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S.T. Trent FD12

Additional information courtesy of Andy Hall and Peter Coxon

Technical

Official Number: 114305
Yard Number: 753
Completed: 1904
Gross Tonnage: 218
Net Tonnage: 64
Length: 121 ft
Breadth: 21.6 ft
Depth: 11.9 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Shields Engineering Co Ltd, North Shields
Boiler: R. Stephenson & Co Ltd, Hebburn on Tyne
Built: Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, North Shields

History

22.9.1904: Launched by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, North Shields (Yd.No.753) for The “Wyre” Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Fleetwood as TRENT.
31.10.1904: Registered at Fleetwood (FD12), Richard C Ward & John N. Ward appointed joint managers.
11.1904: Completed.
11.2.1906: Off Antrim coast, north-west of Rathlin Island stood by and then with steam trawler LARK (GY383) connected to Sunderland registered West Hartlepool steamer QUEEN WILHELMINA (3950g/1898) which had lost her propeller nine days previously in the Atlantic 160 miles west of Rockall while on passage Tyne – Baltimore in ballast. Commenced tow to Belfast.
12.2.1906: Off Tor Point, Co. Antrim, at 10.00am. steam trawler WYRE (FD196) came upon them, made fast and assisted in the towage.
13.2.1906: At 4.45pm delivered safely to anchor in Belfast Lough.
23.5.1906: In the High Court of Justice – Admiralty Division, awarded the sum of £3,800 in respect of the salvage of the QUEEN WILHELMINA.
24.12.1906: Mortgaged to Lancaster Banking Co Ltd, Lancaster @ 5% interest (A).
24.2.1909: John N. Ward appointed manager.
8.4.1909: Mortgage (A) discharged.
22.4.1909: Mortgaged to Manchester & Liverpool District Banking Co Ltd, Manchester @ 5% interest (B).
10.4.1912: Magnus B. J. Wedum appointed manager.
8.1913: New boiler fitted.
1.1.1914: Tonnage altered to 84.41net under provision of Merchant Shipping Act 1907.
16.1.1914: Mortgage (B) discharged.
8.1914: Requisitioned for war service (Ad.No.120).
5.8.1914: Arrived Devonport. Fitted with 1-6pdr and mine-sweep; to remain for minesweeping duties.
1.1916: At Devonport with Unit No.122 – Section C (Sk. A. Norton RNR)
23.12.1916: Mortgaged to Manchester & Liverpool District Banking Co Ltd, Manchester (C). 3.1917: Renamed TRENT II. Based Stromness.
1.12.1917: Mortgage (C) discharged.
8.12.1917: Sold to Robert Moon (32/64) & Joseph Moon (32/64), Aberdeen.
20.12.1917: Robert Moon appointed managing owner.
12.12.1917: Fleetwood registry closed.
18.12.1917: Registered at Aberdeen as TRENT (A888).
Post 12.3.1919: Returned to owner. Reverted to TRENT (A888).
25.11.1919: Sold to Thomas Hudson, Hull (managing owner).
11.12.1919: Sold to The East Riding Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull (Thomas Hudson, manager).
12.12.1919: Aberdeen registry closed.
15.12.1919: Registered at Hull (H127).
1923: Sold to Charles Hudson, Hull (managing owner).
1924: Sold to Thomas Jenkerson, Milford Haven.
14.1.1925: Registered at Hull as JENWIL (H127).
3.3.1925: Hull registry closed.
6.3.1925: Registered at London (LO40).
1926: Sold to Jenkerson & Jones Ltd, Milford Haven (Thomas Jenkerson, manager).
22.10.1928: Fishing 9 miles S of Old Head of Kinsale observed SIDMOUTH (M57) 5 miles to northward in distress. Hauled and closed and found trawler had broken tailshaft. At about 10.00 a.m. having connected commenced tow to Milford.
23.10.1928: Delivered Milford.
18.5.1934: Sold to H. Elliott & Sons Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood (Henry Elliott appointed manager).
14.8.1935: London registry closed.
7.10.1935: Registered at Fleetwood (FD40).
27.4.1943: Typical wartime landing (Sk. Albert Coxall). 417 kits – hake-27, cod/codling-10, haddock-4, flats-4, ling/coley-335, roker-3, dogs-25, sole & prime-9.
20.9.1951: Sold to Goodleigh Fisheries Ltd, Milford Haven (Henry J. Richards, manager).
9.1951: Fleetwood registry closed.
17.9.1951: Registered at Milford (M134).
3.10.1951: Registered at Milford as LORDLEIGH (M134).
1952: Goodleigh Fisheries Ltd in liquidation.
19.2.1953: Sold to W. H. Kerr (Ship Chandlers) Ltd, Milford Haven.
5.5.1953: Sold to South Western Trawlers Ltd, Milford Haven (J. C. Llewellin, manager).
5.1956: Company wound up.
5.1956: Sold to BISCO and allocated to Rees Shipbreaking Co Ltd, Llanelli for breaking up.
26.5.1956: Milford registry closed, breaking up completed.

