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S.D/T. E.W.B. LT1124 (Seasonal)

Technical

Official Number: 130039
Yard Number: 496
Completed: 1911
Gross Tonnage: 95
Net Tonnage: 42
Length: 87.0 ft
Breadth: 18.4 ft
Depth: 8.9 ft
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby
Engine: T.3-cyl by Crabtree & Co Ltd, Gt. Yarmouth
Boiler: Riley Brothers (Boilermakers) Ltd, Stockton on Tees

History

1.4.1911: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.496) for Arthur Evans, Ernest Wisker & Walter Bartlett (joint owners), Lowestoft as E.W.B.. 4.7.1911: Completed.
7.7.1911: Registered at Lowestoft (LT1124).
8.6.1914: Sold to Arthur Evans (32/64) & Walter Bartlett (32/64), Lowestoft.
09.1915: Requisitioned for war service (Ad.No.1872). Fitted with 1-3pdr, E.C. mines and as an anti-submarine net drifter. i.a.w. Area XIV Patrol Orders dated 30.3.1915 allocated to Isles of Scilly Net Drifters (Sk. J. Reynolds).
11.8.1916: Sold to Arthur Evans, Lowestoft.
10.1916: With Falmouth Net Drifters (Sk. J. Reynolds).
29.1.1918: Sold to Frederick W. Moxey (32/64), Bertha Richards & Charles Jordan (32/64 joint shares), Lowestoft. Based Aegean Sea.
1919: Returned to owner at Lowestoft (F. W. Moxey).
16.1.1922: Arrived Lowestoft (Sk. Jenkerson) with Capt Gestersen and nine crew members, the only survivors of a crew of twenty of the Hamburg registered steamer VESTA (1839grt/??) which caught fire through explosion of deck cargo of naptha in heavy weather some 40 miles SE of Lowestoft when on passage Hamburg to Lisbon with general cargo. Rescue was effected at great risk because of the heavy sea, the blaze and fumes from the steamer.
17.12.1919: Sold to The Viking Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Lowestoft (James Pye, manager).
2.4.1925 Sold to The Viking Steam Fishing Co Ltd (32/64), Richard & Edward Mallet (16/64 shares each), Lowestoft.
3.2.1926: Sold to Frederick W. Moxey (32/64), Thomas Richards & Herbert Drake (32/64 joint shares), Lowestoft.
17.4.1938: Sold to Arthur Dexter (64/64), Brixham.
11.03.1939: Sold to Thomas Richards Ltd & Reginald Riley (64/64 joint shares), Brixham.
2.2.1940: Sold to Torbay Trawlers Ltd (64/64), Brixham.
6.1.1941–12.1.1942: Landing at Milford.
1943-1945: Landing at Fleetwood.
1.7.1943: Typical landing. 110 kits – cod/codling-50, flats-15, whiting-10, roker-30, prime-5.
1.2.1946: Sold to Respondo Trawlers Ltd (64/64), Milford Haven.
17.11.1947 Sold to Cairo Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Milford Haven.
29.10.1954: Sold to Yolland Brothers Ltd (64/64), Milford Haven.
22.7.1955: Last landing at Milford.
1955: Sold to shipbreakers in Belgium.
5.9.1955 Arrived Boom near Antwerp for breaking up.
19.9.1955 Lowestoft registry closed.

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S.T. E.W.B. LT1124
Picture courtesy of The Barry Banham Maritime Photo Collection

Changelog
17/05/2010: Page published. 3 updates since then.
13/12/2014: Information updated.
21/07/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
07/05/2020: Updated information.

S.D/T. Playmates YH141 (Seasonal)

Technical

Official Number: 144146
Yard Number: 964
Completed: 1925
Gross Tonnage: 93
Net Tonnage: 41
Length: 86.3 ft
Breadth: 18.6 ft
Depth: 9.0 ft
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby
Engine: T.3-cyl by Crabtree & Co Ltd, Gt. Yarmouth
Boiler: Riley Bros (Boilermakers) Ltd, Stockton-on-Tees

