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 designated 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.
968: 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
Picture by Donald Innes courtesy of The Mark Stopper Collection

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

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

S.T. Ross Tarifa H584
Picture courtesy of JanH

Technical

Official Number: 149229
Yard Number: 579
Completed: 1929
Gross Tonnage: 138
Net Tonnage: 59
Length: 98.0 ft
Breadth: 20.6 ft
Depth: 10.4 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Crabtree & Co Ltd, Gt. Yarmouth
Built: John Chambers Ltd, Oulton Broad, Lowestoft

History

1929: Launched by John Chambers Ltd, Oulton Broad, Lowestoft (Yd.No.579) for Catchpole, Baxter & Co, Lowestoft as WILLING BOYS. 3.1930: Completed (Edward Catchpole, Kessingland, manager).
21.3.1930: Registered at Lowestoft (LT737).
1930s: Seasonal white fish trawling from Padstow, Milford and Fleetwood.
1.7.1937: Fishing near the Glass Norman bank off the Wicklow coast (Sk. Russell James Gower); arrested by Irish Free State fishery cruiser MUIRCHÚ after shots were fired.
2.7.1937: Sk. Gower of Lowestoft was charged in Dublin Police Court with illegally fishing off the Wicklow coast. Fined £100 and gear and catch forfeited.
15.11.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeping drifter (P.No.FY.947) (Hire rate £77.15.11d/month).
6.1940: Based Dover (Ty Sk. R. McLean RNR).
1941: Fitted out as a LL drifter.
1.1942: Based Dover as a LL drifter (Sk. C. E. Coble RNR).
6.1943: Employed on miscellaneous Naval duties.
1945: Sold to Pevensey Castle Ltd, Lowestoft (R. H. Self, manager).
8.1946: Returned to owner.
1949-1950: Seasonal white fish trawling from Fleetwood.
17.5.1949: At Fleetwood landed 209 boxes grossed £835.
17.8.1949: Last landing at Fleetwood, 218 boxes grossed £793.
14.3.1950: At Fleetwood landed 181 boxes grossed £847.
13.5.1950: Last landing at Fleetwood, 135 boxes grossed £416.
1953: Sold to W. H. Kerr (Ship Chandlers) Ltd, Milford Haven (William H. Kerr, manager).
5.1957: Sailed Milford for Lowestoft for conversion to diesel propulsion (Sk.Sid Durrant).
9.1957: Converted at Lowestoft. Re-engined with a 2stroke 6-cyl 280bhp oil engine by Crossley Bros. Ltd, Manchester.
1.9.1957: On completion of successful trials sailed Lowestoft to fish round to Milford (Sk. Sid Durrant).
6.8.1959: Sailed Milford for Lowestoft and to fish from that port (Sk. Joe Utting).
5.1.1961: Returned to Milford from Lowestoft, but damaged in collision with drifter trawler FEACO (LT207) also returning from Lowestoft.
5.1970: Laid up at Milford.
2.1973: When trawling off the Devon Coast (Sk. Frank Reynolds) hauled a torpedo warhead. Landed at Milford and attended by Plymouth RN Bomb & Mine Disposal Team and found to contain 500lbs of TNT. Safely exploded on Castlemartin Range.
15.2.1973: Escorted into Dunmore by LÉ DIEDRE (P.No.P20) having been arrested for alleged poaching in Irish Republican waters.
16.2.1973: At Court in Dublin Sk. Reynolds fined £210 for fishing in Irsh Republic territorial waters off the Wexford coast and gear and catch (60 boxes of whiting) valued at £1,500 confiscated.
23.7.1973: Sailed Milford for Briton Ferry towing DEELITE (YH29) sold for breaking up.
5.1974: W. H. Kerr (Ship Chandlers) Ltd and fleet taken over by Boston Deep Sea Fisheries Ltd, Hull (William H. Kerr remained manager).
1974: Sold to Brig Trawling Co Ltd, Milford Haven.
12.1975: Last landing at Milford. Laid up.
3.1976: Sold to Thomas W. Ward Ltd, Sheffield for breaking up at Briton Ferry.
23.3.1976: Sailed Milford for Briton Ferry. Lowestoft registry closed.

