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Technical

Official Number: 160120
Yard Number: 495
Completed: 1928
Gross Tonnage: 342
Net Tonnage: 133
Length: 140.4 ft
Breadth: 24.4 ft
Depth: 13.2 ft
Engine: 600ihp T3-cyl and boiler by CD Holmes
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Beverley

History

8.5.1928: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.495) for Saint Andrew’s Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull as St. JOAN.
31.7.1928: Registered at Hull (H456) (O.N.160120).
3.8.1928: Completed. C. F. Foster designated manager).
1931: W. H. Patterson designated manager.
1936: G. S. Clark designated manager.
30.8.1937: Company taken over by the Parkes family, Basil Arthur Parkes designated manager.
2.1939: Sold to Société Anonyme Armement Ostendais, Ostend.
20.2.1939: Hull registry closed.
8.3.1939: Registered at Ostend as TRANSPORT (O159).
1939: Re measured 359Bgrt 147n.
5.1940: Escaped to England via Le Havre (Sk. Robert Labbeke). Arrived Fleetwood.
6.1940: Transferred to Belgian Economic Mission, London. Fitted with 1-20mm Oerlikon aft of funnel. Complement increased by one Belgian DEMS gunner. Engaged transporting fish from Iceland to Fleetwood (I.D.No.161) (Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, managing agents).
1.9.1940: Outward for Iceland. About 12 miles NW of St. Kilda, picked up Master and thirteen crew, survivors of Belgian steamer VILLE de HASSELT (7461grt/1920) (Capt G. Foy), Liverpool for Boston, MA unescorted, torpedoed and sunk (31.9.1940) by U.boat (U46) 100 miles NW of Barra Head in approx position 56.30N 13.00W.
2.9.1940: Landed survivors at Stornoway.
7.6.1943: Typical landing. Iceland grounds. 1310 kits – cod/cpdling-560, haddock-400, whiting-150, flats-50, ling/coley-150.
21.8.1945: Arrived back in Ostend.
17.10.1945: Sailed for a trip to Dogger Bank grounds (Sk.Frans Baert); with twelve crew.
22.10.1945: Departed fishing grounds for Ostend.
23.10.1945: Foundered in heavy weather off Buoy CH4 near Noord Hinder Light Vessel in approx. position 51.37N 03.18E. Ostend registry closed.

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S.T. St. Joan H456
Picture courtesy of The JJ Collection

S.T. Transport O159
Picture courtesy of The Emiel Rycx Collection

S.T. Transport O159
Picture from the Internet

The crew of Transport
Picture courtesy of Emiel Rycx

Changelog
08/01/2009: Page published. 4 updates since then.
30/09/2015: 2 pictures added.
19/05/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from images.
09/08/2021: Updated history.