Yearly Archives: 2009

S.T. Orphesia FD119

Technical

Official Number: 124690
Yard Number: 98
Completed: 1907
Gross Tonnage: 273.41
Net Tonnage: 98.34
Length: 130.0 ft
Breadth: 23.1 ft
Depth: 12.0 ft
Built: Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co Ltd, Goole
Engine: 480ihp T.3-cyl by Shields Engineering & Dry Dock Co Ltd, North Shields
Boiler: Robert Stephenson & Co, Hebburn-on-Tyne

History

13.4.1907: Launched by Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co Ltd, Goole (Yd.No.98) for Staretta Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Fleetwood as ORPHESIA.
5.1907: Completed.
5.6.1907: Registered at Fleetwood (FD119).
5.6.1907: John Richard Blezard designated manager.
8.6.1907: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Williams Deacon’s Bank Ltd, London (A).
29.4.1909: George Sutcliffe designated manager.
1.10.1909: John Nixon Ward designated manager.
6.5.1912: Magnus B. J. Wedum designated manager.
23.10.1913: Mortgage (A) discharged.
1.1.1914: Tonnage altered to 105.68net under provision of Merchant Shipping Act 1907.
30.4.1914: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Williams Deacon’s Bank Ltd, London (B).
27.12.1914: Requisitioned for war service (Ad.No.956).
27.12.1914: Commissioned at Fleetwood.
12.1.1915: Arrived Devonport. Fitted with WT (Call sign YFQ), Hotchkiss 6pdr and mine-sweep.
10.2.1915: Allocated Unit 62 – No.2 patrol based Falmouth (Lieut. J. A. Cowle RNR).
30.3.1915: Re-appointed Unit No.62 – Section B based Falmouth (Lieut. J. A. Cowle RNR).
26.11.1915: Sailed for Mediterranean.
1.1.1916: Based Malta with Unit 133 – patrol & escort duties.
22.7.1917: Sailed Alexandria with convoy, struck submerged wreck at 3.50 pm. and foundered at 6.00 pm.
4.10.1917: Fleetwood registry closed “Vessel lost 22nd July 1917 whilst on Admiralty service”.

Changelog
03/01/2009: Page published. 4 updates since then.
08/07/2021: Updated history and technical details.

S.T. Oona Hall FD23

Additional information courtesy of Adrian Corkill (Dictionary of Shipwrecks off the Isle of Man)

Technical

Official Number: 148350
Yard Number: 439
Completed: 1907
Gross Tonnage: 158
Net Tonnage: 57
Length: 105.6 ft
Breadth: 21.2 ft
Depth: 11.1 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by Hall, Russell & Co Ltd, Aberdeen
Built: Hall Russell & Co Ltd, Aberdeen

History

1907: Completed by Hall, Russell & Co Ltd, Aberdeen (Yd.No.439) for Soc. Anon des Chalutiers de l’Quest, St. Nazaire (P. Creton, manager) as AR-MEN.
191?: Sold to P. Creton, St. Nazaire.
1920: Sold to Caillié & Co, Brest.
1925: New boiler fitted.
1925: Sold to Wear Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Sunderland (James Hall, manager). Registered at Sunderland (SD30).
1925: Renamed OONA HALL (SD30).
1939: Sold to Ernest Tomlinson, Fleetwood (managing owner).
6.1939: Sunderland registry closed.
6.6.1939: Registered at Fleetwood (FD23).
1940: Sold to Richard Bettess, Fleetwood.
28.5.1940: Run down by French auxiliary cruiser VILLE d’ALGER (10172grt/1935) in heavy sea mist WNW of Calf of Man, Isle of Man; one survivor* out of crew of nine. Wreck lies 6 miles W of Peel in 54m.
8.6.1940: Fleetwood registry closed “Vessel sunk”.

Note: The French Armed Auxiliary Cruiser VILLE D’ALGEIR was leading a French Transport, escorted by four destroyers, through the Irish Sea, on passage from Namsos, Norway. She was carrying “Chausseurs Alpins”, French Mountain troops, part of the Allied Expeditionary Force sent to aid in the failed defence of Norway. As the French convoy passed the west coast of the Isle of Man it encountered a sea mist.

Shrouded in the mist and in the path of the convoy, the steam trawler OONA HALL was unawares of her impending doom.
VILLE D’ALGEIR ran the trawler down, drowning eleven of the twelve crewmen, 8 miles north west by north of Peel breakwater. The sole survivor was picked up by the French vessel. He could recollect little of the incident, being asleep when the crash came. Instinctively rushing for the openness of the deck he was knocked senseless by something unseen. He only regained consciousness when he was pulled from the sea.

Changelog
03/01/2009: Page published. 5 updates since then.

