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S.T. Spurnella H414

Technical

Official Number: 165651
Yard Number: 1025
Completed: February 25 1937
Gross Tonnage: 455
Net Tonnage: 166
Length: 175.5 ft
Breadth: 27.1 ft
Depth: 14.3 ft
Built: Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, South Bank-on-Tees, Middlesbrough
Engine: 825ihp T.3-cyl by by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, South Bank-on-Tees, Middlesbrough

History

25.2.1937: Launched by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, South Bank-on-Tees, Middlesbrough (Yd.No.1025) for Devon Fishing Co Ltd, Hull as WOLBOROUGH.
4.1937: Completed (Mark Hellyer, manager). Registered at Hull (H414).
5.4.1937: Sailed Hull on first trip to Icelandic grounds (Sk. F. Whitley).
26.4.1937: At Hull landed 2314 kits grossed £1007.
11.1.1938: Stranded at Landöen, Batalden Island outside Florö on west coast of Norway. Salvage steamer ACHILLES (217grt/1893) attended.
13.1.1938: Refloated and delivered Florö for survey.
4.1949: Converted for burning oil fuel, F.P. above 150° F.
1939: Lengthened to 175.5 feet 459g 173n – 190.6 feet LOA.
6.6.1939: Insured value increased from £25,000 to £28,00 following lengthening of vessel.
23.7.1939: Responded to call for assistance from steam trawler GAUL (H292) which had been in collision with German steam trawler WESTERLAND of Wesermunde approximately 160 miles from Tees and leaking port side below the waterline. Pumps able to cope and escorted towards coast. At 11.30 pm. arrived river Tees.
25.7.1939: Insured value £28,700.
11.8.1939: Sailed Hull for Bear Island (Sk. W. Salmon).
30.8.1939: At Hull landed 2,086 kits grossed £1,531.
1939: To requisitioning, at Hull landed from Iceland/Bear Island/Norway Coast (Sks. J. T. Whisley, A. Salmon, R. Turner) 172 days 14,485 kits £11,857 gross.
26.9.1939: Requisitioned for war service as an anti-submarine trawler (P.No. FY.233)(Hire rate £309.16.6d/month).
1.1942: Transferred to Mediterranean Command.
1942: Sold to Pickering & Haldane’s Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull.
1944: Owners re-styled Lord Line Ltd, Hull (Thomas W. Boyd, manager).
4.1946: Registered at Hull as Lord Ancaster (H414).
8.1948: Sold to Hull Merchants Amalgamated Trawlers Ltd, Hull. Registered at Hull as MARATH (H414).
1953: Made one trip to Greenland fishery.
1955: Sold to Charleson-Smith Trawlers Ltd, Hull (Ross Group). Registered at Hull as STELLA PEGASI (H414).
24.9.1955: Sold to J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood (Geoffrey Marr, Hull, manager). Registered at Hull as SPURNELLA (H414).
22.7.1958: Sailed Hull for Iceland last trip before sale (Sk. W. Beamish).
9.8.1958: At Hull landed 1,223 kits grossed £4,677.
14.8.1958: Sold to Dinas Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Fleetwood.
1.6.1959: Company taken over by J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood.
1.6.1959: Sold to Heward Trawlers Ltd, London & Fleetwood (R. S. Hewett & H. F. Hayward) (Robert S. Hewett, manager).
8.3.1960: Stranded outside dock when leaving Fleetwood for fishing grounds. Refloated without damage.
14.12.1962: Sold to Thos. W. Ward Ltd, Sheffield for breaking up.
20.12.1962: Delivered Barrow-in-Furness from Fleetwood under own power.

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S.T. Marath H414

S.T. Marath H414
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S.T. Lord Ancaster H414

S.T. Lord Ancaster H414
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S.T. Spurnella H414

S.T. Spurnella H414
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S.T. Spurnella H414

S.T. Spurnella H414
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S.T. Spurnella H414

S.T. Spurnella H414
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S.T. Spurnella H414

S.T. Spurnella H414
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Changelog
16/01/2009: Page published. 7 updates since then.
23/04/201 Picture added.
10/06/2016: Information updated.
03/12/2017: Removed FMHT watermarks from images.
03/08/2019: Updated information and added an image.

