Category Archives: Steam Trawlers

S.D/T. Glow LT668

Additional material courtesy of Barry Banham

Technical

Admiralty Number: 3980
Official Number: 146042
Yard Number: 557
Completed: 1918
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

1918: Launched by A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen (Yd.No.557) (“Admiralty drifter”) for The Admiralty as GLOW.
21.11.1918: Completed as a minesweeper (Ad.No.3980).
13.11.1919: Transferred to Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries, London.
5.2.1920: Registered at Lowestoft (Part IV) as Glow (LT668) and engaged in commercial fishing.
2.9.1920: Assisted into Lowestoft Boulogne steam trawler LILLOIS (B??) disabled after boiler explosion at sea in which two men were killed and two injured.
6.7.1921: Lowestoft registry closed at request of The Admiralty.
30.7.1921: Registered by The Admiralty at London (Part I) as GLOW (No.399 of 1921) O.N.146042.
8.1921: Sold to William Robbens & Sons Ltd, Lowestoft (William Robbens, manager).
8.1921: London registry closed.
26.8.1921: Lowestoft registry re-opened (LT668).
1.12.1925: In moderate weather off Southwold connected to steam drifter CLACH Na CUDEN (YH361) disabled with machinery problem and delivered Lowestoft.
7.3.1934: Sold to George Hitchim Catchpole, Lowestoft.
2.12.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeping drifter (P.No.FY.964) (Hire rate £32.0.0d/month). Fitted with LL sweep, based at Dundee.
6.1940: At Jarrow (Sk. C. Chamberlain RNR).
5.1943: Employed on miscellaneous Naval duties.
25.11.1943: Sold to North Shore Fishing Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Basil A. Parkes, Cleveleys, manager).
16.11.1945: Returned to owner.
1946: Sold to Norway.
7.10.1946: Lowestoft registry closed.
12.10.1946: Sailed Lowestoft for Norway.

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HMD Glow

HMD Glow
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S.D/T. Glow LT668

S.D/T. Glow LT668
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Changelog
13/12/2010: Page published. 3 revisions since then.
12/09/2014: Picture added.
02/11/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from images.
20/11/2020: Updated history.

S.D/T. Comrades LT403 (Seasonal)

Additional material courtesy of Barry Banham

Technical

Official Number: 149213
Yard Number: 1025
Completed: 1928
Gross Tonnage: 114
Net Tonnage: 51
Length: 92.0 ft
Breadth: 19.6 ft
Depth: 9.5 ft
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby
Engine: T.3-cyl by W. Burrell & Co, Gt Yarmouth
Boiler: Riley Bros (Boilermakers) Ltd, Stockton on Tees

History

5.7.1928: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.1025) for Gilbert & Co Ltd, Lowestoft as COMRADES.
8.8.1928: Completed (Arthur George Gilbert, manager).
24.9.1928: Registered at Lowestoft (LT403).
29.9.1928: Trials at Lowestoft. First Skipper H. J. Bryant.
1929 – 1930s: Seasonal white fish trawling from Padstow and Fleetwood (Lowestoft Fish Selling Co Ltd, Lowestoft, managing agents).
15.3.1929: Off Trevose Head lost propeller.
1930: Company in liquidation.
18.3.1930: Sold by liquidator to reconstituted Gilbert & Co Ltd, Lowestoft (Arthur George Gilbert, manager).
13.12.1933: Struck bank at entrance to Lowestoft harbour causing bottom damage.
28.3.1935: Seasonal trawling out of Fleetwood lost propeller.
18.4.1937: Seasonal trawling out of Fleetwood lost propeller.
3.9.1939: Requisitioned for war service on contraband control (1-3pdr) (Hire rate £58.0.0d/month).
1.1941: Based at Weymouth as armed patrol drifter (Ty/Sk. D. T. Buck PNR).
1944: Employed on miscellaneous Naval and port duties.
19.9.1946: Returned to owner.
1950s: Seasonal white fish trawling from Fleetwood.
1955: Re measured after conversion – 118g 49n.
26.7.1955: Completed trials after conversion to motor.
30.7.1955: Converted to motor by L.B.S. Engineering Co Ltd, Lowestoft, fitted with 300bhp 3-cyl A.K.Diesel Ltd, Lowestoft installed by W. H. Podd Ltd, Lowestoft.
30.7.1955: Sailed Lowestoft.
18.8.1955: Re registered at Lowestoft as a motor drifter/trawler (LT403).
7.10.1955: Mortgaged to The White Fish Authority, London (A).
9.5.1961: Mortgage (A) discharged.
4.1964: Company and assets bought by Basil A. Parkes, Hull.
16.4.1964: Frederick Ernest Catchpole appointed manager.
22.3.1967: Sold to Richard Curnow, Helston (32/64) & Capt Silas Victor Oates, Penzance (32/64) (Silas Victor Oates, manager). Used as a platform to carry out unauthorised dives on wreck of Liberian steam tanker Torrey Canyon (61263grt/1959) (Stranded 18.3.1967 on Pollard’s Rock, Seven Stones, dispersed wreck in 30 metres at 50.2,50N 6.7,73W).
18.9.1967: Silas Victor Oates 32 shares sold to Lewis Ernest Adams, Oakhampton (32/64).
8.12.1967: Lewis Ernest Adams 32 shares mortgaged to Smith & Godwin Ltd, London to secure the sum of £10,000 with interest (B).
31.12.1967: Richard Curnow 32 shares mortgaged to Gilbert & Co Ltd, Hull to secure the sum of £1,350 with interest (C).
8.1968: Arrested at Poole following writ issued on behalf of Gilbert & Co Ltd, Hull for non payment of monies outstanding.
15.1.1969: Mortgage (B) transferred to Allcredits Ltd, London.
1970: Broken up at Poole.
1.8.1976: Lowestoft registry closed. (Not removed from Lloyd’s Register until 1992-1993 edition. “Vessel’s continued existence in doubt”.

