REVESBY M28
GWMAHO M28
Official No: 143853 Port Number and Year: - in Plymouth, 1920 (PH174)
3rd in Fleetwood, 1922 (FD400)
10th in Milford, 1929
Description: Castle Class steel side trawler; steam screw, coal burning. Ketch rigged: mizzen sail.
Crew: 10 men
Registered at Milford: 15 Aug 1929
Built: 1917; by Bow McLachlan & Co., Paisley , for the Admiralty. (Yard no. 341)
Tonnage: 276 grt 125 net.
Length / breadth / depth (feet): 125.5 / 23.5 / 12.7
Engine: T 3-Cyl. 60.7 nhp.10 kts. Engine by Fawcett, Preston & Co., Liverpool; boiler by Dunsmuir & Jackson, Govan
Owners:
As THOMAS CROFTON LO ?
Dec 1919: The Admiralty, London.
Manager: The Secretary, Admiralty, Whitehall, London S.W.1
15 Jul 1920: As THOMAS CROFTON PH174
23 Jul 1920: Herbert Ford, 95 Colmore Row, Birmingham.
Manager: John Maxwell Jones, 20 Woolster St., Plymouth.
24 Oct 1921: Crofton Steam Fishing Co. Ltd., Derby Chambers, Wyre Dock, Fleetwood.
Manager (24 Dec 1921): Jules H. Nierinck, 'Desmond House', Queen's Drive, Blackpool.
21 Feb 1922: Registered as FD400.
1924: Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co. Ltd., Fish Docks, Grimsby.
Manager: Fred Parkes, Wyberton, Boston. (1925: 'Vine Gardens', Wyberton, Boston.)
9 Mar 1925: As REVESBY FD400
As M28
15 Aug 1929: James Carpenter Ward, 'Harbour House', Milford (15/64)
George Knight, 27 Hamilton Tce., Milford (15/64)
Morgan Watkin Howell, 'Havenhurst', The Rath, Milford. (15/64)
Managing owner: John McRae Knight, 'Cunjic House', Hakin (19/64)
1931: Harry Eastoe Rees, 'Mirador House', The Rath, Milford.
Managing owner.
20 Oct 1933: Morgan Watkin Howell, 'Havenhurst', The Rath, Milford.
Manager owner. (Died 3 Feb 1936; age 73.)
9 Nov 1933: As GWMAHO M28
23 Oct 1936: Gwenllian Howell, 'Havenhurst', The Rath, Milford (Widow)
Charles Edmund Morris, 'Rathbank', Milford.
Manager: James Gwyther (from 4 Nov 1936).
27 Oct 1936: Gwenllian Howell, 'Havenhurst', The Rath, Milford. (64/64).
Manager: James Gwyther.
Landed at Milford: REVESBY: 9 Jun 1929 - 19 Apr 1933;
GWMAHO: 1 Jan 1934 - 22 Nov 1939.
HMS GWMAHO (Nos.): 14 May - 20 Oct 1940 (5); 31 Jan - 18 Dec 1941 (7); 13 Feb - 16 Nov 1942 (8); 4 Jan - 21 Dec (13); 9 Feb - 24 Sep 1944 (4); 13 Feb - 24 Sep 1945 (5).
Skippers:
Notes:
Thomas Crofton, age 27, born Ireland; Pte. (RM), HMS VICTORY, Trafalgar.
Revesby is a village in E. Lindsay, Lincolnshire. (cf. As is her sister ship Miningsby.)
Gwmaho: GWenllian - (MAry?) - HOwell.
Jun 1917: Launched as Admiralty Castle THOMAS CROFTON (Admy. no. 3661). 1x12 pdr; fitted with listening hydrophones.
1920: Sold to mercantile.
10 Jan 1934: Explosion in chart room. [See below.]
23 Nov 1939: Requisitioned as GWMAHO and converted to boom defence vessel. (Z.135)
1942: Based at Pembroke Dock.
23 Nov 1943: Compulsorily acquired by M.O.W.T.
Jan 1946: Returned to owners; sold for breaking up.
Cert. Cancelled & Milford Registry Closed: 2 Feb 1946.
Accidents and Incidents
The Times, Thursday, 11th January, 1934; pg. 20; Issue 46649:
CASUALTY REPORTS
From Lloyds
......
GWMAHO.― Fishguard Wireless Station, Jan. 10. Following message received from British trawler Gwmaho, via British trawler Our Bairns, at 10.15 pm ― Explosion in chart room, no means of navigation. Owners advise trawler Settsu standing by Gwmaho.
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