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S.T. Star of The South GY676

Additional material courtesy of Bill Blow

Technical

Official Number: 115588
Yard Number: 364
Completed: 1903
Gross Tonnage: 193
Net Tonnage: 47
Length: 112.1 ft
Breadth: 21.6 ft
Depth: 12 ft
Built: Hall, Russell & Co Ltd, Aberdeen
Engine: 400ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by Hall, Russell & Co Ltd, Aberdeen

History

3.12.1902: Launched by Hall, Russell & Co Ltd, Aberdeen (Yd.No.364) for Walker Steam Trawl Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Aberdeen as STAR OF THE SOUTH.
15.1.1903: Registered at Aberdeen (A647).
1.1903: Completed (Thomas Walker, manager).
13.12.1912: Sold to John Brown (64/64), Granton (managing owner).
1.1.1914: Tonnage altered to 69.37 net under provision of Merchant Shipping Act 1907.
7.2.1914: Alteration of tonnage to 182.41g 69.37 net. Certificate of Survey dated Leith 6.2.1914.
13.9.1915: Sold to George William Cole (64/64), Grimsby.
21.9.1915: Aberdeen registry closed.
23.9.1915: Registered at Grimsby (GY676).
29.9.1915: George William Cole appointed manager.
4.10.1915: Joseph William Cole shares (48/64) sold to Reginald Jeffs Goodwin (16/64), Cleethorpes; Henry Hasgensen (16/64), Grimsby and Joseph Wallace Stookes (16/64), Grimsby. 4.10.1915: Reginald Jeffs Goodwin (16/64), Henry Hasgensen (16/64), Grimsby and Joseph Wallace Stookes (16/64) shares mortgaged to Barclay & Co Ltd, London (A).
7.10.1915: Reginald Jeffs Goodwin appointed manager.
16.10.1915: Reginald Jeffs Goodwin shares (16/64) sold to Joseph Robert Elijah Mordaunt (16/64), Cleethorpes.
21.10.1915: Reginald Jeffs Goodwin appointed manager.
2.11.1915: Mortgage (A) discharged.
3.11.1915: Vessel mortgaged by all shareholders (64/64) to Barclay & Co Ltd, London (B).
5.7.1916: Joseph Robert Elijah Mordaunt shares (16/64) sold to Joseph Wallace Stookes (32/64), Grimsby.
22.2.1917: Mortgagee restyled Barclays Bank Ltd, London.
22.3.1917: Mortgage (B) discharged.
20.3.1917: Henry Hasgensen shares (16/64) sold to Joseph Wallace Stookes (48/64).
26.3.1917: George William Cole shares (16/64) sold to Leonard White (16/64), Grimsby.
26.3.1917: Alick (Alec) Black appointed manager.
3.4.1917: Joseph Wallace Stookes shares (48/64) mortgaged to The Union of London and Smith’s Bank Ltd, London (C).
29.5.1917: Requisitioned for Fishery Reserve.
13.7.1917: Mortgage (C) discharged.
13.7.1917: Joseph Wallace Stookes shares (48/64) sold to George William White (32/64), Grimsby and Leonard White, (16/64), Grimsby.
13.7.1917: Alick (Alec) Black appointed manager.
11.8.1917: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to London Joint Stock Bank Ltd, London (D).
16.10.1918: Mortgage (D) discharged.
23.10.1918: Sold to James Coombes (64/64), Harrogate. James Coombes appointed manager.
30.10.1918: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to The National Provincial & Union Bank of England Ltd, London (E).
1919: Released.
15.2.1924: Mortgagee restyled to National Provincial Bank Ltd, London.
16.9.1925: Mortgage (E) discharged.
17.9.1925: Sold to Mrs Jeanne Marie Francaise Aimée Nierinck (64/64), Blackpool.
3.11.1925: Frank Thornley appointed manager.
9.1.1926: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to The Union Bank of Manchester Ltd, Manchester (F).
25.9.1930: Put in to Douglas leaking having cut away gear off Maughold Head, with otter board damaging shell plating in heavy weather.
27.9.1930: Temporary repairs effected and sailed for Fleetwood, but returned leaking and with boiler trouble.
1.10.1930: Rivets in bottom plating gone, boiler stays to renew. Temporary repairs carried out.
17.11.1930: Mortgage (F) discharged.
17.11.1930: Sold to Arthur Manuel Goldsmith (64/64), Fleetwood.
26.1.1931: Arthur Manuel Goldsmith appointed manager.
10.1932: Sold to Thos. W. Ward Ltd, Sheffield for breaking up at Preston.
18.10.1932: Grimsby registry closed “Ship broken up”.

