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S.T. Tenedos FD277

Additional information courtesy of Barry Johnson Milford Trawlers

Technical

Official Number: 139639
Yard Number: 412
Completed: 1919
Gross Tonnage: 290
Net Tonnage: 127
Length: 125.5 ft
Breadth: 23.5 ft
Depth: 11.6 ft
Engine: 480ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by Amos & Smith Ltd, Hull
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley

History

2.4.1919: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.412) (“Castle” class) for The Admiralty as DOMINICK ADDISON (Ad.No.4296).
18.11.1919: Completed as a fishing vessel.
21.11.1919: Sold to Tucker, Tippett & Co Ltd, Cardiff (James C. Tippett, manager).
21.11.1919: Registered at Cardiff as TENEDOS (CF64).
20.1.1923: First landing at Milford.
8.1928: Sold to Morgan Watkin Howells (16/64); James Frederick Gwyther (16/64); George Knight (16/64) and Harry Eastoe Rees (16/64), all Milford Haven. Harry Eastoe Rees designated managing owner.
7.1929: Cardiff registry closed.
30.7.1929: Registered at Milford (M24).
23.10.1933: Sold to Harry Eastoe Rees (64/64), Milford Haven Designated managing owner.
21.7.1939: Fishing on the West of Ireland grounds in company with several Swansea and Milford trawlers. At 7.07 pm Valentia WT Station received message via steam trawler CLYNE CASTLE (SA1), “Steam trawler NEATH CASTLE (SA65) struck Sybil Head (Co. Kerry), in sinking condition making for sandy beach in Blaskets Sound”. At 9.50 pm TENEDOS reported to Valentia WT Station that NEATH CASTLE had foundered and they had boat alongside. At 9.59 pm reported that all crew safe onboard.
28.8.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (P.No.FY.517)(Hire rate £90.12.6d/month). Renamed GADFLY.
8.11.1945: Sold to John Charles Llewellin (17/65); Joseph Leslie Yolland (17/64); John Yolland Jnr (17/64), all Haverfordwest & Thomas S. Yolland, Swansea (John C. Llewelin, manager). 9.1945: Returned after survey and restoration at Milford Haven. Reverted to TENEDOS (M24).
1.1.1946: Messrs Yolland & Llewellin partnership dissolved.
15.1.1946: Sold to Joseph Leslie Yolland; Thomas Steward Yolland and John Yolland Jnr, all Milford Haven. John Yolland Jnr designated managing owner.
11.7.1946: Sold to Yolland Brothers Ltd (64/64), Milford Haven.
23.6.1948: Last landing at Milford.
8.7.1948: Sold to J. Marr & Son Ltd (64/64), Fleetwood for £13,132.
16.7.1948: Milford registry closed.
7.1948: Registered at Fleetwood (FD277).
11.1951: Sold to Japan Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby for £7,500.
11.1951: Fleetwood registry closed.
11.1951: Registered at Grimsby (GY195). Charles Taylor appointed manager.
2.1952: Registered at Grimsby as HONDO (GY195).
24.11.1960: Sold to Van den Bossche, Boom for breaking up.
(Dominick (aka Dominic) Addison, age 22, b. Toulon, France – ROYAL SOVEREIGN (SB307). 1847 – Awarded Naval General Service Medal for Battle of Trafalgar and capture of Java (1811). Lived to take his pension).
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S.T. Tenedos FD277

S.T. Tenedos FD277
Picture courtesy of The Fred Baker Collection

S.T. Gadfly

S.T. Gadfly
Picture courtesy of Peter Green

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08/01/2009: Page published. 5 updates since then.
19/02/2015: Updated information.
17/07/2017: Removed FMHT watermark.

S.T. Tasmania FD171

Technical

Official Number: 98716
Yard Number: 59
Completed: 1891
Gross Tonnage: 146.12
Net Tonnage: 50
Length: 100.5 ft
Breadth: 20.5 ft
Depth: 11.5 ft
Engine: 45nhp T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co, Hull
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Hull

History

1891: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Hull (Yd.No.59) for The Hull Steam Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Hull as TASMANIA.
17.1.1891: Registered at Hull (H122).
1.1891: Completed (Henry Toozes, manager).
21.11.1893: In the North Sea connected to the Swedish barque JOUEHELD disabled with main and mizzen masts carried away and crew member Carl Michelsen washed overboard and drowned. Delivered Hartlepool after a tow of twenty-one hours.
11.1912: Sold to James Herbert Marr, Fleetwood & The Active Fishing Co Ltd, Fleetwood (James A. Robertson, manager).
18.11.1912: Hull registry closed.
19.11.1912: Registered at Fleetwood (FD171).
1.1.1914: Tonnage altered to 60.12 net under provision of Merchant Shipping Act 1907.
6.10.1916: Sold to Horace Edward Stroud & Sydney Morris Cannon, Aberdeen.
31.10.1916: Fleetwood registry closed.
3.11.1916: Registered at Aberdeen (A737). Horace E. Stroud designated managing owner.
29.5.1917: Requisitioned for Fishery Reserve.
30.3.1918: Sold to James Johnson, Scarborough (trading as Scorpion Steam Trawling Co). James Johnson designated managing owner.
1918: Tasmania Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Scarborough registered as a private company with a capital of £9,000 in £1 shares to take over the “Scorpion Steam Trawling Co” including the steam trawler TASMANIA. Directors are J. Johnson, D. Chew, R. W. Crawford, R. M. Parker ad G. H. Cambridge, all Scarborough.
1919: Released.
4.4.1919: Sold to Charles William Robinson, Redcar. Charles William Robinson designated managing owner.
1923: Sold for breaking up.
12.10.1923: Aberdeen registry closed “Vessel being broken up.”