S.T. Sea Monarch FD169

Technical

Official Number: 139277
Yard Number: 322
Completed: 1915
Gross Tonnage: 329
Net Tonnage: 138
Length: 136 ft
Breadth: 24 ft
Depth: 12.7 ft
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley
Engine: 70nhp T.3-cyl and boiler by Amos & Smith Ltd, Hull

History

31.5.1915: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.322) for Humber Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull as SEA MONARCH.
17.8.1915: Completed (Richard H. Hobbs, manager).
27.11.1915: Registered at Hull (H411).
2.1916: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-12pdr, 1-7.5” A/S Howitzer) (Ad.No.1983). Based Portland.
Post 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Hull.
16.12.1919: Sold to Fresh Fish Supplies Ltd, Hull (Thomas Nightingale, manager).
8.2.1922: Sold to Thomas Hamling & Co Ltd, Hull (Harold Hall, manager) along with SEA SWEEPER (H171) for £11,500 each.
6.1.1926: Thomas Boyd appointed manager.
4.5.1928: Sold to Dinas Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Joseph Arthur Marr Jnr, manager) along with SEA SWEEPER (H171) for £7,000 each.
10.5.1928: Hull registry closed.
18.6.1928: Registered at Fleetwood (FD169).
7.1928: Mortgaged to William Deacons Bank Ltd, London.
31.3.1936: Landed from an Iceland trip landed only 1,000 stone of fish, £494 gross.
30.1.1940: Requisitioned for war service as a boom defence vessel (Hire rate £90.9.6d/month).
3.1940: Fitting out at Rosyth at a cost of £17,545 (P.No.Z.115).
5.1940: At Lyness.
23.11.1943: Compulsorily acquired by M.O.W.T.
1.1.1944: Fleetwood registry closed.
1944: Based at Fort William (D. MacBrayne Ltd, Glasgow, agents).
6.1946: Laid up. Estimated cost of re-conditioning £8,750.
31.1.1947: Sold to James N. Connell, Glasgow for breaking up.
28.2.1947: Delivered Clyde.
9.1947: Breaking up completed.

Note: A very fast free running trawler, on Admiralty service in 1916 was capable of 11 knots.

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S.T. Sea Monarch FD169

S.T. Sea Monarch FD169
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S.T. Sea Monarch FD169

S.T. Sea Monarch FD169 at Scapa Flow
Picture courtesy of Maggie Jamieson

Changelog
16/01/2009: Page published. 3 updates since then.
31/07/2021: Updated information.

S.T. Lord Lister FD157

Additional information courtesy of Richard Jones

Technical

Official Number: 133402
Yard Number: 530
Completed: 1912
Gross Tonnage: 285
Net Tonnage: 114
Length: 133.5 ft
Breadth: 23 ft
Depth: 12 ft
Engine: 64hp T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby

History

17.6.1912: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.530) for The Yorkshire Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull as LORD LISTER.
9.8.1912: Registered at Hull (H484).
14.8.1912: Completed. John McCann designated manager.
5.1915: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-12pdr, 1-7.5” A/S Howitzer) (Ad.No.1568).
16.8.1917: Some 5 miles off the entrance to Lough Swilly, Co. Donegal, picked up forty-seven survivors of Anchusa class sloop HMS BERGAMOT, serving as a Special Service Q-ship, which had been torpedoed and sunk by U-boat (U84) on 13.8.1917 in the North Atlantic.
21.10.1918: Off Tory Island, picked up crew of Icelandic trawler NJÖRDUR (RE36) sunk by U-boat (U122) gunfire and landed them at Londonderry.
27.10.1918: At 2045 when 5 miles NNW of Altacarry Lighthouse, Rathlin Island, collided with and sank HM Trawler NEPTUNIAN (Ad.No.1523) (H626). Eight survivors picked up and landed at Londonderry.
1919: Returned to owner.
9.7.1919: Sold to Frederick Langley, Hull (managing owner).
29.9.1920: Sold to The Lister Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull. Charles H. Dugglsby designated manager.
17.4.1925: Sold to The Midland Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull. Frederick Langley designated manager.
14.7.1927: Sold to Dinas Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Fleetwood.
13.8.1927: Hull registry closed.
16.8.1927: Registered at Fleetwood (FD157). Joseph Arthur Marr Jnr designated manager.
1929: Sold to Empresa de Pesca Bello Horizonte Ltda, Lisbon, Portugal. J. E. Loforte, manager.
20.7.1929: Fleetwood registry closed.
7.1929: Renamed BELLO HORIZONTE.
1934: Sold to Soc. de Pesca Santa Fé Ltda, Lisbon. Registered at Lisbon as SANTA TERESINHA.
15.9.1939: Foundered after being in collision 30 miles N of Cape Roca.
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S.T. Lord Lister FD157

S.T. Lord Lister FD157
Picture courtesy of The Alan Hirst Collection

Changelog
16/01/2009: Page published. 3 updates since then.
03/09/2017: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
02/11/2020: Updated information.

