Monthly Archives: January 2009

S.T. Achroite H81

Technical

Official Number: 163935
Yard Number: 596
Completed: 1934
Gross Tonnage: 314
Net Tonnage: 138
Length: 133.2 ft
Breadth: 24.5 ft
Depth: 12.9 ft
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley
Engine: 154nhp T.3-cyl and boiler by Charles D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
Speed : 11.4 knots

History

Note: Last Fleetwood coal fired trawler to land at the port

23.4.1934: The Board of Kingston Steam Trawling Co Ltd decided to exercise their option with Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd to build two more middle water trawlers to the same design as the Avanturine (Yd.No.542) but with amendments in respect of hull dimensions. Contracts were signed with the shipyard and with Charles D. Holmes & Co Ltd to make the engines and boilers. The price agreed was £13,854 each vessel. The names chosen were Aragonite and Achroite (The last of nine trawlers built to this design and also the last middle water trawler to be built for Kingston).
Total cost for Achroite, with amendments, fishing gear and other equipment £14,808.2.0d.

30.6.1934: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.596) for the Kingston Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull as ACHROITE. (Named by Mrs A. Bird wife of a director of Kingston).
4.8.1934: Registered at Hull (H81).
9.8.1934: Completed trials and accepted, John William Lown, manager.
11.8.1934: Sailed on first trip (Sk. John Stephenson); ten crew.
26.8.1934: Landed (no details).
1938: In Princess Dock, Hull. Boiler fitted with superheater by Charles D. Holmes & Co Ltd at a cost of £1,474.18.5d.
1939: On St. Andrew’s dock slip fitted with bronze propeller and additional lifesaving appliances (carley floats). Cost £274.19.0d.
25.7.1939: Insured value £17,200.
15.8.1939: Sailed for Faroes grounds (Sk. W. Swain).
29.8.1939: Landed 940 kits grossed £764.
30.8.1939: Admiralty telegram advising that ACHROITE would be requisitioned (This left Kingston with only two trawlers AVANTURINE (H197) and EUCLASE (H384) fishing from Hull in armed convoys).
31.8.1939: Requisitioned for war service (Hire rate £188.8.0d/month).
2.9.1939: Sailed Hull for Govan with an RN crew. Fitted out as a minesweeper by Alexander Stephen & Sons Ltd (1-12pdr) (P.No.FY.914).
3.10.1939: Inspected at Troon after reportedly touching bottom in Sound of Islay; no damage found.
1940: Based Peterhead with M/S Group 19 (Sk. G. W. H. Mortlock RNR).
1.1941: Based Grimsby.
1942: Remained at Grimsby (Actg Sk. Lieut J. Stewart RNR).
1942: Mediterranean.
15.1.1945: Arrived West Hartlepool for restoration by F. O. Kindberg (6 months due to shortage of materials and labour).
12.8.1945: Arrived Hull slipped for various work and Special.
20.8.1945: Returned to owner.
21.8.1945: Sailed for North Sea grounds (Sk.W. Swain).
3.9.1945: Landed 791 kits grossed £2,722.
30.11.1945: Insured value £30,000; for 1946 proposed £35,000.
11.8.1949: Sold to J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood (Leslie James Marr, manager) for £35,000 en bloc with IOLITE (H372) for £37,500, total £72500. Fishing from Hull (Geoffrey Edwards Marr, Brough, manager).
29.1.1953: Transferred to Fleetwood.
1956: Geoffrey Alan Marr appointed manager.
11.5.1960: Sold to The Cevic Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Richard Neave, Thornton, manager).
1963: Sold to Haulbowline Industries Ltd, Passage West, Co.Cork.
4.2.1963: On passage Fleetwood-Cork had engine trouble(?) off Coninbeg Light-vessel and put in to Rosslare, Co. Wexford.
6.2.1963: Broke adrift and driven ashore on the Rosslare Strand, 5 miles north-east of Rosslare Light. Eight crew taken off.
10-11.2.1963: In a full storm driven further ashore ending up on beach 2 miles north of Rosslare.
28.3.1963: Hull registry closed “Vessel total loss”.
1963: Wreck sold to P. Roche, Killinick, Co Wexford, stripped of non-ferrous and other usable materials and abandoned.
1986/87: Dispersed by explosives but still visible when sands move.