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S.D/T. Willing Boys LT737
Picture courtesy of John Stevenson

S.D/T. Willing Boys LT737
Picture © Mike Crutchley

Official Number: 132190
Admiralty Number: 4191
Yard Number: 278
Completed: 1919
Gross Tonnage: 96
Net Tonnage: 42
Length: 86.2 ft
Breadth: 18.6 ft
Depth: 9.3 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by W. Beardmore & Co Ltd, Coatbridge
Boiler: Lobnitz & Co Ltd, Renfrew
Built: Scott & Sons Ltd, Bowling

History

1919: Launched by Scott & Sons Ltd, Bowling (Yd.No.278) (“Admiralty drifter”) for The Admiralty as WAFT (Ad.No.4191).
11.9.1919: Completed as a fishing vessel.
9.1.1920: Transferred to Fisheries Board for Scotland for disposal.
1920: Sold to John Murray, Portessie & others (John Murray, managing owner).
1921: Registered at Buckie as Genius (BCK358).
1924: Sold to George Farquhar, Buckie & others (George Farquhar, managing owner).
1928: Sold to John Buchan, St. Combs & others (John Buchan, managing owner).
1.1928: Buckie registry closed.
14.1.1928: Registered at Fraserburgh (FR299).
2.10.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeping drifter (P.No.FY.748) (Hire rate £32.0.0d/month).
1.1942: At Yarmouth ‘LL’ drifter
11.1943: Employed on miscellaneous Naval duties.
4.1944: Re deployed on miscellaneous Naval duties.
1945: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood (B. A. Parkes, manager).
12.11.1945: Returned to owner.
1946: Sold to Adam Steam Steam Fishing Co Ltd, London (B. A. Parkes, manager).
15.3.1948 – 30.6.1948: Seasonal white fish trawling from Milford Haven ((Arthur C. Mitchell, manager).
3.1949: Sold to Merchants (Milford Haven) Ltd, Milford Haven (Frederick Walter Goffin, Hakin, manager).
19.2.1949 – 9.5.1955: Seasonal white fish trawling from Milford Haven.
5.1956: Fraserburgh registry closed.
1955: Laid up at Milford.
2.5.1956: Registered at Milford as MERCHANT VANGUARD (M46 or 59).
6.1956: Stranded on The Hook Peninsula, Co. Waterford. Declared a Total Constructive Loss and abandoned to Underwriters.
2.1.1957: Milford registry closed.

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S.D/T. Genius FR299

Technical

Official Number: 186678
Yard Number: 902
Completed: 1955
Gross Tonnage: 793
Net Tonnage: 279
Length: 190.2 ft
Breadth: 32.1 ft
Depth: 15.7 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, Beverley

History

11.2.1955: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.902) for J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood as MARBELLA.
16.6.1955: Completed (Geoffrey Edwards Marr, Hull, manager). Registered at Hull (H52).
1.2. 1965: Sold to Boyd Line Ltd, Hull (T. W. Boyd, manager) for £124,000.
26.2.1965: Registered at Hull as Arctic Brigand (H52).
1967: First trawler to be awarded the Hull Distant Water Challenge Shield (value of catch on a points basis) 38,806 kits – £134,462 (Sk. Terence Thresh).
1975: Sold to Jacques Bakker en Zonen, Bruges for breaking up.
5.7.1975: Arrived Bruges. Hull registry closed.

