Milford Trawlers Registered in Other Ports, 1888-1988

I - P

 

Drifters at the Mackerel Stage

From McKay and Springer (1999): Milford Haven - Waterway and Town

 

Port Identification Letters:

 

A               Aberdeen

LH             Leith

BL              Bristol

LL             Liverpool
BM             Brixham

LO             London

CF              Cardiff

LT             Lowestoft

FR              Fraserburgh

NE             Newcastle

GN             Granton

P               Portsmouth

GY             Grimsby

R               Ramsgate

H               Hull

SA             Swansea

HL             Hartlepool

SN             North Shields

KY             Kirkcaldy

SSS            South Shields

 

YH             Yarmouth

   

Abbreviations & Symbols:

 

<               formerly

CTL             constructive total loss

>               later or became

LU              laid up

=               renamed

ST / STC     Steam Trawler/ Steam Trawler Company

BU             broken up

Xf               transferred to

 

Names or wording shown THUS are linked to pages of "Losses" or "Accidents and Incidents".  Unless otherwise stated, transcriptions are from the Les Jones Archive.  Names shown THUS are linked to pages which include photographs of the trawler. Indicates that a photograph of the crew is included.

 

Name

Official / Register No.

Built / GRT

Period at Milford

Milford Owners / Managers and fate

IAGO 124794/H 963 1907/206 1919-28 Iago STC (EDW Lawford, Mgr.) Foundered off the Hebrides, 16.09.40
IBIS V   -  / O.75 1908/196 1914-19 Société Coopérative l'Ibis, Ostend.  Belgian FisheryTrawler
IBIS VI   -  / O.76 1909/196 1914-19 Société Coopérative l'Ibis, Ostend.  Belgian FisheryTrawler

ILFRACOMBE

108486/LT 148

1897/165

1937-45

Yolland & Llewellyn > Pair Fishing (1939) > Don Trawling (1940). Wrecked Straw Is., 28.09.45

INDIA

123730/LO 248

1906/213

1906-11

GHD Birt.  Sold to Dutch, 1911

INDUSTRIA 93104/H14 1887/133 1889-95 F & T Ross, Hull.  Sunk by U-boat off Scottish coast, 25.3.17

INVERCAIRN

135788/LT 110

1916/94

1947-54

Yolland & Llewellin > Yolland Bros.  BU Wards, Castle Pill 1954.

INVERFORTH

136181/GN 52

1914/248

1946-55

Yolland Bros.

ISA   -  / O.81 1912/217 1914-19 S.A. Pêcheries à Vapeur, Ostend; Belgian Fishery Trawler.  =ISER (1930)

ISAAC HEATH

143833/LO 244

1918/276

1920-29

Brand & Curzon. =RYLSTON.  Xf.Fleetwood =TEREMA / FD 17

ISER

162060/FD 79

1912/222

1943-53

<ISA.  Don Trawling.

ISLE OF WIGHT

123211/H 852

1905/176

1942-45

Pair Fishing Co.> Walton Fish Co.

JACKEVE

131875/LT 116

1920/96

1949-52

JC Llewellyn.  (Landed fish in Milford in Spring/Summer, 49-52.)

JACKLYN

303686/LT 434

1962/164

1962-64

Mitchell Bros. (Jackora Ltd.)

JACKORA

137640/LT 129

1918/97

1940-45; 48-55

Mitchell Bros. (Jackora Ltd.)

JACQUELINE 148976/ O.130 1910/221 1914-15 S.A. Pêcheries à Vapeur, Ostend.  Belgian Fishery Trawler. =RAYMOND; =ORDIE A119

JADESTAR GLORY

184002/LT 87

1954/179

1973-4

<LUDHAM QUEEN.  Norrard Trawlers.  Wrecked off Co.Wexford, 16.01.74. CTL

JADESTAR GYPSY 184000/LT 53 1954/179 1976-78 <WROXHAM QUEEN.  Hubert Jones Trawlers, Swansea. Sank E. of Southdown, 15.06.85

JAMES ALDRIDGE

144325/LO 417

1917/221

1921-28

Brand & Curzon

JAMES ARCHIBALD

144306/LO 418

1917/210

1921-27

Brand & Curzon  Lost by enemy action, Faroes, 30.03.41

JAMES CHRISTOPHER

143827/LO 248

1918/276

1920-29

Brand & Curzon  Mined off Cromarty, 5 lives lost, 04.08.40

JAMES LAY

143834/LO 333

1918/278

1920-30; 54-59

Lord Invernairn (Chas. Curzon, Mgr.) 1920-30; >Iago STC, Xf.Fleetwood; 1946  > FD189; >Haven Trawlers (R Lewis, Mgr.) 1954-59.  BU Briton Ferry 16.03.60

