WILLIAM WILSON M90
Barry Banham Photo Collection
Official No: 131883 Port Number and Year: 1st in Kirkcaldy, 1929 (KY293)
13th in Milford, 1957
- in Scarborough, 1960 ?
Description: Steel side drifter / trawler; steam screw, coal burner. Ketch rigged.
Crew: 9 men
Registered at Milford: 30 Jan 1937
Built: 1929, by Alexander Hall & Co., Aberdeen. (Yard no. 613)
Tonnage: 184 gross 79 net
Length / breadth / depth (feet): 110.3 / 21.8 / 11.7
Engine: T.3- cyl. 67 rhp. 10 kts. 1909. Engine and boiler by builders
Owners:
As KY293
1929: William C. Wilson, Whitley Bay
Manager: J. T. Graham
As M90
30 Jan 1957: Peter Hancock & Sons, Docks, Milford
Manager: Reginald Llewellyn Hancock, 'Beachways', Picton Rd., Hakin
11 Jul 1960: Tom Clark, 31 Basford St., Sheffield 9 (Hotel supplier)
Manager: Herbert Hunt, 18 Nares St., Scarborough
1965: J R Cameron, Peterhead.
Landed at Milford: 19 Oct 1956 - 11 Dec 1957; 6 Jan 1959 - 26 Apr 1960
Skippers:
Notes: 1940 - 1945: Hospital drifter
c.1971: Broken up.
Cert. Cancelled & Milford Registry Closed: 11 Jul 1960. Vessel transferred to the port of Scarborough.
Accidents and Incidents:
From the West Wales Guardian of Friday 19th October 1956:
Mr. R. L. Hancock, President of the Trawler Owners' Association, said on Thursday that his firm have bought the drifter trawler William Wilson. She is now on her way round from the Scottish port of Anstruther, in charge of Skipper James Hewitt and a Milford crew, and is due at Milford this weekend.
The William Wilson is 90 ft. long, 19.7 ft. beam and 118 tons gross. She was built at Aberdeen in 1929, has been used for "line" fishing, and is reported to be in excellent condition. This is the third fishing vessel purchased by Messrs. Hancock's within two months. They acquired the hake boats Tenby Castle and Clyne Castle from Consolidated Fisheries, Swansea, last month, and both vessels have been doing well.
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From the West Wales Guardian of Friday 10th February 1961:
Three Milford trawlers which took part in the search for the missing V-bomber off the coast of Pembrokeshire have vanished from the local scene. The Agnes Nutten was scrapped some time ago, the Clyne Castle is being broken up at Messrs. R. S. Hayes' Yard, Pembroke Dock, and the William Wilson has been sold to an East Coast firm.
Alongside Hobbs Point, Pembroke Dock
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