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S.T. Walwyns Castle LO231

Technical

Official Number: 128945
Yard Number: 537
Completed: 1913
Gross Tonnage: 225
Net Tonnage: 100
Length: 125 ft
Breadth: 23.5 ft
Depth: 12.3 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, Middlesbrough
Built: Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, Middlesbrough

History

2.8.1913: Launched by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, South Bank-on-Tees, Middlesbrough (Yd.No.537) for The Castle Steam Trawlers Ltd, Swansea as WALWYNS CASTLE.
19.9.1913: Completed (Crawford Heron, manager).
19.9.1913: Registered at Swansea (SA9).
8.11.1914: Mortgaged to De Eerste Nederlandsche Scheepsverband Maatschappij, Dordrecht. (A).
5.1915: Requisitioned for war service.
28.5.1915: Commissioned.
29.5.1915: Arrived Falmouth. Fitted out for auxiliary patrol duties (Ad.No.1774). Northern Patrol.
12.6.1918: Transferred from Northern Patrol to Devonport.
1.7.1918: Sailed Devonport for Falmouth.
6.7.1918: Sailed Falmouth escorting Convoy O.F.42 to Mediterranean. Based Malta.
22.10.1918: Sold to Consolidated Steam Fishing & Ice Co (Grimsby) Ltd, Grimsby (John D. Marsden, manager).
Post 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Hull, then continued to fish from Swansea
12.1919: On a trip to Irish grounds.
30.12.1919: When some 150 miles west of Lundy came upon a disabled motor boat with five men onboard. Men were only survivors of eighteen onboard the American six masted schooner ELEANOR A. PERCY (3.401grt/1900), cargo grain, Rio de Janeiro for Copenhagen, which had foundered on 26.12.1919 in approximate position 48.30N 17.45W after springing a leak.
31.12.1919: Survivors landed at Swansea.
3.2.1919: Mortgage discharged (A).
27.11.1923: Mortgaged to London Joint City & Merchants Bank Ltd, London (B).
29.6.1927: Owners re-styled Consolidated Fisheries Ltd (Sir John D. Marsden, manager).
14.2.1940: Requisitioned for war service and fitted out at Sharpness for minesweeping duties (P.No.FY.866)(Hire rate £65.17.6d/month) (Sk. J. McLeman RNR). Based Stornoway. 15.5.1942: Mortgage discharged (B).
6.1942: Sold to The Hewett Fishing Co Ltd, London & Fleetwood (Robert H. Hewett, manager).
10.6.1942: Swansea registry closed.
12.6.1942: Registered at London (LO231).
3.1946: Returned.
3.1946: Sold to BISCO and allocated to West of Scotland Shipbreaking Co Ltd, Troon for breaking up.
25.3.1946: Delivered Troon.
1946: London registry closed.

Changelog
08/01/2009: Page published. 5 revisions since then.
21/08/2014: Information updated.

S.T. Wallena FD82

Technical

Official Number: 135998
Yard Number: 261a
Completed: 1914
Gross Tonnage: 225
Net Tonnage: 112
Length: 117 ft
Breadth: 22 ft
Depth: 12.7 ft
Engine: 66nhp T.3-cyl by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley

History

17.12.1913: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.261A) for Walter Olney (64/64), Fleetwood as WALLENA.
3.3.1914: Registered at Grimsby (GY12). Walter Olney designated managing owner.
3.1914: Completed.
20.3.1914: Vessel mortgaged (all 64 shares) to London City & Midland Bank Ltd, London (A).
1.1915: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-3pdr) (Ad.No.907).
2.10.1915: Mortgage (A) discharged.
4.10.1915: Sold to The Neva Steam Trawlers Ltd, Blackpool.
5.10.1915: Mortgaged to London City & Midland Bank Ltd, London (B).
8.10.1915: Ernest Tomlinson appointed manager.
8.7.1917: Ernest Tomlinson & Joseph A. Taylor, appointed managers.
By 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Fleetwood.
5.3.1919: Grimsby registry closed.
10.3.1919: Registered at Fleetwood (FD82).
1924: Mortgage (B) discharged.
1924: Sold to James N. & Harold Bacon, Grimsby (William W. Brierley, manager).
28.11.1924: Fleetwood registry closed.
6.12.1924: Registered at Grimsby (GY132).
9.1930: Sold to Kottingham Trawling Co, Grimsby (James N. Bacon, manager).
27.11.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (P.No.FY.832)(Hire rate £60.0.0d/month).
1942: Based Granton M/S Group 105.
1944: Sold to Parkholme Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood (Harvey Wilfred Wilson, Grimsby, manager).
4.1945: Fitted out for boom defence gate duties.
11.1945: Returned.
11.9.1946: Laid up in Grimsby.
1949: Sold to John R. Hepworth & Co Ltd, Paull for breaking up.
27.7.1949: Left Grimsby in tow for Paull.
9.1949: Grimsby registry closed.”

