FALMOUTH  M268

John Stevenson Collection

Official No:  108483    Port Number and Year: 58th in Grimsby, 1897 (GY428)

                                                                               10th in Lowestoft, 1925 (LT143)

                                                                               13th in Milford, 1938

                                                                                 -     in Grimsby, 1945  (GY25)

Description: Steel side trawler; steam screw, coal burning. Pareja (pair) fishing.  Yawl rigged. Wheelhouse aft.

Crew:  9 men (1897; 1925)

Registered at Milford: 2 Aug 1938

Built: 1897, by Mackie & Thomson, Govan, Glasgow.  (Yard no. 161)

Tonnage: 165.05 grt  51.5 net  (1914: 63.81 net.)

Length / breadth / depth (feet):  104.2  / 21.0 / 10.7

Engine: T 3-Cyl. 45 rhp., by builder; boiler by Muir & Houston, Glasgow

Owners:

 

As GY428

26 Oct 1897: Frederick E. Hagerup, Royal Dock Chambers, Grimsby.

Managing owner.

 

1898: Hagerup, Doughty & Co., Ltd., Grimsby.

Manager: Fred. E. Hagerup. (Same address.)

 

Apr 1906: Consolidated Steam Fishing & Ice Co., (Grimsby), 1 Quality Court, London.

                                                                                  (By 1920: Auckland Rd., Grimsby.)

Manager: John D. Marsden, Fish Docks, Grimsby.

9 Jan 1925: As LT143.  (Same firm and address.)

 

As M268

2 Aug 1938: Henry James Horwood, 6 Waterloo Rd., Hakin

Managing owner.

 

23 Aug 1939: Pair Fishing Co., Docks, Milford

Manager: H. J. Horwood  (26 Feb 1941: Henry John Richards.)

 

6 Nov 1943: Standard Steam Fishing Co., Fish Docks, Grimsby

Manager: A.W. Butt.

Jan 1945: As GY25 [See note below.]

 

Landed at Milford: (LT143) 16 Jul 1938;  (M268) 7 Aug 1938 - 5 Sep 1941; 8 Dec 1941 - 11 Feb 1944.

Skippers:

Notes: 

Dec 1914: Requisitioned by Admiralty (Admy.no. 769) 1x6pdr.

Feb 1915: Renamed FALMOUTH II. 

1919: Returned to owners, and renamed FALMOUTH.

8 Jan 1925: Grimsby Register closed.

27 Jul 1938: Lowestoft Register closed.

12 Apr 1945: Sunk by a mine, 6 miles ENE of No. 62F Buoy,  off the Humber. (Probably by striking a British or Allied mine.)

Cert. Cancelled & Milford Registry Closed: 10 Jan 1945.  Vessel transferred to the port of Grimsby

 

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