MADDEN LO251

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Official No:  143912   Port and Year:   London, 1920 (LO251)                                                                  Granton, 1926 (GN101)

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

Crew:

Built: 1917 by Hall & Russell Co., Aberdeen.  (Yard no. 608)

Tonnage: 237 grt  102 net

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 122.8  / 22.2  / 12.4

Engine: T.3-cyl; 57 rhp;  by Bailey & Leetham, Hull

Owners:   As WILLIAM BROWNING LO251 9 Jan 1920: The Admiralty, London. Manager: The Secretary, Admiralty, Whitehall, London S.W.1   As MADDEN LO251 1920: Vanessa Fishing Co. Ltd., Bank Chambers, London Road, Lowestoft. Manager: Leonard C. Cockrell. [Same address.] Manager: E. D. W. Lawford, 'Havenhurst', The Rath, Milford. [May 1920- Nov 1923.]   As GN101 18 Dec 1923: Robert D. Devlin, Lower Granton Rd., Granton, Midlothian. Managing owner. [Lloyd's List (1930-45): T.L. Devlin & Sons, Granton; Manager: T.L. Devlin.] 1934: Thomas L. Devlin, 'Linthorpe', Craighall Rd., Leith. Managing owner. [Olsen's (1946-61): Thomas L. Devlin & Sons, Edinburgh.]

Landed at Milford: 19 May 1920 - 24 Nov 1923

Skippers:

Notes:  William Browning, age 27, born Malmsbury, Wilts; Pte., R.M., HMS VICTORY, at Trafalgar. (Sir Charles) Madden, Chief of the Staff to Sir John Jellicoe in the Grand Fleet from 1914 to 1916 and as Second-in-Command of the fleet under Sir David Beatty from 1916 to 1919. [Wikipedia.] 17 May 1917: Launched as WILLIAM BROWNING for the the Admiralty and equipped with listening hydrophones (Admy.no. 3648).  1 x 12 pdr. 1920: Sold to mercantile. 24 Feb 1940: Requisitioned by the Admiralty as MADDEN and converted to a minesweeper; FY.784. 1x12pdr/4" gun.  Complement: 20. 1944: Converted to wreck dispersal vessel. 23 Apr 1946: Returned to owners. 1961: Broken up at Granton.

 

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