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S.T. Teroma FD17


 	  	 
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Teroma


		
Technical
Admiralty Number 3829
Official Number 143833
Yard Number 309
Launched July 09 1918
Gross Tonnage 276
Net Tonnage 109
Length125.2 ft
Breadth23.4 ft
Draught12.6 ft
EngineT.3-cyl by J. P. Rennoldson & Sons Ltd, South Shields
Built byJ. P. Rennoldson & Sons Ltd, South Shields, 1918
OwnerJ Marr & Sons Ltd Fleetwood.
History
July 09 1918Launched by J. P. Rennoldson & Sons Ltd, South Shields (Yd.No.309) ("Castle" class) for The Admiralty as ISAAC HEATH.
August 21 1918Completed.
December 30 1919Registered by The Admiralty as a fishing vessel at London (LO244).
November 16 1922Sold to Brand & Curzon Ltd, Milford Haven. Renamed RYLSTON (LO244).
>1929Sold to J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood.
February 26 1929Registered at Fleetwood (FD17).
May 28 1929Renamed TEROMA (FD17).
March 1932Fishing off Butt of Lewis, chased and arrested by fishery cruiser NORNA and taken to Stornoway, alleged trawling inside the three mile limit and trying to ram the fishery cruiser.
9 - 11 March 1932At Stornoway Sherrif Court, Sk. Charles Henry Taylor pleaded guilty to fishing without the regulation lights; he was fined £100 for illegal trawling, £10 for not carrying the regulation lights or alternatively 90 days imprisonment. Walter R. Bowie, first hand and Charles Brown, second hand were found not guilty of acting in concert with the skipper. The charges of dangerous navgation were dismissed.
August 1939Requisitioned for war service and converted for minesweeping duties (P.No.FY.527).
March 1945Returned.
Pre 1949Sold to Mason Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood (Robert H. Bagshaw, manager).
May 05 1948In strong NW wind, choppy sea and showery, stranded 3 miles N of Port Askaig, Islay. Port Askaig lifeboat stood by.
August 1958Sold to Hammond Lane Foundry Ltd, Dublin for demolition.
August 07 1958Arrived at Dublin from Fleetwood under own power.
Note(Isaac Heath, Private, Marine, age 22, b. Uphill, Somerset - VICTORY (ML185))