VICTOR M76

 

John Stevenson Collection

Official No:  108452    Port Number and Year:   -     in Grimsby, 1897 (GY246)

                                                                                -    in Aberdeen, 1912 (A511)

                                                                              19th in Grimsby, 1918 (GY1201)

                                                                                 8th in Milford, 1930

Description: Iron side trawler; steam screw, coal burning.  Wheelhouse aft.  Ketch rigged: mizzen.

Crew:  9 men

Registered at Milford: 3 Mar 1930

Built: 1897, by Cochrane & Cooper, Beverley.  (Yard no. 175)

Tonnage: 193.45 grt  92.31 net.

Length / breadth / depth (feet):  110  / 21.1 / 11.4

Engine: T 3-Cyl. 55 rhp.  9 kts.  Engine and boiler by Charles D. Holmes & Co., Hull

Owners:

 

As GY246

Mar 1897: Atlas Steam Fishing Co., Grimsby.

 

As A511

Nov 1912: R. W. Lewis, Balnagask Rd., Torry, Aberdeen

 

As GY1201

Sep 1918: C. Dobson, Grimsby

 

May 1920: Dobson Steam Fishing Co., Grimsby

 

As M76

3 Mar 1930: Carl Erasmus Ebbesen, 30 Shakespeare Ave., Milford. (32/64) (Manager)

Robert Gardner Yabsley, 49, Charles St., Milford. (32/64)

 

29 Oct 1934: Arthur Claude Mitchell, 'Stradbroke Lodge', The Rath, Milford

William Henry Kerr, Thornton

Herbert Charles Mills, 'Windyridge', Wellington Rd., Hakin

James Percy James, Charles St., Milford

Managers: Mitchell Bros., Docks, Milford

 

1936: Broken up.  [According to Lloyd's Register, 1936-37]

 

Landed at Milford: 2 Mar 1930 - 21 Feb 1937

Skippers:

Notes:  Jun 1915: Requisitioned by Admiralty and converted to boom defence vessel

1919: Returned to owners.

Cert. Cancelled & Milford Registry Closed: 9 Apr 1937.  Vessel broken up.

Accidents and Incidents

From the Pembrokeshire Telegraph of Wednesday 1st January 1936:

 

    FISHGUARD LIFEBOAT OUT

CREW NOT SORRY TO GET BACK!

 

    After standing in readiness throughout Sunday night the Fishguard lifeboat received a message about noon on Monday that a drifter (the Feasible) was in distress in an unknown position on the coast.

    No time was lost in putting out and within half-an-hour a signal was received from the coastguard at Strumble Head that the position of the distressed vessel was still unknown.  The lifeboat continued  its course and when off St. David's Head met the Milford trawler "Victor", which gave the information that the drifter was now off the Smalls and was being assisted by another Milford trawler.  At that time, the "Victor" stated, the trawler was getting ropes on board the foundering vessel.

    In consequence of this message the lifeboat did not proceed any further and arrived back at Fishguard at about 4 p.m.

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