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S.T. Tasmania H122

S.T. Tasmania H122
Picture courtesy of James Cullen

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14/07/2014: Picture added.
20/01/2016: Information added.

S.T. Tarantula FD170

Technical

Official Number: 99542
Yard Number: 41
Completed: 1891
Gross Tonnage: 155
Net Tonnage: 57
Length: 100.5 ft
Breadth: 20.5 ft
Depth: 10.7 ft
Built: Mackie & Thomson, Glasgow
Engine: C.2-cyl by Muir & Houston, Glasgow
Built: Mackie & Thomson, Glasgow

History

9.10.1891: Launched by Mackie & Thomson, Glasgow (Yd.No.41) for The British Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull as TARANTULA.
3.12.1891: Registered at Hull (H175).
12.1891: Completed (William L. Robins, manager).
4.1.1901: In Humber estuary in calm conditions in collision with steam trawler MADRAS (H134) which also collided with steam trawler MOLOPO (H484); MADRAS subsequently foundered without loss of life.
15.11.1912: Sold to James Alexander Robertson, Fleetwood.
18.11.1912: Hull registry closed.
19.11.1912: Registered at Fleetwood (FD170).
7.12.1912: Sold to J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood (James A. Robertson, manager).
2.1913: Sold to Charles James Smith, Scarborough.
26.2.1913: Fleetwood registry closed.
2.1913: Registered at Scarborough (SH184).
1913: Sold to The Dogger Bank Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Scarborough (Richard W. Crawford, manager).
1.1.1914: Tonnage altered to 64 net under provision of Merchant Shipping Act 1907.
1915: Sold to Scarborough Fishing Co, Scarborough.
9.1916: On North Sea grounds (Sk. J. Heritage).
24.9.1916: At 8.30 pm. U-boat (U.57) captured FISHER PRINCE (SH207) 20 miles NE of Scarborough. Put one Lieutenant and eight German crew onboard and cruised in company with U.57. At 10.00 pm. captured OTTER (SH70) and HARRIER (SH36). At 10.15 pm. captured and crew took to boat. At 11.25 pm. captured MARGUERITE (SH214). At 11.55 pm. captured SUNSHINE (SH241).
25.9.1916: At 0.55 am. captured GAMECOCK (SH191). At 1.00 am. captured LOCH NESS (HL71). At 4.00 am. disabled engines of FISHER PRINCE and all German crew left. At 4.30 am. 20 miles NE of Scarborough sank NIL DESPERANDUM (SH186) with bombs. Submarine continued to tow the boats until 5.15 am. when crew were put aboard FISHER PRINCE. At 6.00 am. in position 20 miles NE of Scarborough proceeded to sink all trawlers that had been captured during the night. At about 7.00 am. 20 miles NE of Scarborough captured St. HILDA (HL??), 26 miles E by N of Whitby captured QUEBEC (SH208) and 23 miles NE of Whitby captured TRINIDAD (H336); sank all with gunfire after crews took to boats. At 9.50 am. captured Norwegian steamer TROMP and sent all crews aboard her from FISHER PRINCE. Sank FISHER PRINCE with gunfire.
1916: Scarborough registry closed.

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S.T. Tarantula H175

S.T. Tarantula H175
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08/01/2009: Page published. 5 updates since then.
22/04/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.

S.T. Romulus FD128

Additional information courtesy of David Slinger and Bill Blow

Technical

Official Number: 93068
Yard Number: 11
Completed: 1885
Gross Tonnage: 159
Net Tonnage: 76
Length: 109 ft
Breadth: 20.2 ft
Depth: 10.6 ft
Engine: 180ihp C.2-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co, Hull
Built: Cochrane, Cooper & Schofield, Beverley