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S.T. Arctic Brigand H52
Picture courtesy of The JJ Collection

Technical

Official Number: 163950
Yard Number: 1127
Completed: 1934
Gross Tonnage: 457
Net Tonnage: 185
Length: 161.0 ft
Breadth: 26.6 ft
Depth: 14.2 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby

History

11.9.1934: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.1127) for Hudson Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull Hudson Bros, managers) as CAPE BARFLEUR.
23.10.1934: Registered at Hull (H105).
30.10.1934: Completed.
5.11.1934: Sailed Hull on first trip to Bear Island (Sk. J. Myers).
28.11.1934: At Hull landed 2,000 kits grossed £1,020.
9.1935: As a result of the Abyssinian crisis and failure of British diplomacy, the Government authorised The Admiralty to procure twenty modern trawlers for conversion to minor war vessels.
1938: In the Naval Estimates The Admiralty was authorised to purchase further modern trawlers for conversion to anti submarine vessels.
2.1939: Sold to The Admiralty (£19,260) following successful trials.
27.2.1939: Hull registry closed. Fitted out as a “Gem” class anti-submarine trawler. Renamed HMTrawler AMBER (P.No.T.88).
1.9.1939: Based Alexandria/Port Said with 4th Anti Submarine Group.
6.1940: At Aden (Boatswain H W Clark).
1.1941: At Aden (Actg S/Lieut. P Le M Andrews RNR).
7.1941: At Port Said (Act Ty Lieut. S. Barrie RNR).
1946: Sold to Eton Fishing Co Ltd, Hull (George Gillard, manager).
9.1946: Remeasured after re-classification 473g 188n.
9.1946: Completed refit and classfied as steam trawler.
8.10.1946: Registered at Hull as ETONIAN (H333).
19.9.1950: Sold to Boyd Line Ltd, Hull (T. W. Boyd, manager).
12.10.1950: Regfistered at Hull as ARCTIC CRUSADER (H333).
19.5.1952: Sold to Eton Fishing Co Ltd, Hull (George Gillard, manager).
29.3.1952: Registered at Hull as ETONIAN (H333).
27.3.1954: Sold to J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood (Geoffrey Edwards Marr, Hull, manager) for £27,250.
6.4.1955: Registered at Hull as GLENELLA (H333).
1957: Sold to BISCO and allocated to J. J. King & Co Ltd, Gateshead for breaking up.
13.5.1957: Arrived River Tyne. Hull registry closed.

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S.T. Cape Barfleur H105
Picture courtesy of The JJ Collection

S.T. Cape Barfleur H105
Picture courtesy of The JJ Collection

S.T. Glenella H333
Picture courtesy of The JJ Collection

Technical

Official Number: 185151
Yard Number: 880
Completed: 1953
Gross Tonnage: 790
Net Tonnage: 286
Length: 190.2 ft
Breadth: 32.1 ft
Depth: 15.7 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
Fitted for burning oil fuel, F.P. above 150°F

