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S.T. Escallonia GY631

Additional information courtesy of Bill Blow

Technical

Official Number: 132101
Yard Number: 209
Completed: 1911
Gross Tonnage: 285
Net Tonnage: 123
Length: 132 ft
Breadth: 22.5 ft
Depth: 11.7 ft
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley
Engine: 500ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull

History

16.3.1911: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.209) for The North Eastern Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby as ESCALLONIA.
16.5.1911: Registered at Grimsby (GY631).
16.5.1911: Sir George Doughty MP designated manager.
5.1911: Completed.
12.5.1914: Harry Morris designated manager.
3.1915: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-12pdr) (Ad.No.43). Fitted as Leader.
25.1.1915: Arrived Devonport to fit out for Mediterranean Station.
29.1.1915: Sailed (Cdr. William Mellor RN). Dardanelles Campaign.
20.12.1915: Dardanelles (Gallipoli) evacuation completed. Redeployed.
1918: Based Longhope.
Post 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Grimsby.
26.11.1919: The North Eastern Steam Fishing Co Ltd in liquidation. Alfred John Downs, Grimsby appointed Official Liquidator.
29.11.1919: Sold to Thomas W. Baskcomb (64/64), Grimsby.
1.12.1919: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Barclays Bank Ltd, London (A).
2.12.1919: Thomas William Baskcomb designated managing owner.
22.10.1935: Sold by order of the mortgagee under mortgage (A) to Fred Parkes (64/64), Fleetwood & Blackpool.
29.10.1935: Basil Arthur Parkes, Cleveleys designated manager.
25.11.1935: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd (64/64), Fleetwood.
2.12.1935: First landing at Fleetwood.
4.12.1935: Basil Arthur Parkes, Cleveleys designated manager.
27.1.1936: Arrived Fleetwood in tow of trawler CHERITON (M118) having been picked up off Rockall disabled with condenser cover fractured.
2.4.1936: In collision in Donegal Bay with steam trawler NELLIE BRADDOCK (FD175) which sustained damage to stem and shell plating at bow.
1937: Sold to Thos. W. Ward Ltd, Sheffield for breaking up at Preston.
26.1.1938: Grimsby registry closed “Sold for breaking up”.

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S.T. Escallonia GY631

S.T. Escallonia GY631
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S.T. Escallonia GY632

S.T. Escallonia GY632
Picture courtesy of The David Slinger Collection

Changelog
19/12/2008: Page published. 4 revisions since then.
08/03/2015: Picture added.
27/01/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
13/12/2018: Added an image.
16/07/2020: Updated information.

S.T. Erith FD93

Technical

Admiralty Number: 3546
Official Number: 143797
Yard Number: 806
Completed: 1917
Gross Tonnage: 325
Net Tonnage: 154
Length: 138.5 ft
Breadth: 23.7 ft
Depth: 12.8 ft
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby
Engine: 600ihp T.3-cyl by Cooper & Greig Ltd, Dundee

