S.T. Miningsby FD25

Technical

Admiralty Number: 3794
Official Number: 143896
Yard Number: 343A
As built: 360disp
Gross Tonnage: 278 (299)
Net Tonnage: 77
Length: 125.6 ft
Breadth: 23.6 ft
Depth: 12.8 ft
Built: Ailsa Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Troon
Engine: 480ihp T.3-cyl by Fawcett, Preston & Co Ltd, Liverpool.
Boiler: David Rowan & Co Ltd, Glasgow

History

9.10.1918: Launched by Ailsa Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Troon (Yd.No.343A) (“Castle” class) for The Admiralty as JOHN GEOGHAN (Ad.No.3794).
25.11.1918: Completed (1-12pdr).
28.11.1919: Registered by The Admiralty at London (Part I) O.N.143896.
1919: Allocated to the Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries and engaged in commercial trawling.
1920: Allocated to the Government scheme for the setting up of the Minesweepers’ Cooperative Trawling Society Ltd, London.
28.01.1920: Registered at London (Part IV) (LO267).
13.08.1920: Minesweepers’ Cooperative Trawling Society Ltd, London registered.
11.1920: At HM Dockyard, Chatham completed fitting out for fishing under Special Survey of Lloyd’s Register and classed 100 A1 Stm Trawler at London.
4.1921: Paid off at The Nore.
Laid up. 1924: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Grimsby.
1924: Remeasured 109n.
14.11.1924: London registry closed.
21.11.1924: Registered at Fleetwood as MININGSBY (FD25). Fred Parkes, Wyberton, Boston designated manager.
1926: Transferred to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood. Fred Parkes, Blackpool designated manager.
2.7.1928: Landed 256 boxes.
1928: Sold to Zunequin & Cie, Boulogne.
1928: Remeasured 299g 77n.
8.8.1928: Fleetwood registry closed.
8.1928: Renamed CONGRÉ. Registered at Boulogne.
5.1934: Sold to Pecheries de la Morinie, Boulogne. P. Fisheux, manager.
1940: Escaped from France.
4.1940: Hired by The Admiralty as a minesweeper (magnetic) (P.No.FY.1919).
7.1943: Employed on miscellaneous naval duties.
1944: Fitted out as a fuelling trawler (33ton tank for refuelling diesel landing craft). Assigned Operation Neptune – Normandy landings.
23.5.1944: Assigned as a fuelling trawler to Force G.
3.7.1944: Operation Neptune ended.
1.1946: Returned.
3.1952: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood.
3.1952: Remeasured 283.96g 107.75n.
1952: Registered at Fleetwood as BOSTON WAYFARER (FD110). Basil Arthur Parkes, Hessle, designated manager.
1955: Sold to Milford Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Milford Haven. Daniel C. Bruton, St. Ishmaels designated manager.
19.4.1955: Fleetwood registry closed.
23.4.1955: Registered at Milford as MILFORD CONSORT (M39).
1957: Sold to BISCO and allocated to Thos. W. Ward, Sheffield for breaking up.
22.3.1957: Arrived Castle Pill, Milford Haven. 13.4.1957: Milford registry closed.

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S.T. Milford Consort M39

S.T. Milford Consort M39
Picture courtesy of The John Stevenson Collection

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15/06/2021: Updated details.

S.T. Authorpe FD91

Additional information courtesy of David Slinger
Technical

Official Number: 148218
Yard Number: 271
Completed: 1917
Gross Tonnage: 271
Net Tonnage: 106
Length: 125.7 ft
Breadth: 23.5 ft
Depth: 12.7 ft
Engine: 480ihp T.3-cyl by Government of Canada, Sorel, Quebec
Built: Government of Canada, Sorel, Quebec

