S.T. Lord Middleton FD67 : The Bosun's Watch

S.T. Lord Middleton FD67

Technical

Official Number: 164923
Yard Number: 1155
Completed: 1936
Gross Tonnage: 464
Net Tonnage: 181
Length: 161.3 ft
Breadth: 26.6 ft
Draught: 14.1 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Amos & Smith Ltd, Hull
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby

History

24.3.1936: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.1155) for Pickering & Haldane’s Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull as LORD MIDDLETON.
7.5.1936: Registered at Hull (H282).
19.5.1936: Completed.
9.1939: Requisitioned for war service as an anti-submarine trawler (P.No. FY.219) (Hire rate £301.12.0d/month).
4.1942: Murmansk convoys PQ14 to PQ17. inclusive and return QP convoys.
1.5.1942: Convoy QP11 – 150 miles off Bear Island picked up survivors of Russion steamer TSIOLKOVSKII (2847g/1935) torpedoed by U.boat (U589).
1944: Assigned to Operation Neptune – Normandy landings.
23.5.1944: Convoy escort duties in British waters and across the Channel in support of landings.
3.7.1944: Operation Neptune ended.
20.6.1945: Owners re-styled Lord Line Ltd, Hull (Thomas W. Boyd, manager).
18.3.1946: Returned.
12.1947: 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).
22.7.1953: Owners reverted to Lord Line Ltd, Hull (Thomas W. Boyd, manager).
24.8.1962: Transferred within the Associated Fisheries Group to Wyre Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood (Leslie Wheildon, manager).
14.11.1962: On Icelandic grounds arrested for alleged illegal fishing and escorted to Isafjördhur (with HMS RUSSELL in company).
1964: Registered at Fleetwood (FD67).
5.1964: Sold to Thos. W. Ward Ltd, Sheffield for breaking up.
14.5.1964: Delivered Barrow-in-Furness from Fleetwood under own power.