Changelog
07/01/2009: Page published. 3 updates since then.
05/08/2021: Updated history.

S.T. Soranus GY225

Additional information courtesy of Bill Blow

Technical

Official Number: 123565
Yard Number: 363
Completed: 1906
Gross Tonnage: 250
Net Tonnage: 103
Length: 127 ft
Breadth: 22.1 ft
Depth: 11.5 ft
Engine: 480ihp T.3-cyl by Muir & Houston Ltd, Glasgow
Built: Cochrane & Sons, Selby

History

13.4.1906: Launched by Cochrane & Sons, Selby (Yd.No.363) for the Grimsby & North Sea Steam Trawling Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby as ARIES.
26.4.1906: Completed.
27.4.1906: John R. Mackrill designated manager.
27.4.1906: Registered at Grimsby (GY131).
18.8.1911: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to The Union of London & Smiths Bank Ltd, London.
22.10.1915: Mortgage (B) discharged. Based at The Nore.
Sold to Harry Goldstein, Jacob Isaacs and Colin Wood, all Grimsby (64/64 joint owners).
24.6.1913: Mortgage (A) discharged.
24.6.1913: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to National Provincial Bank Ltd, London (B).
9.1914: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-12pdr HA) (Ad.No.28).
2.1915: Renamed ARIES II.
4.10.1915: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Barclays Bank Ltd, London (C). Jacob Isaacs and Colin Wood, all Grimsby (64/64 joint owners). 16.10.1918: Jacob Isaacs designated managing owner.
16.10.1918: Registered at Grimsby as ARIES II (GY131) (BoT Minute M.7058/1915).
By 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Grimsby.
25.6.1919: Sold to Ariesona Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
26.6.1919: Harry Goldstein appointed manager.
25.6.1919: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Barclays Bank Ltd, London (D).
3.7.1919: Mortgage (C) discharged.
9.6.1920: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to John Wood, Grimsby (E).
15.2.1922: Sold by order of the mortgagee under mortgage (D) to John E. Rushworth Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
2.3.1922: John Edward Rushworth designated manager.
14.6.1922: Registered at Grimsby as SORANUS (GY131) (BoT Minute R.G.1094/1922). Line fishing (fourteen crew).
10.10.1923: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to John Edward Rushworth, Grimsby (F).
23.11.1926: Mortgage (F) discharged.
23.11.1926: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to John Edward Rushworth, Grimsby (G)
2.10.1928: Mortgage (G) discharged.
2.10.1928: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to John Edward Rushworth, Grimsby (H).
6.3.1929: Mortgage (H) discharged.
25.3.1929: Sold to R. D. Clarke Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
25.3.1929: Thomas Benjamin Roberts, Cleethorpes, designated manager.
5.4.1929: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Robert David Clarke, Thomas Benjamin Roberts, Grimsby (joint mortgagees) (I).
27.9.1934: Sold by order of the mortgagees under mortgage (I) to Huxley Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
28.9.1934: Harry Markham Cook appointed manager. Reverted to trawl fishing twelve crew).
23.10.1934: Vessel mortgaged to Barclays Bank Ltd, London (J).
15.12.1938: Mortgage (J) discharged.
16.12.1938: Sold to Herbert Dawson (64/64), London.
17.12.1938: George Black Osborne designated manager. Line fishing (fourteen crew).
1.1939: Laid up out of class.
20.1.1939: Grimsby registry closed.
31.10.1939: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd (64/64), Fleetwood.
8.11.1939: Basil Arthur Parkes, Thornton-le-Fylde appointed manager.
8.11.1939: Re-classed and registered at Grimsby as SORANUS (GY225). Fishing out of Fleetwood.
10.10.1940: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (P.No.FY.513)(Hire rate £62.10.0d/month).
17.10.1942: Sold to Northern Trawlers Ltd (64/64), London.
31.10.1942: William Alpin Bennett. Sanderstead designated manager.
3.1944: Fitted out for dan laying.
10.1945: Returned.
11.12.1946: Sold to Lord Line Ltd (64/64), Hull.
24.12.1946: Thomas Boyd designated manager.
24.12.1946: Grimsby registry closed.
4.2.1947: Registered at Hull (H394).
1949: Sold for breaking up.
13.1.1949: Hull registry closed.

