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s.v. Milo FD19

Additional information courtesy of Christine Simm and Geoff Davidson

Technical

Official Number: 53277
Completed: 1865
Gross Tonnage: 51g
Net tonnage: 38
Length: 64.6 ft
Breadth: 17.4 ft
Depth: 9.5 ft
Rig: Dandy – trawling
Built: J. & C. Hoad, Rye

History

1865: Completed by J. & C. Hoad, Rye as MILO, for Christopher Rice, Hull.
16.01.1866: Registered at Hull (H50).
03.10.1867: Smack JUNO (Capt.Buckingham) and other vessels anchored off Heligoland, riding out heavy WNW Gale. At 11:00 an unnamed schooner anchored nearby began to drag, despite deploying a second anchor. Schooner grounded a mile offshore and crew took to rigging. A boat was launched from MILO but the two crewmen manning did not have sufficient strength to reach the vessel and had to return to MILO. Crew saved by veering a boat from HALO down to the casualty and taking off the crew.
21.01.1869: Two young persons (Henry Durbridge and Thomas Wilson) charged with being suspected persons after being found in the cabin. Reported by a man named Foote. Constable Pickering attended. Both lads remanded.
1.1.1870: Owned by William Jeffs, Kingston-upon-Hull.
07.02.1873: Returned to port with bulwark and other damage, after a collision in the Humber.
17.07.1874: A fisherboy named George Poskitt fell from the masthead. Taken to Hull infirmary suffering head and leg injuries.
12.1877: Sold to George Draper, Grimsby.
12.1877: Registered at Grimsby (GY683).
16.03.1878: Offered for sale along with other ketch rigged smacks. Realised almost £1000 but did not reach reserve.
25.10.1878: Dismasted, sails blown away and bulwark damage. Smack WALTER DREW (Sk. Lyon) closed and towed to port. Salvage claim subsequently went to court.
1.1.1880: Owned by The Grimsby Smack Co Ltd. Grimsby.
1.1.1883: Owned by Harrison Mudd, Holbrook House, Grimsby.
2.1888: Sold to George Miller, 33 Church St, Fleetwood (managing owner). To be skippered by Mr. David Leadbetter.
2.1888: Grimsby registry closed.
21.3.1888: Registered at Fleetwood (FD19).
20.5.1895: Reported that in a moderate NW gale, with squalls, had mainmast carry away. Smack RED ROSE (FD99 ) (Sk. T. Bond) connected and delivered Fleetwood.
06.06.1913: Offered for sale at £150.
11.09.1914: Offered for sale at £750.
1916: Sold for demolition.
19.2.1916: Fleetwood registry closed.

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s.v. Milo FD19

s.v. Milo FD19
Picture courtesy of The Fred Baker Collection

Sailing Trawler Milo FD19 at Wyre Light

Sailing Trawler Milo FD19
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Changelog
23/01/2009: Page published.
30/12/2015: Information updated.
05/11/2017: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
31/08/2024: Updated history.

S.T. Cyelse FD67

Additional information courtesy of David Slinger

Technical

Official Number: 128762
Yard Number: 523
Completed: 1912
Gross Tonnage: 237
Net Tonnage: 93
Length: 120 ft
Breadth: 21.5 ft
Depth: 11.8 ft
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby
Engine: 58ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by Charles D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull

History

3.4.1912: Launched by Cochrane & Sons, Selby (Yd.No.523) for David Pettit, Hakin as CYELSE.
20.5.1912: Registered at Milford (M138).
6.6.1912: Completed (David Pettit, managing owner).
24.6.1912: Arrived Milford.
1912: Transferred to David Pettit Ltd, Milford Haven (David Pettit, Hakin, manager).
11.12.1912: Leaving Milford at 5.30pm for fishing grounds in thick rain and blowing hard (Sk. Edward Gibbs). When between Thorne Island and Stack Rock Fort, collided with steam liner EAGLE (M64) inbound which sank with the loss of five crewmen.
19.2.1913: At BoT formal investigation at Milford, the Court found Sk. Gibbs guilty of failing to keep a proper look out and suspended his ticket for nine months. The Second Hand, William Blockwell was found guilty of unsatisfactory conduct in attempting to save life and his ticket suspended for three months.
9.2.1915: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-12pdr, 1-7.5” A/S Howitzer & W/T) (Ad.No.975). Fitted as Leader. Based Kirkwall.
By 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Milford Haven.
21.3.1929: Stranded on rocks off Lonehort Point, Bere Island, Co. Cork; making water. Destroyer HMS SCYTHE (P.No.H22) standing by. At 10.00am. refloated under own power and proceeded.
20.8.1931: Stranded on rocks off Irish Coast for six hours but refloated; boat lost.
25.2.1934: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Fred Parkes, Blackpool, manager).
30.2.1934: Sold to Mason Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood (Thomas Cardwell, manager).
30.10.1934: Milford registry closed
11.12.1934: Registered at Fleetwood (FD67) (Richard W. Mason, manager).
1939: R. H. Bagshaw appointed manager.
22.8.1940: Requisitioned for war service and appointed for minesweeping duties.
23.8.1940: Returned to owner.
1943: Forecastle head added.
12.3.1943: Requisitioned for war service and fitted with water tank (33ton tank for boiler feed) (P.No. Y.7.8) (Hire rate £59.5.0d/month).
1944: Employed as a fuelling trawler (for refuelling diesel landing craft) (P.No.Y.7.16).
5.1944: Assigned Operation Neptune-Normandy Landings.
23.5.1944: Assigned as a fuelling trawler to Force G.
3.7.1944: Operation Neptune ended.
1944: Reverted to water tank duties.
19.3.1946: Returned after restoration and re-classification at Belfast.
11.3.1949: On West of Scotland grounds (Sk. J.C.Smith); fourteen crew all told. In response to radio message attended Fleetwood trawler BEN BHEULA (A422) (Sk. W. Cowell) off Barra in heavy weather and hail storms taking in water in boiler room. Connected and towed into Castlebay for shelter.
13.3.1949: Still connected, in hail and sleet, swept by high seas on to reef. All crew abandoned in boat and taken onboard BEN BHEULA, later taken by Barra lifeboat to Castlebay.
15.3.1949: Liverpool & Glasgow Salvage Association attended but wreck declared a total loss.
1949: Fleetwood registry closed.

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S.T. Cyelse FD67

S.T. Cyelse FD67
Picture courtesy of The Osta collection

S.T. Cyelse FD67 in wartime livery

S.T. Cyelse FD67
Picture courtesy of The David Slinger Collection

S.T. Cyelse FD67

S.T. Cyelse FD67
Picture from the Internet

S.T. Cyelse FD67

S.T. Cyelse FD67
Picture from the Internet

Changelog
23/01/2009: Page published. 4 updates since then.
16/01/2017: Image added.
16/02/2020: Updated information.

S.T. Doctor Lee FD411

Technical

Official Number: 136186
Yard Number: 586
Completed: 1914
Gross Tonnage: 307
Net Tonnage: 124
Length: 136.7 ft
Breadth: 23.2 ft
Depth: 12.3 ft
Built: Cochrane & Sons, Ltd Selby
Engine: 93hp T.3-cyl and boiler by Charles D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull

History

29.1.1914: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.586) for Pickering & Haldane’s Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull as Doctor Lee .
26.3.1914: Registered at Hull (H50).
11.4.1914: Completed (John McCann & Edward Cartwright, managers).
5.1915: Requisitioned for war service (Ad.No.1582). At Devonport fitted 1-12pdr and mine-sweep.
1916: Based Malta with Unit 93.
3.3.1919: Returned to owner at Hull.
10.6.1922: Mortgaged to William Deacons Bank Ltd, London.
21.6.1922: Sold to Dinas Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Joseph A. Marr, manager).
12.7.1922: Hull registry closed.
13.7.1922: Registered at Fleetwood (FD411).
Pre 8.1938: Laid up at Fleetwood.
5.12.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a boom defence vessel (P.No. Z.133) (Hire rate £81.17.4d/month). Based Leith.
23.11.1943: Compulsorily acquired by M.O.W.T.
1.1.1944: Fleetwood registry closed.
6.1944: Based at Portsmouth (Fraser & White Ltd, Portsmouth, agents).
2.1946: Laid up at Portsmouth “To return to fishing”.
3.1947: Sold to BISCO and allocated to Marine Metals Ltd, Littlehampton for breaking up.