History

25.4.1925: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.964) for Clifford Edward Strowger (32/64) & Alfred Willie Wilkinson (32/64), Gorleston as PLAYMATES.
25.5.1925: Completed (Clifford E. Strowger managing owner).
27.6.1925: Registered at Yarmouth (YH141).
5.10.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (P.No.FY.738) (Hire rate £37.4.0d/month). Based Dover.
20-26.5.1940: Evacuation from Boulogne, Calais & Dunkirk.
25.5.1940: Sailed Dover for Calais in company with the trawlers ARLEY (P.No.FY.620) (FD41), BOTANIC (P.No.FY.707) (H463), BROCK (P.No.FY621) (FD47), CALVI (GY269), FYLDEA (P.No.666) (FD72), MARETTA (P.No.FY.665) (FD45), POLLY JOHNSON (H322) and drifter WILLING BOYS (P.No.FY.947) (LT737) with several river launches in tow.
26.5.1940: At 1.40am. arrived off the French coast. No evacuation order was given.
7.1943: Employed on balloon barrage.
9.10.1945: Returned to owner.
11.2.1946: Sold to East Briton Fishing Co Ltd, Lowestoft (Arthur Easto, manager).
2.1946: Yarmouth registry closed.
28.2.1946: Registered at Lowestoft (LT180).
1940s-1950s: Seasonal white fish trawling from Padstow and Fleetwood.
24.10.1952: Moving in Hamilton Dock, Lowestoft, struck by lightning losing top of mainmast.
3.1955: Fishing mackerel out of Newlyn.
22.3.1955: On a trip, last reported 40-50 miles WNW of Seven Stones Light Vessel.
28.3.1955: Posted missing, part of lifebuoy picked up, no other wreckage or survivors.
28.9.1955: Lowestoft registry closed.

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S.D/T. Playmates YH141
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S.D/T. Playmates YH141
Picture courtesy of The Barry Banham Maritime Photo Collection

S.T. Playmates LT180
Picture courtesy of James Cullen

S.D/T. Playmates YH141
Picture courtesy of The Robert Durrant Collection

Seaman’s Discharge Certificate

Changelog
16/05/2010: Page published. 6 updates since then.
06/03/2015: Picture added.
12/01/2016: Picture added.
20/07/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.

S.D/T. Ocean Sprite YH56 (Seasonal)

Technical

Admiralty Number: 4122
Official Number: 137609
Yard Number: 563
Completed: 1918
Gross Tonnage: 96
Net Tonnage: 41
Length: 86.2 ft
Breadth: 18.5 ft
Depth: 9.3 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by W. Beardmore & Co Ltd, Coatbridge
Boiler: A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen
Built: A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen

History

1918: Launched by A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen (Yd.No.563) (“Admiralty drifter”) for The Admiralty as PHOSPHOROUS (Ad.No.4122).
21.2.1919: Completed as a fishing vessel.
4.1919: Sold to Bloomfields Ltd , Gt. Yarmouth (James Bloomfield, manager) for £6590.
17.4.1919: Renamed OCEAN SPRITE (YH56).
22.12.1922: Neil Mackay appointed manager. (Fished from Yarmouth mainly as a trawler).
1930s: Seasonal trawling from Padstow and Fleetwood (Lowestoft Fish Selling Co Ltd, Lowestoft, managing agents).
21.11.1935: Connected to TESSIE (YH769) disabled with lost rudder and delivered Yarmouth.
1936: Home fishing made £1200 but skipper (George Balls) sacked due to heavy weather damage at time of loss of motor drifter OLIVE BRANCH (PD77).
29.8.1939: Requisitioned for war service on miscellaneous Naval duties (Hire rate £32.0.0d/month).
1946: Returned to owner.
6.1946: Sold to Drifters (Peterhead) Ltd, Peterhead (Robert Foreman, manager).
1.7.1946: Yarmouth registry closed.
8.7.1946: Registered at Peterhead (PD94).
1952: Sold to Peter & George Buchan, Peterhead & Others.
1954: Used as a ‘barking vessel’ at Fraserburgh.
1960: Sold for breaking up. Peterhead registry closed.

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S.T. Ocean Sprite YH56
Picture courtesy of The Barry Banham Maritime Photo Collection

S.D/T. Ocean Sprite PD94
Picture courtesy of The Greenday Collection(TPF)

Changelog
15/05/2010: Page published. 4 revisions since then
23/08/2014: Picture 2 added.
19/07/2018: Removed FMHT watermarks from images.