History

8.5.1917: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.806) (“Mersey” class) for The Admiralty as THOMAS ATKINSON (Ad.No.3546).
3.8.1917: Completed as a minesweeper (1-12pdr and W/T).
8.8.1917: Delivered.
4.11.1919: Registered by The Admiralty at London (Part I) as THOMAS ATKINSON O.N.143797.
1919: Allocated to Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries and engaged in commercial trawling.
13.8.1920: Minesweepers’ Cooperative Trawling Society Ltd, London registered.
1921: Allocated to the Minesweepers’ Cooperative Trawling Society Ltd, London.
11.5.1921: Registered by The Admiralty at London (Part IV) (LO509).
10.1921: At HM Dockyard, Pembroke completed fitting out for fishing under Special Survey of Lloyd’s Register and classed 100A1 Stm Trawler at Milford.
01.1922: Scheme abandoned, the necessary working capital of £100,000 having not been subscribed. Laid up.
12.1923: Sold to Hudson Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull.
8.12.1923: London registry closed.
10.12.1923: Registered at Hull (H909). Thomas Hudson designated manager.
18.12.1923: Registered at Hull as CAVENDISH (H909).
Pre 11.1935: Rendered assistance to steam trawler LORD ANCASTER (H662) disabled with a broken rudder stock 10 miles E of North Ronaldsay, Orkney Islands. Connected and commenced tow.
7.1938: Sold to Towarzystwo Dalekomorskich Polowoe “Pomorze” Sp.z.o.o., Gdynia.
28.7.1938: Hull registry closed.
1938: Renamed EUGENIUSZ (GDY118).
1939: Sold to Adam Steam Fishing Co. Ltd, London (Basil A. Parkes, Cleveleys, manager).
8.1939: Gdynia registry closed.
8.8.1939: Registered at Fleetwood as ERITH (FD93).
4.2.1940: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (P.No. FY.578) (Hire rate £94.15.10d/month).
1.1941: Based Grimsby with M/S Group 21 (Ty/Sk. H. J. May RNR).
31.5.1943: Sold to Winzenty Bartosiak, Gdynia, Poland.
31.5.1943: Sold to Winzenty Bartosiak, Gdynia, Poland (Baltycka Spolka Okretowa sp.z.o.o., Gdynia (Baltic Shipping Co Ltd)) (T. Olszowski, manager).
4.6.1943: Fleetwood registry closed.
6.1945: Returned to owner. Registered at Gdynia as POLESIE (GDY89).
5.1946: Special survey (ss) at Ghent.
23-24.6.1946: Arrived Gdynia (Sk. D. Plug (Dutch)) with good catch having sailed from Ghent on completion of surveys. Then fishing from IJmuiden with Dutch crews until end of year.
12.1946: Returned to Poland.
16.12.1949: By Order of the Ministry of Navigation the holding company and assets to be placed under control of the Polish People’s Republic. Zbigniew Kollesinskiego appointed manager.
1950: Company and assets transferred to “Dalmor” Przedsiobiorstwo Polowow Dalekomorskich Sp.z.ogr.odp, Gdynia (Polish Government).
1957: New boiler.
1957: Registered at Gdynia as FENIKS (GDY89).
12.1959: Sold to Polish shipbreakers and broken up.
1960: Gdynia registry closed.

(Thomas Atkinson, Master (Warrant 7 Apr 1803) responsible for the navigation of the ship, age 40, b. ?? – VICTORY (SB31))

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S.T. Cavendish H909

S.T. Cavendish H909
Picture courtesy of Grimsby Reference Library

Changelog
18/12/2008: Page published. 3 updates since then.
13/07/2020: Information updated.

S.T. Ephraim FD219

Technical

Official Number: 127564
Yard Number: 381
Completed: 1908
Gross Tonnage: 260.04
Net Tonnage: 100.89
Length: 125.0 ft
Breadth: 22.0 ft
Depth: 12.2 ft
Built: Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, North Shields
Engine: 500ihp T.3-cyl by Shields Engineering Co Ltd, North Shields
Boiler: R. Stephenson & Co Ltd Hebburn on Tyne

History

30.6.1908: Launched by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, North Shields (Yd.No.381) for The West Coast Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64) Fleetwood as EPHRAIM.
8.1908: Completed.
21.8.1908: Walter Acaster designated manager.
22.8.1908: Registered at Fleetwood (FD218).
22.8.1908: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, North Shields (A).
1910: Sk. R. W. Baskcombe.
10.2.1911: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Stamford, Spalding & Boston Banking Co Ltd, Stamford (B).
2.1.1912: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Alfred Bannister, Grimsby (C).
7.2.1912: Alfred Bannister, Grimsby designated manager.
26.8.1912: Mortgagee (B) restyled Barclay & Co Ltd, London.
1913: Re-measured 246g 94n.
1913: Mortgages (A), (B) & (C) discharged.
1913: Sold to Soc. de Pécheries de la Mediterranée, Marseilles (J. Arman, manager).
6.8.1913: Fleetwood registry closed.
1913: Registered at Marseilles as MARIE FRÉDÉRIC aka MARIE FRÉDÉRIQUE.
1915: Requisitioned for French Naval service as a minesweeper.
16.5.1918: Mined N of Cap de Garde (37.02N 07. 52E) with loss of eighteen crew (mine had been laid 6.5.1918 by UC54).

Changelog
19/12/2008: Page published. 3 updates since then.
12/07/2020: Updated information.

