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S.T. Boston Attacker FD92

Technical

Official Number: 180345
Yard Number: 776
Completed: 1946
Gross Tonnage: 323
Net Tonnage: 118
Length: 130 ft
Breadth: 25.7 ft
Depth: 12.6 ft
Engine: 700IHP T.3-cyl by Charles D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull. Fitted for burning oil fuel, F.P. above 150° F.
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley
Speed: 11.3 knots

History

30.8.1946: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.776) for N.V. Motorvisscherij, Ostend, Belgium as VAN ORLEY (O294).
3.12.1946: Completed.
4.1951: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood.
4.1951: Ostend registry closed.
17.4.1951: Registered at Fleetwood as BOSTON ATTACKER (FD92).
1.10.1952: Sold to the Government of Canada, Ottawa. Renamed MAPLE LEAF and gifted under the Commonwealth Aid Scheme (Colombo plan) to the Government of Ceylon, Colombo. (Modified at Fleetwood and fitted with refrigerated fishroom and air conditioning). Fleetwood registry closed. Registered at Ottawa.
19.4.1953: Sailed Fleetwood.
1955: Transferred to Government of Ceylon (Government Stores Dept), Colombo. Ottawa registry closed. Unregistered.
1971: Deleted from Lloyd’s Register.

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S.T. Boston Attacker FD92

S.T. Boston Attacker FD92
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S.T. Boston Attacker FD92

S.T. Boston Attacker FD92

S.T. Boston Attacker FD92 as Maple Leaf, April 1953

S.T. Boston Attacker FD92 as Maple Leaf, April 1953

Boston Attacker as Maple Leaf.

Boston Attacker as Maple Leaf.

S.T. Maple Leaf_int

S.T. Maple Leaf
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S.T. Maple Leaf

S.T. Maple Leaf
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Changelog
14/05/2012: Page published. 11 revisions since then.
20/08/2014: 4 broken image links repaired.

S.T. Boston Typhoon FD272

Technical

Official Number: 180335
Yard Number: 376
Completed: 1948
Gross Tonnage: 329
Net Tonnage: 128
Length: 137.5 ft
Breadth: 25.6 ft
Depth: 12.3 ft
Built: Richards Ironworks Ltd, Lowestoft
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by Amos & Smith Ltd, Hull (engine built 1945). Fitted for burning oil fuel, F.P. above 150 ° F

History

25.5.1948: Launched by Richards Ironworks Ltd, Lowestoft (Yd.No.376) for Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood as BOSTON TYPHOON.
9.1948: Completed. Registered at Fleetwood (FD272). Basil A. Parkes designated manager.
9.1948: Sailed Lowestoft for fishing grounds (Sk. Robert Wright); seventeen crew all told, to land at Fleetwood.
2.5.1953: Last landing at Fleetwood.
5.1953: Sold to Ytre Rollöya Fiskersamvirke, Hamnvik, Norway (Ove Bergvoll, Harstad, manager). Fleetwood registry closed. Registered at Hamnvik as ROLLANES.
1971: Sold for breaking up.

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S.T. Boston Typhoon FD272

S.T. Boston Typhoon FD272
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S.T. Boston Typhoon FD272

S.T. Boston Typhoon FD272
Picture courtesy of The JJ Collection

SS.T. Boston Typhoon FD272

S.T. Boston Typhoon FD272
Picture © Ford Jenkins courtesy of The Greenday Collection

Changelog
14/05/2012: Page published. 7 updates since then.
16/09/2019: Information updated.
14/10/2019: Added an image.

S.T. Daily Mail FD100

Technical

Official Number: 162062
Yard Number: 915
Completed: 1930
Gross Tonnage: 386
Net Tonnage: 165
Length: 141.7 ft
Breadth: 25.5 ft
Depth: 13.6 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, Middlesbrough
Built: Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, South Bank-on-Tees, Middlesbrough

History

28.4.1930: Launched by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, South Bank-on-Tees, Middlesbrough (Yd.No.915) for Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood as the DAILY MAIL.
2.6.1930: Registered at Fleetwood (FD100).
6.1930: Completed (Fred. Parkes, Blackpool, manager).
1931: Basil A. Parkes, Blackpool appointed manager.
10.5.1931: Homeward from St. Kilda grounds (Sk. Albert Heywood), in thick fog stranded on rocks off Crammag Head, The Rinns of Galloway, splitting shell plating on port side.
11.5.1931: Came afloat, with TRANQUIL (FD425) and Portpatrick lifeboat standing by, but grounded again on the north side of Portencorkie Bay, crew picked up by TRANQUIL.
8.1931: After efforts to salve failed, boiler removed to barge, but foundered in deep water. Some further dismantling carried out and declared a total loss.
9.12.1931: Fleetwood registry closed “Total loss 10/5/31”.

