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S.T. Elswick FD78

Additional information courtesy of Bill Blow

Technical

Official Number: 122945
Yard Number: 187
Completed: 1906
Gross Tonnage: 215
Net Tonnage: 59
Length: 120.2 ft
Breadth: 21.6 ft
Depth: 11.6 ft
Engine: 380ihp T.3-cyl by Gouldie, Gillespie & Co, Glasgow
Boiler: A. & W. Dalglish, Pollockshaws, Glasgow
Built: Scott & Sons Ltd, Bowling

History

24.5.1906: Launched by Scott & Sons Ltd, Bowling (Yd.No.187) for Double Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Fleetwood as ELSWICK.
3.9.1906: Mortgaged to The Manchester & County Bank Ltd, Manchester (A).
10.9.1906: Registered at Fleetwood (FD78), Charles Henry Double appointed manager.
9.1906: Completed.
30.10.1906: Harry Melling, Preston appointed manager.
25.2.1907: Company title changed to The Lune Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Henry Melling, Preston, managers).
26.5.1908: Henry Leadbetter appointed manager.
9.2.1909: Henry Melling appointed manager.
24.9.1912: Mortgage (A) discharged.
1.1.1914: Tonnage altered to 83.09 net under provision of Merchant Shipping Act 1907.
7.1915: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-6pdr) (Ad.No.1535).
22.2.1918: Mortgaged to The Manchester & County Bank Ltd, Manchester (B).
30.11.1918: Mortgage (B) discharged.
1.12.1918: Sold to William Would (64/64), Grimsby.
6.12.1918: William Would appointed managing owner.
14.12.1918: Fleetwood registry closed.
19.12.1918: Registered at Grimsby (GY1264).
1919: Returned to owner.
1.4.1920: Sold to Woodbury Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
1.4.1920: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to William Would for the sum of £10,250 at 5% interest (C).
10.4.1920: Harold Arthur Jeffries appointed manager.
16.11.1920: Mortgage transferred to London Joint City & Midland Bank Ltd, London.
14.8.1922: Mortgage (C) discharged.
14.8.1922: Sold to William Would (64/64), Grimsby.
14.8.1922: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to London Joint City & Midland Bank Ltd, London (E).
6.9.1922: William Would appointed manager.
19.11.1923: Reported that when hauling in the North Sea, three men were dragged overboard, two were recovered but Richard Heath, Grimsby was drowned.
27.11.1923: Mortgagee restyled to Midland Bank Ltd.
20.2.1925: Sold by order of the mortgagee under mortgage (E) to Thomas Thoburn Irvin (64/64), Aberdeen.
3.4.1925: Thomas Thorburn Irvin appointed manager.
4.4.1925: Grimsby registry closed.
6.4.1925: Registered at Aberdeen (A97).
3.1.1930: At Aberdeen Sheriff Court, Sk. William Drever was fined £60 for fishing within the Moray Firth limits and £40 for failing to carry or show the regulation lights.
22.7.1931: Sold to Mrs Ethel Irvin (64/64), Aberdeen (Thomas T. Irvin, manager).
20.1.1942: Stranded near Peterhead. Sold for breaking up.
8.1.1947: Aberdeen registry closed “… sold for breaking up”.

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S.T. Elswick FD78

S.T. Elswick FD78
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Changelog

19/12/2008: Page published. 5 updates since then.
01/05/2018: Image added.
23/06/2020: Updated information.

S.T. Elsie FD27

Technical

Official Number: 105100
Yard Number: 153
Completed: 1896
Gross Tonnage: 184
Net Tonnage: 79
Length: 110.9 ft
Breadth: 21.3 ft
Depth: 11.3 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by Charles D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
Built: Cochrane & Cooper, Beverley, 1896

History

28.3.1896: Launched by Cochrane & Cooper, Beverley (Yd.No.153) for George Thomas Armitage & John Henry Lynn, Hull as Elsie.
29.4.1896: Completed (George T. Armitage, manager).
30.4.1896: Registered at Hull (H320).
28.7.1896: Sold to George Thomas Armitage, Hull.
14.7.1899: Sold to Armitage’s Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull (George T. Armitage, manager).
9.1909: New boiler.
1914: Fishing from Fleetwood.
1.1915: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-6pdr) (Ad.No.944). Based Moray Command.
12.1917: Sold to The Gamecock Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Scarborough (Albert F. G. McConkey, manager).
5.1918. Detached to Northern Patrol, Scapa Flow.
6.1918: Returned Moray making water.
21.6.1918: Surveyed at Invergordon – unseaworthy. Returned Cromarty and laid up.
10.7.1918: Ref. M. Branch Acquaint No.M011688/18, Ser.No.907. to be returned to owner at Scarborough.
5.9.1918: ‘Ceased to be on Admiralty charter.’
1919: Sold to The Ellis Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Scarborough (John S. Ellis, manager).
192?: New boiler fitted at Hartlepool.
29.3.1920: Hull registry closed.
30.3.1920: Registered at Scarborough (SH280).
8.12.1928: Sold to James Pattison, West Hartlepool (managing owner).
1934: Sold to Stanley Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Fleetwood (James Brierley, Rochdale, manager).
18.5.1934: Scarborough registry closed.
1.6.1934: Registered at Fleetwood (FD27).
1937: Sold for breaking up.
24.2.1937: Fleetwood registry closed, breaking up completed.

