WESTHOLME LT216
Official No: 149239 Port and Year: Ymuiden, 1918 (IJM ?)
Lowestoft, ? (LT216)
Description: Steel side trawler; coal fired. Ketch rigged
Crew:
Built: by NV Burgerhouts M & S, Rotterdam; in 1918. (Yard no.? )
Tonnage: 152 grt 67 net
Length / breadth / depth (feet): 102.4 / 20.4 / 10 (1930: 100.2 x 20.4 x 9.6 )
Engine: T.3-Cyl; 35 rhp; by Burgerhouts Machfb., Rotterdam
Owners:
As WITTE ZEE IJM?
1918: Unknown Dutch owners.
Renamed WESTHOLME
pre 1930: Waveney Steam Drifter Fishing Co., Lowestoft
Manager: A Gouldby
1937: Westholme Fishing Co.
Manager: R. L. Hancock, Docks, Milford
1942: J. Bennett (Wholesale), Lowestoft
Manager: W. A. Bennett.
[Not in Olsen's 1947 edition.]
Landed at Milford: 19 Sep 1937 - 19 Dec 1939
Skippers:
Notes: Oct 1939: Requisitioned by the Admiralty for harbour service.
Dec 1946: Returned to owners.
Accidents and Incidents
From an unknown local newspaper dated c. 7th April 1938:
Two more of the smaller class of Milford Haven trawlers are being converted to the Spanish pair methods, and are expected to put to sea this week. They are the steam trawler Gozo, and the steam trawler Alonso, belonging to Messrs. C. H. Brand and Company. The vessels will be in charge of two of the port's most experienced hake fishing skippers, Messrs. Charles Thomas and Albert Saunders.
Another interesting experiment is the fitting out for the first time of a local trawler for seine net fishing. The vessel is the steam trawler "Westholme", which belongs to the newly formed Westholme fishing company, under the management of Messrs. Peter Hancock and Sons. The experiment will be watched with interest.
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From an unknown local newspaper dated on or around 8th July 1939:
Recently the Milford steam trawler "Westholme" was arrested by the Eire Government Fisheries Patrol Boat "Muirehu" off the south coast of Wexford, and escorted into Rosslare Harbour. The skipper, a Lowestoft man, later appeared at a special court at Wexford, and was fined £50.
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