Category Archives: Steam Trawlers

S.T. Ionic GY256

Technical

Official Number: 96224
Yard Number: 339
Completed: 1890
Gross Tonnage: 159
Net Tonnage: 64
Length: 101 ft
Breadth: 20.6 ft
Depth: 10.7 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by Earle’s Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Hull
Built: Earle’s Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Hull

History

3.6.1890: Launched by Earle’s Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Hull (Yd.No.339) for The Grimsby Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby as IONIC.
6.1890: Completed. George E. J. Moody designated manager.
1.7.1890: Registered at Grimsby (GY256). Fishing from Fleetwood. William Moody Kelly managing agent.
1896: Sk. John Wright convicted on charges of fishing in the Minches with beam trawl.
18.6.1899: Arrested by HMS VIGILANT whilst trawling 21/2 miles inside the prohibited area off the Wigtownshire coast. Forty boxes of fish onboard.
5.7.1899: At Stranraer Sheriff Court Sk. Richard Wright was fined £50 or 30 days imprisonment.
1913: New boiler fitted.
3.1917: At Fleetwood. Fitted with Hotchkiss 6pdr gun (No.3621); complement increased by two gunners.
29.5.1917: Requisitioned for Fishery Reserve.
1919: Released.
1921: Fishing from Fleetwood.
4.1.1921: Sk. J. Ronson fined £15 at Bangor for trawling within the three mile limit and having immature fish onboard.
1926: Sir George E. J. Moody designated manager.
7.3.1928: Off the Humber in collision with Hull steam trawler HORNBILL (H244) which connected and commenced tow to the Humber. Vessel started to settle and foundered 4 miles NE of Spurn Lightship. All crew safe.
30.3.1928: Grimsby registry closed.

Changelog
24/12/2008: Page published.
03/06/2014: Information updated.
31/03/2021: Updated history.

S.T. Inverythan A160

Additional information courtesy of Andy Hall

Technical

Admiralty Number: 4458
Oficial Number: 142269
Yard Number: 349A
Completed: 1919
As built: 360disp 125.6 x 23.5 x 12.8 feet
Gross Tonnage: 277.84
Net Tonnage: 121
Length: 125.6 ft
Breadth: 23.6 ft
Depth: 12.8 ft
Built: Ailsa Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Ayr
Engine: 480ihp T.3-cyl by Fawcett, Preston & Co Ltd, Liverpool

History

21.1.1919: Launched by by Ailsa Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Ayr (Yd.No.349A) (“Castle” class) for The Admiralty as FRANCIS CONLIN (Ad.No.4458).
5.2.1919: Forms for tender to purchase received by the Admiralty.
3.1919: Sold to Lieut Andrew Hardie RNR, Cults, Aberdeenshire. Lieut Andrew Hardie RNR designated managing owner.
18.3.1919: Completed as a fishing vessel.
2.5.1919: After fitting out for trawling, registered at Greenock (Part I & IV) as INVERYTHAN, O.N.142269 (GK17).
5.5.1919: Greenock registry closed.
9.5.1919: Registered at Aberdeen (A160). Horace Edward Stroud designated manager.
30.1.1920: Sold to Onward Steam Trawlers (Fleetwood) Ltd, Fleetwood. Walter Morley designated manager.
12.1927: Sold to Société Anonyme des Pêcheries du Nord, Ostend.
30.12.1927: Aberdeen registry closed.
2.1928: Registered at Ostend as MARGUERITE (O154).
10.10.1930: Sailed Ostend for La Rochelle.
14.10.1930: Arrived La Rochelle. Drydocked and offered for sale.
10.1930: Sold to Syndicate Charadahli, Piraeus. Ostend registry closed. Registered at Piraeus.
4.1931: Sold to N. L. Jenks, Malta. Registered at Piraeus as NORIAN.
11.1931: Sold to G. F. Hadzidakis, Piraeus. Registered at Piraeus as MIRANDA.
1939: Sold to G. E. & B. E. Hadzidakis, Piraeus.
Pre 1943: Sold to E. Arvanitopoulos, Piraeus (Furness(Egypt) Ltd, Port Said, managers).
12.2.1941: Requisitioned for war service (War Dept) Mediterranian Command (Hire rate Egyptian £350.0.0d/month).
1951: E. Arvanitopoulas, Port Said, Egypt.
Post 1966: FATE?