JANET HELEN 187695/LO 93 1957/73 1958 Booth & Croft, London (FW Ingram, Mgr, Norrard Trawlers). Sank off Spurn Pt., 10.12.59
J.BAELS MAURICX 139280/O.115 1906/210 1914-15 S.A. Pêcheries d'Islande, Ostend; Belgian Fishery Trawler 1917-19.  >H406
JOHN   -  / O.131 1910/221 1914-17 S.A. Pêcheries à Vapeur, Ostend.  Belgian Fishery Trawler. Sank after collision with COMTE HORACE VAN DEN BURGH O.55, 3.1.1918

JOHN CATTLING

143892/LO 364

1918/276

1920-30

Iago ST Co. Xf.Fleetwood. (Adm WW2)

JOHN CHURCH

144544/LO 386

1917/275

1920-24

C. L. Mason, Cardiff. >ANTARES

JOHN THORLING

143964/LO 430

1917/276

1920-22; 24-25

W.H.East. (>CONCERTATOR See Other Reg A-H)

JOSEPH BARRETT

143800/LO 252

1918/290

1920-29

Brand & Curzon.  Sunk by enemy a/c, Thames Estuary, 01.11.40

JOSEPH HODGKINS 139809/A 186 1919/276 1920-21 Brand & Curzon.  Foundered after collision off IoM, 28.12.21

JOSEPHINE

127570/ LO 390

1908/266

1920-23

Atlantic Trawlers.

JOWITT 131925/BM 304 1911/54 1911-17 CJ Davies & JH Bishop > JH Bishop (1916). Xf Lowestoft. >LT1049 [Wooden ketch rigged smack]
JUBILEE 93862/DH 206 1887/45 net 1888-c.1900 Samuel W. Richards, Frog St., Tenby.
JULIA 110912/GY 834 1899/172 1903-04 Central Steam Fishing (GHD Birt, Mgr.)

JULIET

123246/H 902

1906/173

1936-41

Crescent Co..  Bombed and sunk by enemy a/c, 30 miles S of Old Head of Kinsale, 20.08.41

JUNIPER

302245/A 540

1961/234

1961-62

WH Kerr.  Xf.Aberdeen 27.07.62  Wrecked, Papa Stour, 02.02.67

KATHLEEN 109672/FD195 1900/198 1903-04 Central SFC (GHD Birt, Mgr.)  Sank after collision, Iceland, 06.15

KEYES

139341/LT 580

1918/203

1920-30

Vanessa Co.

KINDRED STAR 149236/LT 177 1930/115 1957-58 Lowestoft Fish Selling.

KINELLAN

303209/A 578

1961/209

1984-92

Southard Trawlers (WH Kerr, Mgr.) Sold to Irish owners 03.93

KIRKLAND

125744/LO 282

1908/224

1908-14

GHD Birt & DJ Davies.  (Adm.WW1.  Mined off Fugla Skerry, Shetlands.)

KIRKLAND II

143771/LO 76

1917/275

1919-21

GHD Birt > Jenkerson & Jones (1927) =OUR BAIRNS

KONING ALBERT 141965/O.25 1912/208 1914-19 S.A. Pecheries d'Islande, Ostend.  Belgian Fishery Trawler, 1914-19. =RACHAEL FD2 (1923)

LADY JUNE

160106/H 299

1928/357

1950-52

Yolland Bros. Sold to Grimsby owners 03.52

LADY LUCK

137724/R 355

1920/92

1924-45; 47-56

Drifter Trawlers Co. (HE Rees, Mgr.)  LU 30.03.56 for BU.

LANGLAND BAY

160890/SA 72

1930/379

1953

<KINGSTON OLIVINE  Milford ST. =MASONA FD 16 (1954) 

LARCHWOLD

106656/GY 68

1896/129

1917-22

Cockerel Co.

LARK

93077/H 1493

1886/102

1891-92

Neale & West. 

LATANIA

149234/GY 44

1930/128

1948-69

Norrard Trawlers.  BU 30.05.69

LAURA MILDRED 96444/DH291 1889/25 1894-1912 George Rowe, Tenby.  [Landed at Tenby.] Stranded on Carmarthen Bar, 24 09.1912.

LAUREL

93106/H 16

1886/102

1890-96

W. Wolfe.  Foundered off the Saltees, 29.03.1896

LAVENHAM

113232/GY 3

1902/166

1947-51

Yolland Bros.  BU Wards, Castle Pill, 1951.

