Category Archives: Steam Trawlers

S.T. Kasaï O271

Additional information courtesy of Bill Blow

Technical

Official Number: 133100
Yard Number: 482
Completed: 1911
Gross Tonnage: 264
Net Tonnage: 106
Length: 130.1 ft
Breadth: 22.5 ft
Depth: 12.0 ft
Engine: 500ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by C. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull

History

3.4.1911: Launched by Cochrane & Sons, Selby (Yd.No.482) for The Atlas Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby as VOLONEL.
12.5.1911: Registered at Grimsby (GY628).
12.5.1911: William Somerville Letten appointed manager.
15.5.1911: Completed.
1915: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (Ad.No.849). Based Humber.
5.2.1916: George Somerville Letten appointed manager.
Post 12.3.1919: Returned to owners at Grimsby.
1923: Re-measured 247g 87n.
6.1923: Sold to Soc. Anon Pêcheries Ostendaises, Ostend (Aspeslagh Frères & A. Deceuninck, managers).
9.6.1923: Grimsby registry closed. Registered at Ostend as NARVAL (O141).
1928: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Basil A. Parkes, Blackpool, manager). Registered at Ostend as KASAÏ (O271).
10.1929: Sold to Soc. Anon Pêcheries Ostendaises, Ostend (Aspeslagh Frères & A. Deceuninck, managers).
1930: Re-measured 264g 87n.
1930: Sold to N.V. Visscherij Maats “En Avant”, IJmuiden (Erenst & Weimar, managers). Ostend registry closed. Renamed EN AVANT (IJM8).
By 1938: Sold to N.V. Visscherij Maats “De Daad”, IJmuiden.
5.1943: With owners permission, requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (P.No.FY.1743).
1945: Returned to owners.
1951: Sold for breaking up. IJmuiden registry closed.

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S.T. Vonolel GY628

S.T. Vonolel GY628
Picture courtesy of The Greenday Collection

Changelog
02/08/2009: Page published. 7 updates since then.
28/04/2017: Corrected incorrect Official Number and removed FMHT watermark.

S.T. Lapwing GY317

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

Technical

Official Number: 102966
Yard Number: 112
Completed: 1894
Gross Tonnage: 152
Net Tonnage: 62
Length: 102.8 ft
Breadth: 20.7 ft
Depth: 11.0 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
Built: Cochrane & Cooper, Beverley

History

18.8.1894: Launched by Cochrane & Cooper, Beverley (Yd.No.112) for Pickering & Haldane’s Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull as LAPWING.
3.9.1894: Registered at Hull (H258).
5.9.1894: Completed (Henry A. L. Russell, manager).
9.1906: New boiler fitted.
1.1915: Requisitioned for was service as a minesweeper (1-6pdr HA) (Ad.No.1206).
5.1915: Renamed LAPWING II.
4.12.1917: Sold to The Ellis Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Scarborough (John S. Ellis, manager).
10.1918: Returned to owner at Scarborough and reverted to LAPWING (H258).
1.1920: Sold to The Cornish & South Wales Steam Trawler Co Ltd, Lowestoft (Botho A. Hartmoran, Cardiff, manager).
9.2.1920: Hull registry closed.
11.2.1920: Registered at Lowestoft (LT847).
1923: Sold to James H. Sladden, Lowestoft (managing owner).
21.8.1925: Lowestoft registry closed.
24.8.1925: Sold to Fred Parkes, Blackpool (Basil A Parkes, Grimsby, manager).
24.8.1925: Registered at Grimsby (GY317).
1925: Re-measured 104.2 ft – 150g 29n.
11.1925: Sold to Herbert Cavelier-Reaux, Pere et Fils, Dieppe.
12.11.1925: Grimsby registry closed. Registered at Dieppe as MICHEL THÉRÈSE (D34).
1931: Sold to Hérbert & Cie, Dieppe.
1932: Sold to Lemaitre Guérillon & Le Gonidec, Dieppe.
1936: Sold to Guérillon, Lemaitre & Le Gonidec, Dieppe.
1950: Sold for breaking up.

Changelog
01/08/2009: Page published. 3 updates since then.
30/03/2021: Updated history.