(Francis Conlin, Landsman, age 36, b. Kildare, Co. Kildare – ROYAL SOVEREIGN (SB618))

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S.T. Inverythan A160

S.T. Inverythan A160
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S.T. Marguerite 0154

S.T. Marguerite 0154
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Changelog
24/12/2008: Page published. 2 updates since then.
30/03/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
12/04/2020: Updated history.
12/05/2022: Added an image.

S.T. Invertay GY287

Additional information courtesy of Bill Blow and Andy Hall

Technical

Official Number: 138971
Yard Number: 176
Completed: 1916
Gross Tonnage: 229.89
Net Tonnage: 106.92
Length: 120.2 ft
Breadth: 22.0 ft
Depth: 12.1 ft
Built; Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co Ltd, Goole
Engine: 400ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull

History

9.2.1916: Launched by Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co Ltd, Goole (Yd.No.176) for The Grimsby & North Sea Steam Trawling Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby as CANCER.
6.1916: Completed.
28.6.1916: Registered at Grimsby (GY918).
28.6.1916: John Richardson Mackrill designated manager. Requisitioned from the builders for war service (Ad.No.2957).
6.1916: Fitted with WT and 6-pdr gun and fitted out as a minesweeper (Ad.No.2957).
10.1916: Allocated – Unit No.1212 ‘Trawler Sweepers’ based Devonport (Lieut. F.F. Wyeth RNR).
Post 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Grimsby.
5.8.1921: Sold to Lindsey Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
15.8.1921: Edwin Bacon Snr designated manager.
2.1.1923: Arrived Grimsby with steam trawler PORTSMOUTH (GY249) in tow picked up disabled with engine problems.
31.8.1929: Sold to David Dryburgh, Robert Dryburgh, Thomas Liston and George Hunter (64/64 joint owners), all Leith.
10.9.1929: David Dryburgh designated managing owner.
7.10.1929: David Dryburgh designated managing owner.
14.10.1929: Sold to David Dryburgh (16/64), Robert Dryburgh (16/64), Thomas Liston (16/64) and George Hunter (16/64), all Leith.
29.10:1929: George Hunter (16/64) shares mortgaged to Royal Bank of Scotland, Edinburgh (A).
18.5.1931: Mortgage (A) discharged.
19.5.1931: Sold by David Dryburgh (16/64), Robert Dryburgh (16/64), Thomas Liston (16/64) and George Hunter (16/64), all Leith to David Dryburgh, Robert Dryburgh, Thomas Liston and George Hunter, all Leith (64/64 joint owners).
21.5.1931: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Royal Bank of Scotland Ltd, Edinburgh (B).
26.5.1931: David Dryburgh designated managing owner.
5.2.1936: Grimsby registry closed.
21.3.1936: Registered at Granton as INVERTAY (GN49) (BoT Minute No.R.G.1020/1936 dated 31.1.1936).
1937: Sold to George R. Cooke, Edinburgh. George R. Cooke designated managing owner.
8.8.1939: Off Cape Wrath disabled with broken tail shaft. Steam trawler STAR OF THE EAST (LH36) (Sk. Watson Liston) connected and commenced tow 200 miles to Aberdeen.
11.8.1939: Arrived Aberdeen after 36 hour tow.
1939: Sold to George R. Cook & William Carnie Jnr, Newhaven, Edinburgh.
1940: Sold to Carnie & Gibb, Newhaven, Edinburgh. William Carnie Jnr designated manager.
8.1940: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (P.No.FY.1748) (Hire rate £65.3.4d/month).
1941: Sold to J. Bennett (Wholesale) Ltd, London. William Alfred Bennett designated manager.
29.12.1942: Roderick Finlayson Murray (32), Aberdeen, 2nd Hand missing, presumed drowned.
1946: Sold to Lord Line Ltd, Hull. Thomas W. Boyd designated manager.
30.5.1946: At Hull landed from a North Sea trip, 3,500 stone, including hake – 1,200, coley – 900, mixed – skate, ling, whiting, witches, etc – 1400 stone.
7.6.1946: Outward for the fishing grounds, put into North Shields with engine trouble.
6.1946: Sold to Bramwell Collinge (64/64), St. Anne’s-on-the-Sea.
6.1946: Granton registry closed.
24.6.1946: Registered at Grimsby (GY287).
24.6.1946: Bramwell Collinge designated managing owner.
7.1946: Returned to owner.
30.11.1945: Insured value £18,000; for 1946 proposed same.
31.8.1946: Sold to Harcol Trawling Co Ltd (64/64), St. Anne’s-on-the-Sea.
1.10.1946: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Barclays Bank Ltd, London (C).
3.10.1946: Arthur Gladstone Hamer, Grimsby designated manager.
10.1949: Fishing from Fleetwood.
30.1.1950: Last landing. Laid up.
29.3.1950: Meeting of creditors.
31.5.1950: Company placed in Voluntary Liquidation. Eric Stevenson Browne, Liverpool appointed Liquidator.
21.9.1950: Mortgage (C) discharged.
21.9.1950: Sold by the liquidator to Sir Thomas Robinson & Son (Grimsby) Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
28.9.1950: Frank Wheeler Robinson designated manager.
30.9.1953: Harcol Trawling Co Ltd wound up.
19.2.1954: Frank Bellamy Robinson designated manager.
7.10.1954: In gale conditions in North Sea shipped heavy seas flooding stokehold losing fires and disabled pumps. Trawler FLYING WING (GY690) responded to radio message, connected with difficulty and commenced 70 mile tow to Grimsby.
8.10.1954: Delivered Grimsby.
3.1961: Sailed Grimsby for North Sea grounds (Sk.A. Osborne); ten crew.
10.3.1961: On a North Sea trip (Sk. A. Osborne); nine crew all told. At about 1.20am. foundered after collision with German steam trawler FRANZ SCHAU (393grt/1949) in thick fog 190 miles off Humber in approx position 55°11N/5°10E. Crew* took to liferaft and picked up by German trawler GRUNDMANN and transferred to motor trawler SAXON PROGRESS (GY655), on maiden trip, for return to Grimsby.
6.12.1961: Grimsby registry closed “Vessel sunk… after collision”.