LAWRENNY CASTLE

108281/ LO 159

1898/153

1898-1904

Castle STC, London.

LEUKOS

137154/A 103

1914/216

1922-27

H.E. Rees.  Sunk by U-38 off Tory Is., 10.03.40

LILIAS

146871/GY 121

1920/227

1927-31

<BEARDMORE.  (Said to be first diesel powered trawler.)  P. Hancock & Sons.  LU 03.07.31, sold to French 20.11.31

LIMEWOLD 101914/GY 1125 1898/189 1913-14; 19-22 Northwold Steam Fishing Co.
LINCOLN 93410/BN8 1890/116 1896-1900 Wm. Liddall, London. >Grimsby.
LOCH LEVEN       =GEORGE HASTINGS (Other Registrations A-H)
LOCH MORAR       See JOSEPH BARRETT

LOCH NEVIS

144513/LO 349

1920/276

1922-30

E.D. Lawford.  Foundered, 11.34

LOCH RANNOCH 115551/A 475 1901/178 1948 AJ Tilbrook.
LOLIST 136597/LT 427 1914/180 1915-18 W. Robbens & Sons. Lowestoft.  Fishery trawler.

LONDON TOWN

301043/LO 70

1960/228

1981-84

(<Boston DSF, as oil rig safety vessel.) Putford Enterprises (J.Rogers et al.) > A. James (1982)  Xf. Lowestoft 1984 (>GUANA LT 378)

LORD ANSON

149201/LT 344

1927/100

1931-39; 48-56

Wm.Picton > J.C. Llewellyn

LORD KEITH

149243/LT 181

1930/124

1949-66+

WH Kerr

LORD RODNEY

149211/A 50

1927/104

1970-76+

P. Wright > G. Antonizze (1973) > B. Linke (1974)

LORD SUFFOLK

149219/LT 44

1929/115

1947-73+

Norrard Trawlers > Kilvey Trawlers (Swansea) (1970)

LOUIE RIGBY 127580 /FD 127 1911/43 1921-30 T. Rigby, Fleetwood. [Wooden smack]

LOUISE

124720/SA 50

1907/270

1913-14

GHD Birt (Phoenix Trawling Co.) (Adm, WW1) >BAHAMA FD414

LOYAL STAR

135759/R 246

1913/95

1922-45; 47-52

H.E. Rees.  BU Wards, Castle Pill, 06.53.

LUCANIA

106713/CF 11

1894/101

1904-07

Neale & West, Cardiff.

LUCIENNE-JEANNE   -  / O.153 1907/223 1914-19 Belgian Fishery Trawler

LYNANDI

143809/GY 57

1918/ 281

 1948-51

<COMMODATOR. RG Parsley (Don Trawling) BU Milford 1954

LYNMOUTH

98832/BL 5

1892/101

1892-14

Western STC

MADDEN

143912/LO 251

1917/237

1920-22

Iago STC.

MAGNETA

91421/H 1447

1885/116

1889-1894

F & T Ross, Hull.  [In Milford on census night, 1891] Wrecked, N. Yorkshire coast, 20.01.08

MAJESTIC 120055/BM231 1904/51 1912-16 G.P. Eynon > W.E. Helleway (?) > E.J. Hellings [Wooden smack]

MANORBIER CASTLE

108322/ LO 164

1898/153

1898-1904

Castle STC. Xf.Swansea. (>SA 25. Grounded at Freshwater West, 05.06)

MANSFIELD

108490/A 685

1897/165

1927-34

J Ritchie & W.T. Davies (W.Coast Trawlers).  Foundered 3 miles E of Coningberg LV, 07.04.34

MARCELLE   -  / O.83 1907/219 1914-17 S.A. Pecheries a Vapeur, Ostend. Sunk by U-55 off Scillies,  30.01.17

MARE

118667/LT 362

1911/92

1937-39

A.C.Mitchell

MAREC

93936/BL 9

1892/142

1896-1906

Western STCFoundered off St.Ann’s Head, 09.06.

MARETTA

148232/FD 45

1929/350

1946-53

Pair Fishing.

MARGUERITE   -  / O.154 1915/193 1915-19 S.A. Pêcheries du Nord, Ostend.
MARIE LOUISE   -  / O.97 1900/140 1914-19 Fishery trawler.

MARION

120683/LO 235

1906/255

1912-14

GHD Birt (Phoenix Trawling Co.)

