S.T. Dragoon FD60 : The Bosun's Watch

S.T. Dragoon FD60

Technical

Admiralty Number: T232
Official Number: 181280
Yard Number: 686
Completed: 1942
Gross Tonnage: 522
Net Tonnage: 197
Length: 167.7 ft
Breadth: 28.1 ft
Draught: 14.1 ft
Engine: 970IHP T.3-cyl by Charles D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley
Speed: 11 knots

History

18.1.1941: Ordered.
4.6.1941: Laid down.
21.10.1941: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.686) (“Hills” class) for The Admiralty as H.M.S. YES TOR (P.No.T.222).
10.4.1942: Completed (1 – 12pdr HA, 3 – 20mm AA).
10.4.1946: Sold to Hudson Brothers Trawlers Ltd, Hull.
11.1946: Converted to a fishing vessel by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, North Shields.
12.11.1946: Registered at Hull as CAPE CLEVELAND (H355).
12.11.1947: Sold to Charleson-Smith Trawlers Ltd, Hull.
11.11.1947: Renamed STELLA CARINA (H355).
11.1947: Converted for burning oil fuel, F.P. above 150° F
1948: Transferred to Clyde Trawlers Ltd, Glasgow.
5.9.1949: Sold to Hudson Brothers Trawlers Ltd, Hull.
18.10.1949: Renamed CAPE FINISTERRE (H355).
24.1.1952: Sold to Great Grimsby & East Coast Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby (Associated Fisheries group)(A. W. Butt, manager).
1.1952: Registered at Grimsby (GY222).
2.1952: Registered at Grimsby as DRAGOON (GY222).
1959: Laid up at Grimsby.
27.8.1959: Being re-activated, two men overcome by fumes while inside boiler and died.
31.3.1960: Transferred within the Associated Fisheries Group to Wyre Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood (L. Wheildon, manager).
3.1960: Grimsby registry closed.
4.1960: Registered at Fleetwood (FD60).
14.10.1962: On NW coast of Iceland (Sk. Roy Belcher). Arrested for alleged illegal fishing and escorted to Isafjördhur.
16.10.1962: Court at Reykjavik fined Sk. Belcher £1916 and confiscated nets and catch. Fine overturned by Icelandic Supreme Court.
15.9.1964: On north west Iceland grounds arrested for alleged illegal fishing. Court at Reykjavik.
12.1966: Sold to West of Scotland Shipbreaking Co Ltd, Troon for breaking up.
17.12.1966: Delivered Troon from Fleetwood under own power (draughts 7’6”/16’0”).
23.8.1968: Breaking commenced.
21.11.1968: Beached (draughts 7’0”/11’0”).
7.5.1969: Breaking completed.