S.D/T. Accord PD90

Technical

Admiralty Number: 3911
Yard Number: 548
Official Number: 145784
Completed: 1918
Gross Tonnage: 96
Net Tonnage: 41
Length: 86.2 ft
Breadth: 18.5 ft
Depth: 9.3 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen
Built: A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen

History

12.6.1918: Launched by by A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen (Yd.No.548) (“Admiralty drifter”) for The Admiralty as ICEPACK (Ad.No.3911).
11.7.1918: Completed (1-6pdr).
6.1922: Sold to George Catchpole, Lowestoft.
29.6.1922: Registered at Lowestoft as ACCORD (LT1247).
19.9.1922: Sold to George Catchpole (32/64); Frederick Ernest Catchpole (16/64); Orlando Frederick Mullender (16/64), Lowestoft.
13.6.1926: Sold to James, William, John & Peter Duthie (all 16/64 shares), Peterhead (James Duthie, manager).
3.6.1926: Lowestoft registry closed.
6.1926: Registered at Peterhead (PD90).
29.8.1939: Requisitioned for war service on transport duties (Hire rate £32.0.0d/month).
3.1941: Employed on miscellaneous Naval duties.
1945: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice co Ltd, Fleetwood (B. A. Parkes, Cleveleys, manager).
1946: Returned to owner.
1946-1948: Trawling from Gt. Yarmouth (Maj. A. W. Suddaby MBE, manager).
4.1948: Sold to Bloomfields Ltd, Gt. Yarmouth (Cecil F. Mayo, manager).
4.1948: Peterhead registry closed.
10.4.1948: Registered at Yarmouth (YH344).
8.6.1948: Registered at Yarmouth as OCEAN SUNBEAM (YH344).
1950s: Seasonal white fish trawling from Fleetwood.
13.10.1954: At Lowestoft landed 190 crans of herring.
4.1956: Sold to Belgium for breaking up.
3.5.1956: Yarmouth registry closed. (Note: Bloomfields last surviving steamer)

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S.D/T. Ocean Sunbeam YH344
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Changelog
15/05/2010: Page published. 2 updates since then.
12/06/2016: Picture added.
31/07/2016: Picture added.
18/07/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
09/03/2023: Added an image.

S.D/T. Ocean Lassie YH78 (Seasonal)

Technical

Admiralty Number: 4124
Official Number: 137615
Yard Number: 565
Completed: 1919
Gross Tonnage: 96
Net Tonnage: 41
Length: 86.2 ft
Breadth: 18.5 ft
Depth: 9.3 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen
Built: A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen

History

1919: Launched by A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen (Yd.No.565) (“Admiralty drifter”) for The Admiralty as TYPHOON (Ad.No.4124).
5.1919: Sold to W. E. Shreeve Ltd, Gt. Yarmouth (James Bloomfield, manager).
28.5.1919: Registered at Yarmouth as OCEAN LASSIE (YH78).
22.9.1919: Completed.
22.12.1922: Neil Mackay appointed manager.
1930s: Seasonal trawling from Fleetwood (Lowestoft Fish Selling Co Ltd, Lowestoft/Alex Keay, managing agent) and Padstow out of herring season.
26.8.1939: Hired for Examining Service (T90 – Dormant contract).
25.11.1939: Terminated.
26.11.1939: Requisitioned for war service on Examining Service (T98D – Net charter party) (Hire rate £32.0.0d/month).
3.6.1940: Mined 23/4 cables bearing 55° from Outer Ridge Buoy off Harwich. Four crew missing*.
6.9.1940: Yarmouth registry closed.

(Missing* – Charles G. Bullock, Mate; Herbert J. Long, 1st Eng; Ernest A. Beckett, A. Smith, Deckhands; Samuel Cumby, Cook.)

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S.T. Ocean Lassie YH78
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S.D/T. Ocean Lassie YH78
George Mann and Ocean Lassie.
Picture courtesy of Andrew Mann

Changelog
14/05/2010: Page published. 4 updates since then.
12/11/2016: Picture added.

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Category Archives: Steamers (Picture)

S.D/T. E.W.B. LT1124 (Seasonal)

S.D/T. Playmates YH141 (Seasonal)

S.D/T. Ocean Sprite YH56 (Seasonal)

S.D/T. Accord PD90

S.D/T. Ocean Lassie YH78 (Seasonal)