(Note. Building installment costings:
Shipbuilder
1.6.1934: 1st payment – £3,463.10.0d
11.6.1934: 2nd payment – £3,463.10.0d
6.7.1934: 3rd payment – £3,463.10.0d
19.8.1934: Final – £3,463.10.0d Total – £13,854.0.0d
BOT Fees – £4.15.6d

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S.T. Achroite H81
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S.T. Achroite H81
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S.T. Achroite H81
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S.T. Achroite H81
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Changelog
28/01/2009: Page published. 7 updates since then.
15/01/2017: Removed disputed images.
24/09/201: Removed FMHT watermark from image. Added an image.
15/04/2019: Added a picture.

S.T. Teroma FD17

Technical

Admiralty Number: 3829
Official Number: 143833
Yard Number: 309
Completed: 1918
As built: 360disp 125.6 x 23.5 x 12.8 feet
Gross Tonnage: 276
Net Tonnage: 109
Length: 125.2 ft
Breadth: 23.4 ft
Depth: 12.6 ft
Built: J. P. Rennoldson & Sons Ltd, South Shields
Engine: 480ihp T.3-cyl by J. P. Rennoldson & Sons Ltd, South Shields

History

9.7.1918: Launched by J. P. Rennoldson & Sons Ltd, South Shields (Yd.No.309) (“Castle” class) for The Admiralty as ISAAC HEATH (Ad.No.3829).
21.8.1918: Completed (1 – 12pdr).
15.11.1919: Registered by The Admiralty at London (Part I) as Isaac Heath O.N.143833.
30.12.1919: Registered by The Admiralty at London (Part IV) (LO244).
1920: Sold to Skomer Steam Shipping Co Ltd, Cardiff (Lewis Bull, manager).
16.11.1923: Sold to Brand & Curzon Ltd, Milford Haven (Edward Brand & Charles Curzon, managers).
2.1929: Sold to J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood Geoffry Edwards Marr, manager).
22.2.1929: London registry closed.
26.2.1929: Registered at Fleetwood (FD17).
28.5.1929: Registered at Fleetwood as TEROMA (FD17).
3.1932: Fishing off Butt of Lewis (Sk. Charles H. Taylor), 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.
9-11.3.1932: At Stornoway Sheriff Court, Sk.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 navigation were dismissed.
27.8.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (P.No.FY.527) (Hire rate £82.6.0d/month).
3.1945: Returned to owner.
12.5.1949: Sold to Mason Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood (Robert H. Bagshaw, manager).
5.5.1948: In strong NW wind, choppy sea and showery, stranded 3 miles N of Port Askaig, Islay. Port Askaig lifeboat stood by.
16.11.1955: Outward for fishing grounds in dense fog in collision with grab dredger/hopper FOULNEY (672grt/1938) one mile off Fleetwood. Sustained bow damage and returned to Fleetwood.
17.11.1955: FOULNEY went aground but refloated on morning tide.
8.1958: Sold to Hammond Lane Foundry Ltd, Dublin for breaking up.
7.8.1958: Arrived at Dublin from Fleetwood under own power.
21.10.1958: Fleetwood registry closed.

(Isaac Heath, Private, Marine, age 22, b. Uphill, Somerset – VICTORY (ML185))

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S.T. Teroma FD17
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Changelog
28/01/2009: Page published. 3 updates since then.
24/05/2017: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
29/05/2018: Added an image.
24/02/2020: Added an image and updated information.

S.T. Alnmouth FD335

Technical

Official Number: 127091
Yard Number: 513
Completed: 1912
Gross Tonnage: 236
Net Tonnage: 92
Length: 120.0 ft
Breadth: 21.5 ft
Depth: 11.7 ft
Built: Cochrane & Sons, Selby
Engine: 66hp T.3-cyl and boiler by Charles D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
Armament 1 x 6 pdr AA

History

7.12.1911: Launched by Cochrane & Sons, Selby (Yd.No.513) for The Western Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Bristol as ALNMOUTH.
8.2.1912: Completed.
5.2.1912: Registered at Bristol (BL15). Sydney Morgan Price, Milford designated manager.
7.1914: Sold to The Admiralty and fitted out as a minesweeper (1-6pdr HA) (Ad.No.12).
1.6.1916: Assisted in salving London steamer PARKGATE (3232grt/1906).
7.1919: Sold to Vulcan Steam Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood.
24.07.1919: Bristol registry closed.
26.7.1919: Registered at Fleetwood (FD335). Joseph A. Taylor designated manager.
1924: William W. Brierley appointed manager.
21.9.1926: Sold to George K. Grimmer, Aberdeen.
7.10.1926: Fleetwood registry closed.
8.10.1926: Registered Aberdeen (A196).
1931: Sold to Corue Frères et Cie, Dieppe.
5.5.1931: Aberdeen registry closed.
5.1931: Remeasured 228g 63n.
5.1931: Registered at Dieppe as La MANCHE.
1935: Sold to The Hewett Fishing Co Ltd, London & Fleetwood.
12.1935: Dieppe registry closed.
12.1935: Remeasured 242g 94n.
11.12.1935: Registered at London as ROYALIST (LO90). Robert S. Hewett designated manager.
27.8.1940: Requisitioned for war service.
29.8.1940: Returned to owner.
30.4.1943: Typical wartime landing. 162 kits – hake-9, whiting-2, flats-6, ling/coley-130, roker-3, dogs-12.
1960: Renamed ROYALIST II to free name for new build.
6.1960: Sold to BISCO and allocated to Thos. W. Ward Ltd, Sheffield for breaking up.
11.7.1960: Arrived Preston from Fleetwood under own power.
13.7.1960: Delivered.
7.1960: London registry closed.

