Category Archives: Steam Trawlers

S.D/T. Kindred Star (1) LT399 (Seasonal)

© Barry Banham

Technical

Official Number: 149212
Yard Number: 1022
Completed: 1928
Gross Tonnage: 115
Net Tonnage: 50
Length: 92.05 ft
Breadth: 19.6 ft
Depth: 9.5 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by W. Burrell & Co, Gt Yarmouth
Boiler: Riley Bros (Boilermakers) Ltd, Stockton on Tees
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby

History

9.6.1928: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.1022) for Star Drift Fishing Co Ltd, Lowestoft as KINDRED STAR.
4.7.1928: Completed (Frederick E. Catchpole, Lowestoft, manager).
17.8.1930: Registered at Lowestoft (LT399).
3.3.1930: Struck rocks off South Bishops Rock, Pembrokeshire while on passage Padstow to Fleetwood (Sk. Teddy Marjoram). Subsequently foundered after crew had taken to boat. Sighted and picked up by Liverpool steamer CHESHIRE COAST (1122grt/1915).
4.3.1930: Crew landed at Bristol.
24.3.1930: Lowestoft registry closed “Vessel foundered”.

Changelog

07/10/2010: age published. 3 updates since then.

S.D/T. S.D.J. LT1187

Additional information courtesy of Barry Banham
Wartime visitor

Technical

Official Number: 132971
Yard Number: 376
Completed: 1912
Gross Tonnage: 100
Net Tonnage: 36
Length: 87.3 ft
Breadth: 18.4 ft
Depth: 9.0 ft
Built: John Duthie Torry Shipbuilding Co, Aberdeen
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by Elliott & Garrood, Beccles

History

1912: Launched by John Duthie Torry Shipbuilding Co, Aberdeen (Yd.No.376) for James Smith, Lowestoft as S.D.J.
8.1912: Completed (James Smith, managing owner).
28.8.1912: Registered at Lowestoft (LT1187).
9.1915: Requisitioned for war service as an A/S net drifter (1-6pdr HA, 1-2pdr) (Ad.No.1857). Based Dover.
Post
12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Lowestoft (James Smith, Lowestoft).
17.8.1922: James Smith died.
22.12.1922: James Smith & Stephen James Smith, Lowestoft- joint owners (James Smith, manager).
1930s: Seasonal white fish trawling from Padstow & Fleetwood.
Pre 1943-1945: Fishing out of Fleetwood.
1.6.1943: Typical wartime landing. 49 kits – cod-12, whiting-5, flats-5, roker-13, dogs-13, sole & prime-1 – ten days.
11-12.5.1947: Missing in North Sea presumed mined; debris later found. Nine crew lost *.
4.6.1947: Lowestoft registry closed.

Lost * – Sk, F. S. Church, A. W. Ames, L. C. Church, R. J. Gooding, W. H. Harman, W. Hart, A. E. Long, C. F. Mobbs, J. E. Winfield.

S.D/T S.D.J. LT1187

S.D/T S.D.J. LT1187
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S.D/T. S.D.J. LT1187

S.D/T. S.D.J. LT1187
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Changelog

30/09/2010: Page published. 3 updates since then.
01/10/2018: Removed FMHT watermarks from images.
28/07/2021: Updated history.

S.D/T. Wivenhoe – LT336 (Seasonal)

Additional information by Barry Banham
Seasonal and wartime visitor

Technical

Official Number: 135784
Yard Number: 383
Completed: 1913
Gross Tonnage: 100
Net Tonnage: 42
Length: 86.0
Breadth: 18.6 ft
Depth: 9.0 ft
Built: John Duthie Torry Shipbuilding Co, Aberdeen
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by Elliott & Garrood Ltd, Beccles

History

1913: Launched by John Duthie Torry Shipbuilding Co, Aberdeen (Yd.No.393) for Waveney Steam Drift Fishing Co Ltd, Lowestoft as WIVENHOE.
12.1913: Completed (Arthur Gouldby, Kessingland, manager).
10.1.1914: Registered at Lowestoft (LT336).
9.1915: Requisitioned for war service as an A/S net drifter (1-6pdr HA) (Ad.No.1868). Based Aegean Sea.
1919: Returned to owner.
1920/1930s: Seasonal fishing from Padstow and Fleetwood (New Docks Steam Trawling Co (Fleetwood) Ltd, managing agents).
27.6.1928: Typical landing at Fleetwood, 50 boxes.
18.7.1935: Arrived Fleetwood with drifter/trawler RIG (R139) in tow having been picked up disabled with boiler trouble.
26.1.1937: Sold to P. W. Watson & Sons Ltd, Lowestoft (Alan Howard Watson, Beccles, manager).
19.5.1937: Registered at Lowestoft as COAST BREEZE (LT336).
Pre 1943-1945: Fishing out of Fleetwood.
29.4.1943: Typical wartime landing, Home Waters. 69 kits – cod/codling-2, whiting-51, flats-8, roker-6, gurnard-1, sole & prime-2.
31.5.1944: Sold to The Breeze Co (Lowestoft) Ltd, Lowestoft (Alan Howard Watson, Beccles, manager).
9.1957: Sold to Jacques Bakker en Zonen, Bruges for breaking up.
4.10.1957: Sailed Lowestoft for Bruges (Sk. Scarlett).
6.10.1957: Delivered Bruges.
22.11.1957: Lowestoft registry closed.

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S.D/T Coast Breeze LT336

S.D/T Coast Breeze LT336
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S.D/T. Coast Breeze LT336

S.D/T. Coast Breeze LT336
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S.D/T. Coast Breeze LT336

S.D/T. Coast Breeze LT336
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Changelog
29/09/2010: Page published. 3 updates since then.
09/07/2016: Picture added.
30/09/2018: Removed FMHT watermarks from images.
16/08/2021: Updated history.
11/10/2021: Added image.