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S.D/T. Comrades LT403

S.D/T. Comrades LT403
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S.D/T. Comrades LT403

S.D/T. Comrades LT403
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S.D/T. Comrades LT403

S.D/T. Comrades LT403
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S.D/T. Comrades LT403

S.D/T. Comrades LT403
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M.D/T. Comrades LT403

M.D/T. Comrades LT403
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Changelog
10/12/2010: Page published. 12 updates since then.
21/06/2016: Information updated.
01/11/2018: Removed FMHT watermarks from images.
03/08/2019: Updated information and added an image.

S.D/T. Peace Wave LT47 (Seasonal)

Additional material courtesy of Barry Banham

Technical

Official Number: 146456
Yard Number: 767
Completed: 1922
Gross Tonnage: 97
Net Tonnage: 35
Length: 85.2 ft
Breadth: 19.1 ft
Depth: 9.0 ft
Engine: (As built) 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
Replacement engine: T.3-cyl by S. Richards & Co Ltd, Lowestoft
Boiler: Riley Bros (Boilermakers) Ltd, Stockton-on-Tees
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby
(All machinery new 1917 and ex Canadian wooden Admiralty drifter CD.19)

History

14.2.1922: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.767) for John McCann, Hull (Pickering & Haldane’s Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull) as TELIA.
24.3.1922: Completed.
24.4.1922: Transferred to Pickering & Haldane’s Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull (John McCann & Edward Cartwright, managers).
25.4.1922: Registered at Hull (H477).
17.3.1925: Sold to T. Baskcomb Ltd, Grimsby (Thomas W. Baskcomb, manager).
20.3.1925: Hull registry closed.
23.3.1925: Registered at Grimsby (GY299).
12.3.1929: Grimsby registry closed.
13.3.1929: Sold to William J. Westgate, Lowestoft (managing owner).
5.6.1929: Re engined and boilered by S. Richards & Co Ltd, Lowestoft.
28.6.1929: Registered at Lowestoft as PEACE WAVE (LT47).
1930s: Seasonal white fish trawling from Padstow, Milford and Fleetwood (Lowestoft Fish Selling Co Ltd, Lowestoft, managing agent).
10.2.1932: In heavy weather lost man overboard and drowned.
19.4.1937: W. J. Westgate died.
16.6.1937: Sold to Ernest Edward Butcher & Ernest Herbert Holland, Lowestoft (joint owners).
21.9.1937: Sold to P. W. Watson & Sons Ltd, Lowestoft (Allan H. Watson, manager).
28.10.1937: At Lowestoft (Sk.David J. Knights) landed 271 crans (gross £359) from Smith’s Knoll ground (Sk. David J. Knights), took twelve hours to haul and had to cut away fifteen nets which sank due to weight of fish. Prunier Trophy winner.
7.11.1939: At Bangor Magistrates Court, Sk. David J. Knights was fined £5 with £5 costs for fishing within the three-mile limit off Anglesey.
Pre 1943-1945: Fishing from Fleetwood.
22.7.1943: Typical wartime landing. 52 kits – hake-14, cod/codling-22, haddock-2, whiting-8, flats-1, ling/coley-1, roker-3, dogs-1.
1.10.1943: Sold to Jubilee Fishing Co Ltd, London (Samuel Stewart, manager).
11.1.1945: Change of company address in London.
6.1955: Sold to Jas. de Smedt, Antwerp for breaking up at Boom.
13.7.1955: Sailed Lowestoft for Antwerp in tow of steam drifter LANDBREEZE (LT1296) also sold for breaking up.
14.7.1955: Arrived Boom.
3.8.1955: Lowestoft registry closed.

