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S. T. Marloes FD170

Additional information courtesy of David Slinger and Maurice Voss

Technical

Official Number: 128753
Yard Number: 466
Completed: 1911
Gross Tonnage: 220
Net Tonnage: 85
Length: 117.4 ft
Breadth: 21.6 ft
Depth: 11.8 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, South Bank-on-Tees, Middlesbrough
Built: Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, South Bank-on-Tees, Middlesbrough

History

30.3.1911: Launched by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, South Bank-on-Tees, Middlesbrough (Yd.No.466) for Thomas G. Hancock, Hakin & John D. Harries, Milford Haven as MARLOES.
5.1911: Completed (Thomas G. Hancock, managing owner).
26.5.1911: Registered at Milford (M76).
8.1914: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-6pdr HA) (Ad.No.15).
1918: Sold to John W. Smethurst, Grimsby (managing owner). Based Harvre.
Post 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Grimsby.
5.1919: Sold to The Hesketh Steam Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood (Joseph A. Taylor, manager).
20.5.1919: Milford registry closed.
21.5.1919: Registered at Fleetwood (FD170).
1922: Joseph A. & Harold Taylor, Fleetwood appointed managers.
1924: Magnus B. J. Wedum appointed manager.
30.12.1924: Sold to George J. Ward & Frederick Swann, Lytham (Seafield Trawling Co) (Walter Morley, Fleetwood, manager).
1926: Sold to Cie Belge de Pêcheries Maritimes, Ostend.
5.8.1926: Fleetwood registry closed.
8.1926: Registered at Ostend as COMMANDANT BULTINCK (O177).
Pre 1929: Sold to Société Anonyme Pêcheries à Vapeur, Ostend (John Bauwens, manager).
3.10.1929: Homeward to Ostend (Sk. Gerwia Van den Bergen) after fishing off Isle of Man, in a hail storm gusting 70mph, rain, thunder & lightning, decided to run for Fleetwood, driven off course stranded on Rossall Beach in the early hours; three crew members lost attempting to get ashore for help (Celestinus-Franciscus Tratsaert, Mate; Pierre-Michel Luyens, deckhand and Willie Walter Ernest Van Yper, deck boy). Broken up in situ. Ostend registry closed.

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S.T. Marloes FD170

S.T. Marloes FD170
Picture courtesy The David Slinger Collection

S. T. Commandant Bultinct O95 on Rossall Beach

S. T. Commandant Bultinct O95 on Rossall Beach
Picture courtesy of David Shuttleworth

S. T. Commandant Bultinct O95 on Rossall Beach

S. T. Commandant Bultinct O95 on Rossall Beach
Picture courtesy of David Shuttleworth

S.T. Commandant Bultinct 095

S.T. Commandant Bultinct 095
Picture courtesy of David Slinger

S.T. Commandant Bultinck O95

S.T. Commandant Bultinck O95
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S.T. Commandant Bultinck O177

S.T. Commandant Bultinck O177

Commandant Bultinck Lost Crew

Commandant Bultinck Lost Crew
Picture courtesy of Mario Couvreur & Marc Denman

Commandant Bultinck Lost Crew Picture courtesy of Mario Couvreur & Marc Denman

Commandant Bultinck Lost Crew
Picture courtesy of Mario Couvreur & Marc Denman

Commandant Bultinck Lost Crew

Commandant Bultinck Lost Crew
Picture courtesy of Mario Couvreur & Marc Denman

Surviving Crew

Surviving Crew
Picture courtesy of The David Buckley Collection

Changelog
28/01/2009: Page published. 7 revisions since then.
27/11/2014: Added crew pictures and amended PLN.
10/03/2015: Added picture.
07/09/2017: Removed FMHT watermark from images.
17/01/2018: Added a link to movie page.
04/08/2022: Added an image.