MARSHALL PAK

148141/LT 200

1918/96

1949-52

W.H. Kerr

MARY WHITE

161586/NE 3

1935/254

1937-38

P.Hancock & Sons. LU 07.10.38-18.01.39. Wrecked off N.Pier, Aberdeen, 21.01.58

MAYTHORN

182741/P 57

1939/471

1949-53

Milford STC

MERIT 109301/BM 28 1898/47 1907-17 <DH457. Thos. Jenkerson.  [Wooden smack] Sunk by U-55 off Trevose Hd., 23.01.17

MICHAEL GRIFFITH

145118/LO 529

1918/126

1921-39

GHD Birt (Phoenix Trawling Co.) > Ritchie & Davies (W.Coast Trawlers). Xf.Fleetwood >FD 249. Foundered with all hands off Barra Head, 31.01.53

MIKASA

136974/LO 4

1915/275

1929-39; 41-49

Jenkerson &  Jones  > Yolland Bros (1945)

MILL O’BUCKIE

132166/R 129

1914/100

1927-39; 48-57

AH Lanfear, Ramsgate >Drifter Trawler Co.  (Rees & Roberts, Mgrs.) Xf. Lowestoft 01.01.57

MINNIE 114253/BM 90 1904/51 1904-23 W. Burgoyne > MD Hurst. Destroyed by fire and foundered off Blackwater Bank 18.06.23

MINT

132153/LT 690

1912/96

1921-24; 46-48

W.H.East > Yolland Bros.  Grounded on sandbank off Irish Coast, 14.08.48.  CTL

MONARCH 114246/BM 215 1903/46 1910-15 J. Whicher & C. Hellings. [Wooden smack.]   Sunk by UC-66 off Eddystone, 21.02.1917

MONMOUTH

98834/BL 6

1892/140

1892-95

Western STCFoundered off the Saltees, 11.95.

MOPSA

124796/H 966

1907/206

1919-28

Iago STC.  Grounded and CTL, Aberdeen, 04.10.39

MORGAN JONES

143830/LO 116

1918/125

1920-30

Brand & Curzon

NADINE   -  / O.151 1910/198 1914-19 Pêcheries du Nord, Ostend.  Belgian Fishery Trawler.

NARBERTH CASTLE

109077/ H 427

1898/168

1898-1904

Castle ST.  Xf.Swansea. (>GY 203, 1906)  Sunk by UC-20 off Dennis Hd., 06.08.17

NARCISSUS 114999/LT 305 1901/59 1915-16 W. Robbens, Lowestoft.  Wrecked at Southerndown, Glam., 16.02.16
NARVAL   -  / O.141 1910/211 1914-16 Reederij H.P. Aspeslagh, Ostend. (Adm. 1916) Lost between Grimsby and Harwich, 26.11.16
NAUTILUS    -  / O.128 1905/257 1914-16 H.P. Aspeslagh, Ostend; (Adm, 03.16 - 1919)

NEIL SMITH

143878/LO 328

1917/275

1920-39

Pater STC.  Xf.Fleetwood 25.09.39 (Adm WW2)

NEPTUNE   -  / O.126 1901/199 1914-16 Sunk by U-46 off the Smalls, 26.12.16
NEREE   -  / O.143 1909/230 1914-16 <ATHALIA.  (Adm. 3.16 - 1919)

NEVES

162951/LT 246

1927/122

1931-33

Lowestoft Fish Selling Co.

NIGHT HAWK

138942 /GY 15

1916/307

1947-1959

Milford Fisheries  Left Milford for Continent to be BU 28.02.59

NILE

95774/H 54

1888/130

1889-1894

W. Wolfe.  Lost off Iceland,  01.06.1894.

NOGI

145722/LO 49

1923/299

1931-39

Jenkerson & Jones. (Adm WW2. Lost 6.41) Sunk by enemy a/c off Norfolk coast, 23.06.41

NORDALE 116117/SH 89 1903/181 1940-41 H.E.Rees  Wrecked off Mull of Kintyre, 15.01.42

NORMAN WILSON

140843/KY 228

1919/94

1949-55

Mitchell Bros & WH Kerr

NORRARD

122720/H 50

1906/204

1948-52

United Trawlers > Ingram et al (1950) . Goodleigh Fisheries (1951).  BU Wards, Castle Pill 25.04.52

NUMITOR   -  / O.127 1903/242 1914-16 (Adm. 3.16-18) Mined by UC-4 off Orford Ness, 20.04.18

NUNTHORPE HALL

127102/LO 393

1909/248

1920-25

Atlantic Trawlers.

