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S.T. Braconbrae A84

Technical

Official Number: 148967
Yard Number: 620
Completed: 1929
Gross Tonnage: 211
Net Tonnage: 91
Length: 115.3 ft
Breadth: 22.6 ft
Depth: 12.2 ft
Built: A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen
Engine: T.3-cyl by A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen

History

18.12.1929: Launched by A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen (Yd.No.620) for The Don Fishing Co Ltd, Aberdeen as BRACONBRAE.
15.1.1930: Registered at Aberdeen (A84).
2.1930: Completed (J. S. Doeg, manager).
4.1941: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Basil A. Parkes, Cleveleys, manager).
20.1.1943: Aberdeen registry closed.
23.1.1943: Registered at Hull (H49). Saint Andrew’s Steam Fishing Co Ltd, managing agents.
1943: At Hull landed from Iceland/Faroe – 10 trips, 10,633 kits.
1944: Sold to Jutland Amalgamated Trawlers Ltd, Hull (E. Cargill, manager).
30.11.1945: Insured value £19,000; for 1946 same.
5.1946: Sold to David Wood, Edward Chalmers Matheson, Aberdeen & Alexander Bruce, Murtle.
5.1946: Hull registry closed.
17.5.1946: Registered at Aberdeen (A89).
2.11.1956: Sold to David Wood & Edward Chalmers Matheson, Aberdeen.
27.11.1956: Sold to Camperdown Fishing Co Ltd, Aberdeen (John Walker, manager).
1958: Sold to Iver Fishing Co Ltd, Aberdeen (John Walker, manager).
25.2.1959: Sold to W. J. Fishing Co Ltd, Aberdeen.
9.9.1959: Sold to John Lewis & Sons Ltd, Aberdeen.
10.1959: Sold to BISCO (£1920) and allocated to Shipbreaking Industries Ltd for breaking up at Charlestown, Fife (Contract No.53E).
13.11.1959: Arrived Charlestown from Aberdeen under own power.
14.11.1959: Delivered.
1.3.1960: Breaking up commenced.
22.6.1960: Aberdeen registry closed “Vessel broken up.”

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S.T. Braconbrae A84

S.T. Braconbrae A89
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S.T. Braconbrae A84

S.T. Braconbrae A84
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Changelog

29/06/2010: Page published. 5 updates since then.
24/08/2018: Removed FMHT watermarks.
21/09/2019: Updated information.

S.T. War Duke GY1037

Additional information courtesy of Bill Blow

Technical

Official Number: 139941
Yard Number: 34E
Completed: 1917
Gross Tonnage: 246.39
Net Tonnage: 96.75
Length: 117.4 ft
Breadth: 22.0 ft
Depth: 12.7 ft
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley
Engine: 420ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by Gt. Central Co-op Engineering & Ship Repairing Co Ltd, Grimsby

