S.T. Corena (1) FD195

Technical

Official Number: 148401
Yard number: 461
Completed: 1924
Gross tonnage: 352
Net Tonnage: 144
Length: 140.3 ft
Breadth: 24.0 ft
Depth: 12.9 ft
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley
Engine: 96nhp T.3-cyl and boiler by Amos & Smith Ltd, Hull
Speed : 11 knots

History

8.5.1924: The Board of Kingston Steam Trawling Co Ltd decided to build two new trawlers for the Iceland fishery. Contracts were signed with Cook, Welton & Gemmell to build the ships at £7,500 each and Charles D. Holmes to make the engines and boilers at £6,125 each. Total cost £13,625 each. The names chosen for the vessels were ANDALUSITE and ALALITE. Total cost for ANDALUSITE, with amendments, certification, fees, fishing gear and other equipment £15,548.4.10d. (Customs fees £3.1.0d, Code signals £1.1.2d)

16.9.1924: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.461) for Kingston Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull as ANDALUSITE.
1.11.1924: Registered at Hull (H90).
10.11.1924: Completed trials and accepted (Walter Scott, manager).
24.3.1925: John Lown designated manager.
13.11.1924: Sailed on maiden trip to Icelandic grounds.
1.12.1924: Landed 1032 kits £2,740 gross.
13.9.1933 : Sold to J. Marr & Son, Fleetwood for £7600.
13.9.1933: Hull registry closed.
15.9.1933: Registered at Fleetwood (FD195). Geoffrey Edwards Marr designated manager.
14.12.1933: Registered at Fleetwood as CORENA (FD195).
10.7.1934: Transferred to Hull, crewed and operated by The City Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull on the company acquisition. Geoffrey Edwards Marr, Fleetwood designated manager.
17.8.1937: Sailed for Iceland (Sk. C. Cheney), last trip from Hull.
8.9.1937: At Hull landed from 872 kits £787 gross.
1937: At Hull worked White Sea/Iceland (Sks. Booth, C. Cheney), 207 days 9,934 kits 6,506 gross.
9.9.1937: Transferred to Fleetwood.
8.1939: Sold to The Admiralty (£9,500).
9.8.1939: Fleetwood registry closed. Fitted out as a minesweeper (1-12pdr) (P.No. FY.709). Based Harwich with M/S Group 4.
24.7.1940: In North Sea (Ty/Sk. A. E. Fisher RNR). Picked up survivors of HM Trawler FLEMING (H3) which foundered after attack by German aircraft.
3.1946: Refitted and re classed at Hull.
8.1946: Sold to Joseph Craig, Aberdeen.
27.8.1946: Registered at Aberdeen (A198).
23.4.1947: Sold to Craig Fishing (Aberdeen) Ltd Joseph Craig designated manager.
9.1948: Engaged in the Greenland fishery (Sk. C. H. Winter); fourteen crew. Ran into icebergs and fog, stranded 6 miles north of Frederikshaab, Greenland, holed in the engine room and making water. Crew took to boat and some hours later a motorboat with a rescue party of local fishermen arrived and towed them to Frederikshaab. From there, a Danish gunboat picked them up and transferred them to Feringhavn. Faroese smacks called nine days later and took them to Torshavn where they obtained passage to Aberdeen. Salved and broken up.
2.11.1948: Aberdeen registry closed “total loss”.

(Note. Building installment costings:
Shipbuilder
31.7.1924: Frames – £2000
5.9.1924: Plating – £2000
18.9.1924: Launch – £2000
17.11.1924 : Final – £1500
15.1.1925: Extras – £62.18.9d Total – £7,562.18.9d
Engine and boiler maker
5.9.1924: £1412.10s
2.10.1924: £1412.10s
28.10.1924: £1412.10s
7.11.1924: Final – £1912.10s
15.1.1925: Extras – £30.1.0d Total – £6,180.1.0d

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S.T. Corena FD195

S.T. Corena FD195
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S.T. Corena FD195

S.T. Corena FD195
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S.T. Bempton LO192

Technical

Official Number: 136174
Yard Number: 285
Completed: 1914
Gross Tonnage: 226
Net Tonnage: 87
Length: 115.5 ft
Breadth: 22.5 ft
Depth: 12.3 ft
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley
Engine: 94nhp T.3-cyl and boiler by Amos & Smith Ltd, Hull
Speed: 11 Knots

