CALYDAVIA M110

John Stevenson Collection

Official No:  143465    Port Number and Year: 514th in London, 1920 (LO358)                                                                                    8th in Milford, 1920                                                                                      -    in Granton, 1936 (GN55)                                                                                     -    in Aberdeen, 1945 (A589)

Description: Castle Class steel side trawler; steam screw, coal burning. Ketch rigged: foresail and mizzen.

Crew:  10 men (1920).

Registered at Milford: 21 Jul 1920

Built: 1918 by Bow McLachlan & Co., Paisley, as CHARLES DONELLY.  (Yard no. 359)

Tonnage: 276.89 grt  121.88 net.

Length / breadth / depth (feet):  125.7  / 23.45 / 12.85

Engine: T 3-Cyl. 61 hp.10 kts.  Engine: 1918, by Fawcett Preston, Liverpool; boiler: 1918, by David Rowan, Glasgow.

Owners:   As CHARLES DONELLY LO358 25 May 1920: The Admiralty, London. Manager: The Secretary, Admiralty, Whitehall, London S.W.1   10 Jul 1920: David Pettit, 'Westcliffe', Wellington Rd., Hakin (64/64) Managing owner.  21 Jul 1920: As CALYDAVIA M110 (Manager: Mrs Elizabeth Ann Heck Pettit; 1934)   2 Nov 1934: Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co. Ltd., Dock St., Fleetwood. Manager: Basil A. Parkes, 'Clydesdale', Whiteside Way, Cleveleys.   4 Feb 1935: Liston Carnie, Thomas Young Carnie, Glasgow & Newhaven. Managing owner: William Carnie Jnr., 211/213 Howard St., Glasgow. 4 Feb 1936: As PELAGOS GN55   1939: Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co. Ltd., Fleetwood. Manager: B. A. Parkes, Cleveleys.   1942: Saint Andrew's Steam Fishing Co. Ltd., Hull Manager: B. A. Parkes, Cleveleys.   As A589. 1945: Joseph Craig, Aberdeen. By 1953: Craig Stores (Aberdeen), Aberdeen.

Landed at Milford: 14 Jun 1920 -1 Jan 1924; 5 Jan 1925 - 20 Sep 1926; 3 Jan 1927 - 26 Aug 1934.

Skippers: G.T. Cobley 2021, 4 May 1920; F.M. Hawkings 8233, 11 Dec 1931.

Notes:  Charles Donnelly [sic], born Liverpool, an Able Seaman, age 50, on HMS VICTORY at Trafalgar. 4 May 1920: Bought by David Pettit at the Government sale of ex-minesweepers, held at the Masonic Hall, Milford. 25 May 1920: Registered at London as CHARLES DONELLY LO358 20 Jul 1920: Renamed CALYDAVIA (LO358), and London registry closed. May 1940: Requisitioned for war service and converted for auxiliary patrol and in 1941 minesweeping duties (P.No.4.103). Aug 1945: Returned 30 Dec 1953: Broken up by Malcolm Brechin, Granton

Cert. Cancelled & Milford Registry Closed: 4 Feb 1936

 

Accidents and Incidents

 

From The Scotsman of Tuesday 18th December 1928, p. 10:

 

SHIPPING NOTES

VALENTIA WIRELESS STATION, Dec. 1916.― Following from British trawler Calydavia:― Steamer FAGER (before reported) proceeding Preston under own steam, and Creswell, bound Milford Haven.

 

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From The Times, Tuesday, May 16, 1933; pg. 25; Issue 46445; col C:

 

Mails and Shipping 

Outward Mails

To-Day's Dispatches  

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STANFREL.— Valentia Wireless Station, May 15.— British trawler Stanfrel foundered noon 52 N., 11.37 W.  All hands safe, being landed Valentia by trawler Calydavia.

 

 

From The Times, Wednesday, May 17, 1933; pg. 20; Issue 46446; col G:

 

CASUALTY REPORTS

From Lloyd's

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STANFREL.—  Cahirciveen, May 16.— Steam trawler Stanfrel foundered noon yesterday 45 miles off Dingle coast. Crew of 11 picked up by steam trawler Calydavia and landed at Valentia harbour.

 
     

 

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