S.T. Fontenay GY397

Additional information courtesy of Bill Blow

Technical

Official Number: 146902
Yard Number: ??
Completed: 1917
Gross Tonnage: 271
Net Tonnage: 123
Length: 125.7 ft
Breadth: 23.5 ft
Depth: 12.7 ft
Built: Canadian Vickers Ltd, Montreal, Canada
Engine: 370ihp T.3-cyl by National Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Goderich, Ontario
Boiler: John Inglis & Sons, Toronto

History

1.1917: Ordered. 1918: Launched by Canadian Vickers Ltd, Montreal, Canada (Yd.No.) (Canadian “Castle” – “T.R.” class) for The Admiralty (paid for and built under direction of RCN) as TR.23.
1.8.1918: Completed and commissioned in Royal Canadian Navy (1-12pdr).
31.1.1919: Paid off and laid up.
1920: Accepted offer of Rose Street Foundry & Engineering Co Ltd, Inverness (Captain Donald John Munro CMG RN as agent) to bring drifters with trawlers as escorts to UK for lay-up in Muirtown Basin, Caledonian Canal, Inverness prior to sale and possible refit for classification as steam trawlers (The Rose Street Foundry & Engineering Co Ltd letter dated 12 April 1920).
1921: Brought over at The Admiralty’s expense.
1.1926: Still laid up.
2.1926: Rejected offer for all remaining trawlers at £2,000 each (B. Allenby, Aberdeen letter dated 10 Feb 1926).
8.1926: Sold “as is” to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby. Basil A. Parkes, Grimsby designated manager.
1926: Re-measured 297g 88n.
10.9.1926: Registered at Grimsby (Part I & IV) as FONTENAY O.N.146902 (GY397).
10.9.1926: Fred Parkes, Blackpool designated manager.
14.9.1926: Sold to Fred Parkes, Blackpool.
21.9.1926: Fred Parkes designated managing owner.
9.1926: Sold to Pêcheries & Armements “La Rochelle-Océan”, La Rochelle.
2.10.1926: Grimsby registry closed. Registered at La Rochelle as MARIE ROSELYNE (LR2894).
1936: Laid up.
1937: Sold to Soc. Nouvelle des Pêcheries à Vapeur, Nantes.
1937: Sold for breaking up. La Rochelle registry closed.

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S.T. Marie-Roselyne LR2894

S.T. Marie-Roselyne LR2894
Picture from the Internet

Changelog
26/04/2014: Information updated.
02/05/2014: Information updated.
17/06/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
13/09/2020: Updated history.

S.T. Marie Evelyne GY398

Additional information courtesy of Bill Blow

Technical

Official Number: 146903
Yard Number:
Completed: 1918
Gross Tonnage: 271.57
Net Tonnage: 123.29
Length: 125.7 ft
Breadth: 23.5 ft
Depth: 12.7 ft
Built: Canadian Vickers Ltd, Montreal, Canada
Engine: 370ihp T.3-cyl by Canadian Vickers Ltd, Montreal

History

1.1917: Ordered.
1918: Launched by Canadian Vickers Ltd, Montreal, Canada (Yd.No.) (Canadian “Castle” – “T.R.” class) for The Admiralty (paid for and built under direction of RCN) as TR.26.
21/22.5.1918: Completed and commissioned in Royal Canadian Navy (1-12pdr).
19.12.1918: Paid off and laid up.
1920: Accepted offer of Rose Street Foundry & Engineering Co Ltd, Inverness (Captain D. J. Munro as agent) to bring drifters with trawlers as escorts to UK for lay-up in Muirtown Basin, Caledonian Canal, Inverness prior to sale and possible refit for classification as steam trawlers (The Rose Street Foundry & Engineering Co Ltd letter dated 12 April 1920).
1921: Brought over at The Admiralty’s expense.
1.1926: Still laid up.
2.1926: Rejected offer for all remaining trawlers at £2,000 each (B. Allenby, Aberdeen letter dated 10 Feb 1926).
8.1926: Sold “as is” to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
10.9.1926: Registered at Grimsby as MARIE EVELYNE (GY398).
10.9.1926: Fred Parkes, Blackpool appointed manager.
14.9.1926: Sold to Fred Parkes (64/64), Blackpool.
21.9.1926: Fred Parkes designated managing owner.
9.1926: Sold to Pêcheries & Armements “La Rochelle-Océan”, La Rochelle.
1926: Re-measured 297g 88n.
2.10.1926: Grimsby registry closed. Registered at La Rochelle.
1936: Laid up.
1937: Sold to Soc. Nouvelle des Pêcheries à Vapeur, Nantes.
1937: Sold for breaking up.

Changelog
27/04/2014: Information updated
03/05/2014: Information updated
07/06/2021: Updated technical details.