History

29.11.1913: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.285) for Hull Steam Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Hull as BEMPTON.
19.1.1914: Registered at Hull (H19). Joseph Vivian designated manager.
2.1914: Completed. Fitted with WT. A mark ship directing trawlers joining the boxing fleet.
15.4.1915: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-12pdr) (Ad.No.1369).
1917: At Berehaven, Co. Cork as an armed trawler.
15.4.1917: At noon sailed from Berehaven in company with HM Trawler DRAKE II (Ad.No.817) (GY1163) to assist HMS LAVENDER (P.No.T23) towing damaged Norwegian steamer HUNDVAAGO (1901grt/1915) (HUNDVAAGO had been torpedoed at 11.00 pm on 4.4.1917 off SW Ireland, no Uboat claimed responsibility).
16.4.1917: Arrived Berehaven, Co. Cork at 6.00 am and HUNDVAAGO beached at Berehaven.
By 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Hull.
24.4.1920: At Hull landed crew of steam trawler RIBBLE (H255) which had been mined
29.3.1920 12 miles E by N of North Dogger Bank Light.
13.5.1920: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to The London County Westminster & Parr’s Bank Ltd, London (A).
6.3.1923: Mortgagee re-styled as Westminster Bank Ltd, London.
22.10.1925: Robert Burton designated manager.
14.10.1927: Mortgage (A) transferred to William Augustus Hayward, Eastbourne.
14.10.1927: Mortgage (A) transferred to Mercantile Marine Finance Corporation Ltd, London.
16.9.1932: Charles Hugh Emerson designated manager.
10.1932: Mercantile Marine Finance Corporation Ltd in liquidation.
1.11.1932: Mortgage (A) transferred to Harold Frank Hayward, London; Maud Florence Katherine Rogers, Chelsea and Ernest Norton, London (Joint mortgagees).
1935: Insured value £2,900.
3.1936: Combined boxing and trawling fleet of Kelsall Bros. & Beeching Ltd and the Hull Steam Fishing & Ice Co Ltd consisting of 59 vessels laid up at Hull (declining catches, coal bill and increased maintenance costs had made the venture uneconomical).
6.3.1936: At Extraordinary General Meeting at Hull, Kelsall Brothers & Beeching Ltd placed in Creditors’ Voluntary Winding-up (Richard Field Helm of Messrs Hodgson Harris & Co, London appointed liquidators).
12.1936: Sold by order of the mortgagees under mortgage (A) to Heward Trawlers Ltd, London (Robert Scott Hewett & Harold Frank Hayward). Robert Scott Hewett designated manager.
29.12.1936: Hull registry closed.
1.1.1937: Registered at London (LO192).
17.2.1943: Sailed Fleetwood in company with FILEY (LO189) for Hull via Liverpool for DG wiping. PM arrived Liverpool.
18.2.1943: Sold to Kingston Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull for £11,500.
19.2.1943: Sailed Liverpool in company for Hull.
22.2.1943: London registry closed.
24.2.1943: Arrived Hull in company.
24.2.1943: Registered at Hull (H546). John William Lown, designated manager.
6.3.1943: Slipped at Hull for propeller change.
11.3.1943: Sea trial and DG wiped on completion.
13.3.1943: Sailed Hull for Iceland. Based at Hull sailing in armed convoys to and from fishing grounds. From Iceland/Faroe – 10 trips, 10,161 kits.
10.2.1944: William George O’Dell designated manager.
7.3.1945: Sold to Loyal Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby for £12,000 less £700 for repairs.
12.3.1945: Hull registry closed.
3.1945: Registered at Grimsby (GY29). Albert Wright Butt designated manager.
2.1951: Sold to Alexander Hay, Aberdeen.
2.1951: Grimsby registry closed.
1.3.1951: Registered at Aberdeen (A673).
16.3.1951: Sold to Alexander Hay & John Mair, Aberdeen. Alexander Hay managing owner.
1958: Sold to F. & W. Joch, Hamburg for breaking up.
7.5.1958: Delivered Hamburg from Aberdeen under own power.
12.5.1958: Aberdeen registry closed “… on sale of vessel to foreigners (German subjects).”

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S.T. Bempton H19

S.T. Bempton H19
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S.T. Bempton A673

S.T. Bempton A673
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S.T. Bempton A673

S.T. Bempton A673
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S.T. Aracari FD218

Additional information courtesy of Bill Blow

Technical

Official Number: 127824
Yard Number: 159
Completed: 1908
Gross Tonnage:245
Net Tonnage: 113
Length: 120.5 ft
Breadth: 22 ft
Depth: 11.5 feet
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley
Engine: 450ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by Amos & Smith Ltd, Hull
Speed 10.5 knots

