Category Archives: Steam Trawlers

S.T. Magnolia FD37 (1)

Technical

Official Number: 108432
Yard Number: 198
Completed: 1898
Gross Tonnage: 184
Net Tonnage: 73
Length: 111 ft
Breadth: 20.8 ft
Depth: 11.3 ft
Built: J. Duthie, Sons & Co, Aberdeen, 1898
Engine: T.3-cyl by Whyte & Mair, Dundee

History

17.9.1898: Launched by J. Duthie, Sons & Co, Aberdeen (Yd.No.198) for Cornelius C. Morley & William G. D. Goff, Waterford, Co Waterford as MAGNOLIA.
10.1898: Completed (Cornelius C. Morley, manager).
23.11.1898: Registered at Milford (M146).
27.3.1901: While about 50 miles N of Mine Head Light (Sk. Samuel R. Longthorpe), struck on on starboard quarter by steamer REGINALD on course for Ballycotton Light.
9.4.1901: At Tralee Petty Sessions, Co. Kerry, Sk. Samuel Longthorpe was fined £5 with £10 costs for illegal trawling within the limits of Ballinspellige Bay, Co. Kerry.
9.3.1903: Sold to Southern Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Waterford, Co. Waterford (Cornelius C. Morley, Hakin, manager).
24.12.1903: While trawling 12 miles WNW of Cape Prior (Sk. M. Kingston), in collision with French steam trawler (B2672) which caused slight damage to starboard bow .
13.2.1906: Off the Blaskets (Sk. B. H. Blockwell), in very heavy weather sustained damage and lost boat.
15.12.1906: When SSW of the Longships (Sk. B. H. Blockwell), at 7.30 p.m. spoke with steamer IDA ZSCHIMMER (362grt/?)of Rostock disabled.
16.12.1906: At 2.00 a.m. Master requested standby until daylight and tow to Falmouth. Connected and with PEBGUIN (PH178) delivered Falmouth at 8.00 p.m.
9.1909: New boiler fitted.
9.10.1909: When 63 miles Wby N1N from St. Ann’s Head (Sk. B. H. Blockwell), James Bennett (26), fourth hand fell overboard and drowned.
29.12.1909: When towing 40 miles WNW from the Smalls at about 7.00 p.m. found EMERALD (M37) disabled with boiler trouble. Connected and commenced tow to Milford.
30.12.1909: At about 6.00 a.m. delivered Milford.
7.1.1915: Arrived Milford with motor vessel ANHOLT, picked up disabled off St. Ann’s Head.
7.1915: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-6pdr) (Ad.No.790). Based Dover.
11/12.1917: At Messrs Fletcher, Son & Fearnall Ltd, Union Dry Dock, Limehouse, boiler and steam line repairs/renewal.
8.1915: Renamed MAGNOLIA III. Based Portland.
By 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Milford Haven. Reverted to MAGNOLIA (M146).
10.7.1919: Sold to John McR. Knight, Hakin; John Young, Little Haven & Francis J. Smith, Milford Haven (John McR. Knight, Hakin, manager).
10.1919: Sold to Abraham Moore, Scarborough (managing owner).
16.10.1919: Milford registry closed.
10.1919: Registered at Scarborough (SH160).
1920: Sold to Stepney Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Scarborough (Abraham Moore, manager).
1922: Sold to Co-operative Fishing Society Ltd, Scarborough (Christopher Naylor, manager).
1923: Charles A. Oxley appointed manager.
1925: Sold to P. McGreery, (Rowland Morris, Fleetwood, manager).
1925: Sold to Magnolia Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Arthur M. Goldsmith, Manchester) (Roland Morris, manager).
5.1925: Scarborough registry closed.
19.5.1925: Registered at Fleetwood (FD37).
1927: Sold to Reginald L. Hancock, Milford Haven.
25.6.1928: Fishing 20 miles off Fastnet Light (Sk. W. Perry) at about 10.30 p.m. propeller shaft fractured and taking water aft. Taken in tow by AMROTH CASTLE (SA8) for Berehaven (Castletownbere), Co. Cork.
26.6.1928: At about 2.30 a.m. foundered 14 miles SE of Fastnet Rock. Crew taken onboard AMROTH CASTLE and landed at Berehaven.
11.10.1928: Fleetwood registry closed.

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S.T Magnolia FD37

S.T Magnolia FD37
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Changelog
26/12/2008: Page published. 5 updates since then.
19/01/2019: Image added.
21/05/2021: Updated history.

