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S.T. San Sebastian FD126




Information courtesy of Gil Mayes



  	  	 

  	  	  

  	  	  	
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Picture courtesy of John Clarkson, clipping courtesy of Elizabeth Shaw

  	  	

  	  	 

  	  	  

  	  	  	
  	  	  	 

  	  	  	  

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The newspaper report of the loss.

  	  	

  	  	 

  	  	  

  	  	  	
  	  	  	 

  	  	  	  

  	  	  	  	The newspaper report of the loss of San Sebastian
  	  	  	  	
  	  	  	  

  	  	  	 

  	  	  			
  	  	  

  	  	 

		 


		

		

    Technical
	

	




Official Number 148223


Yard Number57


LaunchedJanuary 1917


Gross Tonnage271


Net Tonnage123


Length125.7 ft


Breadth23.5 ft


Draught12.7 ft


EngineT.3-cyl by Marine Iron Works, Chicago.

Boiler by Canadian Allis Chalmers Ltd, Toronto


BuiltCollingwood Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Collingwood, Ontario, Canada, 1917


OwnerBoston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood







		

    History
	




January 1917Ordered.


1918
Launched by Collingwood Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Collingwood, Ontario, Canada (Yd.No.57) (Canadian "Castle" - "T.R." class) for The Admiralty (paid for and built under direction of RCN) as TR.11.


June 28 1918Completed and commissioned in the Royal Canadian Navy.

 
August 1919Paid off and laid up.

 
1920By Admiralty Order to Captain D. J. Munro on behalf of Rose Street Foundry & Engineering Co Ltd, Inverness for reconditioning  and lay-up prior to sale.

 
August 1926Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Fred Parkes, manager).

 
September 17 1926Renamed SAN SEBASTIAN (FD126).

 
05/06/07 1933Chartered for by Italian Government to provide support for a transAtlantic flight involving 20 to 30 aeroplanes.

 
May 09 1933Sailed Fleetwood for NW Atlantic.

 
May 19 1933Arrived St. John's Newfoundland.

 
January 09 1937Sailed Fleetwood at 9.40 a.m. for West of Scotland grounds with a crew of thirteen (Sk. Richard W. Pook).

 
January 10 1937 At approx 2.5 a.m. ran into heavy rain and reduced visibility of about 2 miles.  At approx 3.10 a.m. stranded on rocks off Iommalach Rock 2 miles off Ardbeg, Islay.  Pounded heavily on rocks and rolled over to starboard.  Crew abandoned and eight men landed on rocks, skipper on a separate rock; four crew lost.

 
January 11 1937At about 9.00 a.m. eight men rescued from rock by PIBROCH  (96grt/1923) on passage Glasgow-Port Ellen.  At approx 2.0 p.m. skipper rescued .

 
February 02 1937 Fleetwood registry closed. 

  
March 23 1937At BOT Formal Investigation (No.S.382), it was concluded that the stranding and subsequent loss was caused by the wrongful act and defaults of Sk. Pook.  His ticket was suspended for twelve months.  It was also found that the stranding and total loss was caused by the defaults of the mate James A. Maunder.  He was severely censured.