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S.T. Fintray GY408

Additional information courtesy of Douglas Paterson

Technical

Official Number: 123358
Yard Number: 404
Completed: 1906
Gross Tonnage: 195
Net Tonnage: 52
Length: 115.4 ft
Breadth: 21.6 ft
Depth: 11.6 ft
Built: Hall, Russell & Co Ltd, Aberdeen
Engine: 430ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by Hall, Russell & Co Ltd, Aberdeen

History

24.5.1906: Launched by Hall, Russell & Co Ltd, Aberdeen (Yd.No.404) for The North Line Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Aberdeen as NORTH QUEEN.
4.7.1906: Registered at Aberdeen (A78).
7.1906: Completed (John A. Harrow, manager).
1.1.1914: Tonnage altered to 74.90 net under provision of Merchant Shipping Act 1907.
11.1914: Requisitioned for war service as an armed trawler (1-3pdr, 1-2pdr) (Ad.No.681).
30.12.1914: Sold to Edward Walker, Newhaven (managing owner). Based Dover.
By 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Old Dock, Leith.
1920: Sold to Walker’s Trawlers (Newhaven) Ltd, Newhaven, Edinburgh (Edward Walker, Leith, manager).
6.5.1920: Aberdeen registry closed.
8.5.1920: Registered at Granton (GN51).
19.4.1922: Sold to Edward Walker, Leith (managing owner).
1926: Off Aberdeen, in collision with CRAMOND ISLAND (LH114). Put into Aberdeen for docking and repair to bow plating.
1930: Sold to George Brown, Leith (managing owner).
1932: Sold to Mrs Christina W. Brown, Leith (George Brown, manager).
2.1933: Homeward from Icelandic grounds, stranded at Whitelink Bay, near Cairnbulg, Aberdeenshire; ten crew rescued by lifesaving apparatus.
9.1933: Refloated and sold by underwriters to Fraserburgh Ship Repairing Co Ltd, Fraserburgh.
1933: Granton registry closed.
1934: Sold to Alexander A. Davidson, Aberdeen (managing owner).
8.10.1934: Certificate of seaworthiness issued.
9.11.1934: Registered at Aberdeen as FINTRAY (A135) (BoT Minute M/R.G.1394/1934 dated 24.9.1934).
20.2.1940: Requisitioned for war service as a patrol vessel (Hire rate £48.15.0d/month).
4.1942: Fitted out as a minesweeper (P.No.FY.253).
16.9.1942: Sold to Northern Trawlers Ltd (64/64), London. William Alfred Bennett appointed manager.
8.1.1945: Returned to owner.
25.11.1946: Aberdeen registry closed.
29.11.1946: Registered at Grimsby (GY408).
3.8.1948: Sold to Harry Markham Cook (64/64), Louth.
4.8.1945: Harry Markham Cook appointed manager.
24.11.1948: Sold to Joseph Parker (64/64), Grimsby.
26.11.1948: Joseph Parker designated managing owner.
23.3.1949: Sold to Grange Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Fleetwood.
28.3.1949: Herbert Schofield appointed manager.
8.3.1952: Last landing at Fleetwood. Laid up.
7.1952: Sold to BISCO and allocated to Thos. W. Ward Ltd, Sheffield for breaking up.
10.7.1952: Arrived Preston.
2.12.1952: Grimsby registry closed “Vessel being broken up”.

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S.T. Fintray GY408

S.T. North Queen GN51
Stranded at Whitelink Bay
Picture from the Internet

HMT Fintray

HMT Fintray
Picture reproduced under IWM Non-Commercial Licence

Changelog
20/12/2008: Page published. 4 updates since then.
29/11/2015: Picture added.
01/12/2017: Removed FMHT watermarks from images.
26/08/2020: Updated history.