S.T. Carella FD319

Additional information courtesy of Mike Thompson

Technical

Official Number: 163143
Yard Number: 1112
Completed: 1933
Gross Tonnage : 421
Net Tonnage: 162
Length: 152.1 ft
Breadth: 25.6 ft
Depth: 13.6 ft
Engine: 640ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by Charles D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
Built: Cochrane & Son Ltd, Selby

History

Note: First trawler built with a cruiser stern

10.6.1933: Launched by Cochrane & Son Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.1112) for Hudson Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Hull as CAPE BATHURST.
21.7.1933: Registered at Hull (H496).
25.7.1933: Completed (Archibald Hudson, manager).
1934: Hudson Brothers Trawlers Ltd appointed managers (Archibald Hudson, manager).
9.1935: As a result of the Abyssinian crisis and failure of British diplomacy, the Government authorised The Admiralty to procure twenty modern trawlers for conversion to minor war vessels.
17.10.1935: Sailed Hull for Bear Island grounds (Sk. C. Grantham).
8.11.1935: At Hull landed last trip 1,893 kits grossed £1191.
23.11.1935: Following successful trials sold to The Admiralty (Ref.18008/35).
26.11.1935: Hull registry closed. Fitted out as a “Gem” class anti submarine trawler (1-4”).
1936: Renamed HMS RUBY (P.No. T.24).
9.8.1939: At Review of Reserve Fleet in Weymouth Bay by King George VI.
1940: Based Birkenhead with 2nd A/S Group (Ty Lieut. R. P. Chapman RNR).
6.1941: At Plymouth refitting (Senior Officer, Ty S/Lieut. N. L. Brown RNVR).
9.7.1942: Escorting convoy WP.183 (Ty Lieut. Nicolas Leadley Brown RNVR) attacked by E-boats in Lyme Bay. HMT MANOR (M238) (P.No.FY.333) (Skipper Benjamin Pile, RNR) torpedoed and sunk in position 50.19N 03.01W in 60m. Twenty-nine crew MPK, sole survivor, 2nd Hand Cyril Foale, picked up from the water and landed at Yarmouth, IoW.
1944: Assigned to Operation Neptune – Normandy landings.
23.5.1944: Convoy escort duties in British waters.
4.6.1944: Sailed Milford Haven escorting convoy EBC2 to Solent.
7.6.1944: Sailed Solent as Force B (Escort Group 144).
8.6.1944: Arrived Western Task Force area.
06.1944: Escort across the Channel in support of landings.
03.07.1944: Operation Neptune ended.
18.9.1945: Escorting (Lieut. M. Bishop RNVR) damaged French submarine MINERVE, Liverpool-Cherbourg, in tow of former French tug ELAN II. In gale conditions in Lyme Bay decided to round Portland Bill and shelter in Portland. Tug lost tow in race and submarine went ashore on Chesil Beach. Returned to scene in very bad weather and sustained extensive minor damage.
1946: Laid up at Milford Haven on Disposal List (SORF, Pembroke Dock).
26.4.1946: Sold to J. Marr & Son Ltd (64/64), Fleetwood for £12,650.
8.1946: Re-classed at Manchester. Registered at Fleetwood as CARELLA (FD216). Geoffrey Edwards Marr appointed manager.
13.12.1948: Sold to Henderson’s Trawling Co Ltd (64/64), Hull for £61,000. Geoffrey Edwards Marr appointed manager. William Stevenson, St. Anne’s-on-the-Sea appointed manager.
5.1.1949: Fleetwood registry closed.
6.1.1949: Registered at Hull (H4).
19.1.1949: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Martins Bank Ltd, Liverpool (A).
2.8.1949: Last landing at Hull (Sk. J. Mallon). From White Sea 2194 kits, £5209 gross.
29.8.1949: First landing at Fleetwood. From White Sea 1713 kits, £2626 gross.
27.9.1949: One of five trawlers that went aground in the Wyre Channel in thick fog when outward for the fishing grounds. Refloated next tide and proceeded.
28.9.1949: Outward for White Sea grounds (Sk. R. T. Birch). In thick fog 3 miles from Mull of Galloway in collision with BTC steamer DUKE of ARGYLL(3799grt/1928) sustaining minor damage and proceeded.
19.10.1949: Landed 1441 kits, £4043 gross.
7.2.1950: Last landing at Fleetwood. Landed 1919 kits, £2844 gross. Returned to Hull.
19.10.1951: Mortgage (A) discharged.
19.10.1951: Sold to Dinas Steam Trawling Co Ltd (64/64), Fleetwood.
24.10.1951: Frank Marr, appointed manager.
1952: Homeward from Icelandic grounds ignored warnings not to proceed through The Minch and ran through the extremities of a trial (Operation Cauldron) of biological agents. Crew subsequently monitored covertly for any signs of illness. *
27.7.1953: Hull registry closed.
7.1953: Registered at Fleetwood (FD319).
4.1959: Alleged fishing inside Icelandic 4 mile limit.
1.6.1959: Company taken over by J. Marr & Son Ltd (64/64), Fleetwood (Geoffrey Edwards Marr, Hull, manager).
7.11.1959: Sold to BISCO and allocated to West of Scotland Shipbreaking Co Ltd, Troon for breaking up.
18.11.1959: Sailed Fleetwood for Troon.
19.11.1959: Delivered Troon Harbour (draughts 3’9”/15’9”).
23.2.1960: Breaking commenced.
2.3.1960: Beached (draughts 7’0”/10’6”).
9.6.1960: Breaking completed. Fleetwood registry closed.
*-It was never quite clear why CARELLA chose to ignore the instruction to go outside rather than through the Minch or to what extent the vapours spread into the atmosphere from the test site.

