Monthly Archives: January 2009

s.v. Royal Consort FD75

Technical

Official Number: 67125
Completed: 1871
Gross Tonnage: 33
Net Tonnage: 24
Length: 53.8 ft
Breadth: 15.4 ft
Depth: 7.6 ft
Rig: Jigger Jigger Smack/Steam screw/Yawl – trawling
Engine: C.2-cyl by A. Rutherford & Co, Birkenhead
Boiler: The Lune Valley Engineering Co, Lancaster
Built: Shepherd & Leech, Whitehaven

History

1871: Completed by Joseph Shepherd & Co, Whitehaven for John William Leech as ROYAL CONSORT.
14.10.1871: Registered at Fleetwood (FD75).
1881: Sold to John Johnson, Fleetwood (managing owner).
23.12.1886: Sold to John Johnson, Fleetwood & others (John Johnson managing owner).
23.12.1886: Registered at Fleetwood (FD75).
1.10.1890: Converted to a jigger.
20.2.1905: Sold to James Johnson, 9 Wellington Terrace, Preston & Jane Price, Fleetwood.
4.7.1906: Sold to Henry Robert Moss, 22 Windsor Terrace, Fleetwood (managing owner).
7.2.1908: Sold to Richard Riley, 3 Whitegate Drive, Blackpool (later Knowsley Villa, Thornton-le-Fylde); Samuel S. Waterhouse, 8 Regent Road, Blackpool & William F. Wilkinson, Maybell Avenue, Blackpool.
22.7.1908: Converted to steam. Re-measured 19.49net.
22.7.1908: Re-registered as steam vessel. Richard Riley appointed manager
22.9.1909: Converted back to sail. Re-measured 23.26net.
22.9.1909: Steam machinery removed re-rigged as a yawl. Re-measured 23.26net.
22.9.1909: Re-registered as a sailing vessel.
6.10.1909: Sold to Thomas Nisbett, 49, Poulton Rd, Fleetwood & Walter Porter
Hutson, 3 Elm Street, Fleetwood (Thomas Nesbett managing owner).
23.9.19??: Sold to Thomas Nesbett, 49 Poulton Rd, Fleetwood.
1915: Sold for breaking up.
19.3.1915: Fleetwood registry closed “broken up”.

Changelog
05/01/2009: Page published. 5 updates since then.
30/01/2015: Information updated.

Sailing Trawler Irene FD281

Technical

Official Number: 99278
Completed: 1892
Net tonnage: 51
Rig: Ketch
Built: Samuel Dewdney & Sons, Brixham

History

1892: Completed by Samuel Dewdney & Sons, Brixham for Samuel Blackmore, 44 Thorncastle St, Ringsend, Dublin as IRENE.
13.4.1892: Registered at Dublin (D??).
1916: Sold to Edward S. Kirkham, 9 Addison Road West, Preston (managing owner).
6.1916: Dublin registry closed.
22.6.1916: Registered at Fleetwood (FD281).
1920: Sold to S. P. Moxey & F. A. Hanby, Lowestoft.
30.4.1920: Fleetwood registry closed.
4.5.1920: Registered at Lowestoft (LT976).
1923: Sold to Arthur B. Cullen, 41 High Street, Lowestoft (managing owner).
9.1.1924: Inward to Lowestoft from fishing grounds in strong NE wind and rough seas, struck South Pier and grounded. Attended by Lowestoft lifeboat, AGNES CROSS and five crew and cat rescued.
27.6.1925: At noon outward for fishing grounds in strong NE winds and heavy seas. North of piers, missed stays and thrown on to North Beach, Lowestoft.
By 3.00 pm. rolling heavily with seas breaking onboard. Lowestoft lifeboat AGNES CROSS attended but had to lay off in deeper water. At 4.00 pm. vessel filled and crew of four taken off by lifeboat.
1925: Vessel salved.
8.4.1926: Lowestoft registry closed. “Total Loss”.
1926: Sold for demolition.

Changelog

05/01/2009: Page published.