History

11.1.1917: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.340E) for George William White & John William Willows (joint owners (64/64)), Grimsby as WAR DUKE.
21.3.1917: Left Hull in tow for Grimsby for machinery to be fitted.
20.4.1917: Alick Black appointed manager.
21.4.1917: Completed.
21.4.1917: Registered at Grimsby (GY1037).
7.5.1917: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to The London Joint Stock Bank Ltd, London (A).
5.1917: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-12pdr) (Ad.No.1268). Based Buncrana.
15.1.1918: By Deed Poll. Name of Alick Black changed to Alec Black.
2.2.1918: Alec Black became Sir Alec Black, Bart.
By 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Grimsby.
25.6.1919: Mortgaged (A) discharged.
30.7.1919: Sold to The Yarborough Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
30.7.1919: John Edward Rushworth appointed manager.
31.7.1919: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to John Edward Rushworth, Grimsby for the sum of £10,750 with interest at 5% (B).
9.7.1920: Mortgage (B) discharged.
31.8.1920: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Barclays Bank Ltd, London (C).
24.7.1924: Mortgaged (C) discharged.
25.7.1924: Sold to Harold Bacon (16/64); James Norman Bacon (16/64), both Grimsby; Arthur Gladstone Bacon (16/64) Scartho & Frederick Newton Shubands (16/64), Burton-on-Trent.
2.8.1924: Harold Bacon designated managing owner.
31.12.1929: Harold Bacon died intestate.
5.6.1930: Administration granted to Gertrude Catherine Bacon, Edwin Bacon Snr & Charles George Martin (joint owners (16/64)).
5.8.1930: Sold to Kottingham Trawling Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
5.9.1930: James Norman Bacon appointed manager.
29.11.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (P.No.FY.582) (Hire rate £71.15.0d/month). Based Grimsby.
7.12.1939: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Barclays Bank Ltd, London (D).
14.3.1941: Charles George Martin appointed manager.
12.11.1943: Mortgage (D) discharged.
3.1.1944: Sold to Parkholme Trawlers Ltd (64/64), Fleetwood.
3.1.1944: Harvey Wilfred Wilson appointed manager.
18.1.1944: Vessel mortgaged to National Provincial Bank Ltd, London (E).
12.1944: Employed on miscellaneous Naval duties.
25.4.1946: Returned to owner.
30.12.1947: Mortgage (E) discharged.
30.7.1949: Sold to Trawlers Grimsby Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
30.7.1949: Harvey Wilfred Wilson appointed manager.
10.4.1953: Sold to Derwent Trawlers Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
11.4.1953: Harvey Wilfred Wilson appointed manager.
9.2.1955: John Carl Ross appointed manager.
11.1.1956: Sold to Alfred Bannister (Trawlers) Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
19.1.1956: Fred Bannister appointed manager.
10.12.1959: Homeward in heavy weather in North Sea (Sk. G. Ireland), responded to distress from motor trawler JANET HELEN (LO93) (Sk. Ernest Neal) disabled 30 miles SE of Flamborough with flooding in engineroom. On arrival found crew had taken to liferaft and all five were recovered safely. Skipper and mate returned to vessel, tow connected and course set for Humber estuary. After about 13 miles, a heavy sea swept her and she started to settle, foundering 14 miles from Spurn Point. Survivors landed at Grimsby.
1963: Sold to J. J. King & Co Ltd, Gateshead for breaking up.
26.4.1963: Arrived Tyne from Grimsby under own power.
27.5.1963: Grimsby registry closed “Vessel broken up”.

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S.T. War Duke GY1037

S.T. War Duke GY1037
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S.T. War Duke GY1037

S.T. War Duke GY1037
Picture Courtesy of Mark Stopper (Boston Trawlers)

S.T. War Duke GY1037

S.T. War Duke GY1037
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S.T. War Duke GY1037

S.T. War Duke GY1037
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S.T. War Duke GY1037

S.T. War Duke GY1037

S.T. War_Duke_GY1037

S.T. War_Duke_GY1037
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S.T. War Duke GY1037

S.T. War Duke GY1037

S.T. War_Duke_GY1037

S.T. War_Duke_GY1037
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Changelog
29/04/14: Added picture.
11/08/2014: Updated information.
12/01/2015: Added another picture.
31/01/2016: Picture added.
01/08/2016: Picture added.
13/09/2016: Information updated.
20/01/2018: Removed FMHT watermarks. Added an image.

S.T. The Tetrarch GY945

In Parkes ownership. Did not fish from Fleetwood
Additional information courtesy of Bill Blow

Technical

Official Number: 135957
Yard Number: 277
Completed: 1913
Gross Tonnage: 225.09
Net Tonnage: 111.62
Length: 117.4 ft
Breadth: 22.0 ft
Depth: 12.7 ft
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley
Engine: 460ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull

History

22.7.1913: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.277) for The North Western Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby as THE TETRARCH.
10.1913: Completed.
13.10.1913: Alick (Alec) Black appointed manager.
14.10.1913: Registered at Grimsby (GY945).
29.10.1913: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to The Union of London & Smiths Bank Ltd, London (A).
8.1914: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-3pdr) (Ad.No.254). Based Longhope.
9.10.1915: Mortgage (A) discharged.
11.10.1915: Sold to Thomas William Baskcomb (64/64), Grimsby.
11.10.1915: Thomas William Baskcomb designated managing owner.
12.10.1915: Vessel mortgaged to Barclay & Co Ltd, London (B).
27.2.1917: Mortgagee restyled Barclays Bank Ltd, London.
Post 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Grimsby.
22.10.1935: Sold by mortgagee under mortgage (B) to Fred Parkes (64/64), Fleetwood & Blackpool.
24.10.1935: Sold to Dobson Ship Repairing Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
29.10.1935: Basil Arthur Parkes appointed manager.
29.10.135: Charles Dobson appointed manager.
14.11.1935: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to National Provincial Bank Ltd, London (C).
23.12.1940: Mortgage (C) discharged.
24.12.1940: Sold to Perihelion Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
24.12.1940: Herbert G. Crampin appointed manager.
30.11.1941: Foundered off 20T buoy, Coquet Island following collision with Aberdeen steamer KOOLGA (1110g/1910). Nine crew lost.
28.2.1942: Grimsby registry closed “ Sunk in collision …”.

(Lost – Sk. T. W. Norris. J. Carle, E.T.S. Love, J. Pearson, W. Rendall, W. Revell, E. E. Shulver, G. L. Singleton, G. Waring)

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S.T. The Tetrarch GY945

S.T. The Tetrarch GY945
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S.T. The Tetrarch GY945

S.T. The Tetrarch GY945
Picture courtesy of The JJ Collection

Changelog

20/06/2010: Page published. 8 updates since then.
22/08/2019: Removed FMHT watermarks from images.

S.T. Sweeper GY853

In Parkes (Fleetwood) ownership. Did not fish from Fleetwood
Additional information courtesy of Bill Blow & Göran Olsson

Technical

Official Number: 134771
Yard Number: 262
Completed: 1913
Gross Tonnage: 394.80
Net Tonnage: 235.25
Length: 150.1 ft
Breadth: 25.0 ft
Depth: 13.5 ft
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley
Engine: 550ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by Amos & Smith Ltd, Hull

History

24.2.1913: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.262) for Alick Black (64/64), Grimsby as SWEEPER.
8.5.1913: Registered at Grimsby (GY853).
8.5.1913: Aick Black designated managing owner.
8.5.1913: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to George Jeffs, Grimsby for the sum of £5,000 with interest at 51/2% (A).
5.1913: Completed.
8.1914: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (!-6pdr, 1-6pdr HA & 1-7.5” A/S Howitzer) (Ad.No.1224).
14.10.1914: Sold to The South Western Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby & Fleetwood.
15.10.1914: Alick Black appointed manager.
7.10.1915: Mortgage (A) discharged.
11.10.1915: Sold to Thomas William Baskcomb, Grimsby.
11.10.1915: Thomas William Baskcomb designated managing owner.
12.10.1915: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Barclay & Co Ltd, London (B).
22.2.1917: Mortgagee restyled Barclays Bank Ltd, London.
1919: Returned to owner.
22.10.1935: Sold by mortgagee under mortgage (B) to Fred Parkes (64/64), Fleetwood & Blackpool.
29.10.1935: Basil Arthur Parkes, Cleveleys appointed manager.
25.11.1935: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd (64/64), Fleetwood.
4.12.1935: Basil Arthur Parkes, Cleveleys appointed manager.
3.1936: Sold to A/S Nordhavet, Kristiansund, Norway (Jan L. Backer, manager).
2.3.1936: Grimsby registry closed.
6.1936: Rebuilt aT Trondheim by Trondhiem Mek. Versted.
1939: Registered at Kristiansund as NORDHAV 2 (M-169-K).
12.6.1936: Arrived Kristiansund.
7.10.1939: Requisitioned by the Norwegian Government, Oslo.
17.10.1939: Completed fit out for guard duties by Harstad Mekaniske Verksted, Harstad and commissioned into Den Kongelige Norske Marine (Royal Norwegian Navy). At Ramsund fitted with gun (1-76mm).
4.1940: With German invasion of Norway escaped to UK.
18.6.1940: Arrived Rosyth.
6.5.1942: Converted to a minesweeper (1-20mm, 4-Hotchkiss MGs) (P.No.FY.1906). Based at Dundee M/S Group 71, 1st M/S Div.
10.3.1945: CO. Lieut A. Olsen RNoN. Dispersed from convoy FS-1753, torpedoed by U.boat (U714) off Arbroath. Seventeen survivors picked up by HnoMS SYRIAN and landed at Dundee. Six Crew MPK.
(MPK – Lt A. Olsen RnoN, John Taylor, Signalman plus four Norwegians)

