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S.T. Wyre Monitor FD304

Addition information courtesy of Bill Blow

Technical

Official Number: 160840
Yard Number: 522
Completed: 1929
Gross Tonnage: 352
Net Tonnage: 152
Length: 140.5 ft
Breadth: 24 ft
Depth: 12.9 ft
Engine: 600ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley
Speed: 11.1 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)

21.2.1929: The Board of Kingston Steam Trawling Co Ltd decided to exercise their option with Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd to build two more distant water trawlers to the same design as the AMETHYST (Yd.No.501). Contracts were signed with the shipyard to build the ships at £8,950 each and Charles D. Holmes & Co Ltd to make the engines and boilers at £6,050 per unit. In negotiations with the shipbuilder, Kingston’s were able to obtain a reduction in contract price for the two vessels of £125 each. Total cost £14,875 each.
The names chosen for these vessels were KINGSTON TURQUOISE and KINGSTON PERIDOT.
Total cost with amendments, fishing gear and other equipment £16,663.4.0d

8.6.1929: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.522) for Kingston Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull as KINGSTON PERIDOT.
27.6.1929: Arrived Albert Dock, Hull for boiler and engine to be lifted in and installation of other machinery.
8.7.1929: Registered at Hull (H55). John W. Lown appointed manager.
11.7.1929: Completed.
15.7.1929: Sailed on first trip to Iceland.
2.8.1929: Landed 997 kits grossed £605 (depressed market).
27.9.1929: Arrested at Iceland (Sk.S.F.J.F.C. Hogg). Fined £550 with gear confiscated total £1,043.
9.10.1929: Landed 933 kits grossed £1,853.
9.2.1934: Sailed Hull for Icelandic grounds (Sk. Albert Edward Ball); thirteen crew.
24.2.1934: Stranded at Hafnarberg, 5 miles S of Stafnes, Iceland at 3.40 am. In response to rockets trawler St. AMANDUS (H247 ) responded but too dangerous to approach from seaward. Crew taken off by rocket apparatus, but later returned on board. Coal from port bunker jettisoned to give starboard list.
27.2.1934: With Icelandic gunboat ODINN and Aberdeen salvage tug IRONAXE (296g/1916) connected, refloated and delivered Reykjavik. Placed on slip for temporary repairs for single voyage to Hull.
7.3.1934: Arrived Hull and slipped.
19.3.1934: Un-slipped. Cost of repairs £395.
4.5.1934: At subsequent BoT Inquiry (S.364) held in Hull, Sk. Ball was found in grave default and his certificate suspended for nine months. Charles Thomas Powdrill, Third hand, who was on watch, ordered to pay £5 towards the cost of the Inquiry. (In appreciation of rescue of crew, the company donated £25 to SVFI – The Icelandic Life Saving Association this was matched by a further £25 from The Hull Steam Trawlers Mutual Insurance & Protecting Company Limited).
9.12.1936: Sailed Hull for Middlesbrough to be lengthened.
3.1937: Completed lengthening by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, Middlesbrough to 151.5 feet (including fitting new bow and stern sections). Re measured 356.23g 136.84n. Total cost £4,290.
9.3.1937: Returned to Hull. Re-registered at Hull on lengthening and tonnage change.
21.8.1939: Admiralty telegram to withdraw all vessels from White Sea, Bear Island and Norway Coast.
26.8.1937: Ordered to return from sea for requisitioning.
14.11.1938: Arrived at Princes Dock Hull. Boiler fitted with superheaters by Charles D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull.
31.8.1939: Requisitioned for war service. Sailed Cardiff with RN crew for fitting out for patrol (armed boarding) duties (P.No.4.69)(Hire rate £192.2.8d/month).
1.1940: Based Kirkwall (Lt R. S. Winder RNR).
1.1941: At Kirkwall (Lt Cdr. R. S. Winder OBE RNR).
22.6.1940: Towed disabled Swedish destroyer PUKE to Scapa Flow causing a major diplomatic incident.
4.1941: Fitted out for anti-submarine duties.
6.1941: Based Granton with A/S Group 38 (Sk. C. A. Collins RNR).
9.8.1945: Sold to Grimsby Industries (Trawler Managers) Ltd (64/64), Grimsby (in an en bloc sale with KINGSTON TURQUOISE (H45) for £56,000).
13.8.1945: Hull registry closed.
24.8.1945: Registered at Grimsby (GY89). Harvey Wilfred Wilson appointed manager.
24.9.1945: Sold to Trawlers Grimsby Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
24.9.1945: Charles George Martin appointed manager.
7.12.1945: Returned after restoration and survey at North Shields by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd.
10.4.1946: Registered at Grimsby as STOCKHAM (GY89) (MoT Minute R.G.No.1020/1946 dated 1.4.1946).
6.8.1947: Harvey Wilfred Wilson appointed manager.
19.10.1948: Sold to The “Wyre” Steam Trawling Co Ltd (64/64), Fleetwood.
21.10.1948: John Wilcock Robinson appointed manager.
21.10.1948: Grimsby registry closed.
10.1948: Registered at Fleetwood as WYRE MONITOR (FD304).
1954: Transferred to Wyre Trawlers Ltd (Leslie Wheildon, manager) on purchase of Merchants (Fleetwood) Ltd by Associated Fisheries Group.
1954: Sold to Haulbowline Industries Ltd, Passage West, Cork for breaking up.
16.11.1954: Delivered Passage West from Fleetwood under own power.