Note. 9.1.1946: London Gazette. Sk. Albert Coxall awarded MBE (for rescue of Swedish sailors in WW2)

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S.T. Trent FD12

S.T. Trent FD12
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09/12/2014: Information updated.
11/03/2017: Removed disputed image.
03/08/2018: Updated information.
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S.T. Electra II H661

Technical

Official Number: 118840
Yard Number: 58
Completed: 1904
Gross Tonnage: 269
Net Tonnage: 102
Length: 130 ft
Breadth: 22.2 ft
Depth: 11.6
Engine: 70 NHP T.3-cyl and boiler by Charles D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Beverley
Speed: 10 knots

History

14.9.1904: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Beverley (Yd.No.58) for Francis & Thomas Ross Ltd, Hull as ELECTRA (H661).
14.11.1904: Registered at Hull (H661).
11.1904: Completed (Thomas Ross, manager).
7.1915: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-6pdr HA).
8.1915: Renamed ELECTRA II (Ad.No.1743).
4.12.1915: Registered at Hull as ELECTRA II (H661). Based Dover.
By 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Hull.
12.12.1934: Sold to Henry Elliott, Fleetwood.
1935: Sold to H. Elliott & Sons Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood (Henry Elliott appointed manager).
29.5.1940: Requisitioned for war service as an auxiliary patrol vessel (2-Lewis Mgs (2×1)) (P.No.4.159) (Hire rate £67.5.0d/month). Based Liverpool.
21.12.1942: Sold to Aldred Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby (H. Markham Cook, manager).
6.1943: Fitted out for boom gate duties.
2.1946: Returned and laid up in Alexandra Dock, Grimsby.
1946: Sold John R. Hepworth & Co (Hull) Ltd, Paull for stripping and breaking up.
6.11.1946: Left Grimsby in tow for Paull.

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S.T. Electra H661

S.T. Electra H661
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S.T. Chiltern H660

Additional material courtesy of Mike Thompson and Andy Hall

Technical

Admiralty Number: 3562
Official Number: 143867
Yard Number: 822
Completed: 1917
Gross Tonnage: 324.43
Net Tonnage: 130.34
Length: 138.5 ft
Breadth: 23.7 ft
Depth: 12.8 ft
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby
Engine: 540ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by Charles D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
Armament: 1 x 12 pdr AA

