Category Archives: Steam Trawlers

S.D/T. Alcor LT140 (Seasonal)

Additional information courtesy of Barry Banham, Maurice Voss and Jan Harteveld

Technical

Yard Number: 768
Completed: 1922
Gross Tonnage: 97
Net Tonnage: 35
Length: 85.2 ft
Breadth: 19.1
Depth: 9.0 ft
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby
Engine: C.2-cyl by International Engine Works, Amherst, Nova Scotia to a Goldie & McCulloch Co Ltd, Galt, Ontario design
Boiler: International Engine Works, Amherst, Nova Scotia
(All machinery new 1917 and ex Canadian wooden Admiralty drifter CD.48 )

History

14.2.1922: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.768) for John McCann, Hull (Pickering & Haldane’s Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull) as OLEARIA.
28.3.1922: Completed.
25.4.1922: Registered at Hull (H478).
8.5.1922: Transferred to Pickering & Haldane’s Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull (John McCann & Edward Cartwright, managers).
2.1925: Sold to L. Espersen, Denmark.
17.2.1925: Hull registry closed. Registered at Esbjerg (E444).
16.11.1925: Sold to Soc. Anon. Armement Ostendais, Ostend.
25.11.1925: Registered at Ostend as HECTOR DENIS (O237).
16.9.1930: Laid up until sold.
6.2.1936: Sold to Jubilee Fishing Co Ltd, Lowestoft (Alfred S. Ling, manager). Ostend registry closed.
16.4.1936: Registered at Lowestoft as ALCOR (LT140).
1937: Seasonal white fish trawling from Fleetwood (Lowestoft Fish Selling Co Ltd, Lowestoft, managing agents).
24.11.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeping drifter (P.No.FY960) (Hire rate £35.3.3d/month).
3.1942: Employed on miscellaneous Naval duties.
12.8.1943: Sold to Northern Trawlers Ltd, London (William A. Bennett, manager).
12.1943: Employed on port duties.
8.4.1945: Arrived Lowestoft for restoration and survey.
17.9.1945: Returned to owner.
8.1948: Sold to Jozef Arts, Ostend.
14.8.1948: Lowestoft registry closed.
12.5.1948: Taken in hand by Scheepswerf Seghers, Ostend for conversion to motor and fitted with a 270bhp 4 stroke 5-cyl oil engine by Ruston & Hornsby Ltd, Lincoln
1948: Re measured 99.72g 42.98n.
20.9.1948: Renamed MARJOLENE on completion.
31.9.1948: Registered as a motor trawler at Ostend as MARJOLENE. (O337).
5.1950: Sold to P.V.B.A. Jozef Arts & Co, Ostend.
4.3.1955: Crewman Emiel Makelberghe washed overboard and drowned.
22.12.1956: Whilst on passage home from Newlyn for Christmas when off Start Point started to take in water in the engine room. Taken in tow by Brixham motor trawler ROGER BUSHELL (BM76) but started to settle and foundered in position 50 14 12 N 03 08 45 W. All crew picked up by ROGER BUSHELL and landed at Brixham.

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S.D/T. Alcor LT140

S.D/T. Alcor LT140
© Ford Jenkins-Robert Durrant Collection

S.T. Alcor LT140

S.T. Alcor LT140
Picture courtesy of the Barry Banham Maritime Photo Collection

M.T. Marjolene O337

M.T. Marjolene O337
Picture courtesy of the Barry Banham Maritime Photo Collection

M.T. Marjolene O337

M.T. Marjolene O337
Picture courtesy of The Jan Harteveld Collection

Changelog

08/04/2012: Page published. 12 updates since then.
06/01/2019: Removed FMHT watermarks from images.
16/06/2019: Updated information.

S.T. Rugby GY18

Additional information courtesy of Bill Blow

Technical

Official Number: 139924
Yard Number: 342
Completed: 1916
Gross Tonnage: 273.69
Net Tonnage: 122.82
Length: 125.6 ft
Breadth: 22.8 ft
Depth: 12.2 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley

History

20.7.1916: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverely (Yd.No.342) for William Grant (64/64), Grimsby as RUGBY.
16.8.1916: Completed.
10.11.1916: Registered at Grimsby (GY994).
10.11.1916: William Grant designated managing owner.
11.1916: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-6pdr HA, 1-7.5” A/S Howitzer) (Ad.No.2979).
24.2.1917: William Grant (32/64) shares sold to William Henry Winslow (32/64), Grimsby.
24.2.1917: William Henry Winslow (32/64) shares mortgaged to William Grant, Grimsby for the sum of £4.750 with interest at 7% (A).
11.1917: Renamed RUGBY II. Based Dover.
Post 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Grimsby. Reverted to RUGBY (GY994).
3.12.1926: William Grant died.
13.4.1927: Probate granted to the Executors, Arthur Grant & John Wilfred Grant, Grimsby. William Grant (the younger) , Navenby and Hugh Bourne Grant, Humberstone (joint owners).
13.04.1927: Mortgage (A) transferred to Arthur Grant and John Wilfred Grant, Cleethorpes, william Grant (the younger), Navenby and Hugh Bourne Grant, Humberstone (joint mortgagees).
28.5.1927: Joint owners (32/64) shares sold to John Wilfred Grant (11/64), Cleethorpes; Hugh Bourne Grant (11/64), Humberstone and Arthur Grant (10/64), Grimsby.
30.5.1927: Mortgage (A) transferred to Arthur Grant, John Wilfred Grant, Cleethorpes & Hugh Bourne Grant, Humberstone (joint mortgagees).
1.6.1927: John Wilfred Grant designated managing owner.
12.8.1929: Mortgage (A) transferred to Hugh Wilfred Grant, Cleethorpes & Hugh Bourne Grant, Humberstone (joint mortgagees).
28.2.1930: John Wilfred Grant (11/64) and Hugh Bourne Grant (11/64) shares sold to The Rugby Steam Fishing Co Ltd (22/64), Grimsby.
7.3.1930: Arthur Grant (10/64) shares sold to The Rugby Steam Fishing Co Ltd (32/64), Grimsby.
13.3.1930: John Wilfred Grant appointed manager.
31.3.1930: Mortgage (A) transferred to J.W, H.B & C.A. Grant Ltd, Grimsby.
31.12.1930: Mortgage (A) discharged.
31.12.1930: William Henry Winslow (32/64) shares sold to The Rugby Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
16.1.1931: John Wilfred Grant appointed manager.
16.8.1932: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to National Provincial Bank Ltd, London (B).
1.3.1934: Sold by order of the mortgagee under mortgage (B) to Harry Robinson (48/64) and Fred Dawson Robinson (16/64), Grimsby.
14.3.1934: Harry Richardson designated managing owner.
13.3.1935: Harry Richardson designated managing owner.
7.7.1936: Fred Dawson Robinson (16/64) shares mortgaged to Harry Robinson, Grimsby (C).
11.3.1938: Mortgage (C) discharged.
11.3.1938: Fred Dawson Robinson (16/64) shares sold to Harry Robinson (64/64), Grimsby.
5.7.1939: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Arnold Arthur Beardsall, Grimsby (D).
14.8.1939: Mortgage (D) discharged.
14.8.1939: Sold to The Earl Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
15.8.1939: Sir Alec Black, Bart appointed manager.
10.12.1940: Sold to Sir Alec Black, Bart (64/64), Grimsby.
12.12.1940: Sir Alec Black, Bart designated managing owner.
30.5.1940: Requisitioned for war service as a patrol vessel (FY.4.162) (Hire rate £77.12.8d/month). Based Grimsby on Fishery Protection.
10.9.1941: Sold to North Star Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Aberdeen (John A. Harrow, manager).
22.9.1941: Grimsby registry closed.
22.9.1941: John Alexander Harrow appointed manager.
25.9.1941: Registered at Aberdeen (A518).
10.1941: Converted for minesweeping duties (magnetic).
7.1943: Employed on miscellaneous Naval duties.
10.1943: Fitted out as a fuelling trawler (Esso)(33ton tank for refuelling diesel landing craft) (P.No.Y7.30).
6.1944: Operation Neptune-Normandy Landings. Assigned as a fuelling trawler to Force G.
3.7.1944: Operation Neptune ended. Reverted to miscellaneous Naval duties.
11.1944: Sold to Parkholme Trawlers Ltd (64/64), Fleetwood.
11.1944: Aberdeen registry closed.
16.11.1944: Registered at Grimsby (GY18). Harvey Wilfred Wilson, Grimsby appointed manager.
26.11.1944: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to National Provincial Bank Ltd, London (E).
2.12.1945: Mortgage (D) discharged.
29.3.1946: Sold to Tilbrook Trawlers Ltd (64/64), Milford Haven.
30.3.1946: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Lloyds Bank Ltd, London (F).
3.4.1946: Arthur Ernest Rees, Neyland appointed manager).
22.5.1946: Returned to owner.
2.7.1946: First landing at Milford (Sk. Utting).
4.8.1947: Last landing at Milford.
6.8.1947: Sailed Milford for Hull and to fish from that port.
5.8.1948: Mortgage (F) discharged.
7.8.1948: Sold to Joseph Croan (64/64), Edinburgh.
20.4.1951: Grimsby registry closed.
4.1951: Registered at Leith (LH92). Joseph Croan designated managing owner.
1955: Sold to BISCO (£2,400) and allocated to Shipbreaking Industries Ltd, Charlestown, Fife for breaking up (Contract No.76D)
24.3.1955: Delivered Charlestown from Granton under own power.
4.1955: Breaking up commenced.
9.7.1955: Leith registry closed “Vessel broken up”.

