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Additional information courtesy of Barry Banham and Bill Blow

Technical

Official Number: 110867
Yard Number: 231
Completed: 1899
Gross Tonnage: 172.41
Net Tonnage: 62.10
Length: 100.0 ft
Breadth: 21.0 ft
Depth: 11.0 ft
Built: Cochrane & Cooper Ltd, Beverley
Engine: 350ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co, Hull

History

31.1.1899: Launched by Cochrane & Cooper Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.231) for Queen Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby as BUCKINGHAM.
7.2.1899: Completed.
9.3.1899: Registered at Grimsby (GY1096).
9.3.1899: Charles Absolom Osborne appointed manager.
4.4.1899: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to The Lincoln & Lindsey Banking Company Ltd, Lincoln (A).
1.1.1914: Tonnage altered to 70.50 net under provision of Merchant Shipping Act 1907.
7.2.1914: Mortgage (A) discharged, The Lincoln & Lindsey Banking Co in liquidation.
29.5.1917: Requisitioned for Fishery Reserve.
1919: Released. 3.3.1930: Sold to Arthur Grant (64/64), Grimsby.
5.3.1930: Arthur Grant designated managing owner.
16.8.1930: Registered at Grimsby as WARREN (GY1096) (BoT Minute M/RG1274/1930 dated 12.8.1930).
7.4.1931: Sold to Arthur Grant & Son Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
8.4.1931: Arthur Grant appointed manager.
26.6.1932: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to National Provincial Bank Ltd, London (B).
7.10.1940: Mortgage (B) discharged.
8.10.1940: Sold to Shire Trawlers Ltd (64/64), London.
14.10.1940: William. Alfred Bennett, Sanderstead, Surrey appointed manager.
9.12.1940: Sold to J. Bennett (Wholesale) Ltd (64/64), London.
13.12.1941: William Alfred Bennett appointed manager.
1943-1944: Fishing from Fleetwood.
19.11.1943: Disabled on fishing grounds, steam drifter PATRIA (LT178) connected and delivered Fleetwood.
2.12.1943: Harry Markham Cook, Grimsby appointed manager.
15.12.1943: Sold to The Wembley Steam Fishing Co (Grimsby) Ltd (64/64), Fleetwood.
2.12.1943: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Barclays Bank Ltd, London (C).
2.1944: Company registered office transferred to Grimsby.
21.4.1944: Last landing at Fleetwood.
22.3.1945: Arthur Gladstone Hamer, Grimsby appointed manager.
23.10.1945: Mortgage (C) discharged.
12.11.1945: Sold to Samuel Stewart & Co (London) Ltd (64/64), London.
15.11.1945: Samuel Stewart appointed manager.
9.1.1946: Grimsby registry closed.
11.1.1946: Registered at Lowestoft (LT117).
25.6.1946: Sold to Cranley Shipping Co Ltd (64/64), London. Robert George Frankis appointed manager.
12.5.1949: Sold to Cranbrook Shipping Co Ltd (64/64), London. Leonard Frederick Milton appointed manager.
4.1952: Sold to BISCO and allocated to Thos. W. Ward Ltd, Sheffield for breaking up at Grays, Essex.
16.4.1952: Sailed Lowestoft for River Thames.
17.4.1952: Delivered.
16.1.1953: Lowestoft registry closed.

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S.T. Warren GY1096
Picture courtesy of Bill Blow

Changelog
07/09/2010: Page published. 7 revisions since then.
19/08/2014: Alteration to disposal details.
22/01/2016: Information updated.
23/09/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.