History

1.1917: Ordered. 1917: Launched by Government of Canada, Sorel, Quebec (Yd.No.271) (Canadian “Castle” – “T.R.” class) for the The Admiralty (paid for and built under direction of RCN) as TR.32.
16.5.1918: Completed and commissioned in the Royal Canadian Navy (1-12pdr).
22.1.1919: Paid off and laid up.
1920: Accepted offer of Rose Street Foundry & Engineering Co Ltd, Inverness (Captain Donald John Munro CMG RN as agent) to bring drifters with trawlers as escorts to UK for lay-up in Muirtown Basin, Caledonian Canal, Inverness prior to sale and possible refit for classification as steam trawlers (The Rose Street Foundry & Engineering Co Ltd letter dated 12 April 1920).
1921: Brought over at The Admiralty’s expense.
1.1926: Still laid up.
2.1926: Rejected offer for all remaining trawlers at £2,000 each (B. Allenby, Aberdeen letter dated 10 Feb 1926).
1926: Sold “as is” to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Grimsby (Basil A. Parkes, Blackpool, manager).
14.7.1926: Registered at Fleetwood as AUTHORPE (FD91) (at Grimsby).
04.1932: On three month charter to Sea Fisheries Association of Ireland, to fish out of Dublin, Galway and other ports. Charter to be exended if needed.
5/6/7.1933: Chartered for by Italian Government to provide support for a trans Atlantic flight involving 20 to 30 aeroplanes.
6.4.1935: Arrived Fleetwood on evening tide towing WELLVALE (FD140F) which sustained crank shaft damage on the fishing grounds.
1938: Sold to Enterprise Jean Negri & Fils, Marseilles.
3.6.1938: Fleetwood registry closed.
1938: Sold to Marseille Maritime, Marseilles. Registered Panama.
1938: Chartered to Spanish Government, Madrid during Spanish Civil War.
6.2.1939: Alongside at Alicante, attacked by mistake by Nationalist aircraft and sunk.
12.10.1939: Salvaged, repaired. Renamed CASTILLO A.
16.4.1942: Commissioned in Spanish Navy as a tug (1-76/50 Vickers Mk.TR). Renamed RR18.
6.7.1944: Reclassified as a patrol escort trawler. Renamed ALHUCEMAS.
3.1954: Stricken from Spanish Navy.

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S.T. Authorpe FD91

S.T. T.R.32 under construction
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24/07/2019: Information updated.
10/09/2024: Information updated.

S.T. Cartagena FD139

Technical

Official Number: 148226
Yard Number: ??
Completed: 1914
Gross Tonnage: 271
Net Tonnage: 123
Length: 125.8 ft
Breadth: 23.5 ft
Depth: 12.7 ft
Built: Port Arthur Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Port Arthur, Canada
Engine: 480ihp T.3-cyl by Port Arthur Shipbuilding Co., Port Arthur, Montreal