S.T. William Cale LO79

Additional information courtesy of David Slinger

Technical

Admiralty Number: 3666
Official Number: 145176
Yard Number: 346
Completed: 1917
As built: 360disp 125.6 x 23.5 x 12.8 feet
Gross Tonnage: 276
Net Tonnage:
Length: 125.6 ft
Breadth: 23.4 ft
Depth: 12.8 ft
Built: Bow, McLachlan & Co Ltd, Paisley
Engine: 480ihp T.3-cyl by Bow, McLachlan & Co Ltd, Paisley
Armament 1 x 12 pdr

History

19.9.1917: Launched by Bow, McLachlan & Co Ltd, Paisley (Yd.No.346) (“Castle” class) for The Admiralty as WILLIAM CALE (Ad.No.3666).
4.10.1917: Completed as a minesweeper (1-12pdr).
13.08.1920: Minesweepers’ Cooperative Trawling Society Ltd, London registered.
1921: Allocated to the Minesweepers’ Cooperative Trawling Society Ltd, London.
22.3.1921: Registered by The Admiralty at London (Part I) as WILLIAM CALE O.N.145176.
11.5.1921: Registered by The Admiralty at London (Part IV) as WILLIAM CALE (LO510).
01.1922: Scheme abandoned, the necessary working capital of £100,000 having not been subscribed. Laid up.
5.1922: Sold to John McR. Knight & Morgan W. Howells, Hakin.
17.6.1922: London registry closed.
21.6.1922: Registered at Milford (M250). John McR. Knight designated managing owner.
29.1.1927: Sold to Iago Steam Trawler Co Ltd, Milford Haven.
29.1.1927: Milford registry closed.
11.5.1927: Registered at London (LO79). Edward D. W. Lawford designated manager.
1930: Transferred to Fleetwood when Edward D. W. Lawford moved his vessels to the port.
29.8.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (P.No. FY.535)(Hire rate £80.10.0d/month).
1.1941: Minesweeping Group 41 based at Hartlepool (Ty/Sk. C. E. Gornall RNR).
1.1942: Minesweeping Group 41 based at Grimsby.
6.12.1942: Off Yorkshire coast in collision with WINHA (3391grt/1904).
26.1.1943: A/Capt Edward Douglas Wyndham Lawford RN awarded DSO for service in HMS POZARICA (P.No.4.261) A/A ship on Russian convoys.
6.1945: Restored and surveyed at Glasgow.
12.7.1945: Returned to owner at Fleetwood.
17.12.1945: At about 3.00am coming down the Minch homewards (Sk.Harry Farrer (55)) in a severe northerly gale and heavy seas, when about five miles off Stornoway, bridle wire of trawl washed overboard and fouled propeller. Tried to clear the wire which had made it impossible to move ahead or astern, but without success and wire chopped away. A sea anchor was made up with the trawl boards but after a while this was carried away and the vessel was blown before the gale to a position some seven miles off Rubn’ Re Light (Rubha Reidh), Wester Ross. The Fleetwood steam trawler RED LANCER (LO442)(Sk. John Tomlinson (42)) homeward from the Icelandic grounds responded to the distress signals, changed course and made for the casualties position. Closing the casualty it was obvious that little could be done until daybreak when, in a northerly wind of hurricane force and heavy seas (glass below 27), attempts were made to get a line onboard by rocket, but the lines all broke and eventually all rockets were expended. At about 10.00am the Stornoway lifeboat, WILLIAM & HARRIET, alerted by the Coastguard at 6.00am, and launched at 7.00am in winds of over 90mph, arrived at the position and stood by. At 2.15pm the coastguard reported that a small fishing boat DELIGHT was drifting ashore in Gruinard Bay near Laid, between Loch Broom and Loch Ewe, Wester Ross and the lifeboat left the scene to go to her assistance. The company trawler RED CHARGER (LO460) sheltering in Stornoway was alerted to assist, but her services were not required. Skilfully manoeuvring his vessel as close to the casualty as possible, Sk. Tomlinson succeeded in floating a line across on corks and this time the tow rope held.
18.12.1945: At 1.30am, twenty-two hours after fouling her propeller, the trawler was brought to anchor in Branahuie Bay, Lewis. At about 9.30am they came into Stornoway and the trawler was beached for removal of the wire from her shaft and propeller.
1955: Sold to BISCO and allocated to West of Scotland Shipbreaking Co Ltd, Troon for breaking up.
18.10.1955: Arrived Troon Harbour from Fleetwood under own power (draughts 5’6”/14’6”).
14.11.1955: Breaking commenced.
7.12.1955: Reberthed.
9.2.1956: Reberthed.
21.2.1956: Reberthed.
1.3.1956: Beached (draughts 3’0”/9’0”).
12.4.1956: Breaking completed. London registry closed.