History

4.9.1917: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.822) (“Mersey” class) for The Admiralty as JOHN CORMACK.
30.11.1917: Completed as an armed trawler (1-12pdr HA and W/T).
5.12.1917: Accepted.
22.11.1919: Registered by The Admiralty at London (Part I) as JOHN CORMACK O.N.143867.
16.1.1920: Sailed Gt. Yarmouth for Danzig with 1,500 barrels of herring loaded from the Co-operative Wholesale Society Ltd fishing station for distribution among co-operative societies in Warsaw and district. This was the first sailing in connection with organisations in England and the Continent and it may be the beginning of similar trade on international lines.
28.1.1920: Registered by The Admiralty at London (Part IV) (LO263).
By 18.6.1920: Allocated to Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries, London and engaged in commercial trawling.
13.8.1920: Minesweepers’ Cooperative Trawling Society Ltd, London registered.
1920: Allocated the Minesweepers’ Cooperative Trawling Society Ltd, London.
12.1920: At HM Dockyard, Chatham completed fitting out for fishing under Special Survey of Lloyd’s Register and classed 100A1 Stm Trawler at London
4.1921: Paid off at The Nore. Laid up at Chatham.
1.1922: Scheme abandoned, the necessary working capital of £100,000 having not been subscribed.
1922: Sold to Pickering & Haldane’s Steam Trawling Co Ltd (64/64), Hull.
28.7.1922: London registry closed.
4.8.1922: Registered at Hull (H660).
4.8.1922: John McCann & Edward Cartwright designated managers.
21.8.1922: Registered at Hull as LORD PIRRIE (H660) (MoT Minute RG1390/1922 dated 19.8.1922).
8.1922: Fishing out of Hull. First skipper C. Edlington.
24.12.1928: On an Icelandic trip, Kemp Gill (28), Bosun, washed overboard and drowned.
14.3.1929: Homeward from Icelandic grounds (Sk. P. W. Gray), at 4.00am. when off the N. Yorkshire coast stranded at Baud Hole, Filey Brig. Came afloat without assistance at 6.00am. and proceeded to Hull.
6.4.1929: Sold to W. B. Willey & Sons Ltd (64/64), Hull.
6.4.1929: William B. Willey Jnr designated manager.
17.4.1929: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Midland Bank Ltd, London (A).
28.6.1929: Registered at Hull as CHILTERN (H660) (BOT Minute RG1304/29 dated 24.6.1929).
18.3.1935: William B. Willey Jnr & James Willey designated managers.
14.5.1936: Mortgage (A) discharged.
15.5.1936: Sold to H. Elliott & Sons Trawlers Ltd (64/64), Fleetwood.
18.5.1936: Henry Elliott designated manager.
27.5.1936: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to National Provincial Bank Ltd, London (B).
6.1936: Fishing out of Fleetwood. First skipper Charles Pennington.
7.1936: On Rockall grounds, George Cook (45) of Blackburn, deckhand, fell overboard and was drowned.
12.7.1937: At Fleetwood Magistrates Court, deckhand James Henry Bryant (32) was fined 10/- for failing to join on sailing and ordered to refund 10/- he had received in advance from the firm.
16.8.1939: Mortgage (B) discharged.
16.8.1939: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd (64/64), Fleetwood.
22.8.1939: To correct address of H. Elliott & Sons Trawlers Ltd.
28.8.1939: Basil Arthur Parkes, Thornton-le-Fylde designated manager.
30.8.1939: Sold to Fred Parkes, Blackpool and Basil Arthur Parkes, Thornton-le-Fylde (joint owners 64/64).
29.9.1939: Basil Arthur Parkes, Thornton-le-Fylde designated managing owner.
Pre 4.1940: Employed on Fishery Protection (WA/Fort William/Fleetwood).
4.6.1940: Requisitioned for war service as an auxiliary patrol vessel (1-12pdr) (P.No. 4.125) (Hire rate £94.10.0d/month).
15-25.6.1940: Operation Ariel.*
18.6.1940: At St. Nazaire, rescued women and children (116) from advancing German forces. The last British ship to leave the port.
20.6.1940: Arrived Plymouth.
30.5.1941: Shot down twin engined German bomber off West Country (Ty/Sk. A. J. Drake RNR).
9.1941: Fitted out as a minesweeper. Based Plymouth.
1.1942: At Falmouth for arcticisation.
3.1942 – 5.1942: At Reykjavik as escort (part) of Russian convoys PQ.12, PQ.14 and PQ.15.
26.8.1944: Sold to Eton Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Hull.
29.8.1944: George Gillard, designated manager.
6.3.1945: 2nd Hand William Reaich, Buckie died of unknown causes in N. Russia.
1945: Returned to owner.
7.3.1945: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Barclays Bank Ltd, London (C).
11.3.1946: Mortgage (C) discharged.
1.6.1946: Sold to Ross & Fullerton Ltd (64/64), Glasgow.
19.8.1946: Alexander Fullerton Jnr, Greenock designated manager.
12.9.1946: Sold to David Gloag Watson, Edinburgh; Hugh Micklejohn Martin, Edinburgh and William Livingston, Peterhead (joint owners 64/64)
25.10.1946: David Gloag Watson designated managing owner.
25.10.1946: Hull registry closed.
10.1946: Registered at Granton (GN25).
28.10.1946: Laid up at Granton. Flooded engine room due to leak.
1947: Sold to Planet Fishing Co Ltd, Edinburgh. Edwin Walker & Sons designated managers.
26.1.1950: Fishing about 110 miles NE of Buchan Ness (Sk. John Paterson) in company with trawler KUVERA (GN39) which started to take in water. Before vessel settled and foundered, all thirteen crew taken onboard and subsequently landed at Granton.
1.9.1950: In North Sea off S.E. Scotland, responded to radio call for assistance from MFV IMMANUEL (WK149), at anchor disabled with engine breakdown; connected and commenced tow for Aberdeen.
4.9.1950: Delivered Aberdeen.
1952: Sold to Medway Yacht Basin Ltd, Borstal, Rochester (R. W. Pearson, manager).
1952: Sold to George A. Ferguson, Borstal, Rochester.
1954: Sold to BISCO and allocated to James A. White & Co Ltd, St. David’s for breaking up.

