Technical

Official Number: 145241
Yard Number: 94
Completed: 1918
Gross Tonnage: 97
Net Tonnage: 43
Length: 86.2 ft
Breadth: 18.5 ft
Depth: 9.3 ft
Built: Colby Brothers Ltd, Lowestoft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Pollit & Wigzell Ltd, Sowerby Bridge

History

1918: Launched by Colby Brothers Ltd, Lowestoft (Yd.No.94) (“Admiralty drifter”) for The Admiralty as OVERFALL (Ad.No.3990).
29.10.1918: Completed as a minesweeper.
4.11.1918: Arrived Devonport.
8.11.1918: Sailed Devonport for Mediterranean.
27.5.1921: Transferred to Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries, London and placed on sales list.
1921: Sold to John Mair, Portsoy (managing owner).
3.12.1921: Registered at Banff (BF590).
28.11.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (P.No.FY.984) (Hire rate £32.0.0d/month).
30.5.1940: Sailed Yarmouth with twelve other drifters for Ramsgate (Sk. Donald Miller).
31.5.1940: Sailed Ramsgate for Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo). Assisted in evacuation.
1.1942: At Lowestoft as LL drifter.
10.1943: Employed on harbour defence patrol.
1.1.1944: Sold to Yolland & Llewellin, Milford Haven (John C. Llewellin, manager) for £3250.
3.1944: Employed on miscellaneous naval duties & balloon barrage.
7.1945: Sold to J. S. Yolland & Co Ltd, Milford Haven.
7.1945 Banff registry closed.
16.7.1945: Registered at Lowestoft (LT76).
10.1945: Returned to owner. Fishing from Lowestoft.
1.1.1946: Messrs Yolland & Llewellin partnership dissolved.
1.1946: Sold to Yolland Bros Ltd, Milford Haven (John Yolland Jnr, manager).
1946: Sold to Cairo Fishing Co Ltd, Milford Haven (John Yolland, manager).
24.7.1947: Fishing out of Milford.
1954: Sold to Yolland Brothers Ltd, Milford Haven.
1954: Sold to George A. Leech, Fleetwood (managing owner) (Ora Trawlers Ltd) for £2225.
3.6.1954: Last landing at Milford.
26.6.1954: First landing at Fleetwood, 37 boxes 10 baskets grossed £243.
10.1955: Sold to BISCO and allocated to Thos. W. Ward Ltd, Sheffield for breaking up.
2.11.1955: Arrived Barrow.
1958(1960?): Lowestoft registry closed on discharge of mortgage.

(Note. In Fleetwood Fishing Vessel Owners’ Association Ltd lists for 1953,1954 and 1955 (deleted 11.1955); manager/agent Ora Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood)

Click to enlarge images

Changelog
03/01/2009: Page published. 4 updates since then.
09/07/2016: Picture added.
09/04/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.