(William Cale, Landsman (prest), age 21, b. London – VICTORY (SB449))

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S.T. William Cale LO79

S.T. William Cale LO79
Picture © John Clarkson

S.T. William Cale LO79

S.T. William Cale LO79
Clipping courtesy of The Stan Mayes Collection

Changelog
27/01/2009: Page published. 5 updates since then.
20/11/2017: Removed FMHT watermark from images.
05/06/2021: Updated information.

S.T. Springwell FD297

Technical

Official Number: 139219
Yard Number: 173
Completed: 1917
Gross Tonnage: 286
Net Tonnage: 113
Length: 130.3 ft
Breadth: 22.7 ft
Depth: 12 ft
Built: Goole Shipbuilding & Repair Co Ltd, Goole
Engine: 80hp T.3-cyl by W. Beardmore & Co Ltd, Glasgow

History

1917: Launched by Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co Ltd, Goole (Yd.No.173) for The Sun Steam Trawling Co Ltd (64/64), Hull as SPRINGWELL.
18.5.1917: Registered at Fleetwood (FD297). James W. Armitage, Fleetwood designated manager.
5.1917: Completed. Requisitioned from the builders for war service as a minesweeper (1-12pdr) (Ad.No.3341) and later used as a convoy escort. Based Devonport.
By 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Hull. James W. Armitage, Fleetwood designated manager.
1927: Highest single trip landing at Fleetwood – 1127 10st boxes.
1928: Highest single trip landing – 978 boxes.
15.12.1933: In the Sheriff Court, Stornoway, Sk. Henry Elliot, was fined £100 for illegal trawling and £10 for damaging the long lines of the steam drifter/liner HANDY (SY2).
1933: Highest single trip landing – 982 boxes.
13.12.1934: Arrived Leverburgh, Isle of Harris, with salvage equipment to assist steam trawler DANE (H227) which had been safely refloated after stranding off the Monarch Islands. After transferring gear and labour, loaded fish and sailed for Fleetwood.
15.12.1934: Arrived Fleetwood and landed 140 boxes ex DANE.
4.5.1943: Typical landing, Home Waters. 578 kits – hake-69, cod/coley-4, flats-3, ling/coley-488, roker-5, dogs-3, sole & prime-6.
1950s: Only Fleetwood trawler to regularly fish at Faroes. Michael A. Munby designated manager.
21.1.1959: Owners re-styled Sun Trawlers, Fleetwood.
1959: Sold to Michael A. Munby, Fleetwood (Sun Trawlers, managers).
1960: Sold to BISCO and allocated to Thos. W. Ward Ltd, Sheffield for breaking up.
30.8.1960: Delivered Barrow-in-Furness from Fleetwood under own power.

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S.T. Springwell FD297

S.T. Springwell FD297
Picture courtesy of The John Clarkson Collection

Changelog
27/01/2009: Page published. 4 updates since then.
11/04/2017: Removed disputed image.
30/04/2017: Updated information and removed FMHT watermark.
04/08/2021: Updated history.

S.T. Scomber (1) FD90

Technical

Official Number: 127572
Yard Number: 446
Completed: 1908
Gross Tonnage: 270
Net Tonnage: 102
Length: 130 ft
Breadth: 23 ft
Depth: 12.2 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby

History

24.10.1908: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.446) for The Mount Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Fleetwood as SCOMBER.
3.3.1909: Registered at Fleetwood (FD90).
6.3.1909: Completed (George E. J. Moody, Grimsby, manager).
1914: Sold to Galiana y del Valles Trillo S en C, Barcelona.
15.5.1914: Fleetwood registry closed. Registered at Barcelona.
1918: Sold to Government of France, Paris (Transports Maritimes et Marine Marchande). Renamed ANNIBAL.
1922: Sold to Victor Basquet, La Rochelle. Registered at La Rochelle as NEPTUNE I (LR.2534).
1934: Sold to “Sorima” Soc. Ricuperi Marittimi, Genoa. Registered at Genoa as RAMPINO. (converted to a salvage vessel).
1934: Fitted out to a salvage ship – 301g 112n.
1.1942: War loss.
1943: Salved and sold for breaking up.