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HMT Ruby

HMT Ruby
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HMT Ruby

HMT Ruby
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S.T. Carella H4

S.T. Carella H4
Picture courtesy of The Mike Thompson Collection

Changelog
16/01/2009: Page published. 8 updates since then.
29/10/2019: Information updated.

S.T. Our Monica FD413

Technical

Official Number: 141963
Yard Number: 202
Completed: 1919
Gross Tonnage: 275
Net Tonnage: 120
Length: 125.4 ft
Breadth: 23.4 ft
Depth: 12.6 ft
Engine: 89hp T.3-cyl and boiler by R. & W. Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle upon Tyne
Built: C. Rennoldson & Co, South Shields

History

17.2.1919: Launched by C. Rennoldson & Co, South Shields (Yd.No.202) (“Castle” class) for The Admiralty as JAMES GILL.
1919: Sold to Société Anonyme “Delta”. Ostend (J. H. Nierinck, manager)
8.1919: Completed. Registered at Ostend as PIERRE FRANCOIS DESWARTE (O207).
9.1922: Sold to Jules H. Nierinck, Blackpool (managing owner).
10.1922: Ostend registry closed.
5.10.1922: Registered at Fleetwood as OUR MONICA (FD413).
9.10.1924: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Grimsby (Fred Parkes, Wyberton, manager).
8.6.1929: Sold to McRae Steam Trawling Co, Milford Haven (John McR. Knight manager).
14.6.1929: Fleetwood registry closed.
18.6.1929: Registered at Milford (M17).
22.7.1929: Registered at Milford as HELEN McRAE (M17).
1.8.1929: First landing at Milford.
1929: Sold to John McR. Knight, Milford Haven (managing owner).
23.11.1936: Sold to George Knight, James Yeandle, George T. Kelway, Milford & Ivor J. Powell, Neath (Harry Easto Rees, manager).
25.11.1936: Sold to Milford Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Milford Haven (Harry Eastoe Rees, manager).
12.1936: Registered at Milford as MILFORD DUCHESS (M17).
1.1.1937: First landing at Milford.
9.9.1938: James Carpenter Ward appointed manager.
28.8.1939: Last landing before requisition.
31.8.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (Hire rate £85.18.9d/month). Converted by Philip & Son Ltd, Dartmouth (1-12pdr) (P.No. FY.613).
1.1.1941: Based at Portsmouth (Ty/Lieut. R.P. Drane RNVR).
6.1941: At Portsmouth with M/S Group 55 (Senior Officer – Acting Ty/Lieut Cdr R. P. Drane RNVR).
8.12.1944: Returned to owner at Milford.
3.1945: Completed Special following restoration at Milford.
27.3.1945: First Post War landing at Milford.
2.4.1948: Last landing at Milford.
4.1948 Sold to Dinas Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Fleetwood.
16.4.1948: Milford registry closed.
4.1948: Registered at Fleetwood as DINAS (2) (FD268).
6.1954: Sold to Hammond Lane Foundry Ltd, Dublin for breaking up.
6.1954: Arrived Dublin from Fleetwood under own power. Fleetwood registry closed.

(James Gill, AB (volunteer), age 42, b. Poole, Dorset – VICTORY (SB637))

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S.T. Milford Duchess M17

S.T. Milford Duchess M17
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S.T. Dinas FD268

S.T. Dinas FD268
Picture © Peter Brady

S.T. Dinas FD268

S.T. Dinas FD268
Picture courtesy of the JJ collection

Changelog
15/01/2009: Page published. 5 updates since then.