OLIVE BRANCH  M150

Official No: 65488     Port Number and Year:   Brixham, 1871 (DH634)

                                                                                Waterford, 1890 (W ?)

                                                                                13th in Milford, 1899

Description: Wooden sailing smack; trawling.  Ketch rigged.

Crew: 3 men, 1 boy

Registered: 30 Dec 1899

Built: 1871, Upham's Yard (?), Brixham

Tonnage: 46.02 grt  46.02 net

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 60.3 / 17.6 / 9.6

Engine: -

Owners:

 

As DH634

1871: John Petherbridge James, Brixham.

 

As W ??

1890: Mrs. E. Nichols, Dunmore East, Waterford.

Managing owner.

 

As W?

1899: John Joseph Smith, Tenby (Fish merchant)

Managing owner.

30 Dec 1899:  As M150

 

 

Landed at Milford: [Landed at Tenby.]

Skippers: Wm. Rackley (1889)

Notes: 

1 Nov 1872: Fishing out of Lowestoft (Skipper Clark) was swept by a heavy sea which carried away an apprentice, William Jordan, age 19.  No life buoy or belt was aboard. [The Ipswich Journal, Saturday 9th November 1872.]

Cert. Cancelled & Registry Closed: 6 Dec 1906.  "Vessel broken up. Advice received by owner."

(1910: Said to have been owned by Owen Lewis, Carnarvon, but not listed in the Mercantile Navy List 1911.)

 

 

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