S.T. Macaw M18

Technical

Official Number: 128745
Yard Number: 393
Completed: 1908
Gross Tonnage: 187.40
Net Tonnage: 69.01
Length: 110.8 ft
Breadth: 21 ft
Depth: 11.7 ft
Built: Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, North Shields
Engine: T.3-cyl by W. V. V. Lidgerwood, Glasgow
Boiler: R. Stephenson & Co Ltd, Hebburn

History

7.12.1908: Launched by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, North Shields (Yd.No.393) for Sydney Morgan Price (22/64), Milford; Cornelius Cecil Morley (21/64), Hakin; Edward Gerrish (21/64), Stoke Bishop & Frederick Robert Greenish (21/64), Haverfordwest as MACAW.
1.1909: Completed. Sidney M. Price designated managing owner.
27.1.1909: Registered at Milford (M18).
6.7.1909: Edward Gerrish shares (21/64) sold to David Waters (21/64), London.
11.1912: Transferred to Fleetwood. Messrs Morley & Price designated manager owners.
8.1914: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-6pdr HA) (Ad.No.145).
11.8.1914: Sailed Fleetwood for Portsmouth.
1914: Based Portsmouth.
By 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Milford Haven.
6.9.1919: Sold to The Swansea Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Swansea. Harry Eastoe Rees designated manager.
22.12.1921: Bosun, Joseph Shervin died from fractured skull sustained while weighing anchor in rough weather.
26.3.1932: In Ballycotton Bay sheltering from heavy SE gale (Sk. Jack Bean Jnr). Dragged anchor in thick fog off Capel Island and when cable parted went ashore on the Black Rocks between Ballycotton and Garryvoe, Co. Cork.
27.3.1932: Attended by Ballycotton lifeboat and salvage tug ROODE ZEE (573grt/1908). Refloating unsuccessful. Vessel undamaged apart from some bottom plates set-up and propeller blade chipped.
6.4.1932: Refloated. Anchored Ballycotton Bay, vessel tight.
7.4.1932: Took bunker coal from ROODE ZEE and sailed for Milford at slow speed.
8.4.1932: Arrived Milford.
28.8.1933: Sold to Harry E. Rees, Milford Haven (managing owner).
12.11.1933: Returning to Milford from fishing grounds run into by German steamer SAMLAND (771g/1896) on passage Liverpool for Hamburg and sustained damage to port bulwark rail and shear strake.
11.12.1935: Sold to William Gove, Aberdeen. William Gove designated managing owner.
11.12.1935: Milford registry closed.
13.12.1935: Registered at Aberdeen (A388).
15.1.1943: Sold to James Johnson (64/64), Scarborough.
25.2.1946: Sold to General Discount Trust Ltd (64/64), Scarborough. James Johnson designated manager.
8.12.1950: Sold to Richard Cameron Kelman & Andrew Gordon Shirreff, Aberdeen.
1951: Sold to BISCO and allocated to J. J. King & Co Ltd, Gateshead for breaking up.
1.1951: Delivered Tyne from Scarborough under own power.
13.6.1951: Aberdeen registry closed “Vessel broken up”.

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S.T. kingsway GY37

S.T. Macaw M18
Picture © George Scales – The George Westwood Collection

Changelog
26/12/2008: Page published. 4 updates since then.
07/02/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
20/05/2021: Updated history and technical details.

S.T. Lysander II FD352

Technical

Official Number: 118794
Yard Number: 38
Completed: 1903
Gross Tonnage: 264
Net Tonnage: 96
Length: 130 ft
Breadth: 22 ft
Depth: 12.1 ft
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Beverley
Engine: 78nhp T.3-cyl by Amos & Smith Ltd, Hull

History

10.10.1903: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Beverley (Yd.No.38) for Hellyer’s Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull as LYSANDER.
21.12.1903: Registered at Hull (H800). Charles Hellyer designated manager.
12.1903: Completed.
8.1914: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (2-6pdrs) (Ad.No.255).
2.1915: Renamed LYSANDER II.
17.4.1915: Registered at Hull as LYSANDER II (H800).
9.11.1917: Sold to The Mersey Steam Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood. Ernest Taylor designated manager. Based Granton.
Post 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Fleetwood.
3.11.1919: Hull registry closed.
4.11.1919: Registered at Fleetwood (FD352).
1922: Joseph A. Taylor & Harold Taylor designated managers.
1924: Walter J. Morley designated manager.
22.4.1925: Company in voluntary Liquidation. William Ignatius Swarbrick, Chartered Accountant, Preston appointed Liquidator.
7.7.1925: Sold by the liquidator to Magnolia Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Arthur M. Goldsmith, Manchester). Rowland Morrice designated manager.
16.7.1925: The Mersey Steam Trawlers Ltd wound-up.
25.5.1926: Registered at Fleetwood as SYDNELSIE (FD352).
1927: Sold to Reginald L. Hancock, Milford Haven. Reginald L. Hancock designated managing owner.
25.6.1935: Fishing off SW Ireland (Sk. Joe Watts). Struck rocks off the Blasket Islands, Co.Kerry.
28.6.1935: Came off rocks and sank; crew abandoned in boat and picked up by a Dingle trawler.
3.7.1935: Fleetwood registry closed “Total loss”.
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S.T. Lysander H800

S.T. Lysander H800
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Changelog
26/12/2008: Page published. 4 revisions since them.
04/09/2014: Picture added.
17/05/2021: Updated history.

