Lewis Drake

[Doc Vernon]

GSN	Name	Year Built	Tonnage	Type	Built At	Fate Year	Fate	LR/IMO Number	Official Number	Remarks
20026171	HOLLYPARK	1942	7165 csd	cargo	Sunderland	1967	Scrapped	-	169022	1946/ex Empire Tristram
20080721	HOLLYPARK	1904	3207		Sunderland			-	118627	1919/ex Sandyford

[Allison Drake]

We don't believe that the Empire ship is the right Avisvale. We did find the following which fits better with the dates. Ocean Faith 5.42 G.M. 20 1942 Ocean Faith, MOWT (Headlam & Son), Manchester.
15.8.1943 Bombed and damaged off Portuguese coast
1946 MOT (Neill & Pandelis Ltd)
1949 Avisvale, Ascot Shipping Co, London.
1954 Aviation & Shipping Co. Ltd, London.
1955 Uje, Cia de Navegacion San Rocco S.A, Puerto Limon, Costa Rica.
1959 Same owner, Panama.
1962 Scrapped Italy.

Oh I am learning so much so soon!

[Allison Drake]

I don't know whether the information I have is useful or not;
On the death record it shows ss Avisvale, official no 168559, Registry Port London, Aviation & Shipping Co
I have details of pay on a letter from Ascot Shipping Co and a letter from the National Union of Seamen showing a reference of 697104/U which could be his union number.

[j.sabourn]

I haven't been following too closely where info is got from, but if anyone unaware on the old Articles of Agreement your last or previous ship was always entered. If someone was transferring records years ago there may have been errors made here by misreading names . Just a thought. JS

[Doc Vernon]

Avisvale

1942

7183

Freight

Ship whose official number is 168559

Vessel	Official number	Port of registry and details	Source
OCEAN FAITH	168559	Manchester, 1942, Steam	Appropriation Books, RSS

[Allison Drake]

Thank you so much

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi Alison.
I have tried looking for notice of him in Sydney, I did have a site that listed all British seamen's deaths in Sydney and the ships they were on. I haven't had much luck so far but will give it another go tomorrow.
Cheers Des.
Ps By chance mt brother was on the Ocean Faith during the war.

[Allison Drake]

Who do I contact or where do I search for Lewis's records please - i.e. Discharge papers (his journey was terminated in NSW 1951 where he died), WW2 Royal Navy medal index cards. Is there any other information that would help me?
He had photos of HMS BYMS 2062 and K570 (HMS Inglis - I think) - are these likely to be the ships he served on?, A member found passage details for SS Marengo in 1948 and 1949 and we know his last voyage was on SS Avisvale.
Are there likely to be any more records and where do I find them