Technical
Official Number: 149200
Yard Number: ?
Completed: 1927
Gross Tonnage: 112
Net Tonnage: 48
Length: 90.6 ft
Breadth: 20.1 ft
Depth: 9.6 ft
Built: John Chambers Ltd, Oulton Broad, Lowestoft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Crabtree & Co Ltd, Gt. Yarmouth
History
1927: Launched by John Chambers Ltd, Oulton Broad, Lowestoft (Yd.No.) for Alan H. Watson, Lowestoft (managing owner) as OCEANBREEZE.
21.9.1927: Registered at Lowestoft (LT343).
9.1927: Completed.
By 1931: Sold to P. W. Watson & Sons Ltd, Lowestoft (Alan H. Watson, manager).
1930s: Seasonal fishing from Fleetwood (John Victor Breach, Lowestoft, managing agent).
4.9.1939: Requisitioned for war service on contraband control (Hire rate £49.0.0d/month).
9.1940: Employed as a boom drifter.
1.1942: At Lowestoft as LL sweep drifter.
11.6.1943: Compulsorily acquired by M.O.W.T. Fitted out as a minesweeping drifter (P.No.FY810).
8.1943: Transferred to War Department.
6.8.1943: Lowestoft registry closed “Registry no longer required”.
1947: Sold to Arthur C. Mitchell, Milford Haven (managing owner).
1947: Registered at Lowestoft (LT341).
12.1.1952: At Milford landed 176 crans of herring (400 kits) grossed £1,735.
1957: Sold to J. A. Mitchell & Sk. C. N. Bray, Milford Haven (J. A. Mitchell, managing owner).
1958: Converted by Richards Ironworks Ltd, Lowestoft, fitted with 330bhp 4 stroke 6VEBM oil engine by Ruston & Hornsby Ltd, Lincoln.
1958: Re measured 118g 49n.
28.5.1958: Returned to Milford from conversion to diesel and fished her way back, catch grossed £511.
196?: Sold to Jackora Ltd, Milford Haven.
20.8.1968: Motor trawler LORD KEITH (LT181) developed engine trouble while fishing E of Blackwater Light Vessel, Co. Wexford but managed to reach Rosslare Bay. Connected and commenced tow to Milford.
4.1972: Transferred to Jackora Ltd, Lowestoft.
Post 1977: FATE.
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S.D/T. Ocean Breeze LT341
Picture courtesy of The John Stevenson Collection