Trawlers and Milford Haven’s history

As promised, in TRM Trawler Corner this week is Shielburn M15, a steel sided trawler built in Aberdeen in 1911, which landed at Milford from May 1915 to January 1919, and from February 1945 to April 1956. Her previous names were Ann Ford Melville and Star of Freedom but became Shielburn in 1933. Here’s an incident reported in a WW Guardian in June 1946. “Fifty miles with death sounds like the title of a thriller, but it was more than a thrill for the crew of the steam trawler Shielburn which steamed throughout Tuesday night with a live mine on the deck on top of a pile of fish. >click to read< 14:50

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