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S.T. Jamaica LO186


		
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Information courtesy of Gil Mayes




		

		

    Technical
	

	




Official Number136220


Yard Number617


LaunchedNovember 04 1914


Gross Tonnage205


Net Tonnage77


Length112.2 ft


Breadth22.5 ft


Draught12.4 ft


EngineT.3-cyl by C. D. Holmes & Co, Hull


Built byCochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby, 1914


OwnerHeward Trawlers Ltd, London & Fleetwood







		

    History
	




November 04 1914Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.617) for Hull Steam Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Hull as JAMAICA.


December 1914Completed.  Registered at Hull (H216)


February 1917Requisitioned for war service and converted for hydrophone  tender duties (Ad.No.1666).


1919Returned.


March 06 1936Hull Steam Fishing & Ice Co Ltd in voluntary liquidation.  Sold to Heward Trawlers Ltd, London & Fleetwood (Robert S. Hewett, manager).  Registered at London (LO186).


March 1944Requisitioned for war service and renamed ALL HALLOWS; converted to a smoke making trawler and assigned to Operation Neptune - Normandy landings.


June 09 1944Arrived Mulberry A from Yarmouth with Group A1. Employed smoke making with replenishment at Portland. 


July 03 1944Operation Neptune ended.


March 1945Returned after restoration and survey at Fleetwood. Reverted to JAMAICA (LO186).


1959Sold to BISCO and allocated to Thos W. Ward Ltd, Sheffield for demolition.


August 14 1959Delivered Barrow-in-Furness from Fleetwood under own power.