Changelog
07/01/2009: Page published. 5 updates since then.
04/08/2021: Updated history.

S.T. Somerville GY301

Technical

Official Number: 96241
Yard Number: 20
Completed: 1891
Gross Tonnage: 149
Net Tonnage: 48
Length: 100.5 ft
Breadth: 20.5 ft
Depth: 10.7 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Muir & Houston Ltd, Glasgow
Built: Mackie & Thompson Ltd, Govan

History

27.2.1891: Launched by Mackie & Thomson Ltd, Govan (Yd.No.20) for William S. Letten, Grimsby (managing owner) as SOMERVILLE.
1891: Completed.
26.3.1891: Registered at Grimsby (GY301).
9.3.1896: Returned to Grimsby and reported deckhand William Carroll had been washed overboard two days earlier in heavy weather and drowned.
15.6.1896: Skipper in court at Copenhagen for fishing within Danish territorial waters. Fined 200kr with 100kr costs and gear and catch confiscated.
1910: Sold to Robert Mather, Dublin (managing owner).
5.1916: Sold to William Johnston, Newhaven, Edinburgh (managing owner).
10.5.1916: Grimsby registry closed.
5.1916: Registered at Granton (GN64).
1916: Sold to Ernest Taylor & Noah Ashworth, Fleetwood (Ernest Taylor, Thornton-le-Fylde, manager).
29.5.1917: Requisitioned for Fishery Reserve.
6.1917: Sold to William Would, Grimsby (managing owner).
6.1917: Granton registry closed.
23.6.1917: Registered at Grimsby (GY1070).
1918: New boiler fitted.
1919: Released.
4.1920: Sold to The Woodberry Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby (Harold A. Jeffries, manager).
11.1924: Sold to Alfred Bannister, Grimsby (managing owner).
11.1924: Registered at Grimsby as LANCHESTER (GY1070).
11.1931: Sold to Fred Bannister, Grimsby (managing owner).
7.1932: Sold to shipbreakers.
23.7.1932: Grimsby registry closed “Sold for breaking up”.

Changelog

07/01/2009: Page published. 5 updates since then.

S.T. Somersby (2) GY390

Additional information courtesy of David Slinger
Technical

Official Number: 146900
Yard Number: 55 or 58
Completed: 1918
Gross Tonnage: 271
Net Tonnage: 124
Length: 125.7 ft
Breadth: 23.5 ft
Depth: 12.7 ft
Built: Collingwood Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Collingwood, Ontario
Engine: 480ihp T.3-cyl by Collingwood Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Collingwood, Ontario