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S.T. Wallena FD82

S.T. Wallena FD82
Picture courtesy of Mark Stopper

HMT Wallena

HMT Wallena
Picture courtesy of The Imperial War Museum

S.T. Wallena Ship's Bell

S.T. Wallena Ship’s Bell
Picture courtesy of Michael Claridge

Changelog
08/01/2009: Page published. 2 updates since then.
12/01/2016: Picture added.
21/12/2016: Picture added.

S.T. Vivo FD220


Additional information courtesy of Christine Simm

Technical

Official Number: 127563
Yard Number: 430
Completed: 1908
Gross Tonnage: 270.39
Net Tonnage: 102.83
Length: 130.0 ft
Breadth: 23.0
Depth: 12.2 ft
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby
Engine: 500ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by Amos & Smith, Hull

History

2.5.1908: Launched by Mrs Isabella Pilling at Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.430) for The Mount Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Messrs Moody’s & Kelly) as VIVO.
7.8.1908: George Edward James Moody, Grimsby designated manager.
11.8.1908: Registered at Fleetwood (FD220).
11.8.1908: Completed.
21.9.1908: Landed 200 boxes of hake which realised good prices.
19.10.1908: On a record market at Fleetwood landed 795 boxes (750 boxes herring).
28.10.1908: Landed 570 boxes (450 boxes herring).
25.3.1909: Vessel mortgaged (64/74) to The London City & Midland Bank Ltd, London (A).
9.4.1909: Record landings at Fleetwood for the Easter fish trade. Landed 237 boxes.
18.5.1909: Landed 520 boxes (200 hake).
22.11.1909: Landed 240 boxes.
22.1.1910: Landed 300 boxes.
4.7.1910: Landed 430 boxes.
12.7.1910: Trawling some 100 miles NNW of Bull Rock Light, Co.Cork, in collision with Milford steam trawler BRITANNIA (LO271) carrying away her after gallows.
18.7.1910: Landed 400 boxes from West of Ireland grounds.
1.8.1910: Landed 250 boxes.
12.8.1910: Sailed Fleetwood for the St. Kilda grounds (Sk. Robert Wright); eleven hands all told and two trippers.
18,8.1910: In the evening left St. Kilda for the Klondyke ground some 50 miles NNW of Inishtrahull.
20.8.1910: At about 11.20am left fishing grounds for home with about 20tons (320 boxes) of fish. Inishtrahull was sighted and position noted and again at 8.30pm off Rathlin Island but a fix was not taken and a course was set S by E1/2E to take them through the North Channel. That course if made good would have taken them down the Irish side of the channel. They did in fact pass close to the Maidens and the gas buoy and also sighted the Copeland Lights. The only light they saw on the Scottish coast was the Mull of Kintyre at 9.20pm and a bearing was taken but after that they saw no other Scottish lights.
21.8.1910: At 3.00am the weather became hazy and a sounding was taken which gave them 26 fathoms. That sounding indicated that they were close inshore but the skipper appeared to have assumed that they were on the Irish side of the channel. At 3.45 the weather thickened and the course, despite the log having not run its setting, was altered to SE by S which it was assumed would take the ship over towards the Scottish coast. At 4.00am with the engine running at half speed and the skipper absent from the wheelhouse consulting the chart, breakers were seen on the port bow. The engine was put full astern and the helm hard aport, but the trawler struck the rocks some 31/2 miles NW of Mull of Galloway. The trawler started to fill and going below, the skipper found that she was making water in the forecastle, bunkers and engine room. She settled quickly until only the wheelhouse and the rigging was above water. The crew in the meantime got the two boats out and all abandoned and stood off, it was not until then that they heard the siren from the Mull.. At daybreak the steam trawler NEW CROWN (GY369) belonging to the same owners, also homewards, sighted the boat and picked up the survivors. Skipper, mate and chief engineer landed at East Tarbet, Wigtownshire to standby vessel for possible salvage. NEW CROWN called Drummore to inform owners, then continued passage to Fleetwood.
22.8.1910: Survivors landed at Fleetwood.
9.1910: Declared a Total Loss and attended by Liverpool & Glasgow Salvage Association’s steam derrick barge LADY KATE (135grt/1881) and much equipment and material salvaged.
29.9.1910: The Board of Trade Inquiry into the loss of the steam trawler VIVO was opened at Liverpool Police Court. The Court heard evidence from the Skipper, Robert Wright; William Duckworth, Mate; William Harrison, Bosun; Walter Alexander Cook, Ch Eng; Albert Davies, 2nd Eng; and deckhands, William Hunter and Arthur James Morton.
3.10.1910: In summing up the Court found the stranding and serious damage to the trawler was caused by the vessel not having made her alleged course of S by E1/2E, but having instead made a course of S E by S1/2S as stated by the Bosun, William Harrison to the Receiver of Wrecks at Fleetwood, which subsequently proved to be the course made good. The Court found the skipper, Robert Wright in default and suspended his ticket for three months, but granted him a certificate as second hand for the period of his suspension.
8.10.1910: Wreck broken in two, only top of forecastle head visible at low water.
7.11.1910: Fleetwood registry closed “Ship a total wreck … ”.

