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S.T. Dagon GY438

Additional information courtesy of Bill Blow and Douglas Paterson

Technical

Official Number: 143502
Yard Number: 369
Completed: 1919
Gross Tonnage 282
Net Tonnage: 110
Length: 128.5 ft
Breadth: 23.5 ft
Depth: 12.6 ft
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley
Engine: 500ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by Charles D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
Speed : 10.5 knots

History

13.9.1919: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.369) for Neale & West Ltd, Cardiff as HATSUSE.
4.3.1920: Registered at Cardiff (CF61).
3.1920: Completed (Wilfred Neale, Morley H. Neale & Joshua S. Neale, managers).
5.1927: Sold to Consolidated Steam Fishing & Ice Co (Grimsby) Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
20.5.1927: John Denton Marsden appointed manager.
5.1927: Cardiff registry closed.
20.5.1927: Registered at Grimsby (GY438).
5.7.1927: Registered at Grimsby as DAGON (GY438) (BoT Minute M/R.G.1256/1927 dated 27.6.1927).
29.6.1927: Owners re-styled Consolidated Fisheries Ltd, Grimsby (Sir John D. Marsden, Bart, manager).
30.11.1928: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Midland Bank Ltd (A).
31.12.1928: Capital expenditure on vessel during year £140.15.4d.
8.9.1934: Outward to Faroese fishing grounds in thick fog at about 9.00 a.m. stranded at Dundonnie Head, 31/2 miles from Peterhead. Crew launched boat to lay out kedge and under power tried to refloat but hawser parted. Drifted clear but ran aground in small landlocked channel. With great difficulty crew rescued by breeches buoy with lifeboat standing by.
12.9.1934: Suffered extensive bottom damage but refloated by Aberdeen salvage tug IRONAXE (296g/1916) and towed into Peterhead. Repaired.
26.8.1939: Requisitioned for war service appointed for minesweeping duties (Hire rate £91.13.0d/month).
13.10.1939: Returned.
26.9.1941: Mortgage (A) discharged.
3.10.1941: Sold to J. Marr & Son Ltd (64/64), Fleetwood for £14,500.
8.10.1941: Leslie James Marr designated manager.
23.7.1943; Typical landing, Home Waters. 670 kits – hake-280, cod/codling-70, flats-10, ling/coley-280, roker-30.
25.9.1945: Sold to A. J. Tilbrook Ltd (64/64), Milford Haven for £18,500.
10.10.1945: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Lloyds Bank Ltd, London (B).
11.10.1945: Arthur Ernest Rees, Neyland designated manager.
3.10.1948: In strong SE winds and thick fog ran aground on rocks in Ship Sound north of Slyne Head, Co Galway (Sk J. Garnham Jnr).
4.10.1948: Refloated under own power and proceeded to Limerick.
9.10.1948: Entered dry dock for temporary repairs.
1.1952: A. J. Tilbrook Ltd suspended operations; laid up.
23.2.1952: Mortgage (B) discharged.
11.3.1952: Sold to Devanha Fishing Co Ltd (64.64), Aberdeen.
20.3.1952: William Wood designated manager.
20.3.1952: Grimsby registry closed.
22.3.1952: Registered at Aberdeen (A710).
22.7.1952: Registered at Aberdeen as CASIMIR (A710) (MoT Minute R.G.No.1156/52 dated 14.7.1952).
1955: Sold to BISCO and allocated to Shipbreaking Industries Ltd for breaking up at Charlestown, Fife (Contract No.92D).
28.11.1955: Delivered Charlestown and breaking up commenced.
14.5.1956: Aberdeen registry closed “Vessel broken up.”

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S.T. Dagon GY438

S.T. Dagon GY438
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S.T. Dagon GY438

S.T. Dagon GY438
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S.T. Dagon GY438

S.T. Dagon GY438
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16/05/2012: Page published. 6 revisions since then.
10/09/2014: Three pictures added.
19/02/2020: Updated information.