History

1.1917: Ordered.
1918: Completed by Collingwood Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Collingwood, Ontario (Yd.No. 58 or 55) (Canadian “Castle” – T.R.” class) for The Admiralty (paid for and built under direction of RCN) as TR.12 or TR.9?.
25.8.1918 or 16.5.1918: Completed and commissioned in the Royal Canadian Navy (1-12pdr).
2.1919: 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).
9.1926: Sold “as is” to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Grimsby (Fred Parkes, Blackpool, manager).
22.9.1926: Registered at Grimsby as SOMERSBY (GY390); fishing out of Fleetwood.
10.9.1930: Inbound in the Wyre Channel took the ground, heeling over and did not refloat until the following tide.
04.1932: On three month charter to Sea Fisheries Association of Ireland, to fish out of Dublin, Galway and other ports. Charter to be exended if needed.
5.6.7.1933: Chartered for by Italian Government to provide support for a trans Atlantic flight involving 20 to 30 aeroplanes.
5.1937: Sold to F. G. P. Maritime Enterprises Ltd, London (Philip S. Bayley (Culliford & Clark Ltd), manager).
9.1938: Hired to Spanish Government, Madrid for use as a supply ship in the Spanish Civil War.
10.9.1938: Grimsby Part IV fishing registry closed.
8.12.1938: Arrived Marseilles with damaged cargo vessel (ex trawler) MARGARET ROSE (348grt/1912) in tow for repair to damage sustained in air raid at Almeria.
2.1940: Requisitioned for war service and employed on port duties. Mediterranian Command.
4.1940: Reclassed as a steam trawler.
6.1940: Returned to owner.
28.5.1942: Compulsorily acquired by M.O.W.T. Employed on port duties. Mediterranian Command.
1944: Sold to Hijos de J. Barreras S. A., Vigo. Registered at Vigo as Herbar.
1950: Sold to Industrial Maritima S.L., Ceuta.
Post 1960 Pre 1963: FATE??

Changelog
07/01/2009: Page published. 5 updates since then.
27/04/2014: Information updated.
09/06/2016: Information updated.
10/09/2024: Information updated.

S.T. Sola FD369

Technical

Official Number: 141954
Yard Number: 454
Completed: 1920
Gross Tonnage: 226.84
Net Tonnage: 92
Length: 123.3 ft
Breadth: 22.1 ft
Depth: 11.6 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by W. Beardmore & Co Ltd, Coatbridge
Built: J. Duthie Torry Shipbuilding Co, Aberdeen

History

4.2.1920: Launched by J. Duthie Torry Shipbuilding Co, Aberdeen (Yd.No.454) for New Docks Steam Trawling Co (Fleetwood) Ltd, Fleetwood as SOLA.
20.4.1920: Registered at Fleetwood (Part I & Part IV) O.N.141954 (FD369).
4.1920: Completed. Joseph A. Taylor designated manager.
1924: William W. Brierley appointed manager.
12.1924: Arrived Torshavn, Faroe from Fleetwood (Sk. Benjamin D. Holt) with replacement propeller for GLADYS (FD423) which has lost her propeller on 13.12.1924 when fouled by trawl warp. Picked up by Norwegian steamer NOREFJORD (3082grt/1920), delivered Torshavn and beached. With only a small tidal difference at low water it was not possible to fit propeller. Decided to tow back to Fleetwood. In bad weather and with very limited food supplies the tow took five and a half days with the hawser parting twice.
13.7.1926: Sold to Harley & Miller Ltd, Liverpool.
23.7.1926: Fleetwood registry closed.
28.7.1926: Registered at Liverpool (LL45). Richard H. Jones, Wallasey designated manager.
1935: Sold to William Carnie Jnr, Glasgow.
31.12.1935: Liverpool registry closed. Registered at Granton as ZELOS (GN45). William Carnie Jnr, Glasgow designated managing owner.
1936: About 29 miles SW x W from Cape Wrath picked up boat with crew of steam trawler CHANCELLOR (A206) which had foundered. Survivors landed at Granton as Aberdeen closed due to severe weather.
18.12.1939: Foundered 112 miles E by N of May Island, Firth of Forth after being bombed and damaged by German air attack. Granton registry closed.

Changelog
07/01/2009: Page published. 4 updates since then.
04/08/2021: Updated history and technical details.