance. Another effort to refloat her will be made on Monday with the help of the Prince.

[The "PRINCE" referred to is presumably the MILFORD PRINCE.]

From an unknown local newspaper dated Thursday 10th March 1938:

News was received on Friday last that the Milford steam trawler 'Tranio', owned by Messrs. H. E. Rees & Co., had gone ashore on the rocks on Arran Island, off Galway. According to a report, it was hoped to refloat the trawler on an early tide. It is expected that part of the crew will come home, and if and when the vessel is got off the rocks, she can be towed back to Milford.

Islanders who amazed the world a few years ago by their acting in the film "Man of Aran" have now astounded engineers by salvaging a ship which under-writers had given up as a total wreck.

The ship, the Milford Haven steam trawler Tranio, went on the rocks a few months ago in Kilronan Bay, Aran, the bleak chain of islands off the Galway coast, where Robert Flaherty made his film.

Her crew was saved, but the rocks held her so fast that salvage companies abandoned her to the pounding of the Atlantic rollers. Underwriters are understood to have paid out the insurance to her owners.

Then the men of Aran rowed out to the vessel, removed everything possible so as to lighten her,

This done, they heaped tons of peat round the ship at each low water, lit it and kept the fire burning until the heat split the rock.

The released trawler was towed into harbour, where holes torn in her bottom were filled with concrete.

The islanders then sold the trawler to a fishing company at whose headquarters in Fleetwood she arrived during the weekend.

Now the 21-year-old vessel is to be fitted with a new bottom before joining the fishing fleet.

When the "Tranio" was given up as a total wreck, Messrs. H. E. Rees and Co. changed the name of another of their vessels to "Tranio", and this boat is now fishing out of Milford.

[ Note: TRANIO went on to do it again. 13.05.1938: Sold to Saint Andrew’s Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull (B. A. Parkes, manager). 04.01.1939: Renamed LADY STANLEY (FD125). 10.11.1939: When in transit in Pentland Firth in darkness ran ashore at Swilke Point, Stroma. Badly pounded but slipped off rocks and taken in tow by WIGMORE (GY469) and after checks proceeded in company for the Humber. Repaired at Hull. Thanks to Gilbert Mayes for this information. ]