VICTORIA II M112
Official No: - Port Number and Year: - in Milford, 1917
Description: Wooden sailing smack; trawling. Cutter rigged: jib, foresail, mainsail, and topsail.
Crew: 3 men (21 Nov 1919: 4 men)
Registered: 27 Apr 1917
Built: 1897, Porthleven
Tonnage: 22.69 grt 8.68 net
Length / breadth / depth (feet): 39.6 (48.5 oa) / 14.3 / 8.58
Engine: Auxiliary motor.
Owners:
1897 - 1916: Unknown owners.
27 Apr 1917: William Henry Fransham, 4 Gwili Rd., Hakin
Henry James Hewer, 75 Waterloo Rd., Hakin
Thomas Legget, 59 Waterloo Rd., Hakin
22 Apr 1918: Carrie Cranford, c/o Ralph Dugdale, 18 The Bartons, Bristol
28 Jul 1938: Walter Chapman, ) 462 North Drive, Cleverleys, Blackpool
Emily Chapman )
15 Sep 1938: Ralph Stockman Dugdale, 57 Esplanade, Fleetwood
18 Sep 1940: Brixham Trawlers, Wyre Docks, Fleetwood
17 May 1941: E. G. Wright, 75 Poulton Rd., Fleetwood
Landed at Milford: 9 Apr 1917 - 16 Jan 1918
Skipper:
Notes:
Cert. Cancelled & Registry Closed: 26 Jun 1946. Vessel sank after collision. [See below.]
Accidents and Incidents
The Times, Thursday, May 30, 1946; pg. 2; Issue 50465; col C
News in Brieffishing smack rammed
When the tug Carlgarth, of Liverpool, rammed and sank the Fleetwood fishing smack Victoria II in the Irish Sea, about 16 miles N.N.E. of Liverpool, early yesterday, only one member of the fishing boat crew, Nicholas Grundy, of Shakespeare Road, Fleetwood, was saved. Captain Leslie Hall, master of the vessel, Thomas Wright, and Thomas Blundell Wright, all of Fleetwood, are missing. The tug was on its way to Barrow-in-Furness to assist at the launching of the Hinemoa, the first passenger liner to be built in this country for the Dominions since 1939.
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