Category Archives: Drifter/Trawler

S.D/T. Cyclamen LT1136 (Seasonal)

Additional material courtesy of Barry Banham

Official Number: 130033
Yard Number: 202
Completed: 1911
Gross Tonnage: 93
Net Tonnage: 39
Length: 87.3 ft
Breadth: 18.5 ft
Depth: 9.1 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Crabtree & Co Ltd, Gt. Yarmouth
Boiler: Thomas Sudron & Co Ltd, Stockton on Tees
Built: Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Dundee

History

1911: Launched by Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Dundee (Yd.No.202) for Herring Fishing Co Ltd, Lowestoft as CYCLAMEN.
6.1911: Completed (William Thomas Tripp, Kessingland, manager).
20.6.1911: Registered at Lowestoft (LT1136).
9.1915: Requisitioned for war service as an A/S net drifter (1-3pdr HA) (Ad.No.1848).
12.1915: Renamed CYCLAMEN II. Based Dover.
By 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Lowestoft and reverted to CYCLAMEN (LT1136).
From 1925: Seasonal trawling from Padstow and Milford.
21.8.1927: Fishing Small’s grounds 5 miles NNE of St. Ann’s Head connected to Milford trawler LINCOLNIA (FD118) disabled with machinery defect. Towed to Milford arriving same day.
28.10.1927: Sidney James Tripp, Kessingland appointed manager.
1930s: Seasonal white fish trawling from Padstow, Milford and Fleetwood (Lowestoft Fish Selling Co Ltd, Lowestoft, managing agents).
24.10.1932: Delivered steam drifter HOLLY BANK (LT35) at Lowestoft having been picked up disabled with damaged rudder.
1938: Sold to Arthur C. Mitchell (13/64); William Wilcox (13/64); Kenneth Llewellin (13/64); William Henry Kerr (13/64), all Milford Haven and George Mitchell (12/64), Lowestoft (Arthur C. Mitchell, managing owner).
11.1957: Sold to Belgium for breaking up.
6.11.1957: Sailed Lowestoft for Bruges.
22.11.1957: Lowestoft registry closed.

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S.D/T. Cyclamen LT1136

S.D/T. Cyclamen LT1136
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S.D/T. Cyclamen LT1136

S.D/T. Cyclamen LT1136
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S.D/T. Cyclamen LT1136

S.D/T. Cyclamen LT1136
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S.D/T/ Cyclamen LT1136

S.D/T/ Cyclamen LT1136
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Changelog
07/01/2011: Page published
19/05/14: Information updated and picture 3 added
12/05/2016: Added picture.
19/02/2018: Removed FMHT watermarks.

S.D/T. Blue Haze LT564 (Seasonal)

Additional information courtesy of Barry Banham

Technical

Admiralty Number: 4144
Official Number: 139988
Yard Number: 8
Completed: 1919
Gross Tonnage: 97
Net Tonnage: 41
Length: 86.2 ft
Breadth: 18.5 ft
Depth: 9.3 ft
Built: J. W. Brooke & Co Ltd, Oulton Broad, Lowestoft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Urquhart, Lindsay & Robertson, Orchar Ltd, Dundee
Boiler: Great Central Co-operative Engineering & Ship Repairing Co Ltd, Grimsby

History

1919: Launched by J. W. Brooke & Co Ltd, Oulton Broad, Lowestoft (Yd.No.8) (“Admiralty drifter”) for The Admiralty as BLUE HAZE (Ad.No.4144).
5.2.1919: Forms for tender to purchase received by the Admiralty.
6.6.1919: Completed as a fishing vessel.
14.7.1919: Sold to Bertha Agusta Richards & Charles Aleyn Jordan, Lowestoft.
10.9.1919: Registered at Lowestoft (Part I & VI) as BLUE HAZE O.N.139988 (LT564).
4.10.1919: Off Dungeness in fog, in collision with Cardiff steamer MANIN II.
13.12.1919: Sold to Viking Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Lowestoft. James Pye designated manager.
20.8.1924: Sold to James Pye & Robert J. Read, Lowestoft (joint owners).
19.2.1925: Sold to Seven Ltd, Lowestoft. James Pye designated manager.
1930s: Seasonal trawling from Fleetwood (Lowestoft Fish Selling Co Ltd, Lowestoft, managing agents).
1940: Re-possessed by bank and laid up at Lowestoft.
5.1940: Hire negotiated with The Admiralty by Basil Parkes, Fleetwood.
18.5.1940: Requisitioned for war service on miscellaneous Naval duties (P.No.FY.1757) (Hire rate £32.0.0d/month).
22.5.1940: Sold to Fred Parkes, Blackpool.
1.7.1940: Sold to North Shore Fishing Co Ltd, Fleetwood. Basil Arthur Parkes, Cleveleys designated manager.
11.1940: Based Anstruther as a TRV.
4.2.1946: Laid up.
8.2.1946: Returned to owner. Laid up.
7.2.1949: Sold to Bisset Buchan Coull, Peterhead.
2.9.1949: Registered at Peterhead as LILIUM (PD67).
5.9.1949: Lowestoft registry closed.
1953: Sold to Sophia McL. Coull, Peterhead.
1955: Sold to John Cameron, Peterhead for breaking up. John Cameron designated managing owner.
12.1956: Still listed in MNL ie. Certificates not returned and cancelled.
Changelog

