HAWTHORNBANK  LT237 / M237 / M82

JACKETA LT237

 

Courtesy of Barry Banham

Official No:  144996    Port Number and Year:  -    in Granton, 1920 (GN67)

                                                                                 -    in Dieppe, c.1923 (D896)

                                                                                6th in Milford, 1937 (M237)

                                                                                5th in Berwick, 1937 (BK163)

                                                                                9th in Milford, 1945 (M82)

                                                                                  -   in Lowestoft, 1946 (LT237)

Description: Admiralty steel drifter / side trawler, steam screw, coal burning. Ketch rigged: mizzen sail

Crew:  9 men

Registered at Milford: (M237) 24 Aug 1937;  (M82) 28 Dec 1945.

Built: 1918 by Alexander Hall & Co., Aberdeen, for the Admiralty. (Yard no. 551)

Tonnage: 96.27 grt  41 net.  (By 1937: 35.55 net.)

Length / breadth / depth (feet):  86.2  / 18.5 / 9.2

Engine: T 3-Cyl. 42 nhp. 9 kts.  Engine and boiler by builders.

Owners:

 

As HAWTHORNBANK GN67

Jun 1920: David Stevenson, 21 Hawthornbank Tce., Leith.
Managing owner.

 

As JEHAN ANGON D896

1923: Soc. Anon. de Pecheries & Armaments de Dieppe.

 

As HAWTHORNBANK M237

24 Aug 1937: Reginald Llewellyn Hancock, 'Beachways', Picton Rd., Hakin.

Managing owner.

 

1 Oct 1937: Alexander Collin, Beach Ave., Eyemouth, Co. Berwick (32/64)

Managing owner: James Jamieson, 14 St. Ebba Rd., Eyemouth, Co. Berwick (32/64)

11 Oct 1937: As BK163.

 

As M82:

28 Dec 1945:  Prescelly Dredging Co. Ltd., 26 Hamilton Tce., Milford

Manager: Reginald Llewellyn Hancock, The Docks, Milford.

 

As HAWTHORNBANK LT237

16 Jul 1946: Arthur Claude Mitchell, "Stradbroke Lodge", The Rath, Milford.

Managing owner.

1951: As JACKETA LT237

 

Landed at Milford: (HAWTHORNBANK M82) 12 Jul 1946.

(HAWTHORNBANK LT237) 20 Mar - 25 Apr 1949; 15 May - 7 Jul 1950.

(JACKETA LT237) 5 Jan - 21 Apr 1954; 11 Jan - 15 Apr 1955; 10 Jan  - 25 Apr 1956.

Skippers:

Notes: 

6 Aug 1918: Launched as FAIR WIND for the Admiralty (Admy. no. 3974); 1x6pdr AA.

11 May 1919: As ATTENTIVE II (Dover Shore Base.)

21 Jun 1920: Transferred to Fishery Board, Scotland, as HAWTHORNBANK for disposal to mercantile.

5 Feb 1940 - Oct 1945: Hired by Admiralty as boom defence vessel. 

1956: Broken up.

Cert. Cancelled & Milford Registry Closed:

M237: 11 Oct 1937. Transferred to the port of Berwick. 

M82: 16 Jul 1946. Transferred to the port of Lowestoft.

[Thanks to Andy Hall for information.]

 

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