S.T. Olympia GY1080

Additional information courtesy of Bill Blow

Technical

Official Number: 139955
Yard Number: 354
Completed: 1917
Gross Tonnage: 261
Net Tonnage: 102
Length: 120.2 ft
Breadth: 22.5 ft
Depth: 12 ft
Engine: 470ihp T.3-cyl by Amos & Smith Ltd, Hull
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley

History

22.5.1917: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.354) for The Great Grimsby & East Coast Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby as OLYMPIA (originally to have been named BISACCIA).
25.7.1917: Walter William Butt appointed manager.
26.7.1917: Registered at Grimsby (GY1080).
7.1917: Completed (Walter W. Butt, manager).
9.1917: Requisitioned for war service as an anti-submarine trawler (1-12pdr, 1-3.5” A/S Howitzer & Hydrophone) (Ad.No.3064). Based Taranto.
By 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Grimsby.
1.2.1924: About 50 miles E of Tyne met Norwegian steamer CONDOR (?) with disabled wooden aux. schooner Joyce French (785grt/1905) of London, Lillesand for Tyne, pitprops, in tow. Transferred tow and proceeding Tyne.
4.2.1924: Delivered Tyne.
26.8.1926: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Midland Bank Ltd, London (A).
8.4.1938: Albert Wright Butt appointed manager.
12.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (P.No.FY.1586) (Hire rate £76.2.6d/month).
1.12.1941: Mortgage (A) discharged.
14.1.1942: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd (64/64), Fleetwood.
22.1.1942: Basil Arthur Parkes, Cleveleys appointed manager.
2.1944: Returned to fishing from Fleetwood.
24.2.1944: First landing at Fleetwood.
18.9.1944: Last landing at Fleetwood.
9.1944: Reverted to war role.
30.10.1945: Returned to owner at Fleetwood.
12.1.1946: Sold to William Wilcox (64/64), Milford Haven.
15.1.1946: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Barclays Bank Ltd, London (B).
23.1.1946: William Wilcox designated managing owner.
9.5.1946: Sold to Channel Trawling Co Ltd (64/64), Milford Haven.
20.5.1946: Mortgage (B) discharged.
21.5.1946: William Wilcox appointed manager.
22.5.1946: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Barclays Bank Ltd, London (C).
21.2.1949: Sold to Taylor Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
3.3.1949: Charles Taylor Ltd appointed manager.
22.2.1949: Mortgage (C) discharged.
4.1962: Sold to N.V. Machinehandel & amp; Scheepssloperij ‘De Koophandel’, Nieuw-Lekkerland, The Netherlands for breaking up.
30.4.1962: Sailed Grimsby for Rotterdam.
7.5.1962: Grimsby registry closed “… on sale to foreigners (Dutch subjects)”.

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S.T. Olympia GY1080

S.T. Olympia GY1080
Picture by Steve Pulfrey courtesy of Mark Stopper

S.T. Olympia GY1080

S.T. Olympia GY1080
Builders Certificate

S.T. Olympia GY1080

S.T. Olympia GY1080
Scrapping Certificate

Changelog
03/01/2009: Page published. 10 updates since then.
08/04/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.

S.T. Olivine FD351

Technical

Official Number: 121097
Yard Number: 326
Completed: 1905
Gross Tonnage: 289
Net Tonnage: 106
Length: 135.8 ft
Breadth: 22.5 ft
Depth: 13.1 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by W. V. V. Lidgerwood, Coatbridge
Built: Mackie & Thomson, Govan

History

In 1905 the Kingston board requested Mackie & Thomson, Govan, to design a class of distant water trawler suitable for fishing at Iceland all year round. The design was to incorporate a “whale back” forecastle and verandah bridge which had been introduced by other shipyards in 1902 and was proving to be a success. The submitted design was approved and two vessels ordered. Contracts were signed with the shipyard to build the vessels with engines and boilers for £6,950 each. Names chosen were OLIVINE and TOURMALINE.
Total cost for OLIVINE with amendments, certification, fees, fishing gear, stores and coal £7,801.3s4d. (Ships Papers 1s.1d.)

28.9.1905: Launched by Mackie & Thomson, Govan (Yd.No.326) for The Kingston Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull as OLIVINE.
11.1905: Completed trials and accepted (Lawrence Spring, manager)
7.12.1905: Registered at Hull (H849). First Trip, Sk. George Remington – twelve crew.
1.1915: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-12pdr HA) (Ad.No.1211).
10.10.1917: Arthur Taylor appointed Kingston manager.
23.4.1919: Sale agreed with Charles William Pickering, Liverpool with benefit of Admiralty hire and restoration.
5.1919: Returned after survey and restoration at Wivenhoe.
5.5.1919: Sold to Charles William Pickering, Seaforth, Liverpool for £15,000 (through W. A. Massey & Sons Ltd, Hull, shipbrokers commission £150).
12.5.1919: Sold to The British Trawling Co Ltd, Bootle (Charles William Pickering, Seaforth, manager).
13.10.1919: Hull registry closed.
15.10.1919: Registered at Fleetwood (FD351).
1921: Registered office transferred to Fleetwood.
1922: Sold to Sociedade de Pesca a Vapor Espardarte Lda, Lisbon.
15.8.1922: Fleetwood registry closed.
8.1922: Registered at Lisbon as ESPADARTE I.
1933: Sold to Alberto Graca, Lisbon. Registered at Lisbon as INVENCIVEL TERCEIRO.
1955: Sold for breaking up.

