FIERY CROSS M118
Official No: 119391 Port Number and Year: 13th in Lowestoft, 1905 (LT148)
12th in Milford, 1911
- in Ramsgate, 1915 (R281)
Description: Wooden sailing smack; beam trawling. Dandy rigged.
Crew: 3 men, 1 boy (1911).
Registered: 20 Oct 1911.
Built: 1905, by J. Bowden, Porthleven, Cornwall
Tonnage: 38.49 grt 27.18 net. (Amended in port of Swansea, 4 Apr 1913 to 21.77 net)
Length / breadth / depth (feet): 62.3 / 17.6 / 8.35
Engine: -
Owners:
As LT148
1905: Charles J. Anderson, 9 Savage Gardens, Tower Hill, City, London.
Managing owner.
As M118
20 Oct 1911: Thomas Isaiah Jenkerson, 'Norfolk Villa', Milford.
Managing owner.
As R281
14 May 1913: Edward J. Grant, 85 Luke's Ave., Ramsgate.
Manager: Thomas Walter Chapman, Cliff St., Ramsgate.
By 1917: Thomas Walter Chapman, 18 Crescent Rd., Ramsgate.
Managing owner.
By 1918: Walter G. Easton, 6 Miers St., St. Thomas, Swansea.
Manager: Harry E. Rees, South Dock, Swansea.
As BM145
26 Feb 1923: Harry Perkins Davie, 15 Belleview Tce., Ranscombe Rd., Brixham.*
Managing owner.
Landed at Milford: 11 Jan 1911 - 24 Apr 1913
Skippers: H. Robinson cert. 5038, age 36, born Manchester, residing - ; signed on 11 Jan 1911
S. Manning 1651, 53, Dover, Station Rd., Brixham; 2 May 1911
William Rackley 05231, 51, Brixham, - ; 14 Oct 1911
Frederick George Wonnacott 3876, 40, Brixham, - ; 1 Jan 1912
T. Maddick 9536, 36, Brixham, - ; 6 Mar 1912
J. W. Braddick 3567, 44, Brixham, Robert St., Milford; 1 Jul 1912
T. Bray 8232, 25, Brixham, - ; 5 Jul 1912
J. B. Hannaford 4841, 35, Brixham, - ; 8 Sep 1912
H. Rooke 10699, 22, Cardiff, 29 Edward St., Milford; 6 Jan 1913
Notes: 28 Oct 1911 - 1 Jan 1912: Laid up in Milford Docks.
Cert. Cancelled & Registry Closed: 14 May 1913. Transferred to the port of Ramsgate.
5 Jul 1933: No longer fishing. [ But still listed in the 1937 Mercantile Navy List. ]
Her hulk could be seen at Dittisham on the River Dart in 1988.
(See Langley M. & Small E. (1989): "Lost Ships of the West Country")*
* www.brixhamsailingtrawlers.co.uk
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