Yearly Archives: 2009

s.v. Ebeneezer

Technical

Official Number: 27642
Completed: 1859
Net Tonnage: 33
Length: 54.7 ft
Breadth: 16.7 ft
Depth: 7.5 ft
Rig: Smack – trawling
Built: William & Richard Ashburner, Barrow

History

1859: Completed by William & Richard Ashburner, Barrow for Fleetwood owners as EBENEEZER.
1859: Registered at Liverpool (LL??) (126/1859).
1.1.1867: Owned by Richard Wright, Southport.
1.1.1880: Owned by George Wilson, Fleetwood.
1881: Census at Thornton le Fylde. George Wilson (49), b-Liverpool, Master; Charles Collins (40), b-Liverpool, Mate; Thomas Duncan (36), b-Liverpool, AB; Thomas Peers (35), b-Hoylake, Cook.
1.1.1883: Owned by Thomas Jones (64/64), 9 Marmion Road, Hoylake. Thomas Jones designated managing owner.
13.1.1893: vessel remeasured 32 regd tons.
4.1891: Liverpool registry closed.
18.4.1891: Registered at Douglas (DO229).
21.12.1900: In morning stranded off Hoylake “… and is a total wreck.” No lives lost.
14.1.1901: Douglas registry closed “Vessel has become a total wreck”.

Changelog
02/06/2009: Page published. 2 updates since then.
09/07/2015: Information updated.

s.v. Eagle FD74

Technical

Official Number: 67122
Completed:: 1871
Gross Tonnage: 39
Net Tonnage: 39
Length: 57 ft
Breadth: 16.3 ft
Depth: 8.6 ft
Rig: Smack/jigger smack/steam/dandy – trawling
Owner: Hugh Singleton, Fleetwood
Built: William Sumner, Fleetwood

History

1871:  Completed by Hugh Singleton, Fleetwood for  William Sumner, Fleetwood as EAGLE.  Registered at Fleetwood (FD74). 
1881:  Sold to Mrs Tabitha Leadbetter, Fleetwood.
1882:  Sold to Samuel Jones (32/64), Back Sea View, Hoylake & William Jones (32/64), Hoylake (Samuel Jones managing owner).  Fleetwood registry closed.   Registered at Liverpool (LL??). 
7.1981:  Liverpool registry closed. 
4.7.1891:  Registered at Douglas (DO??).
27.1.1894: Re measured after conversion to a jigger smack.
14.8.1894:  William Jones died (Will dated 26.12.1894). 
18.10.1894:  Probate granted leaving 32 shares  to Samuel Jones (64/64), Back Sea View, Hoylake.
8.4.1895:  Samuel Jones appointed managing owner.
5.5.1905:  Sold to Frederick William Rubra (64/64), 174 High Street, Bangor, Carnarvon. 
10.5.1905:  Frederick William Rubra appointed managing owner.  
1906:  Sold to William Richards, 174 High Street, Bangor, Carnarvon.
10.7.1906:  Douglas registry closed. 
7.1906:  Registered at Beaumaris (BS57).
1912:   Converted to steam 4nhp.  Re-measured 22 net.
1913:  Owned by Walter P. Hutson, 2 Elm Street, Fleetwood.
1915:   Steam machinery removed re-rigged as a dandy.
1915:  Remeasured 21n.
1927:  Owned by T. Kirkman, Fleetwood.  
1927:  Register closed.

Changelog
02/06/2009: Page published. 6 updates since then.

sv Elizabeth Ann FD130

Additional information courtesy of Christine Simm

Technical

Official Number: 56682
Completed: 1867
Gross tonnage: 39.38
Net tonnage: 24.42
Length: 54.6 ft
Breadth: 16.5 ft
Draught: 8.0 ft
Jigger smack – trawling
Aka ‘Black Jack’
Built: George Rigby & Robert Rawstorne, Freckleton

