S.T. Lord Hotham FD64 : The Bosun's Watch

S.T. Lord Hotham FD64

Technical

Official Number: 164927
Yard Number: 1156
Completed: 1936
Gross Tonnage: 466
Net Number: 178
Length: 161.3 ft
Breadth: 26.6 ft
Draught: 14.1 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby

History

8.4.1936: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.1156) for Pickering & Haldane’s Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull as LORD HOTHAM.
26.5.1936: Registered at Hull (H309).
28.5.1936: Completed.
9.1939: Sold to The Admiralty (£25,676). Fitted out as an anti-submarine trawler (P.No. FY.133). 15.11.1939: Hull registry closed.
6.3.1946: Sold to Hull Ice Co Ltd, Hull (Thomas Boyd, manager).
16.3.1946: Registered at Hull (H231).
16.11.1946: Sold to Lord Line Ltd, Hull (Thomas W. Boyd, manager) (£1).
1.1948: Converted for burning oil fuel, F.P. above 150° F
17.4.1950: Owners re-styled Associated Fisheries Trawling Co Ltd, Hull (Thomas W. Boyd, manager).
25.11.1952: Escorted into Tromsö by Norwegian destroyer for alleged fishing in territorial waters. Sk. Niels M. Pedersen refused to pay a fine and elected to go to court.
28.11.1952: At a court in Tromsö, Sk. Pedersen was fined in total £4450.
22.7.1953: Owners reverted to Lord Line Ltd, Hull (Thomas W. Boyd, manager).
23.12.1961: Arrived Fleetwood.
4.1.1962: Transferred within the Associated Fisheries Group to Wyre Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood.
20.2.1962: Hull registry closed. Registered at Fleetwood (FD64).
1967: Sold to Scrappingco S.r.l., Brussels for breaking up.
19.3.1967: Sailed Fleetwood for Antwerp.
21.3.1967: Delivered Antwerp.