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S.T. Wyre Monitor FD304

S.T. Wyre Monitor FD304
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HMT Kingston Peridot

HMT Kingston Peridot
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Changelog
08/01/2009: Page published. 8 updates since then.
02/08/2019: Added an image and updated information.

S.T. Wyre Mariner (1) FD34

Additional information courtesy of Bill Blow

Technical

Official Number: 160099
Yard Number: 493
Completed: 1928
Gross Tonnage: 352
Net Tonnage: 145
Length: 140.3 ft
Breadth: 24 ft
Depth: 12.9 ft
Engine: 600ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley

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)
T.3-cyl (600ihp) and boiler by Charles D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull

10.11.1927: The board of Kingston Steam Trawling Co Ltd decided to build two more distant water trawlers to the same design as the ANDALUSITE (Yd.No.461) built by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd. Contracts were signed with the shipyard to build the ships at a cost of £9,475 each and with Charles D. Holmes & Co Ltd to make the engines and boilers at £6,300 each unit. Total cost £15,775 per vessel. The names chosen for the new vessels reverted back to the former naming system, AQUAMARINE and CHALCEDONY (the last of fourteen trawlers built to this design).
11.2.1928: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.493) for Kingston Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull as CHALCEDONY.
8.3.1928: Registered at Hull (H392). John W. Lown appointed manager.
13.3.1928: Completed trials and accepted.
15.3.1928: Sailed on first trip to Iceland.
4.4.1928: Landed 1302 kits grossed £1515 (20 days).
17.1.1932: Following an accident onboard, Ch.Eng George Warren sustained injuries which lead to his death.
22.4.1937: Sailed Hull for Middlesbrough to be lengthened.
6.1937: Completed lengthening by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, Middlesbrough to 151.5 feet (including fitting new bow and stern sections). Re measured 357.47g 150.81n. Total cost £4,290.
26.6.1937: Arrived back in Hull.
19.7.1937: Re-registered after alteration to length and tonnage change.
11.1938: Boiler fitted with superheaters by Charles D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull.
25.7.1939: Insured value £16,500.
23.1.1939: On St. Andrew’s dock slip fitted with bronze propeller.
21.8.1939: Admiralty telegram to withdraw all vessels from White Sea, Bear Island and Norway Coast.
26.8.1939: Ordered to return from sea for requisitioning.
26.8.1939: Requisitioned for war service on examination service and as a minesweeper (Hire rate £183.6.8d/month).
28.8.1939: Sailed Hull for Lowestoft with RN crew.
9.1939: Fitting out at Dover.
13.10.1939: Inspected by Admiralty for return to owner.
2.11.1939: Laid over at Woolwich awaiting civilian crew for passage to Hull.
8.11.1939: Arrived Hull.
14.11.1939: Returned to owner.
15.11.1939: Sailed for Iceland in convoy (Sk. Hogg).
7.12.1939: Landed 1625 kits grossed £2,749 (22 days). Sk. Hogg suspended for 6 weeks for leaving convoy.
1.1.1940: Armed trawler under T124 Articles fitted with 12pdr gun.
9.1.1940: Gun trials completed.
9.2.1940: Landed from Iceland 1433 kits grossed £3,400. Sk. Shaughnesy suspended for 3 months for leaving convoy.
4.6.1940: At Hull last landing before requisitioning. Iceland trip, 17 days – 2,250kits £2,091 gross.
5.6.1940: Requisitioned for war service and employed on auxiliary patrol duties (P.No.4.124).
6.1940: Based Dundee (Ty/Sk. W. Truefit RNR).
4.1941: Based Dundee with M/S Group 77 (Ty Lt. G. O. MacDonald RNR).
1.1942: Based Grimsby with M/S Group 77.
9.10.1945: Sold to Parkholme Trawlers Ltd (64/64), Fleetwood in an en bloc sale with KINGSTON ONYX (H365) for £52,500.
15.10.1945: Hull registry closed.
19.10.1945: Registered at Grimsby (GY109). Harvey Wilfred Wilson, Grimsby appointed manager.
22.11.1945: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to National Provincial Bank Ltd, London (A).
13.5.1946: Returned after restoration and survey at North Shields. 14.5.1946: Registered at Grimsby as LAFOREY (GY109) (MoT Minute R.G.No.1020/1946 dated 1.4.1946).
13.10.1948: John Harvey Robinson appointed manager.
30.12.1947: Mortgage (A) discharged.
12.10.1948: Sold to The “Wyre” Steam Trawling Co Ltd (64/64), Fleetwood (Merchants (Fleetwood) Ltd, managers).
19.10.1948: Grimsby registry closed.
10.1948: Registered at Fleetwood as WYRE MARINER (FD34).
1954: Transferred to Wyre Trawlers Ltd (64/64), Fleetwood. (Leslie Wheildon, manager) on purchase of Merchants (Fleetwood) Ltd by Associated Fisheries Group.
1954: Sold to Haulbowline Industries Ltd, Passage West, Cork for breaking up.
16.11.1954: Delivered Passage West from Fleetwood under own power.