S.D/T. Pêcheur LT228 (Seasonal)

© Barry Banham for FMHT

Technical

Official Number: 136596
Yard Number: 407
Completed: 1914
Gross Tonnage: 99
Net Tonnage: 42
Length: 86.2 ft
Breadth: 18.6 ft
Depth: 9.95 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by Elliott & Garrood Ltd, Beccles
Built: John Duthie Torry Shipbuilding Co, Aberdeen

History

1914: Launched by John Duthie Torry Shipbuilding Co, Aberdeen (Yd.No.407) for Arthur Gouldby , Kessingland (16/64); Frank Burton, Lowestoft (16/64); William Garrood, Oulton Broad (16/64); Walter Albert Wood Greaves, Lowestoft (16/64) as HOLLYDALE.
12.10.1914: Registered at Lowestoft (LT437).
14.10.1914: Completed trials and accepted (Arthur Gouldby, manager).
9.1915: Requisitioned for war service as an A/S net drifter (1-6pdr HA) (Ad.No.1873).
18.11.1918: Sold to James Johnson, Scarborough.
12.12.1918: Lowestoft registry closed.
12.12.1918: Registered at Scarborough (SH354).
1920: Returned to owner.
9.1920: Scarborough registry closed.
24.9.1920: Registered at Lowestoft (LT1204)
19.2.1925: Sold to John Stephen, Cairnbulg, Aberdeenshire.
28.2.1925: Lowestoft registry closed.
29.2.1925: Registered at Fraserburgh (FR86).
1.1931: Sold to Edmund Thomas Capps, Lowestoft for £2,000. Fraserburgh registry closed.
5.1.1931: Registered at Lowestoft (LT228).
31.12.1931: Registered at Lowestoft as PÊCHEUR (LT228).
1936/37: Seasonal white fish trawling from Fleetwood (Alex Keay, managing agent).
9.3.1937: Sold to E. T. Capps & Sons Ltd, Lowestoft (Edmund Thomas Capps, manager).
17.3.1937: Landed at Fleetwood 69 boxes grossed £100.
30.10.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a boom drifter (P.No.Z164)(Hire rate £27.0.0d/month).
29.6.1945: Returned to Lowestoft.
17.7.1945: Returned to owner.
17.10.1945: At Lowestoft landed 70 crans of herring.
22.6.1948: In collision with steam drifter MARSHAL PAK (LT200).
12.10.1954: At Lowestoft landed 226 crans.
1956: Sold to Jacques Bakker en Zonen, Bruges for breaking up.
15.5.1956: Arrived Bruges.
23.5.1956: Lowestoft registry closed.

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S.D/T Pêcheur LT228

S.D/T Pêcheur LT228
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Changelog

21/09/2010: Page published. 4 updates since then.
30/09/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.

S.D/T. Primordial FR200 (Seasonal)

Technical

Admiralty Number: 3592
Official Number: 146043
Yard Number:45
Completed: 1918
Gross Tonnage: 97
Net Tonnage: 41
Length: 86.2 ft
Breadth: 18.5 ft
Depth: 9.2 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Pollit & Wigzell Ltd, Sowerby Bridge
Boiler: Gt. Central Co-op Engineering & Ship Repairing Co Ltd, Grimsby
Built: Webster & Bickerton (of Goole) Ltd, Goole

History

1917: Launched by Webster & Bickerton (of Goole) Ltd, Goole (Yd.No.45) (“Admiralty drifter”) for The Admiralty as SEA FOG (Ad.No.3592).
18.12.1918: Completed as a minesweeper (1-6pdr) at a cost of £2,400.
1919: Paid off. Armament removed.
15.11.1919: Transferred to Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries, London for disposal. Refurbished as a fishing vessel.
30.3.1920: Registered at Lowestoft (Part IV)(LT710).
16.7.1921: Lowestoft registry closed at request of The Admiralty.
1921: Sold to H. Croft Baker & Sons Ltd, Grimsby (Henry Croft Baker, manager).
12.9.1921: Registered at Grimsby (GY1300).
6.1922: Sold to The Strand Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby (Henry Croft Baker & John L. Green, joint managers).
26.6.1922: Registered at Grimsby as SELIMUS (GY1300).
1923: Sold to L. M. Bourgain, Dieppe.
22.6.1923: Grimsby registry closed.
6.1923: Registered at Dieppe as St. PIERRE d’AlCANTARA (DI 2112).
1925: Sold to William Bruce, John McLeman, Burghead; John Campbell West, Lossiemouth & James Russell Hamilton, Elgin (William Bruce managing owner).
1925: Dieppe registry closed.
1925: Registered at Inverness as PRIMORDIAL (INS81).
1936: Sold to William Cardno, Fraserburgh (managing owner).
1936: Inverness registry closed.
1936: Registered at Fraserburgh (FR200).
1936-1939: Seasonal line fishing from Fleetwood (Alex Keay managing agent).
1939: Sold to Mrs Jessie Cardno & W. B. Ritchie Jnr, Fraserburgh.
28.8.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a harbour transport (Hire rate £32.0.0d/month).
194?: Sold to Walker Steam Trawl Fishing Co Ltd, Aberdeen (Thomas Walker, manager).
20.12.1945: Returned to owners.
1952: Sold to ?? for breaking up. Fraserburgh registry closed.

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S/D.T. Primordial FR200

S/D.T. Primordial FR200
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Changelog

20/09/2010: Page published. 3 updates since then.
29/09/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.