06/01/2011: Page published. 2 updates since then.
07/09/2019: Updated information.

S.D/T. Lord St. Vincent LT79 (Seasonal)

Technical

Official Number: 149220
Yard Number: 576
Completed: 1929
Gross Tonnage: 115
Net Tonnage: 48
Length: 92.0 ft
Breadth: 20.1 ft
Depth: 8.0 ft
Built: John Chambers Ltd, Lowestoft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Wm. Burrell, Gt. Yarmouth
Boiler: Riley Bros (Boilermakers) Ltd, Stockton on Tees

History

1929: Launched by John Chambers Ltd, Lowestoft (Yd.No.576) for Lowestoft Steam Herring Drifters Co Ltd, Lowestoft as LORD St. VINCENT.
7.1929: Completed (Harold Jackson, manager).
25.7.1929: Registered at Lowestoft (LT79) and insured for £4,500.
18.11.1929: At Lowestoft in collision with steam drifter NORFORD SUFFLING (LT685),
1930s: Seasonal trawling out of Padstow and Fleetwood (Lowestoft Fish Selling Co Ltd, Lowestoft, managing agents).
24.3.1932: At Newlyn with damaged propeller.
2.10.1933: Disabled off Lowestoft with piston rod failure. LNER tug LOWESTOFT (172grt/1898) connected and delivered Lowestoft.
9.8.1938: Off Milford Haven connected to disabled steam drifter LORD SUFFOLK (LT44) and delivered Milford.
4.9.1939: Requisitioned for war service on contraband control (Hire rate £61.13.4d/month).
26.5.1940: At 6.57pm. ‘Operation Dynamo’ (Dunkirk evacuation) put into effect.
28.5.1940: With Senior Officer (Cdr J. S. M. Glendinning RNR retd) in steam tug JAVA (128grt/1905-500ihp) (Capt W. Jones) left Ramsgate for Dunkirk at 3.00pm in company with steam drifters LORD RODNEY (LT390), LORD COLLINGWOOD (LT79) and LORD KEITH (LT181).
29.5.1940: At 4.30am. ferrying troops to ships. 10.00am. alongside Dunkirk Pier embarking troops. 5.00pm. left Dunkirk beaches for Ramsgate.
30.5.1940: At Ramsgate at 7.40am. landed 150 troops.
7.7.1941: Mined off North East Gunfleet Buoy in Thames Estuary (Sk. J. S. Alexander RNR). One casualty – James W. Utting, stoker, killed.
9.7.1941: Robert E. Cullingford, Engineman died of his wounds.
23.7.1941: Lowestoft registry closed “Vessel lost 7.7.41”.

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S.D/T. Lord St. Vincent LT79

S.D/T. Lord St. Vincent LT79
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Changelog

31/12/2010: Page published. 8 updates since then.
06/11/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.

S.D/T. Lord Suffolk LT44 (Seasonal)

Additional information courtesy of Milford Trawlers

Technical

Official Number: 149219
Yard Number: 577
Completed: 1929
Gross Tonnage: 115
Net Tonnage: 48
Length: 92.0 ft
Breadth: 20.1 ft
Depth: 8.0 ft
Built: John Chambers & Co Ltd, Lowestoft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Wm. Burrell & Co, Gt. Yarmouth