History

7.11.1907: Launched (having been laid down as SEAGULL) by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.159) for Cleethorpes Steam Trawling Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby as ARACARI.
31.1.1908: Registered at Grimsby (GY355).
6.2.1908: Completed.
6.2.1908: Richard Shute appointed manager.
25.2.1908: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to The York City & County Banking Co Ltd, York (A).
9.1914: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-12pdr, 1-6pdr HA) (Ad.No.514).
9.2.1915: Mortgage (A) transferred to The London Joint Stock Bank Ltd, London.
27.4.1915: William Hill appointed manager.
23.11.1915: Mortgage (A) discharged. Based at Granton.
28.6.1916: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to London Joint Stock Bank Ltd, London (B)
2.4.1917: LORD SCARBOROUGH (GY393) sunk by submarine 130 miles E of May Island.
4.4.1917: Picked up crew and landed at Granton.
20.4.1917: Steamer BALLOCHBUIE (921grt/05) on passage Aberdeen-Sunderland, light, torpedoed by submarine (UC41) 7 miles E of May Island; three crew lost.
22.4.1917: Picked up BALLOCHBUIE lifeboat 20 miles SE of May Island.
1917: William Hill appointed manager.
13.4.1918: Mortgage (B) discharged.
16.4.1918: Sold to Walter Harold Beeley (64/64), Grimsby. Walter Harold Beeley designated managing owner.
18.4.1918: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to National Provincial & Union Bank of England Ltd, London (C).
4.5.1918: Mortgage (C) discharged.
14.5.1918: Sold to Ernest Taylor & Noah Ashworth, Fleetwood (64/64 joint owners).
16.5.1918: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to London City & Midland Bank Ltd, London (D).
21.5.1918: Joseph Allen Taylor appointed manager.
1919: Returned to owner at Fleetwood.
18.6.1919: Mortgage (D) discharged.
20.6.1919: Sold to The Talbot Steam Trawling Co Ltd (64/64), Fleetwood.
7.7.1919: Joseph Allen Taylor appointed manager.
7.7.1919: Grimsby registry closed.
10.7.1919: Registered at Fleetwood (FD218).
1924: William W. Brierley appointed manager.
10.1925: Sold to Richard Watson Lewis (64/64), Aberdeen. Richard Watson Lewis designated managing owner.
19.10.1925: Fleetwood registry closed.
10.11.1925: Registered at Aberdeen (A155).
3.11.1930: Sold to Stanley A. Laycock, Hakin (David Pettit, manager).
3.11.1930: Aberdeen registry closed.
10.11.1930: Registered at Milford (M101).
8.6.1931: Sold to Mrs Margaret Laycock, Hakin & Hugh S. K. Wilson, Milford Haven (Pettit & Youds Ltd, manager).
27.7.1934: Sold to Mrs Margaret Laycock, Hakin (Pettit & Youds Ltd, manager).
5.10.1937: Sold to Pettit & Youds, Milford Haven (Joseph S. Pettit & Frank L. Youds) (Frank L. Youds, manager).
7.4.1938: Broke down on the Western grounds (Sk. W. Parry), towed back to Milford by CALDY (M198) (Sk. J. Binham).
26.11.1939: Requisitioned for war service appointed for minesweeping duties.
1940: Returned.
16.3.1943: Requisitioned for war service and fitted out as a water boat (P.No.Y7.2) (Hire rate £61.5.0d/month). Employed on miscellaneous Naval duties.
13.10.1943: Grounded on Filicudi Island, north of Sicily; declared a total loss.
9.9.1944: Milford registry closed.

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S.T. Belovar GY109

Additional information courtesy of Christine Simm, Bill Blow and Birgir Þórisson

Technical

Official Number: 122715
Yard Number: 94
Completed: 1906
Gross Tonnage: 241.68
Net Tonnage: 93.51
Length: 125 ft
Breadth: 22 ft
Depth: 11.8 ft
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Beverley
Engine: 450ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by CD Holmes
Speed: 10.5 knots