History

3.4.1953: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.880) for J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood as LANCELLA.
18.7.1953: Completed at a cost of £170,067 (Geoffrey Edwards Marr, Hull, manager).
18.7.1953: Registered at Hull (H290).
21.7.1953: Sailed Hull on first trip to Bear Island (Sk. Leo Romyn DSC).
10.8.1953: At Hull landed 2,760 kits grossed £5,586 (Hull fishing industry slump).
17. 1.1955: Sailed Hull for Icelandic grounds (Sk. William Turner).
24.1.1955: At 2000 RODERIGO (H135) (Sk. George Coverdale) and LORELLA (H455) (Sk. Stephen J. Blackshaw) informed YORK CITY (GY153) that they were proceeding to try to find KINGSTON GARNET (H106) (Sk. Norman Trolle), which was understood to be disabled in very heavy weather with fouled propeller some 40 miles N of Ritur Huk. In fact by 1600 KINGSTON GARNET had freed obstruction and proceeded to shelter; message announcing this was not received by RODERIGO and LORELLA. Having reached approximate position of KINGSTON GARNET and found nothing the pair could not turn due to weather and headed into wind to dodge.
25.1.1955: At 0900 RODERIGO informed LANCELLA “Been blowing a hurricane all night and still blowing very very hard. Wind E, not freezing as much now. Last bearing Cape SW by S at 0815 , 300 fathoms”. At 1650 LORELLA reported to LANCELLA “Wind E force 10 since breakfast time. About same position as yesterday. We dodged back a bit early this morning when it fined a bit. Now blowing very very hard and also continous snow.” At 2115 RODERIGO reported “Still dodging ENE gale force 10.” 26.1.1955: At 0910 RODERIGO reported to LANCELLA “Been dodging full speed and half speed at night to keep her up. Been trying to get round but no go. Wind freshening again.” At 1421 RODERIGO spoke to KINGSTON ZIRCON (H108) (Sk. R. Rivett) “weather very bad and freezing”. At 1435 a Mayday was faintly heard from LORELLA by CONAN DOYLE (H251) (Sk. A. Thompson) and getting fainter “Heeling right over and can’t get back”. This was her last transmission. At 1633 RODERIGO reported that she was manoeuvring with difficulty. At 1650 LANCELLA received a further message from RODERIGO “ We are listing badly to starboard would like you to come to us.” At 1652 left shelter of Ritur Huk to join with CONAN DOYLE (H251), REIGHTON WYKE (H425) (Sk. Ian Turner), KINGSTON ONYX (H140) (Sk. J. Howson) and GRIMSBY TOWN (GY246) to proceed towards supposed position with USAF aircraft airborne. At 1700 IMPERIALIST (H2) (Sk. T. Hanold) picked up distress call, “90 miles NE of North Cape, listing heavily to starboard and going over, unable to abandon ship, wind NE force 11-12, freezing hard”. At 1705: “She is going over and can’t get her back.” At 1710 RODERIGO sent out an S.O.S. on w/t “Heeling right over, please acknowledge”, followed some minutes later by “Going over, going over.” At 1712 messages ceased.
27.1.1955: In mid morning when some 50 miles N of North Cape and fearing for own safety in storm/hurricane force conditions, nil visibility, and icing, LANCELLA terminated search after consultation with RN and USAF. (one newspaper report stated “one vessel refused to be beaten by conditions, the LANCELLA continued her search in the worst weather conditions imaginable until mid morning on the 27th 18 hours after LORELLA’S last distress message had been picked up.”).
11.8.1955: At Formal Investigation at Hull (No.S.432) the Court found that RODERIGO and LORELLA capsized and foundered due to an unusual and unpredictable combination of heavy gales, high seas and loss of stability due to heavy accumulation of ice on their upper structures.
1956: Silver Cod Challenge Trophy winner – Sk. William Turner 45,936 kits, 340 days/£131,633.
1.1974: Sold to Hughes Bolckow Ltd, Blyth for breaking up.
27.2.1974: Commenced breaking up at Blyth.
12.6.1974: Hull registry closed.