(Coal Capacity – Main Bunker 124 tons Fish Room 60 tons Total 184 tons)

(Note. Building installment costings:
Shipbuilder
28.6.1905: 1st – £500
11.7.1905: 3nd – £1,287.10.3d
19.8.1905: 3rd – £1,787.10.4d
2.11.1905: Balance – £750
17.11.1905 : Final – £1,037.10.0d Total – £5,362.10.7d
Engine and boiler maker
Estimated cost – £1,600)

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S.T. Olivine H849

S.T. Olivine H849
Picture courtesy of James Cullen

Changelog
03/01/2009: Page published. 2 revisions since then.
12/10/2014: Picture added.
30/06/2017: Removed FMHT watermark from image.

S.D/T. Olivae R212

Technical

Official Number: 137610
Yard Number: 269
Completed: 1915
Gross Tonnage: 107
Net Tonnage: 51
Length: 92 ft
Breadth: 19.1 ft
Depth: 9 ft
Built: Fellows & Co Ltd, Great Yarmouth
Engine: T.3-cyl by F. W. Carver & Co, Great Yarmouth
Boiler: by Riley Brothers (Boilermakers) Ltd, Stockton on Tees

History

1915: Completed by Fellows & Co Ltd, Great Yarmouth (Yd.No.269) on spec as DOROTHY F and not registered.
1.1916: Requisitioned for war service as an A/S net drifter (Ad.No.1959).
1.1919: Returned.
2.1919: Renamed KINGFISHER.
4.1919: Sold to Charles H. George, Caister-on-Sea.
17.4.1919: Registered at Yarmouth as OLIVAE (YH73). Charles H. George designated managing owner.
10.1.1920: Sold to Sutton Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hartlepool. Albert R. Sutton designated manager.
26.2.1920: Sold to The Thanet Steam Trawling Co Ltd, London.
29.3.1920: Yarmouth registry closed.
30.3.1920: Registered at Ramsgate (R212). Thomas W. Chapman, Ramsgate, designated manager.
1921: E. H. Jones designated manager.
3.1922: Transferred to Fleetwood Walter Morley, Fleetwood designated manager.
1.1924: Sold to Frederick Spashett (64/64), Lowestoft.
17.1.1924: Ramsgate registry closed.
19.1.1924: Registered at Lowestoft (LT1297). Frederick Spashett designated managing owner.
30.1.1924: Sold to Pevensey Castle Ltd (64/64), Lowestoft.
13.2.1924: John Victor Breach, designated manager.
2.10.1924: In fine weather, 11 miles off IJmuiden connected to steam drifter EILEEN EMMA (LT342) disabled with broken tail shaft and delivered her to Lowestoft after fifteen hour tow.
6.7.1925: At Lerwick damaged in collision with steam drifter LIVELY (BF262).
7.12.1926: Suffered crank shaft damage.
2.6.1928: At Fleetwood landed 160 boxes.
2.3.1932: At Padstow damaged in collision with steam drifter ELIE NESS (LT1259) (Damage repaired by George Overy Ltd, Lowestoft at a contract price of £18.12.0d).
17.10.1932: Damaged in collision with sailing barge LILIAN MAY (71n/?).
3.5.1933: At about 3.00 am hauling in strong winds, heavy sea and a thunderstorm some 70 miles WbyN of St. Ann’s Head, deckhand Reginald Muskett was knocked overboard by a rope. David William Ellis, deckhand jumped into the sea and managed to hold him before becoming tangled in the net. Both hauled back onboard (David William Ellis awarded BoT Sea Gallantry Medal (Bronze)).
30.3.1938: Broke mizzen mast on passage to Downings Bay, Co. Donegal.
12.11.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeping drifter (P.No.FY.926) (Hire rate £27.0.0d/month).
1941: Based Harwich (Ty/Sk. A. F. Meacock RNR).
6.1941: Based Dartmouth.
1.1942: Remains at Dartmouth.
1.1944: John Victor Breech died. R. H. Self appointed manager.
6.1940: Returned to owner.
25.11.1946: Fouled and fractured propeller with gear.
6.10.1947: At Lowestoft landed 170 crans of herring.
16.10.1950: At Lowestoft landed 190 crans.
31.1.1952: Sank alongside in Hamilton Dock, Lowestoft whilst refitting. Salved and returned to service.
3.1956: Sold Belgian principals for breaking up (Sanctioned by MoT & CA letter No. G.S.P.1/1/02039 dated 12.3.1956).
11.4.1956: Sailed Lowestoft for Belgium.
19.4.1956: Lowestoft registry closed.

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S.D/T. Olivae R212

S.D/T. Olivae LT1297
Picture courtesy of The Robert Durrant Collection

S.D/T. Olivae YH73

S.D/T. Olivae LT1297
Picture from the Internet

Changelog
03/01/2009: Page published. 4 updates since then.
10/02/2015: Picture added.
19/07/2016: Image added.
27/12/2017: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
07/07/2021: Updated history.