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S.T. Elsie FD27

S.T. Elsie FD27
Picture courtesy of The Fred Baker Collection

S.T. Elsie SH280

S.T. Elsie SH280
Picture courtesy of The Peter Green Collection

Changelog
18/12/2008: Page published. 2 updates since then.
24/07/2017: Removed FMHT watermark and added an image.
20/06/2020: Updated information.

S.T. Edwina FD205

Technical

Official Number: 139204
Yard Number: 274
Completed: 1915
Gross Tonnage: 267
Net Tonnage: 104
Length: 127.2 ft
Breadth: 23 ft
Depth: 12.7 ft
Built: Dundee Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Dundee
Engine: T.3-cyl by W. Beardmore & Co Ltd, Glasgow

History

9.1915: Completed by Dundee Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Dundee (Yd.No.274) for J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood as EDWINA.
29.9.1915: Registered at Fleetwood (FD205) James A. Robertson designated manager.
10.1915: Requisitioned from the builders for war service (Ad.No.1919).
10.1915: Commissioned at Dundee.
10.1915: At Devonport. Fitted with Hotchkiss 3pdr gun (No.9) and fitted out for auxilliary patrol.
1.1916: Allocated Unit No.63 – Section C based Devonport (Sk. A. Brown RNR).
10.1916: Allocated Unit 63 – Sections S, T, U based Devonport (Sk. J. P. James RNR). Based Gibraltar.
By 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Grimsby.
12.10.1924: James A. Robertson OBE died.
10.1924: Alan Marr designated manager.
6.2.1925: Joseph Arthur Marr appointed manager.
1.12.1925: Alan Marr died after long illness.
1.4.1929: Joseph Arthur Marr retired from board to run the Dinas Company.
4.1929: Geoffrey Edwards Marr designated manager.
1935: Sold to G. Reid, Aberdeen.
1938: Sold to Dalby Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Fleetwood.
Pre 4.1940: Employed on Fishery Protection (WA/Fort William/Fleetwood) (1-12pdr, 4 Lewis guns).
26.5.1940: At 6.57pm. ‘Operation Dynamo’ (Dunkirk evacuation) put into effect.
27.5.1940: Requisitioned for war service (Hire rate £73.8.6d/month) (Ty/Sk. Percy Bedford RNR).
27.5.1940: Fleetwood Flotilla sailed North End, Fleetwood for English Channel with GAVA (FD380) as Leader (Ty/Sk. F. Day RNR. Senior Officer Fleetwood Flotilla, P/Ty/Lieut. Francis Joseph Jordan RNR), with DHOON (FD438), EVELYN ROSE (GY9) (Ty/Sk. Arthur John Lewis RNR), JACINTA (FD235) (Ty/Sk. Jim Bettess RNR – mate) and VELIA (FD49) (Ty/Sk. John Clarkson RNR).
30.5.1940: Arrived Dover.
31.5.1940: At 0730 sailed for Ramsgate, entering harbour at 0910. At 2030 moved to anchor outside.
1.6.1940: At 0725 sailed Ramsgate for Dunkirk. Attacked by enemy aircraft all the way; returned fire. Two crew wounded. Arrived Dunkirk at 1125 and embarked 120 French Colonial troops. At 1230 Fleetwood Flotilla cleared harbour bound Ramsgate. At 1400 concentrated enemy air attack. Aircraft returned at 1430. Arrived off Ramsgate at 1855 and landed troops. Two hours shore leave in Ramsgate. Fleetwood Flotilla resumed patrol at 2312.
4.6.1940: Ordered to Harwich. Weekend leave and on return crew signed a three month contract under T.124 articles as civilians employed to serve alongside the Royal Navy in Naval uniform as members of Naval Auxiliary Personnel subject to Naval discipline. Commenced 3 day patrols (P.No.4.134) in the English Channel as part of ‘invasion’ defence.
6.1941: Fitted out for minesweeping duties.
5.1945: Returned.
12.11.1956: Sold for breaking up.

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HMT Edwina

HMT Edwina
Picture reproduced under IWM Non-Commercial Licence

S.T. Edwina FD205

S.T. Edwina FD205
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Changelog
19/12/2008: Page published. 7 updates since then.
03/06/2016: Minor information update.
29/05/2020: Information updated.
13/06/2020: Information updated.