History

24.12.1885: Launched by Cochrane, Cooper & Schofield, Beverley (Yd.No.11) for Christopher Pickering & Samuel L. Haldane, Hull (managing owners) as ROMULUS.
1.3.1886: Completed.
4.3.1886: Registered at Hull (H1483). Chartered to John Sheriff Ellis, Scarborough and fishing from Scarborough.
1890: Sold to Pickering & Haldane’s Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull (Henry A. L. Russell, manager).
1901: New boiler by Amos & Smith, Hull fitted.
24.5.1906: Re registered (H1483).
22.10.1910: Chartered to James Herbert Marr, Fleetwood (managing owner).
24.11.1910: Hull registry closed.
28.11.1910: Registered at Fleetwood (FD128).
29.1.1911: Arrived Fleetwood and reported that deckhand, Thomas Tate, Kent St, Fleetwood had been lost overboard.
14.3.1911: In collision with steam trawler BELMONT (FD64) in Wyre Channel when outwards for the fishing grounds.
30.3.1911: Sold to James Herbert Marr, Fleetwood (managing owner).
29.8.1912: Sold to The Active Fishing Co Ltd, Fleetwood (James A. Robertson, manager).
10.1915: Requisitioned for war service as a boom defence trawler (Ad.No.NI).
29.10.1916: Sold to Arthur Walker, Aberdeen (managing owner).
20.4.1918: Sold to Nelson Blow (64/64), Grimsby.
25.6.1918: Nelson Blow appointed manager. Based Buncrana, Co. Donegal.
By 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Grimsby.
20.3.1919: Fleetwood registry closed.
26.3.1919: Registered at Grimsby (GY146).
19.7.1920: Sold to Frederick Ernest Peters (64/64), Bristol.
25.7.1920: Frederick Ernest Peters appointed manager.
28.7.1920: Grimsby fishing registry closed “now used for cargo”.
30.7.1920: Alteration of tonnage and other particulars following conversion to cargo. Certificate of Survey at Grimsby dated 30.7.1920. Re measured 170.36g 69.78n.
22.12.1920: Grimsby registry closed. Registered at Bristol.
1924: Sold to Bristol Sand & Gravel Co Ltd, Bristol (Frederick E. Peters, manager). At Bristol converted for sand dredging in Severn Estuary.
1935: Sold to Richard Abel & Sons Ltd, Liverpool (Fred Abel, manager).
7.1939: Sold for breaking up.
1939: Bristol registry closed.

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S.T. Romulus H1483

S.T. Romulus H1483
Picture courtesy The Mike Thompson Collection

Sand Dredger Romulus

Sand Dredger Romulus

“ROMULUS at Hill’s Yard, Bristol 19 May 1935. From the Graham Farr Archive courtesy The Friends of Purton (www.friendsofpurton.org.uk)”

Sand Dredger Romulus

Sand Dredger Romulus

Changelog
04/01/2009: Page published. 7 updates since then.
04/02/2016: Minor information update.
15/05/2017: Removed FMHT watermarks from images.

S.T. Robert Bowen M269

Technical

Admiralty Number: 3595
Official Number: 143810
Yard Number: 390
Completed: 1918
Gross Tonnage: 290
Net Tonnage: 126
Length: 125.5 ft
Breadth: 23.5 ft
Depth: 12.7
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by Amos & Smith Ltd, Hull
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley
Owner: J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood

History

14.3.1918: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.390) (“Castle” class) for The Admiralty as ROBERT BOWEN (Ad.No.3595).
6.7.1918: Completed (1 – 12pdr, hydrophone and W/T).
1919: Registered by The Admiralty in the Registry of British Ships at London.
1920: Sold to Britannic Trawling Co Ltd, London (Talbot W. Holland, manager).
19.1.1920: Registered at London (LO254).
17.1.1924: Sold to Brand & Curzon Ltd, Milford Haven (Edward Brand & Charles Curzon, managers).
5.1938: Sold to Milford Fisheries Ltd, Milford Haven (Owen W. Limbrick, manager).
20.5.1938: London registry closed.
23.5.1938: Registered at Milford (M269).
28.12.1938: Delivered Milford, steam trawler JOSEPH BUTTON (M272) picked up disabled with damaged rudder.
10.5.1939: Transferred to Fleetwood.
31.7.1939: Sold to J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood (Geoffrey E. Marr, Cleveleys, manager) for £3650.
31.8.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (P.No. NR) (Hire rate £87.0.0d/month). Based Aberdeen with M/S Group 41.
9.2.1940: Group sweeping 20 miles NE of Aberdeen, damaged by German air attack (Heinkel 111 x 2) towards Girdle Ness and foundered; no survivors. Wreck lies at 57.09N 02.00W.
27.12.1941: Milford registry closed.

(MPK – Sk. Lieut. John Clark RNR; Ty Lieut. Arthur S. Wilson RNVR; Olley Turrell, 2nd Hand; Thomas McKechnie, Ch. Engineman; Henry A. Popkin, CPO Stoker; Hedworth Diplock, AB; Leslie G. Charlton, James B. Cowling, Thomas E. Robinson, Seamen; Robert F. Holden, OD; Ivor G. Fox, Telegraphist; John T. Gowan, George A. Ritchie, Stokers; Christopher Batty, A/Cook.)
(Robert Bowen, AB, age 29, b. Dover, Kent – VICTORY (SB852))

Changelog
04/01/2009: Page published. 3 updates since then.