S.T. Filey LO189

Additional information courtesy of Mike Thompson

Technical

Official Number: 136171
Yard Number: 284
Completed: 1914
Gross Tonnage: 226
Net Tonnage: 87
Length: 115.5 ft
Breadth: 22.5 ft
Depth: 12.3 ft
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley
Engine: 275ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by Amos & Smith Ltd, Hull
Speed: 11 knots

History

29.11.1913: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.284) for Hull Steam Fishing & Ice Co Ltd (64/64), Hull as FILEY.
9.1.1914: Registered at Hull (H8). Joseph Vivian designated manager.
1.1914: Completed.
26.3.1915: Requisitioned for war service as an armed trawler (Ad.No.1363). At Devonport fitted 1-12pdr.
30.3.1915: Allocated Unit 86 – Section D based St. Mary’s, Isels of Scilly (Sk. D. Stather RNR).
2.10.1916: Ran ashore in Camusmore Bay, Tory Island, Co. Donegal.
30.1.1917: Hull registry closed. “Lost on Admiralty service”.
7.1917: Salved, acquired by The Admiralty and returned to service (Ad.No.3826).
4.5.1920: Sold by auction at Milford to The Hull Steam Fishing & Ice Co Ltd (64/64), Hull for £9,300.
13.5.1920: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to London County Westminster & Parr’s Bank Ltd, London (A).
2.6.1920: Registered at Hull (H191).
2.6.1920: Joseph Vivian designated manager.
6.3.1923: Mortgagee re-styled as Westminster Bank Ltd, London.
14.10.1927: Mortgage (A) transferred to William Augustus Hayward, Eastbourne.
14.10.1927: Mortgage (A) transferred to Mercantile Marine Finance Corporation Ltd, London.
22.10.1928: Robert Burton appointed manager.
16.9.1932: Charles Hugh Emerson designated manager.
10.1932: Mercantile Marine Finance Corporation Ltd in liquidation.
1.11.1932: Mortgage (A) transferred to Harold Frank Hayward, London; Maud Florence Katherine Rogers, Chelsea and Ernest Norton, London (64/64 joint mortgagees).
1935: Insured value £2,950.
3.1936: Combined boxing and trawling fleet of Kelsall Bros. & Beeching Ltd and the Hull Steam Fishing & Ice Co Ltd consisting of 59 vessels laid up at Hull (declining catches, coal bill and increased maintenance costs had made the venture uneconomical).
6.3.1936: At Extraordinary General Meeting at Hull, Kelsall Brothers & Beeching Ltd placed in Creditors’ Voluntary Winding-up (Richard Field Helm of Messrs Hodgson Harris & Co, London appointed liquidators).
18.12.1936: Sold by order of the mortgagee under mortgage (A) to Heward Trawlers Ltd (64/64), London (R. S. Hewett & H. F. Hayward).
29.12.1936: Hull registry closed.
29.12.1936: Robert S. Hewett, London designated manager.
1.1.1937: Registered at London (LO189). Fishing from Fleetwood.
17.2.1943: Sailed Fleetwood in company with BEMPTON (LO192) for Hull via Liverpool for DG wiping. PM arrived Liverpool.
18.2.1943: Sold to Kingston Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull for £11,000.
19.2.1943: Sailed Liverpool in company for Hull.
22.2.1943: London registry closed.
24.2.1943: Arrived Hull in company.
24.2.1943: Registered at Hull (H547). John William Lown designated manager.
1943: Landing at Hull from Iceland/Faroe – 10 trips, 10,022 kits.
10.2.1944: William George O’Dell designated manager. Based at Hull sailing in armed convoys to and from fishing grounds.
15.11.1944: Sold to Iago Steam Trawling Co Ltd, London & Fleetwood for £11,700. (A/Capt) Cdr E. D. W. Lawford DSO designated manager.
28.9.1946: Sold to Alexander Hay & John Mair, Aberdeen.
9.10.1946: Hull registry closed.
14.10.1946: Registered at Aberdeen (A232).
12.6.1959: Aberdeen registry closed.
15.6.1959: Sold to Scherpswerf “De Beer”, Zaandam for breaking up by Jos. de Smedt, Antwerp.
25.6.1959: Delivered Antwerp from Aberdeen.

