Courtesy of Fleetwood Maritime Heritage Trust and The Bosun's Watch

Official No:  143833  Port and Year:   London, 1919 (LO244)                                                                  Fleetwood, 1929 (FD17)

Description: Castle class steel trawler; single screw, coal burning.  Ketch rigged.

Crew:  11 men (1920).

Built: 1918: J.P. Rennoldson & Sons, South Shields.  (Yard no.309)

Tonnage:  276 grt  109 net.

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 125.2  / 23.4 / 12.6

Engine: T.3-Cyl; 61 rhp; by builders.

Owners:   As ISAAC HEATH LO244 30 Dec 1919: The Admiralty, London. Manager: The Secretary of the Admiralty, Whitehall, London SW1   1920: The Skomer Steam Shipping Co., Milner Chambers, Cardiff. Manager: Lewis Bull. [Same address.]   16 Nov 1933: Brand & Curzon, Ltd., The Docks, Milford. Managers: Edward Brand & Charles Curzon. [Same address.]   22 Feb 1929: J. Marr & Son, Ltd., 228 Dock St., Fleetwood. Manager: Geoffrey E. Marr, 'Melrose', Esplanade, Fleetwood. 28 May 1929: As TEROMA FD17.   12 May 1949: Mason Trawlers, Fleetwood. Manager: Robert H. Bagshaw.

Landed at Milford:  7 Jun 1920 - 13 Feb 1929

Skippers:

Notes:  Isaac Heath, age 22, born Somerset; Pte., R.M.; HMS VICTORY, at Trafalgar. 10 Mar 1932: Skipper Charles Henry Taylor, Mate Walter R. Bowie and 2nd Hand John Brown charged at Stornaway Sherriff Court with illegal fishing half a mile off  the Butt of Lewis, without lights. During the chase, a crew member attempted to paint over her port number. [The Times, 11 March 1932] Aug 1939:  Requisitioned by the Admiralty as TEROMA and converted to a minesweeper (P.No.FY.527). 1943: 41st Minesweeping Group, Grimsby. Mar 1945:  Returned to owners. 16 Nov 1955:  Outward bound and in fog, collided with the dredger FOULNEY a mile off Fleetwood, damaging her bows, while the dredger went aground.  No casualties, and able to return to port.  [The Times, 17 Nov 1955.] 1958: Broken up at Dublin. 21 Oct 1958: Fleetwood registry closed.   [Information from the Fleetwood Maritime Heritage Trust and the Bosun's Watch website.]