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S.T. Philip Godby FD405

Additional information courtesy of Bill Blow and Milford Trawlers

Technical

Admiralty Number: 3783
Official Number: 143785
Yard Number: 404
Completed: 1919
Gross Tonnage: 209
Net Tonnage: 126
Length: 125.6 ft
Breadth: 23.6 ft
Depth: 12.7 ft
Engine: 550ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by Amos & Smith Ltd, Hull
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley
Speed: 10.5 knots

History

24.9.1918: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.404) (“Castle” class) for The Admiralty as PHILIP GODBY (Ad.No.3783).
1919: Sold to Henry Smethurst (64/64), Grimsby
6.5.1919: Completed.
15.5.1919: Registered at Grimsby (GY309).
9.5.1919: John Wintringham Smethurst appointed manager.
2.7.1919: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to the London Joint City & Midland Bank Ltd, London (A).
9.2.1920: Mortgage (A) discharged.
9.2.1920: Sold to The Derby Steam Trawling Co Ltd (64/64), Bootle, Liverpool.
12.5.1920: Charles W. Pickering, Fleetwood appointed manager.
6.3.1920: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to London County, Westminster & Parr’s Bank Ltd (B).
18.10.1921: Mortgage (B) discharged.
24.10.1921: The Derby Steam Trawling Co Ltd in liquidation sold to Harry Pennington & Thomas George McKay, Bootle (joint owners).
26.10.1921: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to London Joint City & Midland Bank Ltd, London (C).
4.11.1921: Jules Nierinck appointed manager.
17.12.1921: Mortgage (C) discharged.
19.12.1921: Sold to The Godby Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Fleetwood.
21.12.1921; Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to The London Joint City & Midland Bank Ltd, London (D).
5.1.1922: Jules Nierinck appointed manager. 25.3.1922: Grimsby registry closed.
29.3.1922: Registered at Fleetwood (FD405).
17.9.1924: At Oban (Sk. W. Hargreaves) picked up doctor and landed him at St. Kilda to treat pneumonia outbreak.
11.12.1924: Sold to Neva Steam Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood (William W. Brierley, manager).
10.2.1925: Registered at Fleetwood as CISNELL (FD405).
3.1928: Sold to Thomas Jenkerson, Milford Haven (Jenkerson & Jones Ltd).
6.3.1928: Fleetwood registry closed.
7.3.1928: Registered at London (LO122).
29.3.1928: Registered at London as TOGIMO (LO122).
1938: Sold to Jenkerson & Jones Ltd, Milford Haven (Thomas Jenkerson, manager).
2.9.1939: Requisitioned for war service and appointed for minesweeping duties (Hire rate £90.12.6d/month).
13.11.1939: Returned to owner.
1.3.1940: Sailed Milford for fishing grounds (Sk. James Gale DSC); twelve crew.
11.2.1940: Off West coast of Ireland about 70 miles from the Fastnet, at 4.00 a.m. hauled and owing to damage prepared to change gear from one side of the ship to the other. At 5.00 a.m. ready to shoot trawl, shelled by U-boat (U.37), doused lights and tried to escape, but hit in chart room and ablaze. Crew abandoned in boat and trawler sunk by gunfire in approx position 50°40N/11°02W, one crewman killed (James Price (18), Co. Kildare, fireman). Boat in way of shell fall and Ch.Eng injured.
12.2.1940: After twenty-eight hours in the boat and with three badly injured men, all eleven picked up by Spanish steamer MONTE NAVAJO (5754grt/1920).
13.2.1940: Landed at Queenstown, Co.Cork.
17.2.1940: Crew returned to Milford.
1.3.1940: London registry closed “Sunk by enemy action”.

(Philip Godby , AB, age 43, b. Cricklade, Wiltshire – VICTORY (SB939))

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S.T. Philip Godby LO122

S.T. Philip Godby LO122
Picture courtesy of The Peter Green Collection

Changelog
03/01/2009: Page published. 8 updates since then.
09/07/2017: Image added.