*Crew: Sk. A. Osborne; A Hodson, Mate; W. Lambert, Third hand; H. Dodd, Ch Eng; C. Guyton, 2nd Eng; P. Wandel, W. Ramsey, A. Clark, Deckhands; J. Wardle, cook.

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S.T. Cancer GY918

S.T. Cancer GY918
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S.T. Invertay GY287

S.T. Invertay GY287
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S.T. Invertay GY287

S.T. Invertay GY287
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S.T. Invertay GY287

S.T. Invertay GY287
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S.T. Invertay GY287

S.T. Invertay GY287
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Changelog
24/12/2008: Page published. 7 updates since then.
10/06/2015: Picture added.
15/06/2016: Information updated.
06/03/2017: Image added.
23/12/2017: Removed FMHT watermarks from images.
26/04/2018: Information updated.
30/01/2021: Updated history.
29/04/2022: Added an image.

S.T. Inverspey FD421

Additional information courtesy of Andy Hall

Technical

Admiralty Number: 3788
Official Number: 142270
Yard Number: 113
Completed: 1919
As built: 360disp 125.6 x 23.5 x 12.8 feet
Gross Tonnage: 280.25
Net Tonnage: 113.28
Length: 125.6 ft
Breadth: 23.6 ft
Depth: 14.12 ft
Built: Geo. Brown & Co Ltd, Greenock
Engine: 480ihp T.3-cyl by Mackie & Baxter Ltd, Glasgow

History

19.11.1918: Launched by Geo. Brown & Co Ltd, Greenock (Yd.No.113) (“Castle” class) for The Admiralty as WILLIAM GRIFFITHS (Ad.No.3788).
5.2.1919: Forms for tender to purchase received by the Admiralty.
21.2.1919: Completed as a fishing vessel.
1919: Sold to Lieut Andrew Hardie RNR, Cults, Aberdeenshire. Horace Edward Stroud designated manager.
2.5.1919: After fitting out at Greenock for trawling, registered at Greenock (Part I & IV as INVERSPEY O.N.142270 (GK20).
5.1919: Greenock registry closed.
9.5.1919: Registered at Aberdeen (A158).
5.12.1919: Sold to Thomas Crimlis, Filey. Thomas Crimlis designated managing owner.
6.12.1919: Aberdeen registry closed.
8.12.1919: Registered at Scarborough (SH173).
29.6.1920: Sold to The Pearl Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Scarborough. Benjamin Simpson Jn, Scarborough & Frank Crimlis, Filey designated managers.
11.1922: Sold to Sun Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Fleetwood James W. Armitage designated manager.
20.11.1922: Scarborough registry closed.
23.11.1922: Registered at Fleetwood (FD421).
13.8.1923: In dense fog changing grounds, stranded on rocks off NW shore of Inishmore, Aran Islands, Galway Bay. Crew* took to boat and after over four hours fog lifted and with difficulty landed below the light at Eeragh Island. Total loss.
20.9.1923: Fleetwood registry closed.