History

29.11.1905: Launched by Miss Cicely Jean Smith at Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Beverley (Yd.No.94) for Alick Black (64/64), Grimsby as BELOVAR.
1.2.1906: Registered at Grimsby (GY109).
1.2.1906: Alick Black designated managing owner.
2.1906: Completed.
12.2.1906: Alick Black (32/64) shares sold to Walter Olney (32/64), Grimsby.
13.2.1906: Walter Olney shares (32/64) mortgaged to The Lincoln & Lindsey Banking Co Ltd, Lincoln (A).
18.5.1906: Alick Black shares (32/64) mortgaged to The Lincoln & Lindsey Banking Co Ltd, Lincoln (B).
29.1.1907: Mortgage (B) discharged.
31.1.1907: Alick Black shares (32/64) mortgaged to The Union of London & Smiths Bank Ltd, London (C).
11.3.1907: Arrived Grimsby and reported loss of trimmer, George Mawer, Barcroft Street, Grimsby, washed overboard by a big wave when hauling and although line thrown to him drifted away and was not seen again.
4.2.1908: Arrived Grimsby having in tow the German steamer STADT OLDENBURG (281grt/1904), for Dundee, picked up in North Sea in distress due to stress of weather and exhausted bunker coal.
27.1.1909: Mortgage (A) discharged.
29.1.1909: Mortgage (C) discharged.
30.1.1909: Alick Black shares (32/64) sold to Walter Olney (64/64), Grimsby.
30.1.1909: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to The Lincoln & Lindsey Banking Co Ltd, Lincoln (D).
7.4.1909: Mortgage (D) discharged.
10.4.1909: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to The London City & Midland Bank Ltd, London (E). 22.10.1909: Alick Black designated manager. 12.7.1910: Passed Flamborough Head homeward to Grimsby from Iceland.
1.1911: Transferred to Iceland, salting (Sk. Thorsteinn Thorsteinsson).
6.1911: On return transferred to fish out of Fleetwood.
15.12.1911: In dense fog, fine weather and smooth sea, stranded on rocks at Colliery Point, Ballycastle Bay, Co. Antrim. Lying level on hard ground. Belfast steamer GLENTOW (159grt/1895) in attendance and made an unsuccessful attempt to refloat. Called Laird Line steamer HAZEL (1241grt/1907) to assist but master considered too much ebb.
16.12.1911: On midnight tide refloated, making water and in the early hours towed to Red Bay, Cushendall, Co. Antrim by Glentow.
31.1.1913: Sailed Fleetwood on 12 day trip to Rockall grounds (Sk. George Schofield); ten crew all told.
6.2.1913: Last spoken to in vicinity of Muldoanich, Barra, Outer Hebrides.
7 – 9.2.1913: Severe weather conditions off north coast of Ireland.
9.2.1913: In the evening in those waters, Fleetwood steam trawler NEW CROWN (GY369) struck by heavy seas, boat and wheelhouse carried away, skipper and two crew washed overboard.
12.2.1913: Posted missing.
8.4.1913: Grimsby registry closed “ Ship missing”. No survivors.*

*Crew all Fleetwood unless stated – Sk. George Schofield, 61 Warrenhurst Road; Frederick James Adams, 18 Kent Street, Cardiff, Mate; James Salmon, Lodging House, Bosun; Harry Clarke, 13 Carr Road, Ch.Eng; Samuel W. Farrow, 28 Warrenhurst Road, 2nd Eng; Richard Wright, Seabank Road and Robert Wright, 8 Seymour Street, Deckhands; Frederick Allot, 16 Victoria Street and George Johnson, Lodging House, Trimmers; G. Frederick Kidd, 55 Warrenhurst Road, Cook.

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S.T. Ariel H843

Technical

Official Number: 121091
Yard Number: 90
Completed: 1905
Gross Tonnage: 174
Net Tonnage: 55n (68)
Length: 108.5 ft
Breadth: 21.5 ft
Depth: 11.5 ft
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Beverley
Engine: 45nhp T.3-cyl and boiler by Amos & Smith, Hull
Speed: 9.5 knots

History

30.9.1905: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Beverley (Yd.No.90) for Hellyer’s Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull as ARIEL.
14.11.1905: Completed.
17.11.1905: Registered at Hull (H843). Charles Hellyer designated manager.
1.1.1914: Tonnage altered to 68net under provision of Merchant Shipping Act 1907.
9.1914: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-6pdr HA) (Ad.No.616).
2.1915: Renamed ARIEL II. Based Portland.
4.9.1917: Sold to Mrs Elizabeth M. Jones, Oswestry. Charles Curzon, Milford Haven designated manager.
By 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Milford and reverted to Ariel (H843).
1920: Sold to Iago Steam Trawler Co Ltd, Milford Haven. Edward D. W. Lawford designated manager.
14.12.1927: Sold to Ocean Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull. George Altoft designated manager.
Pre 1930: W. C. Farrow designated manager.
25.10.1935: Sold to Robert Walkington, Fleetwood. Alex Keay designated manager.
3.5.1943: Typical wartime landing. 66 kits – hake-36, cod/codling-16, whiting-10, ling/coley-1, roker-2, dogs-1.
1.8.1945: Trawled live mine off Isle of Man and delivered Douglas for disposal.
2.8.1945: Fishing off Isle of Man. Foundered after collision with steamer BENLEDI (5943g/1930) in thick fog S by W of Chicken Rock Light, Calf of Man; ten crew rescued by BENLEDI boat and landed at Liverpool. Hull registry closed.

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S.T. Ariel H843

S.T. Ariel H843
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