Historic Time Line of Thordis

1909 - Thordis built by Camper and Nicholson for Walter Leney

1922 - William Garton (reg 4788)

1932 - Col. Cecil Pierce (reg 7115)

Early 1940 - Requisitioned for Auxiliary Patrol Service

21st Aug 1940 - Vessel released to owner

Nov 1945 - Sailed from Poole to Worcester

1947 - Miles H Formby of Broadstoke, Dorset

2nd May 1952 - Mr Climo of the Black Bear Hotel in Wareham (reg 6846)

23rd July 1952 - Mr A W Purves ( reg. 7538) owned until 1956 but re-registered in
1955 - registered as no 7860

1957 - No listing in Lloyd's Register but put up for sale

4th Nov 1959 - Mr E N Brain

25th Nov 1960 - Mr Ellis (reg 9575)

1988 - Mr Graham Ellis (son of former owner)

Nov 2006 - Daniel Bristow of Tetbury

If anyone can add any further information to the above we would love to hear from you. There are a few very interesting stories about Thordis but they are unconfirmed, although there are a lot of co-incidences and similar stories appearing from unrelated sources.

We would be extremely interested to hear from anyone who may have access to naval and secret service records in relation to Thordis around 1938-40.