(Wiliam Griffiths, AB (volunteer), age 32, b. Carnarvonshire, N. Wales – ROYAL SOVEREIGN (SB36))

(* Lawrence Turner, James George, J. Reynolds, James Goggle, Jack Tennant, T. Burnett, Abdullah Gun, W. Jefferson, S. Jinks, D. Morrison, R. Cross).

Changelog
24/12/2008: Page published. 3 updates since then.
12/04/2020: Updated history.

S.T. Inverneill A474

Additional information courtesy of Andy Hall

Technical

Admiralty Number: 3628
Official Number: 143910
Yard Number: 618
Completed: 1917
Gross Tonnage: 215.81
Net Tonnage: 93.28
Length: 115.4 ft
Breadth: 22.1 ft
Depth: 12.1 ft
Built: Hall, Russell & Co Ltd, Aberdeen
Engine: 430ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by Hall, Russell & Co Ltd, Aberdeen

History

13.9.1917: Launched by Hall, Russell & Co Ltd, Aberdeen (Yd.No.618) (“Strath” class) for The Admiralty as SAMUEL BARKAS (Ad.No.3628).
26.10.1917: Completed (1-12pdr HA).
2.12.1919: Registered by The Admiralty at London (Part I) as SAMUEL BARKAS O.N.143910.
1.1920: Sold to Alfred Rainbow (22/64), William Rainbow (22/64), Milford Haven; Harry Eastoe Rees (21/64) & Frank Berry Rees (21/64), Swansea.
30.1.1920: Registered at Milford (M84). Alfred Rainbow designated managing owner.
16.3.1920: Sold to Rainbow Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Milford Haven. Harry E. Rees designated manager.
28.5.1921: Arrived Dartmouth.
29.5.1921: Sailed Dartmouth for Channel fishing grounds.
11.1925: Sold to David Dryburgh, Leith.
6.7.1926: Milford registry closed.
8.7.1926: Registered at Granton (GN69). Robert Bell Jnr designated manager.
9.7.1926: Registered at Granton as INVERNEILL (GN69).
27.2.1929: In dense fog stranded near Dunbar. Refloated with assistance of Leith tug EARL of POWIS (116grt/1882) and returned to Granton.
Pre 1935: Planet Fishing Co Ltd, designated managers.
1937: Sold to Robert Baxter, Aberdeen.
21.3.1938: On arrival at Aberdeen reported that on 19th when fishing some 80 miles from the Out Skerries, Shetland the ship was struck by lightning. The mate had a miraculous escape as just before the lightening struck he stepped into the galley for a cigarette and thus avoided being injured by the falling aerial. The wireless apparatus damaged and the compass also affected.
5.1938: Granton registry closed.
20.5.1938: Registered at Aberdeen (A474). Robert Baxter designated managing owner.
26.12.1940: Sold to Bunch Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby. Herbert G. Crampin, designated manager.
1940: Directed to Fleetwood under wartime control.
3.5.1943: Typical wartime landing. 193 kits – hake-35, cod/codling-1, flats-6, ling/coley-140, roker-4, dogs-4, sole & prime-3.
11.12.1946: Sold to Camperdown Fishing Co Ltd, Aberdeen. John Walker designated manager.
1956: Sold to BISCO (£3850) and allocated to Shipbreaking Industries Ltd for breaking up at Charlestown, Fife (Contract No.13E).
29.11.1956: Delivered Charlestown from Aberdeen under own power.
12.1956: Breaking up commenced.
28.6.1957: Aberdeen registry closed “Vessel broken up”.

(Samuel Barkas, Landsman (Volunteer), b. Lancaster, Lancashire, age 23 – VICTORY (SB185))

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S.T. Inverneil A474

S.T. Inverneil A474
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24/12/2008: Page published. 2 updates since then.
28/04/2017: Image added.
24/04/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image and updated information.
29/01/2021: Updated history.