*Operation Ariel – withdrawal of remaining troops of the British Expeditionary Force from France.

(John Cormack (aka Cormick), Bosun’s Mate (prest), age 26, b. Co.Wexford (also recorded as age 29, b. Edinburgh) – VICTORY (SB573))

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HMT Chiltern

HMT John Cormack
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S.T. Chiltern H660

S.T. Chiltern H660
Picture courtesy of The Mike Thompson Collection

S.T. Chiltern H660

S.T. Chiltern H660
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S.T. Chiltern H660

S.T. Chiltern H660
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18/01/2009: Page published. 5 updates since then.
02/09/2017: Removed FMHT watermark and added an image.
25/11/2019: Updated information.

S.T. Dane H227

Additional information courtesy of Bill Blow, Granton Trawlers and Hull Trawlers

Technical

Official Number: 132235
Yard Number: 211
Completed: 1911
Gross Tonnage: 346
Net Tonnage: 135
Length: 140.3 ft
Breadth: 24.1 ft
Depth: 12.5 ft
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley
Engine: 580ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by Amos & Smith Ltd, Hull
Speed: 11 knots

History

2.2.1911: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.211) for Imperial Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Hull as Dane.
28.3.1911: Completed. Frank O. Hellyer designated manager.
7.4.1911: Registered at Hull (H227).
23.9.1912: Grossed £1,100 from a three week Icelandic trip.
3.2.1914: At the offices of the Mercantile Marine, Hull a gold watch, suitably inscribed, awarded by the Danish Legation was presented by H. Pattison, Danish Consul at Hull, to Skipper Olaf Peter Paulson (“Peter the Dane”) for gallantry at sea in rescuing three Icelanders, whose motor boat, CAPITOLA, had overturned in heavy seas, after drifting from the Westmann Islands. The Icelandic Government also sent a letter of appreciation.
8.7.1914: At Hull landed from an Icelandic trip (Sk. Peter Paulson) 2000 kits of haddock & cod for a record £1824. Last year Skipper Peter Paulson’s gross earnings ran into many thousands, establishing a record for an individual skipper.
15.4.1915: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-6pdr) (Ad. No.1370).
1.5.1915: Fitting as Sub-divisional Leader.
6.1915: Renamed Dane II.
4.12.1915: Registered at Hull as Dane II (H227) (BoT Minute 32044/15). Based Aegean Sea.
Post 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Hull and registered at Hull as Dane (H227) (BoT Minute 8883.19).
1920: Sold to Hellyer Bros. Ltd (64/64), Hull. Frank O. Hellyer & Owen S. Hellyer, designated managers.
Pre 1927: Sold to Jens C. Christensen, Hessle (c/o Hellyer Bros Ltd, managers).
6.1.1928: Sold to Christensen & Co Ltd, Hessle. Jens C. Christensen designated manager.
7.12.1929: Bosun Samuel James Alexander (48) Hull, was washed overboard and drowned in northern waters.
1931: Sold to Dane Fishing Co Ltd, Hull (William B. Willey, manager).
9.10.1934: Sailed Hull for Bear Island grounds on last trip before sale (Sk. F. Kirby).
1.11.1934: At Hull landed 961 kits £1,471 gross.
11.1934: Sold to Henry Elliott, Fleetwood (managing owner).
28.11.1934: At 6.00pm. sailed Fleetwood for Faroe grounds (Sk. William Harrison); twelve crew all told.
10.12.1934: At 1.30am. left the Faroe Bank and proceeded towards Fleetwood with about ten tons of fish onboard. No attempt was made to accurately fix the position prior to departure.
10.12.1934: There is conflict of evidence as to what, in terms of navigation, actually happened on the homeward voyage. At 3.10am. the skipper was on the bridge with the bosun on watch when a light was picked up on the starboard bow bearing SW. No attempt was made to identify this light which the skipper presumed was South Rona; it was in fact Monarch Island Light. Had this light been correctly identified steps would have been taken to avert the casualty. At 5.30am. with the bosun on watch, struck the West Dureberg Reef, off the Monarch Islands, Outer Hebrides. With the skipper in the wheelhouse, engine put astern and successfully refloated; the engine was then stopped and later worked to move to a position of safety and then laid to until daylight. During this time the vessel was sounded and ingress of water observed in the fish room and the engine room pump was used and a distress call made.