Sailing Trawler Ida FD51

Technical

Official Number: 62807
Completed: 1869
Gross Tonnage: 44
Net Tonnage: 32
Length: 63.3 ft
Breadth: 17.2 ft
Depth: 9.1 ft
Rig: Dandy
Built: John Barter, Brixham

History

Dandy – trawling

1869: Completed by John Barter, Brixham for John Petherbridge, James Barry & George Thomas Barry, Brixham as IDA. Registered at Dartmouth (DH168).
20.5.1869: Sold to Lancaster (Preston?) owners. Dartmouth registry closed. Registered at Preston (PN??).
12.1873: Sold to John Godfrey, 161 Church Street, Grimsby. Preston registry closed.
12.1873: Registered at Grimsby (GY450).
10.1886: Sold to J. Kitching, Grimsby.
2.1889: Sold to J. M. Hildred, Grimsby.
2.1889: Grimsby registry closed.
2.1889: Registered at Fleetwood (FD51).
19.1.1891: Sold to James R. Gibson, Fleetwood.
7.2.1899: Sold to Nicholas Leadbetter, 23 Victoria St, Fleetwood (managing owner).
11.11.1904: Tonnage altered to 22.02net. New Fishing Certificate issued.
12.9.1908: Sold to Richard Ashcroft, Devon House, Blakiston St, Fleetwood.
21.7.1913: Sold to Richard Ashcroft & R. Bradley, Fleetwood (Richard Ashcroft, managing owner).
1916: Sold for demolition.
15.4.1916: Fleetwood registry closed.

s.v. Gratitude FD156

Technical

Official Number: 20851
Completed: 1858
Net tonnage: 20
Length: 61 ft
Breadth: 15.8 ft
Depth: 7.3 ft
Rig: Flat/Jigger smack – trawling
Built: William & Richard Ashburner, Barrow-in-Furness

History

1858: Completed by William & Richard Ashburner, Barrow-in-Furness as the trading flat GRATITUDE. Registered at Fleetwood.
1.1.1875: Owned by Richard Johnson, Fleetwood. Registered at Fleetwood (FD156).
1880: Lengthened at Freckleton to 61.2ft and re-rigged as a jigger smack for trawling 34n.
24.10.1887: Sold to Richard Leadbetter & P. Ball, Fleetwood.
1891: Owner Richard Leadbetter, Fleetwood.
Post 1891: Sold to Hugh Fletcher Hathorn, Wigtown. Fleetwood registry closed.
Registered at Wigtown.
17.5.1901: Registered at Fleetwood (FD53).
12.6.1906: Sold to John Whittaker, Fleetwood.
1906: Sold to Wlliam H. Tinnion, 13 Queen St, Whitehaven.
22.8.1906: Fleetwood registry closed. Registered at Whitehaven.
1910: Sold to John Boyd, Central Hotel, Duke St, Whitehaven.
1914: Sold to Miss Alice Pater, 31 Quay St, Whitehaven (Charles W. Pater, manager).
1926: Whitehaven registry closed.

Changelog
05/01/2009: Page published.
20/11/2014: Information updated.
25/11/2018: Information updated.

s.v. George and Lizzie FD91

Technical

Official Number: 68611
Completed: 1872
Net Tonnage: 24
Rig: Smack
Built: Shepherd & Leech, Whitehaven

History

1872: Completed by Shepherd & Leech (?), Whitehaven as George & Lizzie.
1872: Registered at Fleetwood (FD91).
1.1.1875: Owned by William Leech, Fleetwood.
1.1.1880: Owned by William Wright, Fleetwood
1.1.1883: Owned by William Hudson, Fleetwood.
23.04.1880: To be sold by private treaty, 16 64th shares in the fishing smack GEORGE & LIZZIE.
30.11.1891: Sold to Mrs Ellen Beck, Hoylake (managing owner).
1892: Owned by R. Westby.
26.3.1903: Fleetwood registry closed.
3.1903: Registered at Aberystwith.
1908: Owned by William Roberts, 28 South Rd, Aberystwith.
1909: Aberystwith registry closed.

Changelog
05/01/2009: Page published.
17/11/2014: Information updated.
31/01/2024: Minor information update.