S.T. Kingston Diamond FD84
Technical
Official Number: 167077
Yard Number: 651
Completed: 1939
Gross Tonnage: 581
Net Tonnage: 214
Length: 178.1 ft
Breadth: 30 ft
Draught: 15.2 ft
Engine: 165NHP T.3-cyl and boiler by Charles D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley
Speed: 12.8 knots
History
14.9.1939: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.651) for Jutland Amalgamated Trawlers Ltd, Hull (E. Cargill, manager) as LADY MADELEINE.
22.11.1939: Registered at Hull (H243).
30.11.1939: Completed trials and accepted.
24.1.1940: Requisitioned for war service as an anti-submarine trawler (P.No.FY.283)(Hire rate £435.15.0d/month). Based Greenock with Clyde Escort Group (Ty Lieut. P. H. Potter RNR.
1941: Iceland Command.
1942: Escort Group 49.
6.1942: Murmansk convoys PQ16 and PQ17.
16.10.1942: Sold to Kingston Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull (John William Lown, manager) for £113,316.12.3d (plus registration fee £9.2.6d) in en bloc purchase with LADY HOGARTH (H479) and LADY ROSEMARY (H477).
5.7.1944: Some 20 miles W of Cape Wrath picked up two wounded crew members of NOREEN MARY (GN17) sunk by U-boat (U.247) gunfire.
8.6.1945: The Admiralty advised the company that vessel had arrived at Walker on Tyne for refit and restoration by the Shipbuilding Corporation Ltd, Tyne Branch, Walker on Tyne.
6.2.1956: Arrived Hull.
13.2.1946: Returned to owner at Hull (William O’Dell, manager).
6.2.1946 Sailed for Bear Island fishing Grounds.
5.4.1946 Registered at Hull as Kingston Diamond (H243).
1.10.1946: Sparehand G. Osbourne was fatally injured following uprooting of a bollard. On inspection found to be caused due to defective bolts. Notice placed under common law claim against Shipbuilding Corporation Ltd for £1,940.
20.10.1948: Claim finally settled to the satisfaction of both parties.
12.1949: Converted for burning oil fuel, F.P. above 150° F by Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend. Fitted with new furnaces and fuel tanks cost £19,600
25.5.1959: Donald Holmes Swift appointed manager.
5.4.1961: Lawrence Hall Swain appointed manager.
30.9.1963: Sold to Associated Fisheries Ltd for £5,000.
25.10.1963: Transferred within the Associated Fisheries Group to Wyre Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood.
1964: Registered at Fleetwood (FD84).
1965: Sold to Smith & Houston Ltd, Port Glasgow for breaking up.
8.4.1965: Sailed Fleetwood for Port Glasgow.
1.1966: Still in course of breaking up.
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S.T. Kingston Diamond FD84
Picture courtesy of Peter Brady
S.T. Kingston Diamond H243
Picture courtesy of Jonleif (TPF)
Many Thanks Alan,
I really appreciate Your effort, I’m a little confused over the dimensions as She’s lost 17′ in length, 2′ off Her beam and 3’4” off Her draft? The draft I could understand but the others? It just goes to show how things are lost in ‘history’ if not properly documented
Question now is which ones are correct? although the dimensions I have are both the same in the book and as listed with the admiralty, Yet not even the Admiralty have a picture of ‘Lady Madeleine’ or ‘Graeme Ogden’?
I hate seeing these old boats fade away, the culture the history everything, I have tried to proffesionally build boats but struggle to find a way that I could build anything these days without cutting corners, (so I have given up and hope now to join the Royal Navy)
I learnt with wooden boats then moved into plastic but any monkey can mould a grp boat it’s the mould shape that sells the product not the skills involved to build the boat.
Times have changed, I wished more could be done to save old boats, but it all comes down to money and unless we have passion for things they just fade away.
Fishing Boats of Yesterday were gracefull and elegant, today they are too angliar and look like a distorted photo of a boat compressed half it’s length, no doubt this is done to beat the legislation but it aint pretty!
We need more Charity vessels, the costs when spread would be minimal but the beauty and good feeling would me massive.
Keep up the good work,
Phil.
Phil
There were two Lady Madeleine’s with different dimensions. One became Red Lancer and the other Kingston Diamond. I agree with your comments about the boats, they were a lot nicer looking than those that we have today. There are still a few Fleetwood boats knocking around the world and it would be nice to be able to restore one as a museum ship.
Hi Jim,
Many thanks for Your help, do You by any chance know where I could get original drawings for ‘Lady Madeleine’ or even simillar vessels, There used to be a brilliant magazine full of modelling plans but I leant it to someone never to be seen again? It’s surprisingly so that there is very little easy to find information even on this keyboard highway?
Thanks,
Phil.
Hiya Phil,
I was looking at the list of work boats supplied by Models by design today and they have listed at 1/32 scale length of 72inches Kingston Diamond/Lady Madeleine there was no picture so I Googled it and ended up here, so if your interested go to
http://www.modelsbydesign.co.uk/model_boats.aspx
also myhobbystore.com have got Kingston Peridot plans
Keith.