OCEAN BREEZE

149200/LT 341

1927/112

1948-72

Jackora >  A.C.Mitchell (1952) >Mitchell & Bray.  Xf.Lowestoft 04.72.

OCEAN BRINE

137181/LH 78

1915/227

1945-46; 49-52

Lewis Wilcox & Co.

OCEAN'S SHIELD

106532/LT 386

1896/112

1930-50

F.S.Read & W.M. Picton.  BU Gellyswick Beach 1951.

ODETTE   -  / O.152 1903/242 1914-16 (Adm.1916-18) > ELIANE GY481. Foundered in Shetlands 17.6.1920

ONE ACCORD

149198/LT 324

1927/102

1927-39; 48-69

Picton Bros > Anson STC.  BU after collision with German tanker YORKFAND, 11.12.69.

ONETOS

133639/A 592

1913/217

1920-27

H.E Rees.

ORION 109522/GY 593 1898 /150 1900-04 Orient SFC, Grimsby. Lost in unknown circumstances, 1906

ORONTES

105040/GY 411

1895/178

1920-27; 33-37

T.Sowerby. > RD Roberts, Grimsby (1924) > Alex.McKay (1933) > R.L.Hancock (1935) BU Netherlands 1937.

OSPREY

99697/LO 133

1893/141

1907-14

Edward Brand > C.E. Curzon (1913)

OUR BAIRNS 125124/BM 292 1910/50 1910-17 T Jenkerson [Wooden smack]  Sunk by UC-48 off Coningbeg LV, 17.09.17

OUR BAIRNS

143771/LO 76

1917/276

1919-39; 47-57

<KIRKLAND Thos.Jenkerson.  (Adm WW2) > Milford STC.  BU Wards, Castle Pill 1957

OVERFALL

145241/LT 76

1918/99

1954-57

Yolland & Llewellin > Yolland Bros.

PARAMOUNT

130026/R 193

1911/95

1922-39;46-55

HE Rees.  BU Llanelly 1955

PEACEFUL STAR

149250/LT 201

1931/121

1952-3; 55-59

<QUIET WATERS. Anson STC > Lowestoft Fish Selling Co., Milford.

PEMBROKE CASTLE

108324/LO 165

1898/153

1898-1904

Castle ST.  (Xf. Granton by 1910 >GN 97)

PERSIA

123739/LO 250

1906/212

1906-11

G.H.D. Birt.  Sold to Dutch 14.06.11

PETERBOROUGH

108451/HL 41

1897/161

1927-34

Waterloo STC > Ritchie & Davies.  BU Wards, Castle Pill 28.05.34

PETER CAREY

141951/LO 126

1919/280

1928-30;45-51; 52-58

<CICELY BLANCHE  FD350 (1923-29) >Iago ST Co. > Milford Fisheries (1947).  Xf.Aberdeen 1951, returned 12.52.  LU Milford 06.03.59

PHOEBE

123253/H 901

1906/178

1936-50

Crescent STC (N.I.Hutchinson).  BU Wards, Castle Pill, 1951

PICTON CASTLE

99566/H 194

1892/148

1892-1903

G.H.D.Birt.  > Castle Steam Fishing, LO 148 (1897) Sold to French 02.02.03.

PICTON CASTLE

118304/ LO 177

1903/192

1903-04

Castle ST (G.H.D.Birt.). Xf.Swansea.  Sunk (by mine?) off Bridlington, 28.04.45

PINEWOLD

109523/GY 177

1898/149

1917-23

Cockerel & Co.  Sold to French.

PITUFO 301575/A 309 1959/250 c.1988-1991+ Interpresco UK

POINTZ CASTLE

108383/LO 167

1898/162

1898-1904

Castle STC, Swansea. Foundered off Tor Pt., 30.01.10

POSEIDON

132158/LT 105

1913/96

1946-49

Yolland & Llewellyn > Yolland Bros.

PREMIER 98190/LO 64 1890/148 1890-94 London Trawlers Ltd., Milford (Capt. Wales, Mgr.)
PRESIDENT STEVENS   -  / O.85 1905/212 1914-19 Belgian Fishery Trawler

PRIMEVÈRE

136601/LT 345

1914/100

1951-54

Yolland Bros.

PROVIDENCE 90952/BM 211 1884/20 By 1892 - 1913 Wm. G. Griffiths, Tenby > L. Kingdom, do. > A. Kingdom, do. Wrecked, Pendine, 30.05.13

PROVIDER

125533/R 19

1907/99

1935-38; 40-44

Stanley Rowden, Ramsgate

 

 

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