Additional information courtesy of Bill Blow and Barry Johnson (Milford Trawlers)
Technical
Official Number: 139782
Yard Number: 725
Completed: 1917
Gross Tonnage: 227
Net Tonnage: 87
Length: 121.2 ft
Breadth: 22.2 ft
Depth: 12.3 ft
Built: Cochrane & Sons, Selby
Engine: 480ihp T.3-cyl by R. W. Lewis & Sons Ltd, Aberdeen
Boiler: Riley Brothers (Boilermakers) Ltd, Stockton on Tees
History
18.7.1916: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.725) for Richard W. Lewis, Aberdeen (managing owner) as FEUGH.
17.10.1916: Registered at Aberdeen (A706).
1.1917: Completed.
6.1917: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-6pdr HA) (Ad.No.1278). Based Peterhead.
Post 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Aberdeen.
22.11.1919: Sold to The British Trawling Co Ltd (64/64), Bootle (Charles W. Pickering, manager).
9.2.1920: Sold to The Derby Steam Trawling Co Ltd (64/64), Bootle (Charles W. Pickering, Fleetwood, manager).
2.1922: Sold to Godby Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Fleetwood (Jules Nierinck, manager).
20.2.1922: Aberdeen registry closed.
24.2.1922: Registered at Fleetwood (FD403).
8.6.1923: Driven ashore at Bispham, Blackpool; catch and crew saved.
1923: Refloated and returned to service.
9.1924: Sold to Thomas D. Lees, Bonnington, Edinburgh (Robert Bell Jnr, Leith, manager).
11.10.1924: Fleetwood registry closed.
13.10.1924: Registered at Granton (GN24).
11.1924: Sold to The Crampin Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
23.11.1925: Granton registry closed.
25.11.1925: Registered at Grimsby (GY366).
25.11.1925: Herbert George Crampin appointed manager.
7.11.1927: Sold to Trawlers (White Sea & Grimsby) Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
7.11.1927: Harold Bacon appointed manager.
20.12.1927: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Midland Bank Ltd, London (A).
30.12.1927: Registered at Grimsby as BERENGA (GY366) (BoT Minute M/R.G.1466/27 dated 17.12.1927).
17.5.1929: Mortgage (A) discharged.
3.2.1930: James Norman Bacon appointed manager.
26.1.1937: V. Smith, trimmer was landed at Grimsby with serious face and leg injuries having been washed along the deck.
25.11.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (P.No.FY.774) (Hire rate £64.6.4d/month).
17.2.1940: Returned to owner.
19.4.1940: Requisitioned for war service for barrage balloon towing duties.
14.3.1941: Charles George Martin appointed manager.
8.1.1942: Company re-styled Trawlers Grimsby Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
3.9.1945: Returned to owner.
8.12.1945: Sold to United Trawlers Ltd, Milford Haven.
17.12.1945: Henry J. Horwood appointed manager.
12.1.1946: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Midland Bank Ltd, London (B).
30.1.1951: Sailed Milford for the fishing grounds SW of Ireland (Sk.Arthur Howie).
31.1.1951: Responded to call for assistance from trawler BRAES O’ MAR (M100)(Sk.John H. Ryan) taking in water some 15 miles WNW of the Skelligs. Transferred crew and stood by.
1.2.1951: At 9.00 a.m. BRAES O’ MAR foundered. Crew landed at Berehaven, Co. Cork.
24.9.1951: Mortgage (B) discharged.
25.9.1951: Sold to Atlantic Trawlers Ltd (64/64), Edinburgh.
15.10.1951: Henry John Richards, Milford Haven appointed manager.
15.10.1951: Grimsby registry closed.
17.10.1951: Registered at Milford as SPRINGLEIGH (M192) (MoT Minute R.G. No.1280/1951dated 3.10.1951).
19.2.1953: Sold to J. C. Llewellin (Trawlers) Ltd (64/64), Milford Haven (John Charles Llewellin, manager).
5.5.1953: Sold to South Western Trawlers Ltd (64/64), Milford Haven.
7.1953: Registered at Milford as LYDSTEP (M192) (MoT Minute R.G. No.1154/1953 dated 27.7.1953).
11.11.1954: Reported that deckhand George G. Harding was injured by a rope when hauling; landed at Cork, Co. Cork where he died two days later.
1955: Sold to BISCO and allocated to Thos. W. Ward Ltd, Sheffield for breaking up at Castle Pill, Milford Haven.
23.5.1955: Delivered Castle Pill.
13.6.1955: Milford registry closed “Vessel broken up”.
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S.T. Lydstep M192
Picture from the Roger Worsley archive courtesy of Milford Trawlers
Changelog
20/12/2008: Page published. 6 updates since then.
23/07/2017: Removed FMHT watermark.
21/08/2020: Updated history.