S.T. Banquo FD99 : The Bosun's Watch

S.T. Banquo FD99

Technical

Official Number: 181349
Yard Number: 210
Completed: 1948
Gross Tonnage: 604
Net Tonnage: 222
Length: 170.4 ft
Breadth: 29.2 ft
Draught: 14.3 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by J. Lewis & Sons Ltd, Aberdeen.
Boiler: Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Dundee.
Fitted for burning oil fuel, F.P. above 150° F
Built: J. Lewis & Sons Ltd, Aberdeen

History

9.4.1948: Launched by J. Lewis & Sons Ltd, Aberdeen (Yd.No.210) for J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood as THORNELLA . Contract price £84220.
25.9.1948: Trials.
29.9.1948: Completed and delivered.
9.1948: Registered at Hull (H582).
10.1952: On a Greenland trip (Sk. Charlie O’Neil). Recovered eight bodies in the sea from NORMAN (H289) stranded on an uncharted reef off the Greenland coast and landed them at Scrabster.
1953: Returned to Hull with extensive weather damage to wheelhouse.
13.9.1954: Sold to to Northern Fishing Co (Hull) Ltd, Hull (Mark Hellyer, managers). Registered at Hull as BANQUO (H582).
10.1957: Arrested by Icelandic gunboat THOR for alleged illegal fishing of Langanes peninsula, NE coast of Iceland (Sk. Joseph Jennings).
16.10.1957: At Reykjavik, Sk. Jennings was fined £1800.
19??: Hellyer Bros Ltd designated managers.
1967: Transferred within the Associated Fisheries Group to Wyre Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood. Registered at Fleetwood (FD99). Sailed Hull with Fleetwood crew on Icelandic trip and landed at Fleetwood (Sk. T. Watson), 900 boxes grossed £4330. Repainted in Wyre Trawlers livery and laid up.
9.1967: Sold for breaking up by Van Heyghen Freres S.A., Ghent.

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