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S.T. Sweeper GY853

S.T. Sweeper GY853
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S.T. Sweeper GY853

S.T. Sweeper GY853
Picture courtesy of The JJ Collection

Changelog

19/06/2010: Page published. 8 updates since then.
20/08/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from images.

S.T. War Wing GY857

In Parkes ownership. Did not fish from Fleetwood.
Additional information courtesy of Bill Blow

Technical

Official Number: 138945
Yard Number: 326
Completed: 1915
Gross Tonnage: 226
Net Tonnage: 109
Length: 117.0 ft
Breadth: 22.0 ft
Depth: 12.7 ft
Engine: 450ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by Amos & Smith Ltd, Hull
Built:Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley

History

29.4.1915: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.326) for The Pelham Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby as WAR WING.
2.2.1916: Alick Black appointed manager.
3.2.1916: Registered at Grimsby (GY857).
2.1916: Completed.
6.1916: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-6pdr HA) (Ad.No.3286).
5.12.1916: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to London City & Midland Bank Ltd, London (A).
22.12.1916: Mortgage (A) discharged.
27.12.1916: Sold to Thomas William Baskcomb (64/64), Grimsby.
28.12.1916: Thomas William Baskcomb designated managing owner.
1919: Returned to owner.
1.12.1919: Vessel mortgaged to Barclays Bank Ltd, London (B).
22.10.1935: Vessel sold by mortgagee under mortgage (B) to Fred Parkes (64/64), Fleetwood & Blackpool.
24.10.1935: Sold to Dobson Ship Repairing Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
29.10.1935: Basil Arthur Parkes, Cleveleys appointed manager.
29.10.1935: Charles Dobson appointed manager.
14.11.1935: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to National Provincial Bank Ltd, London (C).
29.11.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (P.No.FY.906) (Hire rate £62.3.0d/month).
3.1944: Employed on miscellaneous Naval duties.
7.3.1945: Mortgage (C) discharged.
26.3.1945: Sold to The Wembley Steam Fishing Co (Grimsby) Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
27.3.1945: Arthur Gladstone Hamer appointed manager.
4.4.1945: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Barclays Bank Ltd, London (D).
1.1946: Returned to owner.
23.4.1948: Mortgage (D) discharged.
29.9.1948: Sold to Wharfedale Trawlers Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
4.10.1948: Harry Markham Cook appointed manager.
1.12.1948: Sold to Cramond Fishing Co Ltd, Leith.
13.12.1948: Albert Oudley Scales appointed manager.
3.6.1949: Grimsby registry closed.
6.1949: Registered at Leith as CRAMOND ISLAND (LH26).
7.1953: Sold to Sir Thomas Robinson & Son (Grimsby) Ltd (64/64), Grimsby. Frank Bellamy Robinson appointed manager.
4.7.1953: Registered at Grimsby (GY251).
11.8.1953: Registered at Grimsby as SARDINIAN (GY251) (MoT Minute R.G. No.1163/53 dated 29.7.1953).
11.1964: Sold to Scrappingco S.r.l., Brussels for breaking up.
7.11.1964: Arrived Antwerp.
9.11.1964: Grimsby registry closed “… on sale of vessel to foreigners (Belgians)”.

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S.T. Cramond Island GY251

S.T. Cramond Island GY251
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Changelog
18/06/2010: Page published. 4 updates since then.
07/05/2015: Picture added.
19/08/2018: Removed FMHT watermark.