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S.T. Eva Wales FD85






  
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Official Number 136900


Admiralty Number 966


Pennant FY1529


Launched October 21 1914


Gross Tonnage251


Net Tonnage101


Length125 ft


Breadth22.7 ft


Draught12.1 ft


Engine77 hp T.3-cyl by Lidgerwood Ltd, Glasgow. T.3-cyl by Lidgerwood Ltd, Glasgow. Boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull


Armament1 x 12 pdr


Built byGoole Shipbuilding & Repair Co Ltd, 1915


OwnerThomas James Wales, Swansea & Red Rose Steam Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood







		

    History
	



		

    October 21 1914
Launched by Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co Ltd, Goole (Yd.No.167) for Thomas James Wales, Swansea & Red Rose Steam Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood (Joseph A. Taylor, manager) as EVA WALES.


January 12 1915
Registered at Fleetwood (FD85).


January 1915
Completed. requisitioned for war service and converted for minesweeping duties, fitted with hydrophones (Ad.No.966).


1919Returned.


1924Sold to Red Rose Steam Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood (New Docks Steam Trawling Co  (Fleetwood) Ltd, managers).


1928Sold to North Star Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Aberdeen (J. A. Harrow, manager).


March 28 1928Fleetwood registry closed.


April 05 1928Registered at Aberdeen (A327).


March 24 1930On arrival in Aberdeen from the fishing grounds reported that Ernest Annison, brother of the Skipper had been lost overboard off Shetland and drowned. 


June 14 1934Renamed AVONSTREAM (A327).


1939Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Basil  A. Parkes, Cleveleys, manager).


September 01 1939Requisitioned for war service as an examining vessel.


January 14 1940Converted for minesweeping duties (P.No. FY.1529).


September 18 1940Further converted for minesweeping duties.


July 1945Returned.


1945Sold to Manor Steamship Co Ltd, Milford Haven (Reginald L. Hancock, manager).


August 1945Aberdeen registry closed.


August 03 1945Registered at Milford (M75).


March 03 1946Sold to Haven Trawlers Ltd, Milford Haven (R. Lewis, manager).


March 21 1953Sold to Haven Trawlers Ltd,  Milford Haven Coal Supplies, Ltd & William H. Kerr, Milford Haven (Robert P. Lewis, manager).


February 09 1954Sold to  Milford Fisheries Ltd, Milford Haven Coal Supplies Ltd & William H. Kerr, Milford Haven (Owen W. Limbrick, manager).


September 1955Sold to Belgian shipbreakers for demolition.


September 19 1955Milford registry closed.