S.T. Corena (1) FD195

Technical

Official Number: 148401
Yard number: 461
Completed: 1924
Gross tonnage: 352
Net Tonnage: 144
Length: 140.3 ft
Breadth: 24.0 ft
Depth: 12.9 ft
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley
Engine: 96nhp T.3-cyl and boiler by Amos & Smith Ltd, Hull
Speed : 11 knots

History

8.5.1924: The Board of Kingston Steam Trawling Co Ltd decided to build two new trawlers for the Iceland fishery. Contracts were signed with Cook, Welton & Gemmell to build the ships at £7,500 each and Charles D. Holmes to make the engines and boilers at £6,125 each. Total cost £13,625 each. The names chosen for the vessels were ANDALUSITE and ALALITE. Total cost for ANDALUSITE, with amendments, certification, fees, fishing gear and other equipment £15,548.4.10d. (Customs fees £3.1.0d, Code signals £1.1.2d)

16.9.1924: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.461) for Kingston Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull as ANDALUSITE.
1.11.1924: Registered at Hull (H90).
10.11.1924: Completed trials and accepted (Walter Scott, manager).
24.3.1925: John Lown designated manager.
13.11.1924: Sailed on maiden trip to Icelandic grounds.
1.12.1924: Landed 1032 kits £2,740 gross.
13.9.1933 : Sold to J. Marr & Son, Fleetwood for £7600.
13.9.1933: Hull registry closed.
15.9.1933: Registered at Fleetwood (FD195). Geoffrey Edwards Marr designated manager.
14.12.1933: Registered at Fleetwood as CORENA (FD195).
10.7.1934: Transferred to Hull, crewed and operated by The City Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull on the company acquisition. Geoffrey Edwards Marr, Fleetwood designated manager.
17.8.1937: Sailed for Iceland (Sk. C. Cheney), last trip from Hull.
8.9.1937: At Hull landed from 872 kits £787 gross.
1937: At Hull worked White Sea/Iceland (Sks. Booth, C. Cheney), 207 days 9,934 kits 6,506 gross.
9.9.1937: Transferred to Fleetwood.
8.1939: Sold to The Admiralty (£9,500).
9.8.1939: Fleetwood registry closed. Fitted out as a minesweeper (1-12pdr) (P.No. FY.709). Based Harwich with M/S Group 4.
24.7.1940: In North Sea (Ty/Sk. A. E. Fisher RNR). Picked up survivors of HM Trawler FLEMING (H3) which foundered after attack by German aircraft.
3.1946: Refitted and re classed at Hull.
8.1946: Sold to Joseph Craig, Aberdeen.
27.8.1946: Registered at Aberdeen (A198).
23.4.1947: Sold to Craig Fishing (Aberdeen) Ltd Joseph Craig designated manager.
9.1948: Engaged in the Greenland fishery (Sk. C. H. Winter); fourteen crew. Ran into icebergs and fog, stranded 6 miles north of Frederikshaab, Greenland, holed in the engine room and making water. Crew took to boat and some hours later a motorboat with a rescue party of local fishermen arrived and towed them to Frederikshaab. From there, a Danish gunboat picked them up and transferred them to Feringhavn. Faroese smacks called nine days later and took them to Torshavn where they obtained passage to Aberdeen. Salved and broken up.
2.11.1948: Aberdeen registry closed “total loss”.

(Note. Building installment costings:
Shipbuilder
31.7.1924: Frames – £2000
5.9.1924: Plating – £2000
18.9.1924: Launch – £2000
17.11.1924 : Final – £1500
15.1.1925: Extras – £62.18.9d Total – £7,562.18.9d
Engine and boiler maker
5.9.1924: £1412.10s
2.10.1924: £1412.10s
28.10.1924: £1412.10s
7.11.1924: Final – £1912.10s
15.1.1925: Extras – £30.1.0d Total – £6,180.1.0d

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S.T. Corena FD195

S.T. Corena FD195
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S.T. Corena FD195

S.T. Corena FD195
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Changelog
16/05/2012: Page published. 8 updates since then.
31/12/2016: Repaired broken image links.
07/08/2017: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
01/07/2019: Updated information.