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S.T. Filey A232

S.T. Filey A232
Picture courtesy of The Bill Blow Collection

Changelog
20/12/2008: Page published. 6 updates since then.
22/08/2020: Updated history.

S.T. Feugh FD403

Additional information courtesy of Bill Blow and Barry Johnson (Milford Trawlers)

Technical

Official Number: 139782
Yard Number: 725
Completed: 1917
Gross Tonnage: 227
Net Tonnage: 87
Length: 121.2 ft
Breadth: 22.2 ft
Depth: 12.3 ft
Built: Cochrane & Sons, Selby
Engine: 480ihp T.3-cyl by R. W. Lewis & Sons Ltd, Aberdeen
Boiler: Riley Brothers (Boilermakers) Ltd, Stockton on Tees

History

18.7.1916: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.725) for Richard W. Lewis, Aberdeen (managing owner) as FEUGH.
17.10.1916: Registered at Aberdeen (A706).
1.1917: Completed.
6.1917: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-6pdr HA) (Ad.No.1278). Based Peterhead.
Post 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Aberdeen.
22.11.1919: Sold to The British Trawling Co Ltd (64/64), Bootle (Charles W. Pickering, manager).
9.2.1920: Sold to The Derby Steam Trawling Co Ltd (64/64), Bootle (Charles W. Pickering, Fleetwood, manager).
2.1922: Sold to Godby Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Fleetwood (Jules Nierinck, manager).
20.2.1922: Aberdeen registry closed.
24.2.1922: Registered at Fleetwood (FD403).
8.6.1923: Driven ashore at Bispham, Blackpool; catch and crew saved.
1923: Refloated and returned to service.
9.1924: Sold to Thomas D. Lees, Bonnington, Edinburgh (Robert Bell Jnr, Leith, manager).
11.10.1924: Fleetwood registry closed.
13.10.1924: Registered at Granton (GN24).
11.1924: Sold to The Crampin Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
23.11.1925: Granton registry closed.
25.11.1925: Registered at Grimsby (GY366).
25.11.1925: Herbert George Crampin appointed manager.
7.11.1927: Sold to Trawlers (White Sea & Grimsby) Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
7.11.1927: Harold Bacon appointed manager.
20.12.1927: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Midland Bank Ltd, London (A).
30.12.1927: Registered at Grimsby as BERENGA (GY366) (BoT Minute M/R.G.1466/27 dated 17.12.1927).
17.5.1929: Mortgage (A) discharged.
3.2.1930: James Norman Bacon appointed manager.
26.1.1937: V. Smith, trimmer was landed at Grimsby with serious face and leg injuries having been washed along the deck.
25.11.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (P.No.FY.774) (Hire rate £64.6.4d/month).
17.2.1940: Returned to owner.
19.4.1940: Requisitioned for war service for barrage balloon towing duties.
14.3.1941: Charles George Martin appointed manager.
8.1.1942: Company re-styled Trawlers Grimsby Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
3.9.1945: Returned to owner.
8.12.1945: Sold to United Trawlers Ltd, Milford Haven.
17.12.1945: Henry J. Horwood appointed manager.
12.1.1946: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Midland Bank Ltd, London (B).
30.1.1951: Sailed Milford for the fishing grounds SW of Ireland (Sk.Arthur Howie).
31.1.1951: Responded to call for assistance from trawler BRAES O’ MAR (M100)(Sk.John H. Ryan) taking in water some 15 miles WNW of the Skelligs. Transferred crew and stood by.
1.2.1951: At 9.00 a.m. BRAES O’ MAR foundered. Crew landed at Berehaven, Co. Cork.
24.9.1951: Mortgage (B) discharged.
25.9.1951: Sold to Atlantic Trawlers Ltd (64/64), Edinburgh.
15.10.1951: Henry John Richards, Milford Haven appointed manager.
15.10.1951: Grimsby registry closed.
17.10.1951: Registered at Milford as SPRINGLEIGH (M192) (MoT Minute R.G. No.1280/1951dated 3.10.1951).
19.2.1953: Sold to J. C. Llewellin (Trawlers) Ltd (64/64), Milford Haven (John Charles Llewellin, manager).
5.5.1953: Sold to South Western Trawlers Ltd (64/64), Milford Haven.
7.1953: Registered at Milford as LYDSTEP (M192) (MoT Minute R.G. No.1154/1953 dated 27.7.1953).
11.11.1954: Reported that deckhand George G. Harding was injured by a rope when hauling; landed at Cork, Co. Cork where he died two days later.
1955: Sold to BISCO and allocated to Thos. W. Ward Ltd, Sheffield for breaking up at Castle Pill, Milford Haven.
23.5.1955: Delivered Castle Pill.
13.6.1955: Milford registry closed “Vessel broken up”.