Reproduced with kind permission of www.yorkshirepride.co.uk

The conditions were appalling.
Hurricane force winds lashed the seas into a frenzy. Blizzards swept down from the Arctic the true intensity of the swirling white-out apparent only in the deck lights.
On the Hull trawlers LORELLA and RODERIGO , both several miles off Iceland’s North Cape, the skippers put their trawlers head into wind and prayed for the only thing they knew could save them – a moderation in the weather.
Each vessel fought its own battle to survive, the forepeak smashing downwards into the angry, mountainous seas and erupting in a mass of spray. They had no choice in which direction they could take. They sailed onwards – ever more northerly.
Neither trawler could turn and to do so would mean instant disaster. And they knew that their position became every more dangerous by the hour.
The vessels faced another problem, too, that of the relentless build-up of ice on their upperworks . The air temperature was 23F and the sea temperature 34F. The spray froze as it fell on the trawlers.
The time was early in the morning. From the LORELLA came a message to the RODERIGO:
“Boat deck frozen with solid snow, Lads digging it out since breakfast. Terrible lot on bridge top and they are going out there in daylight if possible.
“RODERIGO: “Same here. The whaleback is a solid mass.”
And so into the day..
14.21, RODERIGO: One side of our aerial is down. Weather very bad and freezing.
14.36, LORELLA: Heeling over.
14.39, LORELLA: Going down. Heeling over. LORELLA going down. Heeling over…
There was no further transmission.
15.43, RODERIGO: Calling all ships, we are now taking heavy water.
16.30, Aerials now icing up.
16.45: Can anyone take a bearing on this frequency?
From the trawler LANCELLA, which was in shelter and listening into the broadcasts: Bearing as near as can say north east.
16.50, Roderigo to LANCELLA: Come to us. Position becoming serious now.
16.52, Lancella to RODERIGO: We are coming to you.
An American aircraft from the USAF base on Iceland now asked LANCELLA for RODERIGO’S position. LANCELLA replied: RODERIGO is 90 miles NE of Iceland’s North Cape. Wind NE force 11-12, visibility nil to one cable.
Aircraft to RODERIGO: What are your intentions?
1704, RODERIGO: No intentions. Going further over. No visibility. Still going over to starboard.
17.05: Still going over to starboard. Cannot get her back.
17.08: Still going over. Going over.
17.09: RODERIGO going over…
The message was repeated in Morse until, after three minutes transmission ceased.
Two vessels were missing.
And 40 Hull fishermen were dead.
Seven months later the calm of a Hull inquiry heard a witness say: “They could only hope for a moderation in weather or a rise in temperature.”

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S.T. Lancella H290
Image courtesy of The JJ Collection

Technical

Official Number: 183471
Yard Number: 838
Completed: 1951
Gross Tonnage: 787
Net Tonnage: 284
Length: 188.5 ft
Breadth: 32.1 ft
Depth: 15.5 ft
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
Fitted for burning oil fuel, F.P. above 150°F

History

11.1.1951: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.838) for J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood as NORTHELLA.
4.1951: Registered at Hull (H159).
14.4.1951: Completed (Geoffrey Edwards Marr, Hull, manager).
3.1956: Sold to P/f Sjørnan A/S, Westermanhavn,Faroe Islands (Fr. Blahamar, manager).
6.3.1956: Hull registry closed.
3.1956: Registered at Westermanhavn as GULLBERG (VN146).
1964: Sold to P/f Saturn, Thorshavn, Faroe IsIands.
6.1965: Sold to Henriksen & Co Ltd, Hull.
30.6.1965: Registered at Hull (H253).
3.9.1965: Registered at Hull as CALYDON (H253).
15.2.1973: Henrikson & Co Ltd wound up and assets disposed of.
5.1973: Sold to Albert Draper & Son Ltd, Hull for breaking up.
4.5.1973: Hull registry closed.
5.1973: Arrived Victoria Dock Slipway.

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S.T. Northella H159
Picture courtesy of The JJ Collection

S.T. Gullberg VN146
Picture courtesy of The JJ Collection

S.T. Gullberg VN146
Picture courtesy of The JJ Collection

Technical

Official Number: 164997
Yard Number: 1173
Completed: 1936
Gross Tonnage: 498
Net Tonnage: 193
Length: 166.7 ft
Breadth: 27.6 ft
Depth: 14.2 ft
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by Amos & Smith Ltd, Hull