11.12.1934: Steam trawler HARRY HAWKE (FD) (Sk. George Birch) responded to distress call and accompanied on passage to Leverbugh, Isle of Harris; berthed at pier to await steam trawler SPRINGWELL (FD297) despatched with salvage equipment.
13.11.1934: SPRINGWELL berthed alongside and transferred gear and labour. Took onboard catch and sailed for Fleetwood.
17.12.1934: Arrived Fleetwood for permanent repair; estimated cost £1.300. Repaired and returned to service.
1935: Sold to H. Elliott & Sons Trawlers Ltd (64/64), Fleetwood. Henry Elliott designated manager.
26.2.1935: At the formal BOT Inquiry at Liverpool (No.S.374) into the stranding, the Court found Sk. Harrison in default and suspended his ticket for nine months.
28.11.1935: Whilst fishing the Rockall grounds (Sk. William Brewster), electrical wiring in the wheelhouse fused setting alight the woodwork. Fanned by the breeze the flames quickly enveloped a portion of the structure and within a few minutes the blaze lit up the entire vessel. Skipper and deckhand James Conley rushed to the wheelhouse and attempted to put out the flames but the fire had secured such a hold that their efforts had little affect and the two men had to leave. Conley had to smash one of the wheelhouse doors and the skipper scrambled to safety through one of the windows. So intense was the heat that eight of the windows in the structure were broken. Eventually a hose pipe was connected to the donkey engine and the blaze was brought under control, but not before considerable damage had been done. One of the warps was cut to provide more working space, and it unfortunately became entangled in the propeller taking some time to free. Temporary lights were rigged for the remainder of the trip.
1939: Sold to Prince Fishing Co Ltd, Hull (Hellyer Bros Ltd, managers).
1.10.1939: Sailed Hull for Faroe and West of Scotland grounds first trip for new owners (Sk. J. Hardcastle).
18.10.1939: At Hull landed 504 kits grossed £900.
1.1.1940: Sailed Hull for Iceland (Sk. J. Hardcastle). Ordered to return from sea for requisitioning.
4/5.1.1940: At Hull landed 261 kits grossed £592.
10.1.1940: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (P.No. FY.554) (Hire rate £86.10.0d/month).
1943: Sold to H. Markham Cook Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
1.1946: Returned to owner.
10.9.1946: Laid up in Alexandra Dock, Grimsby.
11.1946: Hull registry closed.
29.11.1946: Registered at Grimsby (GY417).
29.11.1946: Harry Markham Cook appointed manager.
28.5.1947: Sold to Drum Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Edinburgh.
12.6.1947: Grimsby registry closed.
6.1947: Registered at Granton as DRUMSHEUGH (GN37).
12.6.1947: Edwin James Walker appointed manager.
26.4.1949: Homeward from Icelandic grounds (Sk. Fred Hill); sixteen crew all told. Arrived Wick, after steaming for three days through severe weather with no drinking water and short of bunkers with only two tons remaining. The crew had to melt down the remainder of the ice to use as drinking water. Skipper Hill reported that they were lucky that they had the wind with them, otherwise we were bound to have run out of coal and been left at the mercy of the wind and seas. The Atlantic gale was so fierce and cold that ice formed on the deck, wheelhouse and winch.
2.1954: Sold to BISCO and allocated to Malcolm Brechin, Granton for breaking up.
1954: Granton registry closed.

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S.T. Dane H227

S.T. Dane H227
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S.T. Dane H227

S.T. Drumsheugh GN37
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S.T. Drumsheugh GN37

S.T. Drumsheugh GN37
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Changelog
26/04/2014: Picture added.
20/10/2014: Picture added.
30/04/2017: Updated information and removed FMHT watermarks.
01/05/2017: Further information update.
24/03/2020: Information updated.