SILVERAXE LO460

Official No:  144682    Port and Year:  London, 1920 (LO460)                                                                     Hull, 1924 (H98)

Description: Steel side / beam trawler; coal fired. Ketch rigged.

Crew:

Built: by Hall, Russell & Co., Aberdeen; in 1908.  (Yard no. 449)

Tonnage:  272 grt  119 net

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 134.3 / 23.1 / 11.7

Engine: T.3-Cyl; 86 nhp; by builders.

Owners:   As TRES 1908: Sociedad Pescadora Argentina, Calle Olavarria 55, Buenos Aires. Manager: F. Dumas   As T.33 1917: Russian Government, Archangel.   As SILVERAXE LO460 30 Aug 1920: Colin L. Mason, Atlantic Buildings, Bute Docks, Cardiff. Managing owner.   As FINMARK H98 25 Nov 1924: Brekke, Son & Gillard, Ltd.,  Andrew's Dock, Hull. Manager: George W.S. Gillard. (Same address.)

Landed at Milford: 7 Dec 1920 - 7 Feb 1924

Skippers:

Notes:  3 Aug 1918: Seized by the R.N. in the White Sea.  [See also SUREAXE M35.] 11 Nov 1918: Added to the Navy List as SILVERAXE, a minesweeper (Admy. No. 4338). 1 x 12pdr. 11 May 1920: Sold to mercantile, by Messrs. Kellocks, in the Baltic Mercantile and Shipping Exchange, St. Mary Axe, London E.C.3. 7 Feb 1926: In a heavy gale, went ashore at Kettleness Point, 3 miles north of Whitby, at 6 o'clock in the evening.  At 4 a.m., the Kettleness rocket brigade managed to get lines to her, and the exhausted crew were rescued, although one had head injuries through being washed through the charthouse window. [The Times, Tuesday 6th February 1926.] 18 Feb 1926: Registration closed - "Wrecked". [Information kindly supplied by Gil Mayes.]

 

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