ESLEA  M100

Official No:  127613    Port Number and Year: 34th in Lowestoft, 1908 (LT46)

                                                                                12th in Milford, 1920

Description: Wooden drifter; steam screw, coal burning. Dandy rigged.

Crew:  10 men (1908-14); 8 men (1919).

Registered at Milford: 22 Jun 1920

Built: 1908 by H. Reynolds, Oulton Broad, Lowestoft.

Tonnage: 82.87 grt  35.62 net.

Length / breadth / depth (feet):  86.6  / 18.7 / 8.8

Engine: C2-Cyl. 31 nhp. 9.5 kts., by Crabtree & Co., Yarmouth; boiler by R. Stephenson & Co., Hebburn on Tyne.

Owners:

 

As LT46

19 Jun 1908: Charles Eslea Day, 306 London Rd., Kirkley, Lowestoft.

Managing owner.

 

1915: Edward James Hellings, 5 Hamilton Tce., Milford.

Managing owner.

 

As M100

22 Jun 1920: Connie Hellings, 5 Hamilton Tce., Milford.  (32/64)

George Ernest Sturley, Gracechurch Tce., Pill, Milford. (16/64)

Managing owner: Edward James Hellings, 5 Hamilton Tce., Milford. (16/64)

 

27 Nov 1925: Connie Hellings, 5 Hamilton Tce., Milford.

Frederick Saunders James, 19 Honeyborough Green, Honeyborough, Neyland.

Managing owner: Edward James Hellings, 5 Hamilton Tce., Milford.

 

Landed at Milford: 11 Dec 1920 - 27 Dec 1928; 16 May 1929.

Skippers:

Notes: 

Eslea was a common Suffolk surname in the 1881 Census.

Jan 1916: Requisitioned by Admiralty as a netlayer.  (Admy.no. 2307).  1x6pdr AA.

1919: Returned to owners.

Cert. Cancelled & Milford Registry Closed: 22 Dec 1933.  Broken up.

 

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