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S.T. Rugby GY18

S.T. Rugby GY18
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S.T. Rugby

S.T. Rugby
Picture reproduced under IWM Non-Commercial Licence

Changelog

29/02/2012: Page published. 8 updates since then.
06/01/2019: Removed FMHT watermarks from images.
27/07/2021: Updated history and technical details.

S.T. Audrey YH215 (Seasonal)

Additional information courtesy of Andy Hall and Barry Banham

Technical

Official Number: 123212
Yard Number: 312
Completed: 1906
Gross Tonnage: 186
Net Tonnage: 73
Length: 108.9 ft
Breadth: 21.5 ft
Depth: 11.3 ft
Built: Mackie & Thomson, Govan
Engine: T.3-cyl by W.V.V. Lidgerwood, Coatbridge
Boiler: A. & W. Dalglish, Pollockshaws, Glasgow

History

12.9.1905: Launched by Mackie & Thomson, Govan (Yd.No.312) for Hellyer’s Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull as AUDREY.
1.1906: Completed (Charles Hellyer, manager).
26.1.1906: Registered at Hull (H854).
29.5.1917: Requisitioned for Fishery Reserve.
16.4.1916: At Hull, Skipper Albert Menzies Johnston charged under the Defence of the Realm Act with being in a prohibited area and fined £50.
7.7.1916: Off North Coast of Scotland rescued all crew of the Swedish steamer LISA (1606grt/) damaged by mine and run ashore, landing them in Thurso Bay. Crew paid £100 for efforts in picking up survivors.
1919: Released.
6.2.1919: Sold to Charles Henry George, Caister on Sea (managing owner).
9.12.1919: Hull registry closed.
11.12.1919: Registered at Gt. Yarmouth (YH215).
26.1.1920: Sold to John Halifax, Southtown, Gt. Yarmouth (managing owner).
1920’s: Seasonal fishing from Fleetwood (Sk. John Halifax).
11.1923: In River Yare in collision with steam drifter FAITHFUL (BK246) striking her amidships causing her to founder.
19.4.1926: Sold to Robert Boyle (32/64) and John Thomas Coulson (32/64), North Shields (Robert Boyle managing owner).
12.5.1925: Yarmouth registry closed.
15.1.1926: Registered at North Shields (SN38).
6.9.1933: Foundered.
25.9.1933: North Shields registry closed “Total loss”.

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S.T. Audrey YH215

S.T. Audrey H854
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Changelog

20/02/2012: Page published. 5 updates since then.
05/01/2019: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
20/07/2019: Updated information.

S.D/T. Three Kings LT517 (Seasonal)

Additional material courtesy of Roy Breach and Barry Banham

Technical

Official Number: 127357
Yard Number: 377
Completed: 1912
Gross Tonnage: 98
Net Tonnage: 41
Length: 86.0 ft
Breadth: 18.45 ft
Depth: 9.0 feet
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by James Abernethy & Co, Aberdeen
Built: John Duthie Torry Shipbuilding Co, Aberdeen