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S.T. Wyre Mariner FD34

S.T. Wyre Mariner FD34
Picture courtesy of The Phillip Dell Collection

S.T. Wyre Mariner FD34

S.T. Wyre Mariner FD34
Picture courtesy of The Phillip Dell Collection

S.T. Wyre Mariner FD34

S.T. Wyre Mariner FD34
Artwork by Philip Dell

S.T. Wyre Mariner FD34

S.T. Wyre Mariner FD34
Picture courtesy of The Philip Dell Collection

Changelog
08/01/2009: Page published. 6 revisions since then.
20/09/2014: Picture added.
01/06/2016: Added picture.
01/08/2019: Added image and updated information.

S.T. Wyoming GY483

Technical

Official Number: 137027
Yard Number: 628
Completed: 1915
Gross Tonnage: 302
Net Tonnage: 157
Length: 135 ft
Breadth: 23.5 ft
Depth: 12.3 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by C.D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby

History

1915: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.628) for The Atlas Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby (Letten Bros, managers) as VERESIS.
14.4.1915: Registered at Grimsby (GY483).
4.1915: Completed (George S. Letten, manager). Requisitioned from the builders for war service (1-6pdr) (Ad.No.1616).
11.1915: Registered at Grimsby (GY483).
1920: Returned to owner at Grimsby.
8.6.1931: Stood by steam trawler GAMBRI (GY99) 100 miles NW of Hoy Head with bunkers on fire and proceeding to Stromness.
16.1.1932: Left Icelandic grounds for Grimsby.
16.1.1932: In hurricane swept clean by seas and lost wheelhouse and two compasses.
19.1.1932: Made radio contact and monitored by MERISIA (FD153) requested any vessel to give bearing and supply a compass,. Dodging for 36 hours, believed in vicinity of Faroe Islands and then steering by wind.
20.1.1932: Contact made with LUNE (FD59) which supplied bearing and confirmed crew safe and no assistance required.
20.1.1932: Arrived Scrabster at 1.20 pm. Took compass and food and sailed 4.10pm. for Grimsby.
22.1.1932: Arrived Grimsby.
22.11.1933: Reported stranded at Hoholmen, south Sandnessjoeen, Norway. Salvage steamer PARAT (135g/1905) in attendance.
25.11.1933: Refloated with assistance of PARAT. Checked, tight and proceeded.
9.1936: Sold to Earl Steam Fishing Co, Grimsby (Sir Alec Black Bart, manager).
20.4.1937: Registered at Grimsby as WYOMING (GY483).
Pre 4.1940: Employed on Fishery Protection.
2.6.1940: Requisitioned for war service and employed on auxiliary patrol duties (Hire rate £83.1.0d/month). Based North Shields (Ty/Sk. P. Coull RNR).
12.1940: Sold to Sir Alec Black Bart, Grimsby.
6.1941: Fitted out for minesweeping duties (P.No.FY.1862).
22.4.1942: Sold to Active Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Geoffrey Edwards Marr, manager) for £8100.
20.5.1944: Mined near 54 Buoy, 20 miles ENE of Harwich. Five crew MPK.

