S.T. Jan de Waele O164

Technical

Official Number: Unknown
Yard Number: 947
Completed: 1925
As built: 338g 137n 138.8 x 23.8 x 13.3 feet
Gross Tonnage: 338
Net Tonnage: 137
Length: 138.8 ft
Breadth: 23.8 ft
Depth: 13.3 ft
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by Charles D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull

History

12.1924: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.947) for Pickering & Haldane’s Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull as LORD ISLINGTON.
3.2.1975: Registered at Hull (H151).
10.2.1925: Completed.
5.1938: Sold to Société Anonyme Pêcheries Ostendaises, Ostend.
28.5.1938: Hull registry closed.
1938: Re measured 324Brt 113n
6.1938: Registered at Ostend as JAN DE WAELE (O164).
1939: Landing at Fleetwood.
13.2.1940: Homeward (to Fleetwood) from Icelandic grounds picked up twenty-nine men from boat, survivors from neutral Swedish steamer DALARÖ(3,927/1911) – Argentina for Sweden, torpedoed by U.boat (U53) to the SW of St. Kilda on 12.2.1940. Landed survivors at Buncrana, Co. Donegal. 1940: Transferred to Belgian Economic Mission, London.
19.9.1940: Requisitioned for war service as a boom defence vessel (P.No.Z.231).
3.12.1945: Returned to owner. Based Milford Haven.
03.12.1945: Returned.
4.1946 – 9.1946: At Antwerp, rebuilt and reclassified as a trawler.
10.9.1946: Returned to service.
1947: Sold to Cia de Pesca de Moçambique S a R L, Lourenço Marques, Moçambique.
27.10.1947: Ostend registry closed. Registered at Lourenço Marques as LAURENTINO.
1955: Sold to B. Gelcer & Co (Pty) Ltd, Cape Town, South Africa. Lourenço Marques registry closed. Registered at Cape Town.
1964: Sold to SA Metal Machinery (Pty) Ltd, Cape Town for breaking up.
1.8.1964: Breaking up commenced. Cape Town registry closed.

Changelog

30/01/2013: Page published. 3 updates since then.
16/02/2021: Updated history and technical details.

S.D/T. Harvest Gleaner FR73 (Seasonal)

Technical

Official Number: 146492
Yard Number: 91
Completed: 1918
Gross Tonnage: 96
Net Tonnage: 35
Length: 86.2 ft
Breadth: 18.5 ft
Depth: 9.3 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by North British Engine Works Ltd, Whiteinch, Glasgow
Boiler: Edwind Danks & Co (Oldbury) Ltd, Oldbury
Built: Colby Brothers Ltd, Oulton Broad

History

1918: Launched by Colby Brothers Ltd, Oulton Broad (Yd.No.91) (“Admiralty drifter”) for The Admiralty as BLIZZARD (Ad.No.3971).
30.7.1918: Completed with 1-6pdr) and mine-sweep.
1.10.1918: At Penzance with ‘Drifter Sweepers’.
1921: Sold to Kingston Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull (Walter Scott, manager).
11.7.1922: Registered at Hull as SATINSTONE O.N.146492 (H585).
1.1925: Sold to Alexander C. Bruce & Peter Bruce, St. Combs, W. B. Ritchie & Peter Buchan, Fraserburgh, Charles L. Minty, Fraserburgh and R. Irvin & Sons Ltd, North Shields .
29.1.1925: Hull registry closed.
30.1.1925: Registered at Fraserburgh as HARVEST GLEANER (FR73). Alexander C. Bruce designated managing owner.
1938: Seasonal fishing from Fleetwood (Alex Keay agent).
5.1938: Shares sold to Charles L. Minty, Gardenstown & others and R. Irvin & Sons Ltd, North Shields.
17.5.1938: Registered at Banff (BF484).
25.11.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeping drifter (Hire rate £26.0.0d/month).
28.10.1940: Off Suffolk coast attacked by German aircraft and subsequently foundered. Four crew lost*.
20.4.1943: Banff registry closed “Lost n Naval Service”.