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S.D/T. Peace Wave LT47

S.D/T. Peace Wave LT47
Picture courtesy of The Barry Banham Maritime Photo Collection

Changelog

10/12/2010: Page published. 2 updates since then.
14/06/2016: Minor information update.
31/10/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
11/07/2021: Updated history.

S.T. Aucuba GY117

Additional information courtesy of Bill Blow and George Westwood

Technical

Official Number: 123561
Yard Number: 101
Completed: 1901
Gross Tonnage: 211
Net Tonnage: 87
Length: 115.4 ft
Breadth: 21.6 ft
Depth: 11.5 ft
Engine: 430ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co, Hull
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley

History

13.1.1906: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.101) for William Grant (32/64) & Dawson Robinson (32/64), Cleethorpes as AUCUBA.
3.1906: Completed trials and accepted.
9.3.1906: Registered at Grimsby as (GY117).
9.3.1906: William Grant designated managing owner.
11.3.1907: Stranded at Mappleton. Refloated and returned to service.
9.5.1907: Tonnages altered to 84.43 net following survey at Grimsby dated 10.4.1907.
26.4.1913: In North Sea responded to distress from German steamer KATE (448grt/1899) bound Bosum, near Hamburg, which had sprung a leak and filling. Connected and commenced tow but vessel started to settle as pumps could not cope. Crew abandoned in boat and picked up. Vessel foundered shortly afterwards.
27.4.1913: Arrived Grimsby and landed survivors.
12.1914: Requisitioned for war service as a boom defence trawler (1-3pdr). Based Lerwick.
By 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Grimsby.
13.6.1923: Dawson Robinson died.
10.9.1923: Probate granted to sole executor, Harry Robinson.
15.2.1924: Harry Robinson (32/64), Grimsby registered as part owner.
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 (64/64 joint owners).
28.5.1927: Joint owners (32/64) shares sold to Arthur Grant (11/64); John Wilfred Grant (11/64), Grimsby and Hugh Bourne Grant (10/64), Humberstone.
1.6.1927: Hugh Bourne Grant designated manager.
7.3.1929: Harry Robinson (16/64) shares sold to Fred Dawson Robinson (16/64), Grimsby.
3.6.1929: Hugh Bourne Grant designated manager.
28.2.1930: John Wilfred Grant (11/64) & Hugh Bourne Grant (10/64) shares sold to The Rugby Steam Fishing Co Ltd (21/64), Grimsby.
7.3.1930: Arthur Grant (11/64) shares sold to The Rugby Steam Fishing Co Ltd (32/64), Grimsby.
13.3.1930: Hugh Bourne Grant designated manager.
26.4.1933: The Rugby Steam Fishing Co Ltd (32/64), Harry Robinson (16/64) and Fred Dawson Robinson (16/64) shares sold to The Filey United Steam Trawling Co Ltd (64/64), Scarborough.
2.5.1933: Richard Ferguson Cammish designated manager.
26.6.1933: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to J. W., H. B. & C. A. Grant Ltd, Grimsby for the sum of £900 with interest at 5% (A). 9.6.1934: Mortgage (A) discharged.
17.7.1934: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to National Provincial Bank Ltd, London (B). 5.8.1939: Mortgage (B) discharged.
14.8.1939: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to The Scarborough Pure Ice & Cold Storage Co Ltd, Scarborough for the sum of £600 with interest at 41/2% (C).
1940: Fitted with defensive armament.
22.2.1940: Fishing in North Sea (Sk. A. Normandale) in company with trawlers CARDEW (H157), CRYSTAL (SH58) and EMULATOR (SH83) attacked by German aircraft. Returned fire and aircraft withdrew; no casualties. Later in company with PERSIAN EMPIRE (FD83) and RIBY (GY594) attacked again by German aircraft with slight damage. Aircraft driven off by return fire.
30.1.1941: Robert Cammish Jnr designated manager.
3.2.1941: Mortgage (C) discharged.
7.10.1942: Sold to Parkholme Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood.
13.10.1942: Basil A. Parkes, Cleveleys designated manager.
16.6.1944: Last landing at Fleetwood.
1.11.1944: Sold Rushcliffe Trawlers Ltd, Hull.
1.11.1944: Harvey Wilfred Wilson, Grimsby designated manager.
14.11.1944: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to National Provincial Bank Ltd, London (D).
8.4.1948: Sold to Derwent Trawlers Ltd, Grimsby.
16.4.1948: Harvey Wilfred Wilson, Grimsby designated manager.
13.8.1948: Mortgage (D) discharged.
3.9.1951: Sailed Grimsby for North Sea grounds (Sk. Thomas Darwood); nine crew.
5.9.1951: Fishing in darkness 11 miles off Robin Hood’s Bay, run down by Italian steamer MARIA BIBOLINI (7167g/1943). Badly damaged and attempted to launch boat but tackle broke, six crew jumped in water and four remained onboard. Started to settle and all crew picked up by boat from steamer before vessel foundered. Survivors landed at Rotterdam.
6.9.1951: Survivors arrived in Hull in LNER steamer BURY (1686g/1911).
19.10.1951: Grimsby registry closed “Ship totally lost.”