History

1.1917: Ordered.
1917: Launched by Port Arthur Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Port Arthur, Canada (Yd.No.) (Canadian “Castle” – “T.R.” class) for the The Admiralty (paid for and built under direction of RCN) as TR.4.
27.11.1917: Completed and accepted (1-12pdr).
24.5.1918: Commissioned in Royal Canadian Navy.
3.1919: Paid off and laid up.
1920: Accepted offer of Rose Street Foundry & Engineering Co Ltd, Inverness (Captain Donald John Munro CMG RN as agent) to bring drifters with trawlers as escorts to UK for lay-up in Muirtown Basin, Caledonian Canal, Inverness prior to sale and possible refit for classification as steam trawlers (The Rose Street Foundry & Engineering Co Ltd letter dated 12 April 1920).
1921: Brought over at The Admiralty’s expense.
1.1926: Still laid up but gun platform removed and a fish room made forward of the cross bunker bulkhead.
2.1926: Rejected offer for all remaining trawlers at £2,000 each (B. Allenby, Aberdeen letter dated 10 Feb 1926).
26.8.1926: Sold “as is” to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Grimsby. Laid up in Caledonian Canal and then Grimsby.
14 & 22.9.1926: Surveyed by BoT at Grimsby for voyage to the Continent.
22.9.1926: Registered (Part I & IV) at Fleetwood as CARTAGENA (FD139). Fred Parkes, Blackpool designated manager.
10.1926: Moved to lay-up in Boulogne.
10.1927: Moved to Ostend for work to class her for fishing as a trawler under Bureau Veritas rules. Twelve tons of permanent ballast removed.
7.12.1927: Sailed Ostend for Fleetwood to complete surveys.
14.12.1927: Arrived Fleetwood. Completed survey to satisfaction of Bureau Veritas.
15.12.1927: Sale agreed to Brazilian Ministry of Marine, Rio de Janeiro.
19.12.1927: Slipped and bottom plating, tail shaft, sea connections and rudder surveyed by Bureau Veritas along with draught marks by BoT. At the request of BDSF&ICo Marine Engineer, a shell plate No.2 in E strake was faired.
28.12.1927: Basin trials to the satisfaction of Bureau Veritas.
29.12.1927: Sold to Brazilian Government (Ministry of Marine), Rio de Janeiro (£8,000 plus £613.5.7d for fishing gear), but to remain the property of BDSF&I Co until successfully delivered.
29.12.1927: Fleetwood registry closed. Registered at Rio de Janeiro.
13.1.1928: Crew signed on under Brazilian articles (Capt A. W. Rawling), twelve crew all told.
14.1.1928: Sailed Fleetwood for Lune Deep for compass adjustments.
15.1.1928: At about 10.30 a.m. sailed Lune Deep for Rio de Janeiro. Believed foundered between Lune Deeps and Hough Skerries in approx position 53.42N 04.00W; all crew lost.
12.2.1929: At BOT Formal Investigation (No.7869) held at Liverpool, the Court found that the reason for the loss must remain a matter of pure conjecture. No blame could be attached to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd or Mr Fred Parkes and his servants.
11.1929: HMS BEAUFORT preparing new survey of coastal waters off North Wales discovered a new wreck 3 miles off the Great Orme.
23.10.1989: Dive on wreck in position 53.25,00N 04.072,6W, confirmed large steam trawler in good condition and bell ‘TR4’ removed (K. Hurley).
22.11.1989: Dive recorded by Hydrographic Office HH100/351/01.
6.2007: Wreck identified as TR4/CARTAGENA by Nigel Cossons in position 53.25,015N/04.07,500W, in 35-40 metres.
2015: Diving is ongoing.

Lost: Capt. A.W.Rawlings; P.G.Petterson, Thornton, Mate; W.H.Grayson, Third hand; L. Gratrix, Ch Eng, Thornton; M.F.Wilson, 2nd Eng; A.Taylor & R.Taylor, Bolton (Victoria St, Fleetwood), J.McFarlane, Liverpool & W.A.Stelford, Deckhands; P.Brennan, Liverpool, J.P.Monaghan, Firemen; N. Robertson, Cook/Steward.
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Castle Class Trawler

Castle Class Trawler
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Cartagena

Wreck sketch courtesy of Nigel Cossons

Wreck dive movie courtesy of Nigel Cossons.

Changelog
26/04/2014: Information updated.
01/10/2015: Information updated.
03/10/2015: Pictures added.
01/11/2019: Updated information.

S.T. Admiral Cradock FD11

Technical

Official Number: 136191
Yard Number: 598
Completed: 1914
Gross Tonnage: 295
Net Tonnage: 128
Length: 136.7 ft
Breadth: 23.2 ft
Depth: 12.3 ft
Engine: 93ihp T.3-cyl by Charles D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby

History

28.3.1914: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.598) for Pickering & Haldane’s Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull as ADMIRAL CRADOCK.
22.5.1914: Registered at Hull (H103).
26.5.1914: Completed. John McCann & Edward Cartwright designated managers.
29.5.1917: Requisitioned for Fishery Reserve.
By 11.8.1917: Fitted 1-6pdr LA (in house aft).
1919: Released.
31.1.1924: Sold to Ashton & Welsh Ltd, Blackpool.
6.2.1924: Hull registry closed.
8.2.1924: Registered at Fleetwood (FD11). James Welsh, Fleetwood, designated manager.
3.7.1928: At Fleetwood landed 265 boxes.
24.4.1935: Sold to John Wm. Welsh, Fleetwood.
4.7.1935: Sold to Endeavour Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood. John Wm. Welsh designated manager.
3.12.1937: Sold to Saint Andrew’s Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull. Basil Arthur Parkes, Cleveleys designated manager. Continued to fish from Fleetwood.
17.2.1939: Fleetwood registry closed “Sold to foreigners (Belgians)”.
20.3.1939: Delivered to Belgian shipbreakers and broken up.

Changelog
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10/06/2019: Minor information update.

S.T. Cadella A364

Additional information courtesy of Bill Blow

Technical

Official Number: 133431
Yard Number: 554
Completed: 1913
Gross Tonnage: 289
Net Tonnage: 115
Length: 133.5 ft
Breadth: 23.0 ft
Depth: 12.2 ft
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby
Engine: 550ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull

History

25.1.1913: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.554) for Kingston Steam Trawling Co Ltd (64/64), Hull as PEARL.
2.4.1913: Registered at Hull (H883).
4.4.1913: Completed Lawrence Spring, manager).
8.1914: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-12pdr and Hydrophone) (Ad.No.306).
02.1915 Renamed PEARL II. Based Taranto.
17.4.1915: Registered at Hull as PEARL II (H883).
Post 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Hull.
21.3.1919: Sold to Amaranth Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby. Henry Croft Baker appointed manager.
22.3.1919: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to London Joint City & Midland Bank Ltd (A).
1.4.1919: Hull registry closed.
9.4.1919: Registered at Grimsby (GY221).
9.2.1920: Mortgage (A) discharged.
10.2.1920: Sold to Harold Bacon, James Norman Bacon, Grimsby and Henry Ernest Sharman, Frinton on Sea (64/64 joint owners).
14.2.1920: Harold Bacon designated managing owner.
10.3.1920: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Barclays Bank Ltd, London (B).
17.3.1920: Harold Bacon appointed manager.
25.3.1920: Mortgage (B) discharged.
26.3.1920: Sold to Trawlers (White Sea & Grimsby) Ltd (64/64), Grimsby (Harold Bacon, manager).
6.7.1922: Registered at Grimsby as CADELLA (GY221) BoT Minute M.R.G.1142/1922 dated 22.31922).
27.7.1925: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Midland Bank Ltd, London (C).
8.11.1927: Mortgage (C) discharged.
12.11.1927: Sold to The Crampin Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby.
12.11.1927: Herbert George Crampin appointed manager. Fitted for lining to pursue the Greenland halibut fishery.
10.10.1935: Sold to Alexander Rannie (64/64), Aberdeen.
24.10.1925: Alexander Rannie designated managing owner.
24.10.1935: Grimsby registry closed.
28.10.1935: Registered at Aberdeen (A364).
5.1938: Outward from Aberdeen to fishing grounds, stranded at Beacon Point, Stroma. Later refloated and proceeded to fishing grounds.
4.10.1939: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Basil A. Parkes, manager).
3.10.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a boom defence vessel (P.No.Z.122) (Hire rate £74.13.2d/month).
23.11.1943: Compulsorily acquired by M.O.W.T.
1944: Based at Harwich (Groom & Sons Ltd, Harwich, agents).
2.2.1946: Aberdeen registry closed.
1946: Sold to Hunter Fishing Co Ltd, Edinburgh. Registered at Leith (LH248).
05.1953: Sold to Le Belco di Giorgio Bellia & Co, Milan.
05.1953: Leith registry closed. Registered at Milan.
1956: Sold to Contieri Navali del Golfo, Genoa and broken up at La Spezia.
1957: Milan registry closed.

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S.T. Cadella A364

S.T. Cadella A364
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HMT Pearl

HMT Pearl
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Changelog
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03/05/2015: Restored deleted picture.
13/10/2019: Updated information.