S.T. Lushby FD24

Technical

Admiralty Number: 3695
Official Number: 143864
Yard Number: 106
Completed: 1917
As built: 360disp 125.6 x 23.5 x 12.8 feet
Gross Tonnage: 280
Net Tonnage: 110
Length: 125.6 ft
Breadth: 23.5 ft
Depth: 12.7 ft
Engine: 48ihp T.3-cyl by Gauldie, Gillespie & Co Ltd, Glasgow
Built: Geo. Brown & Co, Greenock

History

1.11.1917: Launched by Geo. Brown & Co, Greenock (Yd.No.106) (“Castle” class) for The Admiralty as JOHN CAMPBELL(Ad.No.3695). 13.12.1917: Completed (1-12pdr).
22.11.1919: Registered by The Admiralty at London (Part I) as GEORGE DIXON O.N.143864.
1919: Allocated to Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries and engaged in commercial trawling.
28.01.1920: Allocated to the Government scheme for the setting up of the Minesweepers’ Cooperative Trawling Society Ltd, London.
8.1.1920: Registered by The Admiralty at London (Part IV) (LO260).
13.8.1920: Minesweepers’ Cooperative Trawling Society Ltd, London registered.
12.1920: At HM Dockyard Chatham fitted out for fishing under Special Survey of Lloyd’s Register and classed 100 A1 Stm Trawler at London.
4.1921: Paid off at The Nore. Laid up at Brightlingsea.
1.1922: Scheme abandoned, the necessary working capital of £100,000 had not been subscribed. Laid up.
1923: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Grimsby (Fred Parkes, Wyberton, Boston, manager).
1924: Transferred to fish out of Fleetwood (Fred Parkes, Blackpool, manager).
14.11.1924: London registry closed.
21.11.1924: Registered at Fleetwood as LUSHBY (FD24).
19.12.1925: Lost after stranding on south side of Tory Island, Co. Donegal.
2.3.1926: Fleetwood registry closed “ Vessel lost”.

(John Campbell, AB, age 20, b. Stirling, Scotland – ROYAL SOVEREIGN (SB364))

Changelog
21/12/2008: Page published. 3 updates since then.
14/05/2021: Updated history and technical details.

S.T. Lune FD59

Additional material courtesy of Bill Blow and Douglas Paterson

Technical

Official Number: 162056
Yard Number: 910
Completed: 1930
Gross Tonnage: 310
Net Tonnage: 119
Length: 131 ft
Breadth: 24.5 ft
Depth: 13.4 ft
Engine: 575ihp T. 3-cyl by by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, South Bank-on-Tees, Middlesbrough
Boiler: Blair & Co (1926) Ltd, Stockton on Tees
Built: Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, South Bank-on-Tees, Middlesbrough

History

16.1.1930: Launched by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, South Bank-on-Tees, Middlesbrough (Yd.No.910) for Wyre Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Fleetwood as LUNE.
4.2.1930: Registered at Fleetwood (FD59).
2.1930: Completed (Magnus B. J. Wedum, manager).
20.1.1932: Gave bearings to VERASIS (GY483) homeward from Icelandic grounds swept by sea and lost wheelhouse and compasses.
26.9.1938: Sold to The Earl Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
26.9.1938: Fleetwood registry closed.
27.9.1938: Registered at Grimsby (GY538).
27.9.1938: Sir Alec Black, Bart appointed manager.
2.9.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (P.No.FY.588) (Hire rate £153.14.2d/month).
10.12.1940: Sold to Sir Alec Black, Bart (64/64), Grimsby.
12.12.1940: Sir Alec Black, Bart appointed manager.
15.9.1941: Sold to Malcolm Smith Ltd (64/64), Aberdeen,
20.9.1941: Malcolm Smith appointed manager.
1.1944: Fitted out as a wreck dispersal vessel (P.No.4.416) and assigned to Operation Neptune – Normandy landings.
5.1944: Held in readyness at Cardiff.
3.7.1944: Operation Neptune ended. Employed on wreck dispersal.
1945: Transferred to War Department.
7.1946: Returned to owner.
2.4.1947: Grimsby registry closed.
10.4.1947: Registered at Aberdeen (A299).
15.3.1948: Registered at Aberdeen as LOCH LOMOND (A299) (MoT Minute R.G.No.1199/1947 dated 12.3.1948).
23.10.1952: Outward for Faroe fishing grounds, with heavy seas and swell running in the channel, struck bottom and damaged rudder. Unable to manoeuvre, swept against the apron of the North Pier and came fast. Life saving teams were quickly on the scene and with difficulty all thirteen crew brought on to the pier. Declared a Total Loss and broken up in situ.
15.12.1952: Aberdeen registry closed.

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S.T. Lune FD59

S.T. Lune FD59
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HMT Lune

HMT Lune
Picture reproduced under IWM Non-Commercial Licence

Changelog
26/12/2008: Page published. 5 updates since then.
20/1/2017: Removed FMHT watermark from image.