*Lost – Seymour Stephenson, Stoker PO; Maurice G. Langridge and Arthur Swaby, OS – killed. Charles A. L. Edwards, Stoker, died of wounds

Changelog

31/12/2012: Page published. 3 updates since then.
25/12/2020: Information updated.

S.D/T. Hamnavoe YH117 (Seasonal)

Technical

Official Number: 125373
Yard Number: 542
Completed: 1918
Gross Tonnage: 96
Net Tonnage: 41
Tonnage: 199dw
Length: 86.2 ft
Breadth: 18.5 ft
Depth: 9.2 ft
Built: A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen

History

1918: Launched by A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen (Yd.No.542) (“Admiralty” drifter) for The Admiralty as HORIZON (Ad.No.3905).
30.8.1918: Completed as a minesweeper (1-6pdr).
1945: Laid up.
1947: Sold to Robert W. Watt & A. Watt, Fraserburgh. Registered at Fraserburgh as HAMNAVOE (FR123)
1949: Sold to The Thule Fishing Co Ltd, Fraserburgh.
1951: Sold to Paul O. Williment, Gorleston. Fraserburgh registry closed. Registered at Yarmouth (YH117).
5/6.1952: Seasonal landing at Fleetwood.
1955: Sold to G. R. Newsom, Gt. Yarmouth & R. Hewett, Winterton. Registered at Yarmouth as AMARANTH (YH117).
1956: Sold to Jacques Bakker en Zonen, Bruges for breaking up.
6.4.1956: Delivered Bruges.

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S.D/T. Hamnavoe YH117

S.D/T. Hamnavoe YH117
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S.D/T. Amaranth YH117

S.D/T. Amaranth YH117
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Changelog
31/12/2012: Page published. 3 updates since then.
09/07/2016: Picture added.
12/01/2019: Removed FMHT watermark.
02/01/2022: Added an image.

s.v. William and Martha FD50

Technical

Official Number: 65225
Net Tonnage: 61
Rig: Ketch – Trawling
Built: ?? Rye
Owner: Mrs Anne Holden, Sunnyside, Ainsdale

History

1871: Completed by ??, Rye as WILLIAM & MARTHA. Registered at Hull (H??).
By 1874: Owned by Peter Bates, Hull.
By 1879: Owned by George Bates, 7 Melbourne Parade, Hessle Road, Hull.
By 1888: Owned by Mrs Anne Holden, Sunnyside, Ainsdale (George Miller, Church Street, Fleetwood, manager). Hull registry closed. Registered at Fleetwood (FD50).
1892: Owned by T. Chamney, ??.
1895: Fleetwood registry closed. FATE?

Changelog

15/12/2012: Page published. 4 updates since then.

s.v. Betsey and Sarah FD27

Additional information courtesy of Peter Goulding
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Technical

Official Number: 56262
Tonnage: 52
Length: 67 ft
Breadth: 18 ft
Depth: 12 ft
Rig: Smack-trawling

History

1867: Completed at Hull for George Anderson, 37 Humber Street, Hull as BETSEY and SARAH.
26.4.1867: Registered at Hull (H463).
27.4.1867: Appropriated.
By 1875: Owned by David Foyston, 3 Strickland Street, Hull.
1888: Sold to Lawrence Fish, 26 West Street, Fleetwood & others. Lawrence Fish managing owner.
1889: Sold to Thomas Roskell, 1 Victoria Street, Fleetwood & others. Thomas Roskell managing owner. Hull registry closed. Registered at Fleetwood (FD27). 1889: Sold to William Alexander Currie, Belfast for use by Belfast Harbour Board as an ‘auxiliary pilot tender and wreck light vessel’.
1890: Fleetwood registry closed. On completion of conversion and overhaul registered at Belfast as BERTHA.
7.6.1911: Reported sold to Mr J. C. W. Rea on behalf of the Bangor Committee for the Celebration of the Coronation (of George V) for £25.
22.6.1911: On the evening of the Coronation at 10.00pm, loaded with “highly inflammable material” towed out to the middle of Bangor Harbour and set alight, along with many bonfires around the harbour.
1911: Belfast registry closed.

Changelog
15/12/2012: Page published. 3 revisions since then.
23/09/2014: Information updated.
01/10/2020: Updated history.