S.T. Feugh FD403

Additional information courtesy of Bill Blow and Barry Johnson (Milford Trawlers)

Technical

Official Number: 139782
Yard Number: 725
Completed: 1917
Gross Tonnage: 227
Net Tonnage: 87
Length: 121.2 ft
Breadth: 22.2 ft
Depth: 12.3 ft
Built: Cochrane & Sons, Selby
Engine: 480ihp T.3-cyl by R. W. Lewis & Sons Ltd, Aberdeen
Boiler: Riley Brothers (Boilermakers) Ltd, Stockton on Tees

History

18.7.1916: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.725) for Richard W. Lewis, Aberdeen (managing owner) as FEUGH.
17.10.1916: Registered at Aberdeen (A706).
1.1917: Completed.
6.1917: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-6pdr HA) (Ad.No.1278). Based Peterhead.
Post 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Aberdeen.
22.11.1919: Sold to The British Trawling Co Ltd (64/64), Bootle (Charles W. Pickering, manager).
9.2.1920: Sold to The Derby Steam Trawling Co Ltd (64/64), Bootle (Charles W. Pickering, Fleetwood, manager).
2.1922: Sold to Godby Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Fleetwood (Jules Nierinck, manager).
20.2.1922: Aberdeen registry closed.
24.2.1922: Registered at Fleetwood (FD403).
8.6.1923: Driven ashore at Bispham, Blackpool; catch and crew saved.
1923: Refloated and returned to service.
9.1924: Sold to Thomas D. Lees, Bonnington, Edinburgh (Robert Bell Jnr, Leith, manager).
11.10.1924: Fleetwood registry closed.
13.10.1924: Registered at Granton (GN24).
11.1924: Sold to The Crampin Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
23.11.1925: Granton registry closed.
25.11.1925: Registered at Grimsby (GY366).
25.11.1925: Herbert George Crampin appointed manager.
7.11.1927: Sold to Trawlers (White Sea & Grimsby) Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
7.11.1927: Harold Bacon appointed manager.
20.12.1927: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Midland Bank Ltd, London (A).
30.12.1927: Registered at Grimsby as BERENGA (GY366) (BoT Minute M/R.G.1466/27 dated 17.12.1927).
17.5.1929: Mortgage (A) discharged.
3.2.1930: James Norman Bacon appointed manager.
26.1.1937: V. Smith, trimmer was landed at Grimsby with serious face and leg injuries having been washed along the deck.
25.11.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (P.No.FY.774) (Hire rate £64.6.4d/month).
17.2.1940: Returned to owner.
19.4.1940: Requisitioned for war service for barrage balloon towing duties.
14.3.1941: Charles George Martin appointed manager.
8.1.1942: Company re-styled Trawlers Grimsby Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
3.9.1945: Returned to owner.
8.12.1945: Sold to United Trawlers Ltd, Milford Haven.
17.12.1945: Henry J. Horwood appointed manager.
12.1.1946: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Midland Bank Ltd, London (B).
30.1.1951: Sailed Milford for the fishing grounds SW of Ireland (Sk.Arthur Howie).
31.1.1951: Responded to call for assistance from trawler BRAES O’ MAR (M100)(Sk.John H. Ryan) taking in water some 15 miles WNW of the Skelligs. Transferred crew and stood by.
1.2.1951: At 9.00 a.m. BRAES O’ MAR foundered. Crew landed at Berehaven, Co. Cork.
24.9.1951: Mortgage (B) discharged.
25.9.1951: Sold to Atlantic Trawlers Ltd (64/64), Edinburgh.
15.10.1951: Henry John Richards, Milford Haven appointed manager.
15.10.1951: Grimsby registry closed.
17.10.1951: Registered at Milford as SPRINGLEIGH (M192) (MoT Minute R.G. No.1280/1951dated 3.10.1951).
19.2.1953: Sold to J. C. Llewellin (Trawlers) Ltd (64/64), Milford Haven (John Charles Llewellin, manager).
5.5.1953: Sold to South Western Trawlers Ltd (64/64), Milford Haven.
7.1953: Registered at Milford as LYDSTEP (M192) (MoT Minute R.G. No.1154/1953 dated 27.7.1953).
11.11.1954: Reported that deckhand George G. Harding was injured by a rope when hauling; landed at Cork, Co. Cork where he died two days later.
1955: Sold to BISCO and allocated to Thos. W. Ward Ltd, Sheffield for breaking up at Castle Pill, Milford Haven.
23.5.1955: Delivered Castle Pill.
13.6.1955: Milford registry closed “Vessel broken up”.

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S.T. Lydstep M192

S.T. Lydstep M192
Picture from the Roger Worsley archive courtesy of Milford Trawlers

Changelog
20/12/2008: Page published. 6 updates since then.
23/07/2017: Removed FMHT watermark.
21/08/2020: Updated history.