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GOOSANDER LL118
[Spelt GOSSANDER in Olsens prior to c.1930]
As HMT GOOSANDER
From Wikimedia Commons website.
Official No: 124111 Port and Year: 7th in Liverpool, 1908
Description: Steel side trawler; steam screw, coal burning. Crabber. Ketch rigged.
Crew:
Built: 1907, by Smith's Dock Co., North Shields. (Yard no. 365)
Tonnage: 238 grt 90 net.
Length / breadth / depth (feet): 120.4 / 21.6 / 11.6
Engine: T.3-Cyl; 57 rhp; by MacColl & Pollock, Sunderland
Owners:
14 Jan 1908: Harley & Miller, Ltd., Liverpool.
Manager: Robert Harley, 74 Bedford St., Liverpool. (1908-23)
Charles C. Miller, 98 Princes St., Liverpool. (1923-33)
Richard H. Jones, 6 Sudworth Rd., Wallesey, Cheshire. (1933-38)
1938: John C. Llewellin, The Docks, Milford.
Managing owner.
May 1939: Yolland & Llewellin Trawling Co., The Docks, Milford.
Manager: John C. Llewellin.
1941: St. Andrew's Steam Fishing Co., Fleetwood.
Manager: Basil A. Parkes
Landed at Milford: 17 May 1939 - 3 Feb 1941
Skippers:
Notes:
Goosander is a large duck usually found in freshwater rivers and lakes.
Jan 1915: Requisitioned by the Admiralty and converted to a minesweeper (Admy.No.910). 1x6 pdr.
May 1919: Returned to owners.
Nov 1939: Requisitioned by the Admiralty and converted to auxiliary patrol vessel.
1940: Returned to owners.
Mar 1943: Requisitioned for war service and converted to a fuel carrier (Esso) (P.No.Y7.20)
Jan 1944: Converted to a water carrier.
Feb 1946: Returned and sold for breaking up.
[Information from the Fleetwood Maritime Trust and the Bosun's Watch website.]
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