S.T. Envoy FD23

Technical

Official Number: 102948
Yard Number: 86
Completed: 1894
Gross Tonnage: 156
Net Tonnage: 59
Length: 103.7 ft
Breadth: 20.5 ft
Depth: 10.7 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Muir & Houston, Glasgow
Built: Mackie & Thomson, Govan

History

2.5.1894: Launched by Mackie & Thomson, Govan (Yd.No.86) for Gt. Northern Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull as ENVOY.
19.5.1894: Registered at Hull (H248).
5.1894: Completed.
11.1912: Sold to Thomas Lauder, Aberdeen (managing owner).
28.11.1912: Hull registry closed.
3.12.1912: Registered at Aberdeen (A507).
15.3.1916: Sold to Richard Gore, Tarleton, Nr Preston & Ernest Tomlinson, Fleetwood (Ernest Tomlinson managing owner).
29.5.1917: Requisitioned for Fishery Reserve.
4.7.1917: Sold to The Scarisbrick Steam Trawlers (Fleetwood) Ltd, Fleetwood (Joseph A. Taylor, manager).
1919: Released.
26.2.1919: Aberdeen registry closed.
27.2.1919: Registered at Fleetwood (FD23).
1920: Sold to Sidney Morris Cannon, Aberdeen (Horace E. Stroud, manager).
14.2.1920: Fleetwood registry closed.
17.2.1920: Registered at Aberdeen (A283).
1924: Sold for breaking up.
26.9.1924: Aberdeen registry closed “Vessel broken up.”

Changelog
19/12/2008: Page published. 2 updates since then.
07/07/2020: Updated information.

S.T. English Rose FD34

Additional information courtesy of Birgir Þórisson

Technical

Admiralty Number: 4467
Official Number: 145200
Yard Number: 248
Completed: 1920
Gross Tonnage: 341
Net Tonnage: 123
Length: 138.5 ft
Breadth: 23.7 ft
Depth: 12.8 ft
Built: Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co Ltd, Goole
Engine: 600ihp T.3-cyl by Richardsons, Westgarth & Co Ltd, Middlesbrough.

History

01.1921: Allocated to the National Fishery Scheme for the setting up of the Minesweepers’ Cooperative Trawling Society Ltd, London.
1.1921: On completion not to proceed to Chatham as previously ordered but to be laid up at Hull pending further instructions.
24.3.1921: Completed as a fishing vessel under Lloyd’s Survey.
14.5.1921: Registered by The Admiralty at London (Part I & IV) as WILLIAM CHATWOOD O.N.145200 (LO513). Laid up at Hull.
1.1922: Sold to Bouclet Fils, Zunnequin, Canu & Cie, Boulogne sur Mer.
10.1.1922: London registry closed.
1.1922: Registered at Boulogne as Blanc Nez (B-869).
Pre 1930: Sold to Zunnequin & Cie, Boulogne sur Mer.
1931: Sold to Société Boulonnaise d’Armement à la Pêche, Boulogne sur Mer. Zunnequin, Bouclet et Cie, managers.
1934: Sold to Soc. Anon. des Pêcheries St. Pierre, Boulogne sur Mer. P. Ficheux, manager.
1934: Registered at Boulogne as SAINT-MATHIAS (B869).
1934: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood.
9.8.1934: Registered at Fleetwood as ENGLISH ROSE (FD34). Basil Arthur Parkes, Cleveleys designated manager.
6.1935: Sold to Pêcheries de la Morinie, Boulogne sur Mer. P. Ficheux, manager.
17.6.1935: Fleetwood registry closed.
6.1935: Registered at Boulogne as St. DOMINIQUE (B-1707).
1939: Requisitioned for war service in the Marine Francais (P.No.AD72).
22.6.1940: French government signed surrender. At Rochefort ‘demobilised and disarmed’ under German control. Commissioned into the Kriegsmarine (P.No.HS.03).
5.1942: Re allocated P.No.V.72.
4.6.1944: Mined off Brest.

Note: It would appear that the Parkes were involved with this vessel from her sale in 1922 until the onset of WW2.

(William Chatwood, AB, age 41, b. Deptford, Kent – ROYAL SOVEREIGN (SB720))

Changelog
19/12/2008: Page published. 3 updates since then.
07/07/2020: Updated information.