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S.T. Royalist LO90
Picture courtesy of The Frank Pook Collection

S.T. Royalist LO90
Picture courtesy of The Robert Hewett Collection

Changelog
28/01/2009: Page published. 4 updates since then.
18/05/2016: Changed picture.
23/06/2019: Updated information.

S.T. Pasages FD119

Technical

Official Number: 148221
Yard Number: 60
Completed: 1917
Gross Tonnage: 271
Net Tonnage: 123
Length: 125.7 ft
Breadth: 23.5 ft
Depth: 12.7 ft
Built: Dominion Shipbuilding Co Ltd (Thor Iron Works), Toronto
Engine: 480ihphp T.3-cyl by National Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Goderich, Ontario

History

1916: Ordered by The Admiralty (paid for and built under direction of RCN) (Canadian “Castle” – “T.R.” class) from Collingwood Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Ontario (Yd.No.60) and subcontracted to Dominion Shipbuilding Co Ltd (Thor Iron Works), Toronto.
1917: Launched as TR.14.
10.6.1918: Completed (1-12pdr).
7.1.1919: Paid off and laid up.
1920: Accepted offer of Rose Street Foundry & Engineering Co Ltd, Inverness (Captain D. J. Munro as agent) to bring drifters with trawlers as escorts to UK for lay-up in Muirtown Basin, Caledonian Canal, Inverness prior to sale and possible refit for classification as steam trawlers (The Rose Street Foundry & Engineering Co Ltd letter dated 12 April 1920).
1921: Brought over at The Admiralty’s expense.
1.1926: Still laid up.
2.1926: Rejected offer for all remaining trawlers at £2,000 each (B. Allenby, Aberdeen letter dated 10 Feb 1926).
8.1926: Sold “as is” to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Grimsby (Basil A. Parkes, Blackpool, manager).
16.9.1926: Registered at Fleetwood as PASAGES (FD119).
1926: Transferred to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Basil A. Parkes, Blackpool, manager).
11.1927: Load line assigned to enable cargoes of herring to be carried.
3.12.1931: Homeward with herring (300 kits) from NW coast of Ireland (Sk.J. James); eleven crew. Approaching Isle of Man in severe weather conditions with driving rain and heavy seas. At slow ahead ran ashore at 6.00 am.on sand at Jurby Head, Isle of Man; crew rescued by Ramsey Rocket Corps after Norman Platt, the cook, swam ashore with a line. Vessel sustained bottom damage and embedded in sand.
31.8.1932: Fleetwood registry closed “Total loss”.

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S.T. Pasages FD119
Picture as TR14 courtesy of Ronnie Bell

S.T. Pasages FD119
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S.T. Pasages FD119
Picture courtesy of David Slinger

S.T. Pasages FD119
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S.T. Pasages FD119
Picture © Peter Killey

S.T. Pasages FD119
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Video of as she looks today.
Video courtesy of Isle of Man Harbours

Changelog
25/04/14: Picture 6 added.
26/04/14: Information updated.
11/08.2015: 4 pictures added.
01/05/2016: Added video of the wreck.
30/12/2017: Removed FMHT watermarks from images.

S.T. Masona (2) FD16

Technical

Official Number: 160890
Yard Number: 539
Completed: 1930
Gross Tonnage: 363
Net Tonnage: 162
Length: 140.3 ft
Breadth: 24.6 ft
Depth:13.3 ft
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Beverley
Engine: 96hp T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
Speed: 11 knots

History

(In 1935 the Hull trawler LEONIDAS (162186) (H267) was lengthened by Smiths Dock Co. Ltd. The work involved creating an improved hull form with new bow and stern sections. The design was successful, not only providing increased fish room capacity, but also, as was expected, reducing coal consumption and giving a slightly higher free running speed. Other owners stemmed vessels at Middlesbrough for similar work to be undertaken).