S.T. Edmund Burke FD156

Technical

Official Number: 113242
Yard Number: 9
Completed: 1903
Gross Tonnage: 213
Net Tonnage: 84
Length: 118.2 ft
Breadth: 21.5 ft
Depth: 11.2 ft
Built: G. Cooper, Hull
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by Charles D. Holmes & Co, Hull

History

1903: Launched by G. Cooper, Hull (Yd.No.9) for Crown Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby as SCEPTRE.
27.2.1903: Registered at Grimsby (GY1262).
3.1903: Completed (George E. J. Moody, managers)
1907: Fishing from Fleetwood.
1908: Sold to Dublin Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Dublin (Arthur Richardson, manager).
13.8.1910: Grimsby registry closed.
8.1910: Registered at Dublin as EDMUND BURKE (D82).
1913: Fishing from Fleetwood.
1.1.1914: Tonnage altered to 84net under provision of Merchant Shipping Act 1907.
1922: Company restructured as Dublin Trawling, Ice & Cold Storage Co Ltd, Dublin (Arthur Richardson, manager).
1927: Sold to Mrs J. M. F. A. Nierinck, Blackpool.
8.1927: Sold to Islay Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood (Joseph A. Taylor & Albert V. Thompson, joint managers).
8.1927: Dublin registry closed.
12.8.1927: Registered at Fleetwood (FD156).
18.6.1928: At Fleetwood landed 50 boxes.
10.10.1920: At Fleetwood landed 110 boxes.
10.3.1931: Sold to Cape Fisheries Ltd, London (Albert V. Thompson, Fleetwood, manager).
19.9.1931: Sold to Alexander Pirie Snr, Alexander Pirie Jnr, Gary Pirie & James Pirie, Aberdeen (Albert V. Thompson, Fleetwood, manager).
17.9.1932: Fleetwood registry closed.
21.9.1932: Registered at Aberdeen (A213),
26.5.1934: Registered at Aberdeen as GRATEFUL (A213).
1940: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Basil A. Parkes, manager).
5.4.1943: Sold to Milford Fisheries Ltd, Milford Haven (Owen W. Limbrick, manager).
14.2.1946: Sold to James Mowatt, Aberdeen (managing owner).
11.3.1946: Sold to James Mowatt, James Stewart, Alexander Tulloch, Colin Mitchel, Aberdeenl and John Nicol, Gardenstown.
23.11.1946: Sold to Grateful Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Aberdeen (James Mowatt, manager).
1952: Sold to BISCO and allocated to Malcolm Brechin, Granton for breaking up.
14.11.1952: Arrived Granton from Aberdeen under own power.
9.12.1952: Aberdeen registry closed “Vessel broken up”.

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S.T. Sceptre GY1262

S.T. Sceptre GY1262
Picture courtesy of The Alan Hirst Collection

Changelog
19/12/2008: Page published. 5 updates since then.
25/06/2015: Picture added.
19/03/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
31/07/2021: Updated history.

S.T. Eddystone FD372

Technical

Official Number: 106764
Yard Number: 156
Completed: 1897
Gross Tonnage: 165
Net Tonnage: 64
Length: 104.2 ft
Breadth: 21 ft
Depth: 10.7 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Muir & Houston Ltd, Glasgow
Built: Mackie & Thomson, Govan, Glasgow

History

16.6.1897: Launched by Mackie & Thomson, Govan (Yd. No.156) for The Great Northern Steamship Fishing Co Ltd, Hull as EDDYSTONE.
8.1897: Completed (William R. Nowell, manager).
10.8.1897: Registered at Hull (H368).
14.10.1899: On a North Sea trip picked up twelve crew of herring lugger THOR abandoned.
1.1.1900: In dense fog off the Humber, in collision with Swedish steamer BALTZAR von PLATEN (713grt/1872). Sustained damage to stem and bow plating and flooded forepeak, run ashore at Spurn Point. Refloated, repaired and returned to service. Subsequently found to be at fault.
1914: Sold to Charles Curzon, Milford Haven.
31.1.1917: Sold to Ernest Taylor, Thornton (managing owner).
29.5.1917: Requisitioned for Fishery Reserve.
1919: Released.
5.1920: Sold to Arthur Jonckheere, Fleetwood (Joseph A. Taylor, manager).
3.5.1920: Hull registry closed.
7.5.1920: Registered at Fleetwood (FD372).
14.5.1924: Sold to Sk. Alexander King (Cert.No.12767), Aberdeen (William Morley, manager).
1.9.1925: Sold to George Jackson Ward, Lytham (William Morley, manager).
7.1928: Sold to N.V. Vissch. Mij. Riew., Ymuiden (Erenst & Weimar, managers).
8.8.1928: Fleetwood registry closed.
8.1928: Renamed VOORWAARTS (IJM83).
1938: F. J. Erenst appointed manager.
1939: Sold for breaking up.

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S.T. Eddystone FD372

S.T. Eddystone FD372
Picture courtesy of Peter Green

Changelog
19/12/2008: Page published. 5 updates since then.