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S.T. Doctor Lee FD411

S.T. Doctor Lee FD411

Changelog
23/01/2009: Page published. 3 updates since then.
13/05/2017: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
05/09/2021: Updated technical details.

S.T. Daily Herald FD101

Additional information courtesy of David Slinger and Granton Trawlers

Technical

Admiralty Number: 3745
Official Number: 143943
Yard Number: 645
Completed: 1918
As built: 360disp 125.6 x 23.5 x 12.8 feet
Gross Tonnage: 276
Net Tonnage: 106
Length: 125.6 ft
Breadth: 23.4 ft
Depth: 12.6 ft
Built: Hepple & Co Ltd, South Shields
Engine: 480ihp T.3-cyl by Bellis & Morcom Ltd, Birmingham
Boiler: R.W. Hawthorn Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle

History

17.10.1917: Launched by Hepple & Co Ltd, South Shields (Yd.No.645) (“Castle” class) for The Admiralty as MATTHEW FLYNN (Ad.No.3745).
23.2.1918: Completed (Commissioned) (1-12pdr).
10.12.1919: Registered by The Admiralty at London (Part I) as MATTHEW FLYNN O.N.143943).
1919: Allocated to Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries and engaged in commercial trawling.
1920: Allocated to the National Fishery Scheme for the setting up of the Minesweepers’ Cooperative Trawling Society Ltd, London.
13.08.1920: Minesweepers’ Cooperative Trawling Society Ltd, London registered.
28.08.1920: Registered by The Admiralty at London (Part IV) (LO435).
10.1920: At HM Dockyard, Devonport completed fitting out for fishing under Special Survey of Lloyd’s Register and classed 100A1 Stm Trawler at Plymouth.
01.1922: Scheme abandoned, the necessary working capital of £100,000 having not been subscribed. Laid up.
1922: Sold M. Francois, Boulogne.
8.2.1922: London registry closed.
2.1922: Registered at Boulogne as AMIRAL MARQUER. Altazin Frères, later Victor Fourny designated manager.
4.1930: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood.
5.1930: Boulogne registry closed.
17.5.1930: Registered at Fleetwood as DAILY HERALD (FD101) (BoT Minute M/R.G.1069/1930 dated 10.2.1930). Fred Parkes, Blackpool designated manager.
30.9.1932: Homeward from fishing grounds in mountainous seas (Sk. Robert Wright. Struck the Bragar Rocks, Isle of Lewis. Slid off but carried back on the rocks and pounding coming afloat again and backed away. Boat made ready. Wireless operator made contact with steam trawler DAILY TELEGRAPH (GY367) which stood by whilst checks carried out and found to be making a little water. Proceeded in company for Fleetwood.
2.10.1932: Arrived Fleetwood.
1935: Sold to Thomas L. Devlin & Sons, Granton.
5.10.1935: Fleetwood registry closed.
10.1935: Registered at Granton as COMMILES (GN34). Thomas L. Devlin designated manager.
31.8.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (P.No.FY.636) (Hire rate £82.16.0d/month).
1942: Transferred to Thomas L. Devlin & Sons Ltd, Granton. Thomas L. Devlin remained manager.
1942: Sold to Mrs Elizabeth D. Breen, Edinburgh.
10.1945: Re-classed at Fleetwood and returned to owner.
10.1945: Sold to Shire Trawlers Ltd (64/64), London. William Alfred Bennett, Sanderstead designated manager.
22.12.1945: Stranded at Dyra Fjord, Iceland. Refloated and returned to service.
11.1946: Granton registry closed.
26.11.1946: Registered at Grimsby (GY390).
16.12.1947: Sold to J. Marr & Son Ltd (64/64), Fleetwood for £12500.
23.12.1947: Geoffrey Edwards Marr, Cleveleys designated manager.
3.11.1948: Grimsby registry closed.
11.1948: Registered at Fleetwood (FD285).
12.1948: In blizzard conditions driven ashore at Kyle of Lochalsh. Two men brought ashore by breeches buoy, remaining crew taken off by launch from HMS FLAMBOROUGH HEAD.
12.1948: Refloated and returned to service.
8.6.1949: Sold to Anglo-Australian Fisheries (Pty) Ltd & Anglo-Australian Trawlers (Pty) Ltd, Perth, WA for £15000. Ian L. C. McNicol designated manager. 16.7.1949: Sailed Fleetwood for Fremantle, WA (Sk. Alfred Britton MBE(49)/Capt G. Thexton, Grasmere); fourteen crew all volunteers to settle in Australia and sailed under Western Australian Government immigration scheme; families to follow.
16.9.1949: Arrived Fremantle, WA. To fish out of Albany.
1953: Sold to Royal Australian Navy and after use as a target sunk off Rottnest Island W of Fremantle, WA as a dive site and fish haven.
(Matthew Flynn (or Flinn), Landsman (Volunteer), age 22, b. Dublin – VICTORY (SB160)