(MPK – Alexander Mitchell, 2nd Hand; Bernard McQue Humble, Engineman; John Jordan, stoker; George Sutherland, Ldg Cook; Joseph S. Tester, seaman)

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08/01/2009: Page published. 4 updates since then.

S.T. Wrenthorpe FD80

Additional information courtesy of Andy Hall and David Slinger

Technical

Official Number: 122944
Yard Number: 264
Completed: 1906
Gross Tonnage: 225
Net Tonnage: 73
Length: 125.4 ft
Breadth: 21.7 ft
Depth: 9.0 ft
Built: J. Duthie, Sons & Co Ltd, Aberdeen
Engine: T.3-cyl by W. V. V. Lidgerwood, Coatbridge
Boiler: A. & W. Dalglish, Pollockshaws, Glasgow

History

2q1906: Launched by J. Duthie, Sons & Co Ltd, Aberdeen (Yd.No.264) for Tettenhall Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Fleetwood as WRENTHORPE.
8.9.1906: Registered at Fleetwood (FD80), Louis Cohen, Norbreck appointed manager.
8.9.1906: Mortgaged to Williams Deacon’s Bank Ltd, London (A).
9.1906: Completed.
11.8.1909: Mortgaged to J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood (B). James H Marr appointed manager.
9.10.1913: Mortgage (A) discharged.
10.10.1913: Mortgage (B) discharged.
10.10.1913: Mortgaged to J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood (C).
1.1.1914: Tonnage altered to 91.19 net under provision of Merchant Shipping Act 1907.
6.1915: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-6pdr HA) (Ad.No.1534).
2.12.1916: James A. Robertson appointed manager.
10.10.1918: Mortgage (C) discharged.
18.10.1918: Sold to J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood.
1919: Returned.
18.10.1919: James A. Robertson appointed manager.
7.11.1924: Alan Marr appointed manager.
4.1.1926: Joseph Arthur Marr appointed manager.
1927: Sold to John Baxter, Aberdeen (c/o The Walker Steam Trawl Fishing Co Ltd) for £2500.
2.5.1928: Fleetwood registry closed.
16.6.1928: Registered at Aberdeen (A351).
6.6.1933: Reported that 25 miles off Aberdeen picked up Bjarni Oysteinsen, a Norwegian fisherman on passage from Bergen in a 20ft boat.
1936: Sold for breaking up.
12.11.1936: Aberdeen registry closed “Broken up”.

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S.T. Wrenthorpe FD80

S.T. Wrenthorpe FD80
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Changelog
08/01/2009: Page published. 7 updates since then.
18/08/2018: Information updated.
15/11/2018: Image added.

S.T. Wren FD174

Technical

Official Number: 108530
Yard Number: 553
Completed: 1897
Gross Tonnage: 143.82
Net Tonnage: 43.76
Length: 106 ft
Breadth: 20.6 ft
Depth: 11 ft
Built: Edward Bros, North Shields
Engine: 300ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by N. E. Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Sunderland

History

16.6.1897: Launched by Edwards Bros, North Shields (Yd.No.553) for Kelsall Brothers & Beeching Ltd, Manchester as WREN.
21.7.1897: Registered at Fleetwood (FD174).
7.1897: Completed (John E. A. Kelsall & George Beeching, Fleetwood, managers).
24.3.1899: Fleetwood registry closed. Transferred to Hull.
12.4.1899: Registered at Hull (H215).
8.9.1911: Registered office transferred to Hull (George Beeching, Hull & John E. A. Kelsall, London, managers).
7.9.1912: Re-measured after lengthening at Goole to119.0 ft 168g 64n.
7.9.1912: Hull registry closed and vessel registered anew in consequence of material alterations (H215).
11.1914: Requisitioned for war service (1-6pdr HA) (Ad.No.682). Based Dover auxiliary patrol.
8.6.1918: Ordered to be renamed WHITETHROAT (‘… as stated consequence on the manning of new construction:-’).
7.1918: Renamed WHITETHROAT.
By 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Hull. Reverted to WREN (H215).
7.6.1919: John Slater, London, appointed manager.
18.12.1923: Foundered in North Sea in storm conditions, all nine crew lost. BURMAH (H86) received a signal believed from sinking trawler but unable to proceed in blizzard conditions .
10.3.1924: Hull registry closed “Total loss”.

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S.T. Wren H215

S.T. Wren H215
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Changelog
08/01/2009: Page published. 4 revisions since then
26/07/2014: Picture added.
09/09/2017: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
16/08/2021: Updated history and technical details.