E.W.B.  LT1124

 

Courtesy of Robert Kettle

Official No:   130039               Port Number and Year: 41st in Lowestoft, 1911 (LT1124)

Description: Steel side drifter trawler; steam screw, coal burning.  Ketch rigged.

Crew: 10 men (1911, 1939).

Built: Cochrane & Sons, Ltd., Selby; 1911  (Yard no. 496)

Tonnage: 98 grt  40 net

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 87.0 / 18.6 / 8.9

Engine: T.3-cyl; 35 nhp; 9.5 kts; by Crabtree & Co Ltd., Gt. Yarmouth

Boiler by Riley Brothers (Boilermakers) Ltd, Stockton on Tees.

Owners:

 

As LT1124

7 Jul 1911: Arthur Evans, 'Eveleigh', The Avenue;

                   Ernest Wisker & Walter Bartlett, Lowestoft.

Manager: Arthur Evans.

 

11 Aug 1916:  Arthur Evans  & Walter Bartlett, Lowestoft.  

 

29 Jan 1918:  Frederick W. Moxey, Shield Villa, St. Margaret's Rd., Lowestoft;

                      Bertha Richards & Charles Jordan, Lowestoft.

Manager: Frederick W. Moxey.

                    

17 Dec 1919: The Viking Steam Fishing Co. Ltd., 12 Herring Market, Lowestoft. 

Manager: James Pye, The Nest, Oulton Broad, Lowestoft.

 

2 Apr 1925: Frederick W. Moxey, 36 Trawl Market,  Lowestoft; 

                    Richard & Edward Mallet, Lowestoft. 

Manager: Frederick W. Moxey.

 

3 Feb 1926:  Frederick W. Moxey, 36 Trawl Market, Lowestoft; 

                     Thomas  Richards & Herbert Drake, Lowestoft. 

Manager: Frederick W. Moxey.

 

7 Apr 1938:  Arthur E. R. Dexter, The Quay, Brixham. 
Managing owner.

 

11 Mar 1939: Thomas Richards Ltd., & Reginald Riley, Brixham. 

 

2 Feb 1940: Torbay Trawlers Ltd., Brixham. 

 

1 Feb 1946:  Respondo Trawlers, Docks, Milford.

Manager: John Yolland.

 

17 Nov 1947: Cairo Fishing Co. Ltd., Docks, Milford.

Manager: John Yolland. 

 

29 Oct 1954:  Yolland Brothers Ltd., Docks, Milford. 

Manager: John Yolland.

 

Landed at Milford: 6 Jan 1941 - 12 Jan 1942; 1 Dec 1947 - 22 Jul 1955

Skippers:

Notes: 

E.W.B.: the initials of the surnames of the original owners: Evans, Wisker and Bartlett.

Sep 1915: Requisitioned by the Admiralty (No.1872); converted to a net vessel.  1x3 pdr.

1919: Returned to owners.

16 Jan 1922 : The E.W.B. under Skipper Jenkerson rescued ten survivors out of the crew of twenty of the Hamburg steamer VESTA which was on fire, 40 miles S.E. of Lowestoft.

[The Times, Tuesday, 17 Jan 1922.]

19 Sep 1955: Lowestoft registry closed; broken up at Boom (Antwerp).

[Lofthouse T., Mayes G., Newton D., & Thompson M. (2012): Cochrane Shipbuilders Vol.1:

1884 - 1914.]

 

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