UNITY BM75

UNITY M242

Official No:   109313               Port Number and Year:  8th in Brixham, 1899 (BM75)                                                                                              9th in Milford, 1921

Description: Wooden sailing smack; carvel built. Trawling.  Ketch rigged.

Crew: 3 men, 1 boy

Registered: 19 Nov 1921

Built: W. A. Gibbs & Co., Galmpton, 1899

Tonnage: 47.44 grt  10.37 net

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 68.95 / 18.2 / 8.95

Engine: Internal combustion engine; 52 nhp. (Fitted 1921)

Owners:   As BM75 4 Dec 1899: George Bath Johnson, Killiney, Brixham.   25 Sep 1906: Richard E. White, 'Hearts of Oak', Milford.   29 Jun 1920: Christopher Walter Cobb, 'Rostherne', Priory Rd., Milford. 1921: As M242

Landed at Milford: As BM75: 30 Jan 1906 - 4 Nov 1915; 15 Jan - 29 Oct 1915. As M242: 9 Jul - 21 Dec 1921; 8 landings in 1922.

Skippers: William Richard Summers 6697; William J. Penny 5630; H. Dyer 7390 (1905)

Notes: 23 May 1922: Caught fire and foundered.  [see story below.]

Cert. Cancelled & Registry Closed: 12 Sep 1922

Accidents and Incidents:

 

From the Pembrokeshire Telegraph of Wednesday 24th May 1922:

 

    The fishing trawler Unity of Milford Haven caught fire yesterday afternoon between Clovelly and Abbotsham cliffs.  The crew of four left the trawler in their small boat and were picked up by an Appledore motor boat.

 

 

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