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S.T. Daily Mail FD100

S.T. Daily Mail FD100
Picture courtesy of The JJ Collection

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S.T. Daily Mirror FD71

Technical

Admiralty Number: 4294
Official Number: 143471
Yard Number: 410
As built: 360disp 125.6 x 23.5 x 12.8 feet
Completed: 1919
Gross Tonnage: 286
Net Tonnage: 109
Length: 125.5 ft
Breadth: 23.5 ft
Depth: 12.7 ft
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley
Engine: 480ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by Amos & Smith
Speed: 10.5 knots

History

18.3.1919: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.410) (“Castle” class) for The Admiralty as Egilias Akerman (Ad.No.4294).
13.11.1919: Completed as a fishing vessel.
1.1920: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Boston. Renamed KESTEVEN (BN146). Fred Parkes designated manager.
1923: Sold to Victor Fourney, Boulogne.
1923: Boston registry closed.
1923: Registered at Boulogne as IMPRÉVU (B789).
10.06.1925: Towed into Plymouth by the French steam trawler PROFESSEUR BERGONIÉ after damaging her propeller on a sunken wreck.
1930: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood.
3.1930: Boulogne registry closed.
17.3.1930: Registered at Fleetwood as DAILY MIRROR (FD71). Fred Parkes, Blackpool designated manager.
21.11.1932: Landed at Fleetwood, 600 boxes of herring for only 15 hrs fishing.
1934: Sold to Thomas L. Devlin & Sons, Granton (Thomas L. Devlin, manager).
26.5.1934: Fleetwood registry closed.
5.1934: Registered at Granton as COMPUTATOR (GN42).
22.11.1936: Ran ashore at the back of the west pier Granton while returning from the fishing grounds in dense fog. Refloated without assistance and undamaged but will by dry-docked in Leith as a precaution.
27.3.1937: Stowing gear for trip home in heavy weather 100 miles ENE of Buchan Ness (Sk. David R. Liston), three crew washed overboard and drowned*.
03.05.1937: Homeward from the fishing grounds in dense fog, stranded four miles north of Buchan Ness, refloated on next tide. Later dry-docked at Leith for examination.
06.10.1937: Landed 660 eight stone boxes of iced trawled herrings at North Shields which made 6s down to 4s per box.
30.8.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (P.No.FY.635) (Hire rate £89.7.6d/month).
6.1941: Based Portland with M/S Group 49 (Ch Sk. C. W. H. Shearing RNR). 1942: Transferred to Thomas L. Devlin & Sons Ltd, Granton (T. L. Devlin, manager).
21.1.1945: Foundered after collision with HMS VANOC (P.No.H33) in Seine Bay, Normandy.

(Egilias Akerman, AB, age 26, b. Brussels, Belgium – ROYAL SOVEREIGN (SB163))

(* Thomas Wood (40), 2nd Fisherman; James Rennie (22), deckhand, Newhaven and E. I. Peebles (21), trimmer, Leith)

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S.T. Daily Mirror FD71

S.T. Daily Mirror FD71
Picture courtesy of The Emiel Rycx Collection

Changelog
14/05/2012: Page published. 7 Updates since then.
05/10/2015: Picture added.
24/12/2017: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
04/03/2020: Information updated.

S.D/T. Boys’ Friend LT151 (Seasonal)

Seasonal visitor

Technical

Official Number: 149233
Yard Number: 979
Completed: 1915
Gross Tonnage: 120
Net Tonnage: 36
Length:90.88 ft
Breadth: 21.65 ft
Depth: 9.84 ft
Built: Gebrs Boot Schps “de Hoop”, Leiderdorp
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by Arnhemsche Stoomsleephelling Maatschappij, Arnhem

History

1.1915: Ordered.
8.1915: Completed by Gebrs Boot Schps “de Hoop”, Leiderdorp (Yd.No.979) for N.V. Maatschappij De Oceaan Ster, IJmuiden (J. van der Made, manager) as OCEAANSTER I. At a cost of fl.51000 (guilders). Registered at IJmuiden (IJM232).
18.1.1919: Sold to Maatschappij Scheveningen (W. den Dulk Wzn, manager). Registered at Scheveningen as MARTINI (SCH135).
1921: Re-possessed by Veenkolen Bank Sappermeer, IJmuiden.
1921: Sold to N.V. Visscherij Onderneming – De VEM, IJmuiden. Registered at IJmuiden (IJM8).
4.10.1923: Sold to N.V. s’Gravenhaagsche Visscherij & Handels Maatschappijs, IJmuiden. Registered at IJmuiden as ANNIE (IJM8).
12.1929: Sold to Colls Durrant, Lowestoft (C. W. Dance, manager).
1930: Ijmuiden registry closed.
1930: Re measured 52n 94.1 x 20.0 x 9.4 feet.
22.5.1930: Registered at Lowestoft as BOYS’ FRIEND (LT151).
1930s: Seasonal white fish trawling from Fleetwood.
1935: Sold to Vigilant Fishing Co Ltd, Lowestoft (R. H. Self, manager).
Pre 1943 -1945: Seasonal white fish trawling from Fleetwood.
24.7.1943: Typical landing. 116 kits – hake-12, cod/codling-9, whiting-18, flats-14, ling/coley-1, roker-52. gurnard-3, sole & prime-7.
1946-1950s: Seasonal white fish trawling from Fleetwood.
9.1955: Sold to Belgium for breaking up.
26.9.1955: Sailed Lowestoft for Antwerp in tow of Margaret Hide (LT746) also for breaking up.
1955: Lowestoft registry closed.

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S.D/T. Martini SCH135

S.D/T. Martini SCH135
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S.D/T. Boys’ Friend LT151

S.D/T. Boys’ Friend LT151
Picture courtesy of The Robert Durrant Collection

S.D/T. Boys Friend LT151

S.D/T. Boys Friend LT151
Picture courtesy of The James Cullen Collection

S.D/T. Boys' Friend LT151

S.D/T. Boys’ Friend LT151
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Changelog

14/05/2012: Page published. 8 updates since then.
14/10/2018: Removed FMHT watermarks from images.
19/09/2019: Updated information.