S.T. St. Cloud GY856

Additional information courtesy of Bill Blow and George Westwood

Technical

Official Number: 110866
Yard Number: 446
Completed: 1899
Gross Tonnage: 189
Net Tonnage: 93
Length: 108.9 ft
Breadth: 21.0 ft
Depth: 10.9 ft
Engine:T.3-cyl and boiler by Earle’s Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Hull
Built: Earle’s Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Hull

History

1899: Completed by Earle’s Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Hull (Yd.No.446) for Grimsby Victor Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby as St. LOUIS.
2.1899: Completed.
25.2.1899: Frederick Baxter Coulson appointed manager.
25.2.1899: Registered at Grimsby (GY1092).
25.2.1899: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Arthur Henry Leslie Melville and Eustace Abel Smith, Lincoln (64/64 joint mortgagees) (A).
14.3.1905: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to The Union of London & Smith’s Bank Ltd, Grimsby (B).
18.3.1905: Mortgage (A) discharged.
31.8.1908: Mortgage (B) discharged.
9.1908: Sold to Denmark.
15.9.1908: Grimsby registry closed. Registered at Frederikshavn as Hajen.
6.1910: Sold to Grimsby Victor Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby
1.7.1910: Frederick Baxter Coulson appointed manager.
3.6.1910: Registered at Grimsby as St. CLOUD (GY551) (BoT Minute M9929/1910).
6.6.1910: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to The Union of London & Smith’s Bank Ltd, Grimsby (C).
1910: Remeasured 188.72g 93.40n.
20.7.1911: Matthew William Jennson appointed manager.
1913: New boiler fitted.
17.3.1914: Sold to George Fawcett Gibson, George William Tindall and Thomas Whitehead (64/64 joint owners), Scarborough.
17.3.1914: Mortgage (C) discharged.
20.3.1914: Grimsby registry closed.
23.3.1914: Registered at Scarborough (SH30).
16.12.1914: Bombardment of Scarborough by the Imperial German Navy ships Derfflinger, VON der TANN and KOLBERG. At 8.02 am in misty weather as St. CLOUD waited offshore to enter Scarborough to land, the bombardment began. Sk. George Shaw and the mate, Tom Robson were having breakfast when the deck watch informed them that warships were rounding Castle headland. Getting under way and proceeding into harbour, Sk. Shaw ran St. CLOUD straight up the beach alongside the West Pier; the crew all jumped ashore and ran for their lives. By the time the German warships had moved on to Whitby and it was safe to return to the harbour, the tide was on the ebb and St. CLOUD was drying out with her engine still running. It was widely believed at the time that St. CLOUD had unwittingly led the Germans through the minefield which was untrue as U-boats had been watching the fishing fleet come and go for several weeks.
27.1.1916: Sold to The Premier Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
29.1.1916: Scarborough registry closed.
1.2.1916: Registered at Grimsby as St. CLOUD (GY856).
1.2.1916: William Ellis appointed manager.
29.5.1917: Requisitioned for Fishery Reserve.
3.9.1918: Sold to James Coombes (64/64), Grimsby.
18.9.1918: James Coombes designated managing owner.
23.9.1918: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to National Provincial and Union Bank of England Ltd, London (D).
1919: Released.
15.2.1924: National Provincial and Union Bank of England Ltd re-styled to National Provincial Bank Ltd, London.
22.9.1925: Mortgage (D) discharged.
23.9.1925: Sold to Boston Deep Sea & Ice Co Ltd (sic) (64/64), Grimsby.
30.9.1925: Fred Parkes, Blackpool appointed manager.
11.3.1927: Sold to James Pattison (64/64), West Hartlepool.
11.8.1927; Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Midland Bank Ltd, London (E).
3.12.1927: Transaction 23.9.1925 name of the company is Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd. Amendment to register allowed under Chief Registrar’s Order No. 466 dated 2.12.1927.
6.2.1928: James Pattison designated managing owner.
19.12.1233: Mortgage (E) discharged.
22.3.1934: Grimsby registry closed “Vessel sold for breaking up”.

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S.T. St. Cloud GY856

S.T. St. Cloud GY856
Picture courtesy of Jeffrey Pullen

S.T. St. Cloud

S.T. St. Cloud
Document courtesy of Grimsby Reference Library.

Changelog
09/06/2009: Page published. 5 updates since then.
17/07/2015: Picture added.
18/07/2015: Information updated.
23/07/2015. Information updated.
17/06/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.