AVONDEE A826

Taken by a Coastal Command patrol aircraft in 1943

Courtesy of Davie Tait

Official No: 143868    Port and Year:  London, 1920 (LO448)                                                                  Aberdeen, 1922 (A826)

Description: Strath class steel side trawler; steam screw, coal burning.  Ketch rigged.

Crew:  9 men (1922).

Built: 1918; J. Fullerton & Co., Paisley.  (Yard no. 251)

Tonnage: 202 grt  87 net (By 1922: 77 net.)

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 115.4 / 22.2 / 12.1

Engine: T3-Cyl. 74 rhp, 9.5 knots; by W. Allen, Sons & Co., Bedford

Owners:   As THOMAS EVISON LO448 24 Aug 1920: The Admiralty, London. Manager: The Secretary, Admiralty, Whitehall, London SW1   30 Dec 1921: Harrow Robertson Steam Fishing Co., Regent Rd., Aberdeen Manager: John A. Harrow. 6 Mar 1922: As  JEANNIE M. ROBERTSON A826   As AVONDEE A826 30 Jun 1925: North Star Steam Fishing Co., Regent Rd., Aberdeen Manager: John A. Harrow.   1944: Robert P. Lewis (Haven Trawlers), Docks, Milford.   1946: John W. Johnstone, 186, Market St., Aberdeen. Managing owner.

Landed at Milford: 8 May 1943 - 4 Apr 1944; 10 Nov 1944 - 5 Apr 1946

Notes:  Thomas Evison, age 26, born Grimsby; AB, HMS VICTORY, at Trafalgar. 12 Apr 1918: Delivered as THOMAS EVISON to Admiralty (No. 3743). Listening hydrophones; 1 x 12 pdr. 1922: Sold to mercantile. 17 Mar 1940: German aircraft dropped three bombs between the AVONDEE and BRACONLEA, with no damage; the skipper of the AVONDEE fired several rounds with his machine-gun at them. [The Times, Monday, 18th Mar 1940.] Mar 1944: Requisitioned by Admiralty as AVONDEE, and converted to an Esso. (P.No. 4.432) Oct 1944: Returned to owners. 16 Feb 1948: The AVONDEE arrived at Fraserburgh Bay with an unexploded mine lashed to her deck. [The Times, Tuesday, 17th Feb 1948.]

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