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S.T. Daily Herald FD101

S.T. Daily Herald FD101
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S.T. Commiles FD285

S.T. Commiles FD285
Picture (in Australia) from the Internet

Changelog
23/01/2009: Page published. 5 updates since then.
13/01/2017: Information updated.
15/07/2017: Removed FMHT watermark.
02/03/2020: Updated information and added an image.

S.T. Cotswold H194

Technical

Admiralty Number: 3556
Official Number: 143839
Yard number: 816
Completed: 1917
Gross Tonnage: 312
Net Tonnage: 130
Length: 138.5 ft
Breadth: 23.7 ft
Depth: 12.8 ft
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby
Engine: 600ihp T.3-cyl by Campbell Gas Engine Co Ltd, Halifax
Armament: 1 x 12 pdr AA

History

23.7.1917: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.816) (“Mersey” class) for The Admiralty as GEORGE ANDREW (Ad.No.3556).
29.10.1917: Completed as a minesweeper (1 – 12pdr HA and W/T).
18.11.1919: Registered by The Admiralty at London (Part I) as GEORGE ANDREW O.N.143839.
23.4.1920: Paid off and laid up.
1921: Sold to Pickering & Haldane’s Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull (John McCann & Edward Cartwright, managers).
19.7.1921: Registered at Hull (H194).
13.9.1921: Registered at Hull as LORD ASTOR (H194).
7.2.1929: Sold to W. B. Willey & Sons Ltd, Hull (William B Willey Junr, manager).
5.7.1929: Registered at Hull as COTSWOLD (H194).
30.4.1936: Sailed Hull for Faroes grounds on last trip before sale (Sk. J. Blackshaw).
15.5.1936: At Hull landed 391 kits grossed £510.
20.5.1936: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Basil A. Parkes, manager).
13.6.1936: At Fleetwood, first box of fish sold to C. F. Stonebanks for £6.15.0d.
28.8.1939: Requisitioned for war service on examination service and as a minesweeper. Renamed CRANEFLY (P.No.FY.539). (Hire rate £91.0.0d/month)
1940: Based Dundee with M/S Group 34.
4.1.1940: Escorted HM Submarine H.34 from Dundee to Rosyth.
1942: Based Grimsby with M/S Group 34.
6.1945: Sold to Grimsby Motor Trawlers Ltd, Grimsby.
30.6.1945: Hull registry closed.
7.1945: Registered at Grimsby as COTSWOLD (GY77).
1.1946: Returned to owner at Grimsby.
5.1946: Completed Special Survey at Troon.
6.6.1946: Sold to A. J. Tilbrook Ltd, Milford Haven.
10.1948: Sold to Yolland Brothers Ltd, Milford Haven (John Yolland, manager).
8.1954: Sold to B. J. Nijkerk SA, Antwerp for breaking up.
11.8.1954: Sailed Milford for Belgium.
8.1954: Grimsby registry closed.

(George Andrew, Secretary’s Clerk, age ?, b. ?? – VICTORY (SB?))

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S.T. Cotswold H194

S.T. Cotswold H194
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Changelog
23/01/2009: Page published. 3 updates since then.
16/02/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
07/01/2020: Updated information.