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S.T. Lydstep M192

S.T. Lydstep M192
Picture from the Roger Worsley archive courtesy of Milford Trawlers

Changelog
20/12/2008: Page published. 6 updates since then.
23/07/2017: Removed FMHT watermark.
21/08/2020: Updated history.

S.T. Ferrol FD124

Technical

Official Number: 148222
Yard Number: ??
Completed: 1918
Gross Tonnage: 271
Net Tonnage: 123
Length: 125.7 ft
Breadth: 23.5 ft
Depth: 12.7 ft
Built: Davie Shipbuilding & Repair Co Ltd, Levis, Quebec
Engine: 480ihp T.3-cyl by Collingwood Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Collingwood, Ontario, Canada

History

1.1917: Ordered.
5.6.1918: Launched by Davie Shipbuilding & Repairing Co Ltd, Levis, Quebec, Canada (Yd.No.) (Canadian “Castle”- “T.R.” class) for The Admiralty (paid for and built for under direction of RCN) as TR.36.
5.6.1918: Completed and commissioned in the Royal Canadian Navy (1-12pdr).
7.1.1919: Paid off.
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, Fleetwood (F. Parkes, Blackpool, manager).
8.12.1931: On a trip to Butt of Lewis ground (Sk. Robert Stafford). At about 06.00 a.m. in the darkness with strong southerly wind and sea, stranded Crianan Head, 3 miles W of Tuipan Head Lighthouse, Eye Peninsular, Isle of Lewis. William Atkinson, mate, managed to get on cliff face with line and crew evacuated. After two hours reached the top of cliffs and walked to Sheshader village. Vessel a total loss, but all crew of twelve safe. Only wheelhouse and funnel above water.
25.8.1932: Fleetwood registry closed “Total loss”. (BoT awarded a binocular glass to William Atkinson, in recognition of the services rendered by him to enable his shipmates to reach safety.)

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S.T. Ferrol FD124

S.T. Ferrol FD124
Picture as TR36 courtesy of Ronnie Bell

S.T. TR36

S.T. TR36
Launching picture courtesy of Ronnie Bell

Changelog
26/04/2014: Information updated.
28/10/2016: Image added.

S.T. Gladys (1) FD61

Technical

Official Number: 122936
Yard Number: 514
Completed: 1906
Gross Tonnage: 275
Net Tonnage: 97
Length: 130.0 ft
Breadth: 22.2 ft
Depth: 11.9 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by Earle’s Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Hull
Built: Earle’s Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Hull

History

26.2.1906: Launched by Earle’s Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Hull (Yd.No.514) for Fleetwood Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Fleetwood as GLADYS.
19.3.1906: Registered at Fleetwood (FD61). George E. J. Moody, Grimsby desgnated manager.
3.1906: Completed.
1.1.1914: Tonnage altered to 105.66net under provision of Merchant Shipping Act 1907.
21.1.1917: Stopped by U-boat (U.45) while fishing 40 miles NW by W of Inishtrahull and sunk by gunfire; crew saved.
26.1.1917: Fleetwood registry closed.

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S.T. Gladys FD61

S.T. Gladys FD61
Picture courtesy of The David Slinger Collection

Changelog
20/12/2008: Page published. 2 updates since then.
15/05/2107: Added image.