History

1867: Completed by George Rigby & Robert Rawstorne, Freckleton for William Robinson, Southport as ELIZABETH ANN.
27.3.1867: Appropriated.
27.3.1867: Registered at Preston. Fishing out of Hoylake.
1.1.1880: Owned by William Hudson, Fleetwood.
24.12.1886: Sold to Mrs Margaret Hudson,
42 Warren Street, Fleetwood.
12.1886: Preston registry closed.
24.12.1886: Registered at Fleetwood (FD130).
7.12.1896: Sold to Thomas Fairclough, 4 Blakiston Street East, Fleetwood. Thomas Fairclough, skipper.
23.4.1907: At Fleetwood Police Court, Thomas Andrews was charged with stealing a quantity of foot rope. Sk David Herbert said that he left the foot rope on the quay side and when he returned it was missing. Thomas Brecknell, marine store dealer, said that the defendant brought the rope into the store and said two men had given it to him. Defendant denied the offence but was bound over for three months in the sum of £5.
25.9.1908: At Fleetwood Police Court, two youths, Edward Lyons and John Shields, who were remanded on the 21st on the charges of stealing articles, valued at 27s from the smack, faced further charges against them. Two charges of breaking into the flat DIANA and breaking into the shop of Mr Haworth, photographer. Both youths were committed for trial at the next Preston Sessions.
8.1.1910: Returning from the fishing grounds (Sk, David Herbert). Lying about three quarters of a mile SE of the Lune Light ship, with regulation lights burning, awaiting the turn of the tide to proceed into Fleetwood. The weather had been foggy but this had cleared and it was very dark. Fleetwood registered L&Y and L&NW railway steamer DUKE of CORNWALL (Capt McBrown) (1540grt/1898) bore in sight and Sk. Herbert lighted a torch and shouted, alerting the crew who came on deck. Seeing a vessel ahead the steamer turned to starboard but was unable to clear the trawler, striking her in the jigger mast rigging cutting the stern completely off. With the trawler settling, the punt was launched but the bung was missing along with the oars, one of the crew putting his thumb in the bung hole to prevent the boat filling. A shovel was found in the bottom of the boat and this was used as an oar. The DUKE of CORNWALL hove to and launched two boats, but in the darkness failed to find the punt. Using the shovel the trawler’s crew managed to get alongside the steamer and were taken onboard.
14.1.1910: Fleetwood registry closed “Vessel totally lost 8th January 1910. Advice received from owner ”.

Changelog
27/05/2009: Page published.
03/03/2022: Major information update.

S.T. Westray H390

Technical

Official Number: 132300
Yard Number: 233
Completed: 1917
Gross Tonnage: 207
Net Tonnage: 81
Length: 112.2 ft
Breadth: 22.5 ft
Depth: 12.3 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Amos & Smith Ltd, Hull
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley

History

7.12.1911: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.233) for The Hull Steam Fishing & Ice Co Ltd (64/64), Hull as WESTRAY.
29.1.1912: Completed.
5.2.1912: Registered at Hull (H390).
5.2.1912: Joseph Vivian appointed manager.
2.1917: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-6pdr HA) (Ad.No.1277). Based Holyhead.
By 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Hull.
13.5.1920: Vessel mortgaged (all 64 shares) to The London County Westminster & Parr’s Bank Ltd, London (A).
6.3.1923: Mortgagee re-styled as Westminster Bank Ltd, London.
14.10.1927: Mortgage (A) transferred to William Augustus Hayward, Eastbourne.
14.10.1927: Mortgage (A) transferred to Mercantile Marine Finance Corporation Ltd, London.
22.10.1928: Robert Burton appointed manager.
16.9.1932: Charles Hugh Emerson appointed manager.
10.1932: Mercantile Marine Finance Corporation Ltd in liquidation.
1.11.1932: Mortgage (A) transferred to Harold Frank Hayward, London; Maud Florence Katherine Rogers, Chelsea and Ernest Norton, London (joint mortgagees).
3.1936: Combined boxing and trawling fleet of Kelsall Bros. & Beeching Ltd and the Hull Steam Fishing & Ice Co Ltd consisting of 59 vessels laid up at Hull (declining catches, coal bill and increased maintenance costs had made the venture uneconomical).
6.3.1936: At Extraordinary General Meeting at Hull, Kelsall Brothers & Beeching Ltd placed in Creditors’ Voluntary Winding-up (Richard Field Helm of Messrs Hodgson Harris & Co, Hull appointed liquidators).
2.1937: Sold by joint mortgagees to German shipbreakers.
1.3.1937: Hull registry closed “… on sale to foreigners (German Subjects) for breaking up. Advice received from Joint Mortgagees.”

Changelog

19/05/2009: Page published. 4 updates since then.

S.T. Teesmouth BL6

Technical

Official Number: 117731
Yard Number: 171
Completed: 1906
Gross Tonnage: 191
Net Tonnage: 54
Length: 115.0 ft
Breadth: 21.4 ft
Depth: 11.4 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by W.V.V. Lidgerwood, Coatbridge
Boiler: Palmers Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd, Hebburn on Tyne
Built: Dundee Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Dundee

History

17.11.1906: Launched by Dundee Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Dundee (Yd.No.171) for The Western Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Bristol as TEESMOUTH.
12.1906: Completed Sidney M. Price, Milford, manager). Registered at Bristol (BL6).
9.1912: Transferred to Fleetwood (Messrs Morley & Price, managers).
16.4.1913: Sold to C. J. Spahde, Archangel.
4.1913: Bristol registry closed.
5.1913: Registered at Archangel as YUGH.
1914: Requisitioned for war service in the Russian fleet as a minesweeper.
20.12.1915: Crushed by ice in Mudiuga area, White Sea.

Changelog

15/05/2009: Page published. 4 updates since then.