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S.T. Gaul FD143



Picture courtesy of the late Alan Hirst



 	  	 

 	  	  

 	  	  	
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Information courtesy of Gil Mayes




 	  	 

 	  	  

 	  	  	
 	  	  	 

 	  	  	  

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    Technical
	

	




Official Number 121030


Yard Number 64


Launched November 24 1904


Gross Tonnage270


Net Tonnage94


Length130 ft


Breadth22 ft


Engine80 hp T.3-cyl by Amos & Smith Ltd, Hull


Speed10.5 ft


Armament (WWI)1 x 12 pdr : 1 x 7.5" Bomb Thrower (A/S Howitzer)


Built byCook Welton & Gemmell, Beverley, 1904


OwnerNew Docks Steam Trawling Co (Fleetwood) Ltd, Fleetwood







		

    History
	




November 24 1904
Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Beverley (Yd.No.64) for Imperial Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull as GAUL (H761).


January 30 1905Completed


February 1915Requisitioned for war service and converted for minesweeping duties (Ad.No.733).


November 02 1917Sold to New Docks Steam Trawling Co (Fleetwood) Ltd, Fleetwood (Taylor & Tomlinson Ltd, managers).


April 09 1919Registered at Fleetwood (FD143).



1920Returned.


1925Chartered by  Hellyer Bros Ltd, Hull for use in reconnoitring for icefields, marking boundaries, fish carrying, etc in the halibut fishery in the Davis Strait, Greenland.


March 30 1926In heavy weather driven ashore in Ballevullin Bay,  NW Tiree while on passage Grimsby - Fleetwood on completion of charter; crew of nine took to boat which overturned;  seven men lost, two reached the shore.  (Crew all Grimsby men.  Survivors.  G. Platt, deckhand and E. Thompson, trimmer.  Lost.  Sk. Karl Johnson; W. Robinson, Mate;  R. Dean, third hand; T. Moon deckhand; A. Keightley, Chief engineer, R. Kershaw, 2nd engineer and A. Beard, cook. 


April 29 1926Fleetwood registry closed.