Additional material courtesy of Barry Banham

Technical

Official Number: 146456
Yard Number: 767
Completed: 1922
Gross Tonnage: 97
Net Tonnage: 35
Length: 85.2 ft
Breadth: 19.1 ft
Depth: 9.0 ft
Engine: (As built) C.2-cyl by International Engine Works, Amherst, Nova Scotia to a Goldie & McCulloch Co Ltd, Galt, Ontario design
Boiler: International Engine Works, Amherst, Nova Scotia
Replacement engine: T.3-cyl by S. Richards & Co Ltd, Lowestoft
Boiler: Riley Bros (Boilermakers) Ltd, Stockton-on-Tees
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby
(All machinery new 1917 and ex Canadian wooden Admiralty drifter CD.19)

History

14.2.1922: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.767) for John McCann, Hull (Pickering & Haldane’s Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull) as TELIA.
24.3.1922: Completed.
24.4.1922: Transferred to Pickering & Haldane’s Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull (John McCann & Edward Cartwright, managers).
25.4.1922: Registered at Hull (H477).
17.3.1925: Sold to T. Baskcomb Ltd, Grimsby (Thomas W. Baskcomb, manager).
20.3.1925: Hull registry closed.
23.3.1925: Registered at Grimsby (GY299).
12.3.1929: Grimsby registry closed.
13.3.1929: Sold to William J. Westgate, Lowestoft (managing owner).
5.6.1929: Re engined and boilered by S. Richards & Co Ltd, Lowestoft.
28.6.1929: Registered at Lowestoft as PEACE WAVE (LT47).
1930s: Seasonal white fish trawling from Padstow, Milford and Fleetwood (Lowestoft Fish Selling Co Ltd, Lowestoft, managing agent).
10.2.1932: In heavy weather lost man overboard and drowned.
19.4.1937: W. J. Westgate died.
16.6.1937: Sold to Ernest Edward Butcher & Ernest Herbert Holland, Lowestoft (joint owners).
21.9.1937: Sold to P. W. Watson & Sons Ltd, Lowestoft (Allan H. Watson, manager).
28.10.1937: At Lowestoft (Sk.David J. Knights) landed 271 crans (gross £359) from Smith’s Knoll ground (Sk. David J. Knights), took twelve hours to haul and had to cut away fifteen nets which sank due to weight of fish. Prunier Trophy winner.
7.11.1939: At Bangor Magistrates Court, Sk. David J. Knights was fined £5 with £5 costs for fishing within the three-mile limit off Anglesey.
Pre 1943-1945: Fishing from Fleetwood.
22.7.1943: Typical wartime landing. 52 kits – hake-14, cod/codling-22, haddock-2, whiting-8, flats-1, ling/coley-1, roker-3, dogs-1.
1.10.1943: Sold to Jubilee Fishing Co Ltd, London (Samuel Stewart, manager).
11.1.1945: Change of company address in London.
6.1955: Sold to Jas. de Smedt, Antwerp for breaking up at Boom.
13.7.1955: Sailed Lowestoft for Antwerp in tow of steam drifter LANDBREEZE (LT1296) also sold for breaking up.
14.7.1955: Arrived Boom.
3.8.1955: Lowestoft registry closed.

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S.D/T. Peace Wave LT47
Picture courtesy of The Barry Banham Maritime Photo Collection

Changelog

10/12/2010: Page published. 2 updates since then.
14/06/2016: Minor information update.
31/10/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
11/07/2021: Updated history.