27.09.1929: The board of Kingston Steam Trawling Co Ltd decided to build two distant water trawlers to a design submitted by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd.
18.12.1929: Contracts signed with the shipyard to build the ships at a cost of £14,975 each, this included Charles D. Holmes & Co Ltd price to make the engine and boiler. (Charles D. Holmes had become major shareholders in Cook, Welton & Gemmell so separate contracts involving the two companies were discontinued).
The names chosen were KINGSTON OLIVINE and KINGSTON CORAL. In the tender the shipyard included the option to build additional vessels to this design at the same price. This option was exercised and an additional vessel was ordered and named KINGSTON CYANITE (Yd.No.541).
Total cost with amendments, fishing gear and other equipment £16,604.18s 7d
15.3.1930: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.539) for Kingston Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull as KINGSTON OLIVINE (named by Mrs Whitley, wife of skipper).
5.4.1930: Registered at Hull (H209).
10.4.1930: Completed (John W. Lown, manager).
1.24.1930: Sailed on first trip to Iceland (Sk. Whitley).
30.4.1930: Landed 1294 kits grossed £1397.
19.8.1936: Stemmed at Middlesbrough for lengthening.
25.8.1936: Sailed Hull for Middlesbrough.
11.1936: Completed lengthening by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, Middlesbrough to 151.2 feet (including fitting new bow and stern sections). Re-measured 379g 146n. Cost £4,000.
10.11.1936: Arrived Hull after lengthening.
11.11.1936: Re-registered (H209) after lengthening and tonnage change.
25.7.1939: Insured value £16,500.
28.7.1939: Last landing at Hull prior to inspection by The Admiralty with a view to purchase.
8.8.1939: Completed trials.
8.8.1939: Sold to The Admiralty (£18,081) and directed to Blyth for conversion by Blyth Drydocks & Shipbuilding Co Ltd.
30.8.1939: Payment received.
11.1939: Fitted out as an anti-submarine trawler (1 – 4”, 3 – 20mm AA, 1 – .50 cal MG & 1 – Holman Projector AA)(P.No.FY.193).
15.11.1939: Hull registry closed.
5/6.1940: At Dunkirk evacuation (Operation Dynamo).
7.1940: Based Harwich with A/S Group 19 (Lt G. W. Gregorie RNR), patrol & escort duties.
7.1940: At Barry repairing.
7.1941: At Harwich (Actg Ty Lt Cdr E G Donald RNVR).
7.1942: Fitted out to a minesweeper.
6.1945: At North Woolwich for reconditioning by Harland & Wolff Ltd, Woolwich. Offered to Kingston Steam Trawling Co Ltd but after
inspection declined as extent of work too costly. Removed from Admiralty Deal list and laid up C&M.
7.1947: Sold to Swansea Trawlers Ltd, Swansea. Restored and reclassed at Appledore.
18.9.1947: Registered at Swansea as LANGLAND BAY (SA72) (K. H. Reynolds DFC, manager). Fishing from Hull (Eton Fishing Co Ltd, Hull, trip managers/agents).
26.5.1950: Hudson Brothers Trawlers. Ltd, Hull appointed trip managers/agents.
1.1.1953: Transferred to Milford (Milford Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Milford Haven, trip managers/agents).
20.12.1953: Last landing at Milford. Laid up.
6.1954: Sold to Mason Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood (Robert. H. Bagshaw, manager).
24.6.1954: Sailed Milford for Fleetwood.
9.1954: Registered at Fleetwood as MASONA (FD16).
1956: Sold to Rinovia Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby (Joseph R. Cobley, Healing, manager). Remained at Fleetwood.
1956: Sold to BISCO and allocated to West of Scotland Shipbreaking Co Ltd, Troon for breaking up.
2.11.1956: Delivered Troon from Fleetwood under own power (draughts 5’0”/15’6”).
11.12.1956: Breaking commenced.
6.2.1957: Beached (5’6”/8’6”).
7.5.1957: Breaking completed. Fleetwood registry closed.

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S.T. Kingston Olivine H209
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HMT Kingston Olivine
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S.T. Langland Bay SA72
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S.T. Langland Bay SA72
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S.T. Masona FD16
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Changelog
28/01/2009: Page published. 6 updates since then.
28/08/2017: Removed FMHT watermark and disputed image. Added a further image.
18/03/2018: Added an image.
12/06/2021: Updated history and added an image.

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Monthly Archives: January 2009

S.T. Achroite H81

S.T. Teroma FD17

S.T. Alnmouth FD335

S.T. Pasages FD119

S.T. Masona (2) FD16