BEN ADEN  M119

Official No: 144600  Port Number and Year:  334th in London, 1920 (LO375)

                                                                                11th in North Shields, 1923 (SN136)

                                                                                   1st in Milford, 1941

Description: Strath Class steel side trawler; steam screw, coal burner. Ketch rigged: foresail, main, mizzen.

Crew:  11 / 12 / 9 men

Registered at Milford: 24 Mar 1941

Built: Hall Russell & Co., Aberdeen, 1918, as JOHN BELL.  (Yard no. 625)

Tonnage: 203.06 grt  77.8 net

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 115.4 / 22.1 / 12.1 

Engine: T-3Cyl. 74 hp. 10 kts. Engine: 1918, by W.H. Allenson, Bedford.  Boiler: 1917, by builders.

Owners:

 

As JOHN BELL LO375

1920: The Secretary of the Admiralty, Whitehall, London S.W.1

 

As JOHN SMART SN136

1923: John Smart & Co., Fish Quay, North Shields.

Manager: John Smart, Fish Quay, North Shields.

                (By 1926): 13 Percy Gardens, Tynemouth.

 

As BEN ADEN SN136

1932: R. Irvin & Sons, Fish Quay, N. Shields.

Manager: Sir John H. Irvin, K.B.E., Albert Quay, Aberdeen.

 

1940: United Trawlers, Docks, Milford.

Manager: Henry James Horwood, Waterloo Rd., Hakin.

 

As BEN ADEN M119

24 Mar 1941: H. L. Trawlers Co., Docks, Milford.  (64/64)

Manager: Henry John Horwood, Harbour Walls, Pier Rd., Milford

 

Landed at Milford:  14 Feb - 6 Apr 1941.

Skippers:

Notes: 

John Bell, age 23, born Gainsborough, Lincs.; O.S., HMS VICTORY, at Trafalgar.

Ben Aden is a mountain on the north-west coast of Scotland.

1918: Completed as JOHN BELL; Admy. No. 3635.  Listening Hydrophones. 1x12pdr. AA.

1920:  Registered as a fishing vessel by Admiralty at London.

20 Apr 1941: Vessel following collision, off the Smalls.

Cert. Cancelled & Milford Registry Closed: 28 Apr 1941

                 Accidents and Incidents     

       

            From R. &. B. Larn (2000): Shipwreck Index of the British Isles - West Coast and Wales:

 

            BEN ADEN                                                           20/04/1941

 

            St. George's Channel, Cardigan Bay, offshore      52.21.30N  05.23W

            .........

            Foundered and lost following collision.

 

 

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