History

14.11.1936: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.1173) for Newington Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull as HUGH WALPOLE.
6.1.1937: Registered at Hull (H409).
8.1.1937: Completed.
8.1939: Sold to The Admiralty (£28,530) converted to an anti submarine trawler (P.No.FY.102).
20.5.1940: Hull registry closed. Based Kirkwall with 24th A/S Group (Sk. D. Upson RNR).
1.1941: Based Belfast with A/S Trawler Force (Escort WN/EN convoys) (Pbty Ty S/Lieut. J. Mackenzie RNR).
7.1941: At Belfast ((Ty S/Lieut. B. C. Reid RNVR).
1.1942: Based Reykjavik with 41st A/S Group (Senior Officer, Ty/Lieut. P. O. Elliott RNR).
23.5.1944: Assigned to Operation Neptune – Normandy landings. Escort for Assault Convoy S14A.
5.6.1944: Assault ships left for Normandy.
30.6.1944: Operation Neptune ended in British sector.
15.11.1939: Hull registry closed.
20.10.1945: A Control Committee was formed to manage Hull and Grimsby trawlers which had been bought by the Admiralty pre war and were being offered for sale back to their original owners. The owners who bought back these vessels and wanted to take part in the scheme agreed to register the trawlers under the Hull Ice Co. Ltd and profits were shared. Management of the trawlers was given to the companies which had bought them.
4.1946: Sold to Hull Ice Co Ltd, Hull (Henry Burton, manager).
23.10.1946: After restoration and survey at Hull, registered at Hull (H336).
16.11.1946: Sold to Newington Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull (Henry Burton, manager).
27.11.1951: Sold to J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood (Geoffrey Edwards Marr, Hull, manager) for £60,321.
22.12.1951: Registered at Hull as ROSSELLA (H336).
2.6.1959: Sold to Van Heygen Freres, Ghent for breaking up.
12.6.1965: Arrived Ghent.
6.1965: Hull registry closed.

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S.T. Hugh Walpole H409
Picture courtesy of The JJ Collection

In Marr (Fleetwood) ownership. Did not fish from the port.

Technical

Official Number: 18339
Yard Number: 803
Completed: 1948
Gross Tonnage: 684
Net Tonnage: 246
Length: 181.7 ft
Breadth: 30.6 ft
Depth: 15.1 ft
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull

History

18.12.1948: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.803) for J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood as SWANELLA.
3.1949: Registered at Hull (H42).
24.3.1949: Completed at a cost of £102,794 (Geoffrey Edwards Marr, Hull, manager).
10.12.1951: Homeward from White Sea grounds (Sk.Leo Romyn DSC). Off Flamborough Head came across Dutch motor coaster WESTKUST (499grt/1951) abandoned with lights burning crew having been taken off by Scarborough lifeboat when in NW gale her coal cargo, loaded at Bo’ness for Hamburg, had shifted giving a 35° list and there was a danger of capsize. Four crew put onboard, connected and after ten hours under tow, delivered Humber. A Salvage Award of £17,000 was made to the trawler and her owners, the crew receiving one third; Sk. Romyn £1,700, Mate £1,200 and crew members £140 each.
3.3.1952: Sold to Firth Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull (T. Hamling & Co Ltd, managers) for £145,000.
6.3.1952: Sailed Hull for Icelandic grounds (Sk.John Dobson).
29.3.1952: At Hull landed 2220 kits grossed £6,503.17.0d.
29.3.1952: Registered at Hull as St. AMANT (H42) Harold Watson Hall appointed manager.
9.8.1963: Michael Jonarhan Watson Hall appointed manager.
3.2.1973: Sailed Hull for Icelandic grounds on last trip (Sk. Hugh Lafferty).
26.2.1973: At Hull landed 892 kits grossed £9,017.59p. Laid up.
27.4.1973: Sold to Humber Metal Exports Ltd, Hull (Albert Draper & Son Ltd, Hull) for £11,250 “as is as lies laid up in St. Andrew’s Dock”. breaking up.
2.9.1973: Arrived Victoria Dock Slipway for breaking up.
1.11.1973: Hull registry closed.

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S.T. St Amant H42
Picture courtesy of The JJ Collection

S.T. St Amant H42
Picture courtesy of The JJ Collection

S.T. Swanella H42
Picture courtesy of The JJ Collection