As Jackora LT 129 in Milford Haven |
© Reproduced with acknowledgement to John Stevenson & Milford Trawler website |
Thorntree GN 73
Built | 1918 John Lewis & Sons Ltd, Aberdeen as "Mirage" (Steel) |
Yard No | 65 |
Owner at New | Admiralty (Ad.No.3926) |
ID no | 137640 |
Launch Date | 11.1918 |
Completed | 16.12.1918 |
Gross Tons | 97 |
Nett Tons | 42 |
Engine | 34 h
p T.3-cyl by
John Lewis &
Sons Ltd, |
Length | 85.8ft |
Breadth | 18.6ft |
Depth | 9.8ft |
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Owners | |
27.12.1918 | Ran trial trip running southward from Aberdeen speed of 8.5 knots achieved. |
31.07.1920 | Handed over to Fishery Board of Scotland for disposal to the Mercantile. |
1920 | Sold to the Mercantile for £6,500, reduced to £4,875; deposit paid £250 under HM Treasury mortgage agreement (Disposal of Admiralty Drifters to Ex-service Fishermen) |
1920 | Owned by John & A. S. Horne, Port Seton, East Lothian (John Horne skipper/manager) |
24.07.1920 | Renamed "THORNTREE" |
24.07.1920 | Registered at Granton GN 73 |
07.10.1921 | At Duns Sheriff Court, Skipper John Horne fined £140 in total for fishing inside the legal limit off the Berwickshire coast at St. Abbs, refusing to stop when challenge by the Fishery cruiser "Maelstrom" leading to a sixty mile chase and with failing to display or concealing his trawlers name and port registration on 20th July 1921. |
1923 | Granton registry closed. |
12.1924 | Owned byWilliam Wood, Cellardyke Fifeshire & Adam Vyse, North Shields (John T. Graham, Anstruther manager). |
19.12.1924 | Granton registry closed. |
12.1924 | Registered at Kirkcaldy KY 33. |
1928 | Owned by James Dougal, Eyemouth Berwickshire. |
1928 | Kirkcaldy registry closed. |
1928 | Renamed "MARY & JANE" |
1928 | Registered at Berwick BK 271 |
09.1939 | Owned by Arthur Claude Mitchell, Lowestoft (owner/manager). |
03.1940 | Owned by Mitchell Bros (Jackora Ltd ) Milford Haven (Arthur Claude Mitchell manager). |
03.1940 | Berwick registry closed. |
20.03.1940 | Registered at Lowestoft LT 129 |
04.04.1940 | Renamed "JACKORA" |
1943 | Diesel Engine fitted |
1955 | Sold as scrap to Belgian ship breakers. |
22.05.1955 | Sailed Lowestoft for Antwerp in tow of steam drifter "Excel IV" LT 171 also for scrap.. |
22.05.1955 | Lowestoft registry closed. |