History

1912: Launched by John Duthie Torry Shipbuilding Co, Aberdeen (Yd.No.377) for for George Addison, Cullen & others as THREE KINGS.
1912: Completed (George Addison managing owner). Registered at Banff (BF495).
5.1915: Requisitioned for war service as an A/S net drifter (1-6pdr) (Ad.No.2419). Based at Larne.
1916: Sold to Alexander Mair, Buckie & others (Alexander Mair managing owner).
1919: Returned to owner at Buckie (Jas. Archibold, Buckie).
29.5.1920: Sold to John Victor Breach (64/64), Lowestoft. John Victor Breach appointed managing owner.
29.5.1920: Sold to Jack Breach Ltd (64/64), Lowestoft. John Victor Breach appointed manager.
29.5.1920: Registered at Lowestoft (LT517).
1.6.1920: Banff registry closed.
9.6.1923: Stranded at Lerwick. Steam drifters EILEEN EMMA (LT342) and JUST REWARD (LT726) connected, refloated and returned to Lerwick.
26.7.1925: With steam drifters TWO BOYS (LT1157) and UNITED FRIENDS (LT55) succeeded in refloating the Norwegian steamer GEZINA (1828grt/1917), which had stranded on Dennis Head, North Ronaldsay in dense fog.
12.6.1926: At Lerwick sustained damage in collision with steam drifter CLOVERDALE (BF170).
18.7.1928: At Stronsay, Orkney with broken propeller.
1930s: Seasonal white fish trawling from Fleetwood (Alex Keay managing agent).
13.8.1930: At Fraserburgh with broken propeller.
31.8.1934: At Workington (Sk. H. Stone) with broken propeller.
5.5.1936: With Sk. A. Catchpole, sustained damage in collision with steam drifter CLARA SUTTON (HL88).
15.11.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeping drifter (1-MG) (P.No.FY918) (Hire rate £27.0.0d/month).
1.1.1942: At Harwich LL sweep drifter (Hire rate increased to £27.013.6d/month).
1.1944: John Victor Breach died.
9.4.1944: Ronald H. Self appointed manager.
9.1944: Employed on miscellaneous Naval duties.
1945: Returned to owner. Laid up.
19.4.1945: Charles William Dance appointed manager.
26.7.1946: Jack Breach Ltd reconstituted as The Shoals Fishing Co Ltd, Lowestoft (Charles W. Dance, manager).
29.11.1946: Lowestoft fishing registry closed “No longer used for fishing”.
7.1947: Sold to Belgian principals for breaking up (Sanctioned by MOT letter No. GSP 6477 dated 9.7.1948).
14.6.1950: Lowestoft registry closed “Vessel broken up”.

Changelog

20/09/2011: Page published. 6 updates since then.

S.T. Boston Seafire H584

In Boston (Fleetwood) ownership. Did not fish from Fleetwood.

Technical

Official Number: 181351
Yard Number: 759
Completed: 1948
Gross Tonnage: 689
Net Tonnage: 249
Length: 181.7 ft
Breadth: 30.6 ft
Depth: 15.1 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
Fitted for burning oil fuel, F.P. above 150 ° F
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley, 1948

History

24.5.1948: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.795) for Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood as BOSTON SEAFIRE.
6.10.1948: Registered at Hull (H584).
27.10.1948: Completed. Basil A. Parkes appointed manager.
19.1.1952: Sold to Hudson Brothers Trawlers Ltd, Hull (Thomas Hudson, manager). Registered at Hull as CAPE TARIFA (H584).
5.2.1960: Company and assets taken over by Ross Group, Grimsby.
26.11.1961: Registered at Hull as ROSS TARIFA (H584).
27.6.1967: Transferred to Grimsby.
1968: Sold to Van Heyghen Freres S.A., Ghent for breaking up.
6.3.1968: In tandem tow with ROSS DUNER (H85) by London motor tug MOORCOCK (272grt/1959 – 1600bhp) Humber for Zeebruges, lost ROSS DUNER off the South Falls Buoy. Stranded near Dunkirk but subsequently refloated and delivered to Zeebruges.
7.3.1968: Broke away from tug and stranded on Goodwin Sands 11/4 miles from East Goodwin Light Vessel. Settled and lost to sands.
3.1968: Hull registry closed.

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S.T. Boston Seafire H584

S.T. Boston Seafire H584
Picture by Donald Innes courtesy of The Mark Stopper Collection

S.T. Boston Seafire H584

S.T. Boston Seafire H584
Picture courtesy of The Mark Stopper Collection

S.T. Boston Seafire H584

S.T. Boston Seafire H584
Picture by Mike Thompson courtesy of The Mark Stopper Collection

S.T. Cape Tarifa H584

S.T. Cape Tarifa H584
Picture courtesy of The JJ Collection

S.T. Ross Tarifa H584

S.T. Ross Tarifa H584
Picture courtesy of The JanH Collection

Changelog

19/09/2011: Page published. 7 updates since then.
03/12/2019: Removed FMHT watermark from image.