JOSEPH HODGKINS A186

Official No:  139809    Port Number and Year:   Aberdeen, 1919

Description: Castle Class  steel side trawler; steam screw, coal burning. Ketch rigged

Crew: 10 men (1919).

Built: 1919 by Hepple & Co., South Shields (Yard no. 650)

Tonnage: 275 grt  120 net

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 125.0  / 23.4  / 12.6

Engine: T.3-cyl; 48 ihp = 10.5  kts.;  by Belliss & Morcom Ltd, Birmingham

Owners:   8 Jul 1919: Felix R. Samson, 11a High St., St. John's Wood, London. Managing owner. Managers: Brand & Curzon, Docks, Milford. (May 1920 - Mar 1922.)   Apr 1921: S & B Trawling Co., Fleetwood.

Landed at Milford: 9 May 1920 - 21 Mar 1921.

Skippers:

Notes:  Joseph Hodgkins, age 24, born Battlebridge, Essex; O.S., HMS VICTORY, at Trafalgar. 20 Jun 1919: Completed as a fishing vessel, and sold to mercantile. 28 Dec 1921: During WNW Force 8 gale, in collision off Maughold Head, Isle of Man with CUIRASS (GY436). Subsequently foundered and crew picked up by JACINTA (FD325). 16 Jan 1922: Aberdeen Register closed. [Information supplied by the Fleetwood Maritime Trust and the Bosun's Watch website.]

 

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