(Survivors all Grimsby unless stated – Sk. Thomas Darwood (31), Cleethorpes; Charles Johnson (56), Mate; Harry Roach (26) Third hand; Christopher W. Allison (55), Cleethorpes, Ch.Eng; James A. Blake (50), 2nd Eng; Roy McDonald (17) & Walter G. Scott (18), deckhands; Marcus T. Prew (23), Scarborough & Clifford C. Coltman (19), deckie/trimmers; John Bush (65), cook.)

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S.T. Aucuba GY117

S.T. Aucuba GY117
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S.T. Aucuba GY117

S.T. Aucuba GY117
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S.T. Aucuba GY117

S.T. Aucuba GY117
Ashore at Mappleton March 1907
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Changelog
07/12/2010: Page published. 5 updates since then.
08/12/2017: Information updated.
20/07/2019: Information updated.

S.D/T. Impregnable LT1118 (Seasonal)

Additional material courtesy of Barry Banham

Technical

Official Number: 130031
Yard Number: 353
Completed: 1911
Gross Tonnage: 108
Net Tonnage: 48
Length: 86.5 ft
Breadth: 18.6 ft
Depth: 8.8 ft
Built: J. Duthie Torry Shipbuilding Co, Aberdeen
Engine: T.3-cyl by W. V. V. Lidgerwood, Coatbridge

History

1911: Launched by J. Duthie Torry Shipbuilding Co, Aberdeen (Yd.No.353) for Edward Catchpole, Kessingland as IMPREGNABLE.
6.1911: Completed (Edward Catchpole managing owner).
23.6.1911: Registered at Lowestoft (LT1118).
31.12.1917: Sold to W. Robbins & Sons Ltd, Lowestoft (Impregnable Fishing Syndicate).
9.1914: Requisitioned for war service as a patrol drifter (1-6pdr HA) (Ad.No.219).
2.1915: Renamed IMPREST.
9.1916: Renamed IMPERATOR. Based Lowestoft.
By 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Lowestoft (W.Robbins & Sons, Lowestoft) and reverted to IMPREGNABLE (LT1118).
1930s: Seasonal fishing from Padstow and Fleetwood (Bloomfields Ltd, managing agents).
1933: Sold to B. J. W. Robbins, Lowestoft.
12.4.1934: Sold to Harold David Holland & Bertie James William Robbins, Lowestoft (joint owners) (Bertie J. W. Robbens managing owner).
8.1.1935: Sold to P. W. Watson & Sons Ltd & Harold David Holland, Lowestoft (joint owners) (Bertie J. W. Robbins, manager).
19.1.1937: Sold to P. W. Watson & Sons Ltd, Lowestoft (Alan H. Watson, manager).
Pre 1943-1945: Fishing from Fleetwood.
10.7.1943: Typical wartime landing. 208 kits. – hake-181, cod-13, whiting-11, flats-1, roker-2.
31.5.1944: Sold to The Breeze Co (Lowestoft) Ltd (Alan H. Watson, manager).
8.1957: Sold to Jacques Bakker en Zonen, Bruges for breaking up.
11.9.1957: Sailed Lowestoft for Bruges.
12.9.1957: Arrived Bruges.
12.9.1957: Lowestoft registry closed.

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S.D/T. Impregnable LT1118

S.D/T. Impregnable LT1118
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S.D/T. Impregnable LT1118

S.D/T. Impregnable LT1118
Picture courtesy of The Trevor Snowling Collection

Changelog
06/12/2010: Page published. 3 updates since then.
03/02/2015: Picture added.
11/09/2017: Removed FMHT watermark from images.
21/01/2021: Updated history.