Note: The remains of VIVO are close inshore approximately 500 metres south of Port Mona.

Changelog
08/01/2009: Page published. 4 updates since then.
17/11/2021: Information updated.

The loss of Wyre Victory

From un unknown news source

Wyre Victory was one of the large fleet owned by Wyre Trawlers Ltd. Fleetwood, and was built in 1960. 0n 06:45 14/01/1976 Oban radio received a distress message stating that she had struck Mill Rocks to the SW of Oigh Sgeir Lighthouse (between Barra and Rum), and was badly holed forward and making water fast. At 07:14 the ferry Iona picked up a liferaft with the crew on board. The skipper and the radio operator stayed with the stricken vessel

Wyre Victory’s sister ship, Wyre Conqueror, responded to her distress call and floated 3 liferafts across to her. At 07:22 Oban was advised that the wreck had been abandoned but had drifted off the rocks. Wyre Conqueror hoped to tow her to Canna but after drifting with the tide Wyre Victory sank.

S.T. Victoria Regina A590

Technical

Official Number: 105220
Yard Number: 366
Completed: 1897
Gross Tonnage: 146
Net Tonnage: 55
Length: 101.6 ft
Breadth: 20.1 ft
Depth: 10.8 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by A. Hall & Co, Aberdeen
Built: A. Hall & Co, Aberdeen

History

19.6.1897: Launched by A. Hall & Co, Aberdeen (Yd.No.366) for William H. Dodds, Aberdeen (managing owner) as VICTORIA REGINA.
15.7.1897: Registered at North Shields (SN238).
7.1897: Completed.
1903: Sold to The “Dodds” Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Aberdeen (William H. Dodds, manager).
1913: Sold to Thomas Davidson, Aberdeen (managing owner).
25.9.1913: North Shields registry closed.
9.10.1913: Registered at Aberdeen (A590).
8.1914: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (Ad.No.320).
30.10.1918: Returned to owner at Aberdeen.
11.1935: Sold to John W. Kates, Fleetwood c/o Mair & Co, Fleetwood (The Sun Steam Trawling Co Ltd, managers).
12.12.1935: First landing at Fleetwood.
1938: Sold to Robert Hudson, Fleetwood (The Sun Steam Trawling Co Ltd, managers).
4.1939: Sold to Berrys (Stranraer) Ltd, Stranraer (James Berry, manager).
20.5.1939: Last landing at Fleetwood, 29 boxes grossed £35.
21.8.1939: Aberdeen registry closed “ceased fishing”. Registered at Stranraer.
7.11.1940: On passage Sanda towards Stranraer (Master William Buckley), in good visibility and fresh breeze, at 9.00 am stranded on Boiler Reef 1/4 mile from Sanda Lighthouse. All crew of nine rescued. Vessel Total loss. Stranraer registry closed.

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S.T. Victoria Regina SN238

S.T. Victoria Regina SN238
Image courtesy of The David slinger Collection.

Changelog
04/01/2009: Page published. Four updates since then.
07/01/2023: Image added.