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S.T. Scomber FD90

S.T. Scomber FD90
Picture courtesy of Stephen Bird

S.T. Neptune I LR2534

S.T. Neptune I LR2534

Changelog
27/01/2009: Page published. 4 updates since then.
19/09/2017: Removed FMHT watermark from image.

S.T. Ladylove LO167

Technical

Official Number: 116137
Yard Number: 341
Completed: 1902
Gross Tonnage: 230
Net Tonnage: 84
Length: 125 ft
Breadth: 21.7 ft
Depth: 12 ft
Engine: 70nhp T.3-cyl and boiler by Amos & Smith Ltd, Hull
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Hull

History

14.2.1902: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Hull (Yd.No.341) for Pickering & Haldane’s Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull as OPHIR.
21.3.1903: Registered at Hull (H725).
6.4.1903: Completed (H. A. L. Russell, manager).
1.1915: Requisitioned for war service as an armed trawler (1-12pdr, 1-6pdr HA & 1-7.5” A/S Howitzer) (Ad.No.1204).
2.1915: Renamed OPHIR III.
17.4.1915: Registered at Hull as OPHIR III (H725).
4.10.1918: Sold to Weston W. Crampin, Grimsby (managing owner).
21.10.1918: Hull registry closed.
24.10.1918: Registered at Grimsby (GY1220). Based Harwich.
By 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Grimsby.
2.1919: Sold to The Crampin Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby (Herbert G. Crampin, manager).
2.1933: Sold to Walker Steam Trawl Fishing Co Ltd, Aberdeen (Thomas Walker, manager).
1.2.1933: Grimsby registry closed.
9.2.1933: Registered at Aberdeen as STAR OF MORAY (A232).
1934: Sold to The Hewett Fishing Co Ltd, London & Fleetwood.
4.8.1934: Aberdeen registry closed.
9.8.1934: Registered at London (LO167).
29.9.1934: Registered at London as LADYLOVE (LO167).
7.1940: Requisitioned for war service and designated for minesweeping duties (P.No.FY.335).
10.1940: Returned to owner (Not recorded in Admiralty Folio MT65-467 A-L).
2.8.1941: Sailed Fleetwood for Icelandic grounds (Sk. Alfred C. Fletcher); thirteen crew.
24.8.1941: In evening after being involved in search, directed by aircraft, picked up three men in boat from Norwegian steamer INGER (1418grt/1930) (torpedoed at 2347 on 23.8.1941 by U-boat (U143) 30 miles from Butt of Lewis). Landed survivors at Stornoway.
25.8.1941: Sailed Stornoway.
27.8.1941: At 1435 U-boat (U.202) hit a trawler with a torpedo the vessel foundered in 15 seconds. Although no vessel identified, this must have been the LADYLOVE; crew of fourteen lost*.
30.8.1941: Posted missing (Official date of death of crew members – 7.9.1941).
23.3.1942: London registry closed.

ANNEX A

1.1915: Fitted with WT and Hotchkiss 12pdr, 6pdr HA and Bomb Thrower as an armed trawler (Ad.No.1204).
17.4.1915: Renamed Ophir III.(Ad.No.1204) and re-registered at Hull (H725).
By 1.10.1918: At Penzance (General Patrol and Escort work) (Lieut. RNR).

(Lost* – All Fleetwood unless stated. Sk. Alfred Crozier Fletcher (60), Analby; Thomas Brunt (44), Mate; John Dawson (44), Ch Eng; Walter Birkett (45), 2nd Eng; William Sharples (37), Bosun; Albert Chance (38), Hessle, John Thomas Mooney (33), Hull, Wilfred Thomas Liles (43), John Thomas Rossall (32), Blackpool, Thomas James Temple (38), Lowestoft & J. Millner (?), Deckhands; Stanley Smith (19) & Frederick Moss (42), Firemen; Norman Platt (45), Cook)

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S.T. Ladylove LO167

S.T. Ladylove LO167
Picture courtesy of Pauline Taylor

Changelog
27/01/2009: Page published. 5 revisions since then.
25/11/2017: Removed FMHT watermarks from image.