'Plough' KY232 and 'Mace' KY224, Anstruther, 1938

'Plough' KY232 and 'Mace' KY224, Anstruther, 1938
'Plough' KY232 and 'Mace' KY224, Anstruther, 1938
'Plough' KY232 and 'Mace' KY224, Anstruther, 1938
Purchase options
Required information
Media options
Item details
6018
'Plough' KY232 and 'Mace' KY224, Anstruther, 1938
'Plough' KY232 and 'Mace' KY224, Anstruther, 1938. Two steam drifters owned and skippered by the Gardner family of Cellardyke. They are moored at the east pier where there are a large crowd of people and a coal lorry.

Steel steam drifter ‘Plough’ KY232 was built by Alexander Hall & Co., Aberdeen, in 1912 for Martin Gardner Jnr., John Gardner, Thomas Gardner & others, Cellardyke. Robert Meldrum Gardner was the skipper.

Subsequent history:
1921 Irwin & Johnson Ltd., Regd. Cape Town.
1923 Kerguelen Sealing & Whaling Co. Ltd., Cape Town
1927 Irwin & Johnson (South Africa) Ltd, Cape Town
1933 Register closed

‘Mace’ KY224 was built in 1919 by Alexander Hall & Co. for the Admiralty as HMD ‘Thunderclap’. She was transferred to the Fishery Board for Scotland and first fished as ‘Zena & Ella’ BCK321. Martin Gardner (Snr) of Cellardyke bought the boat in 1923 and his son Martin (Jnr) was the skipper.

Subsequent History:
1934 Mrs Annie Gardner, Cellardyke - same mng
194_ Fred Parkes, Blackpool
1945 United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA)
1945 Polish Government - reg Gdynia (GDY113)
1948 Arthur W Easton, Lowestoft - reg LT35
1955 Broken up in Belgium.

ANSFM : 1976.208
The Scottish Fisheries Museum Trust Ltd
Bk37 p66
Labels
Uploaded on
2022-06-13 09:41:49
File name
SFM_1115.jpg
File type
Image
File extension
JPEG
File size
0.47 MB
Width
1400 px
Height
1050 px
Megapixels
1 MP
Aspect ratio
4/3
DPI
300
Capture device
Perfection V800/V850
Colour space
RGB
Colour profile
sRGB IEC61966-2.1
This item includes these files
Image
Image