History

1929: Launched by John Chambers & Co Ltd, Lowestoft (Yd.No.577) for Lowestoft Steam Herring Drifters Co Ltd, Lowestoft as LORD SUFFOLK.
6.1929: Completed (Harold B. Jackson, manager).
21.6.1929: Registered at Lowestoft (LT44).
6.12.1929: In North Sea, with steam drifter BOY ALAN (LT331), stood by disabled Spanish steamer until tugs arrived from Hull.
1930s: Seasonal trawling from Padstow, Milford and Fleetwood (Lowestoft Fish Selling Co Ltd, Lowestoft, managing agents).
9.8.1938: Off Milford Haven disabled, steam drifter LORD St. VINCENT (LT79) connected and delivered Milford.
18.11.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeping drifter (P.No.FY.1600) (Hire rate £61.13.4d/month). Renamed BANSHEE.
21.9.1943: Sold to Saint Andrew’s Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull (B. A. Parkes, Cleveleys, manager) when Basil Parkes bought most of Lowestoft Steam Herring Drifters Ltd better vessels.
25.1.1946: Returned to owner (Maj. A. W. Suddaby MBE, Gorleston, manager). Reverted to LORD SUFFOLK (LT44).
1946: Sold to J. C. Llewellin (Trawlers) Ltd, Milford Haven.
1947: Sold to Norrard Trawlers Ltd, Milford Haven (Frederick W. Ingram, manager).
1959: Converted to motor and fitted with 4 stroke 5-cyl 335bhp oil engine by Mirrlees, Bickerton & Day Ltd, Stockport.
1959: Re measured 120g.
21.4.1966: Off Tuscar Rock (S. Arthur James) took onboard three crew of leaking 50ft yacht, REINDEER on delivery voyage, South Coast – Glasgow. Connected and commenced tow for Rosslare, Co. Wexford but yacht foundered. Survivors landed at Rosslare.
1969: Laid up at Milford.
1970: Sold to Kilvey Trawling Co Ltd, Swansea. Fishing out of Milford.
30.3.1971: Fishing 25 miles off Wicklow Head (Sk. K. Jenkins), disabled with wire round propeller. Towed into Wicklow harbour, Co. Wicklow.
16.3.1972: Inward in Milford Haven in the early hours with very thick fog (Sk. Jack Clarke) ran into partially built Amoco jetty and became jammed on rising tide. Conservancy Board alerted and vessel freed by Wimpey tug SKOMER. Berthed at Milford with extensive damage to fore end, deck, guardrails, main and mizzen masts.
1976: Sold for breaking up.

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S.D/T. Lord Suffolk LT44

S.D/T. Lord Suffolk LT44
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S.D/T. Lord Suffolk LT44

S.D/T. Lord Suffolk LT44
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Changelog
25/10/2010: Page published. 3 updates since then.
31/01/2017: Image added.
06/11/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
03/05/2021: Updated history.

S.D/T. George Baker LT1253 (Seasonal)

Technical

Admiralty Number: 4131
Official Number: 137616
Yard Number: 572
Completed: 1919
Gross Tonnage: 96
Net Tonnage: 41
Length: 86.2 ft
Breadth: 18.7 ft
Depth: 9.3 ft
Built: A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen
Engine: T.3-cyl by A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen

History

1919: Launched by A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen (Yd.No.572) ) (“Admiralty drifter”) for The Admiralty as WATERMEET (Ad.No.4131).
16.9.1919: Completed as a fishing vessel.
11.1919: Sold to Edward A. Baker, Gt. Yarmouth (managing owner).
10.11.1919: Registered at Yarmouth as GEORGE BAKER O.N.137616 (YH210).
10.1922: Sold to Robert W. Sillett, Lowestoft (managing owner).
11.10.1922: Yarmouth registry closed.
14.10.1922: Registered at Lowestoft (LT1253).
1927: Sold to John Mitchell, Lowestoft (managing owner).
1930s: Seasonal white fish trawling from Padstow and Fleetwood (William Head, managing agent).
27.8.1939: Requisitioned for war service on port duties (Hire rate £32.16.0d/month). Renamed SKIRMISHER.
1940: Registered at Lowestoft as GEORGE BAKER (LT1253).
2.1944: Employed on miscellaneous Naval duties.
1943: Sold to Saint Andrew’s Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull (Basil A. Parkes, manager).
23.10.1945: Returned to owner.
1947: Sold to Carry On Fishing Co Ltd, Lowestoft (Maj. A. W. Suddaby MBE, Gorleston, manager).
10.1955: Sold to Jacques Bakker en Zonen, Bruges for breaking up.
14.10.1955: Delivered Bruges.
1955: Lowestoft registry closed.

Changelog

21/12/2010: Page published. 2 updates since then.
03/11/2020: Updated history.