S.T. Andradite H26 (2)

Additional information courtesy of Mike Thompson and Lifeboat Magazine

Technical

Official Number: 163179
Yard Number: 588
Completed: 1934
Gross Tonnage: 313
Net Tonnage: 139
Length: 131.0 ft
Breadth: 24.6 ft
Depth: 13.0 ft
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley
Engine: 600ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by Charles D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley
Speed: 11.4 knots

History

18.8.1933: The Board of Kingston Steam Trawling Co Ltd decided to exercise their option with Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd to build two more middle water trawlers to the same design as the AVANTURINE (Yd.No.542) but with amendments in respect of hull dimensions. Contracts were signed with the shipyard and with Charles D. Holmes & Co Ltd to make the engines and boilers. The price agreed was £13,610 for the first vessel and £13,560 for the second. The names chosen were ALEXANDRITE and ANDRADITE. Two further trawlers were subsequently ordered to this design, ARAGONITE (Yd.No.594) and ACHROITE (Yd.No.596).
Total cost for ANDRADITE, with amendments, certification, fees, fishing gear and other equipment £14,272.12.9d.

1.2.1934: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.588) for Kingston Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull as ANDRADITE (named by Mrs Bridget Adams).
23.1.1934: Completed trials and accepted.
23.2.1934: Registered at Hull (H26).
16.3.1934: Sailed on first trip to Faroes (Sk. Stephenson).
31.3.1934: Landed 767 kits grossed £497 (15 days).
25.7.1939: Insured value £17,200.
12.8.1939: Sailed for Faroes (Sk. J. Neve).
28.8.1939: At Hull landed 732 kits £701 gross. Last landing prior to being requisitioned.
28.8.1939: Admiralty telegram advising ALEXANDRITE and ANDRADITE would be requisitioned at 10.30 am. Landed gear.
28.8.1939: Requisitioned for war service (Hire rate £187.16.0d/month).
1.9.1939: Sailed for Aberdeen with RN crew. Fitted out on examination service (1-12pdr) (P.No. FY.559).
1940: Fitted out as a minesweeper. Based Dover with M/S Group 46 (Ty/Sk. E. H. Brooks RNR).
1941-1942: Remained at Dover with M/S Group 46 (Ty Lieut. E. S. Brookes RNVR).
17.1.1946: Returned after refurbishment by Globe Engineering Co Ltd, Hull and survey.
19.1.1946: Sailed on trip to Faroes grounds (Sk. W. Swain Snr).
23.2.1949: Sold to J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood for £30,250. Geoffrey Edwards Marr, Brough designated manager.
11.7.1949: Last landing at Hull prior to transfer to Fleetwood.
6.3.1957: Sailed Fleetwood for Faroes grounds (Sk. John Henry Blackshaw); fifteen crew.
7.3.1957: Stranded on rocks at Barra Head. At 3.30am. message received by Barra Lifeboat Station from Stornoway coastguard that the trawler was was ashore near Curachan Rock. Barra lifeboat, Lloyds, launched at 4.10am. in a slight sea, southerly breeze and tide on the flood. Lifeboat found the trawler some 5 miles NE of Curachan Rock, took off the crew and at 7.30am. landed them safely at Castlebay, Barra. Vessel sustained extensive bottom damage and declared a total loss.
3.5.1957: Hull registry closed “Ship ashore total loss”.

(Crew (all Fleetwood unless stated) – Sk. John Henry Blackshaw (54); Stanley Mason (29), Mate; Richard E. Edwards (24), Bosun; Fred Parkinson (56) Ch. Eng; S. Latkowski (30), 2nd Eng; James Morgan (54),Harold Moon (19), Charles F. Tomlinson (53), John W. Morley (18), Sidney Cole (58) and William Neal (57), deckhands; Charles Leo (51), Michael Kettrick (23), Wigan, firemen; J. Kerr-Morgan (23), Middlesbrough, apprentice fireman; Walter Whiteside (63), cook.)

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S.T. Andradite H26

S.T. Andradite H26
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HMT Andradite

HMT Andradite
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Changelog
14/05/2012: Page published. 4 updates since then.
01/08/2017: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
16/10/2018: Updated information.
18/10/2018: Added picture.
03/07/2019: Updated information.

S.T. Alexandrite H7

Technical

Official Number: 163175
Yard Number: 585
Completed: 1933
Gross Tonnage: 313
Net Tonnage: 139
Length: 131 ft
Breadth: 24.6 ft
Depth: 13 ft
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley
Engine: 89nhp T.3-cyl and boiler by Charles D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
Speed : 11.3 knots

History

18.8.1933: The Board of Kingston Steam Trawling Co Ltd decided to exercise their option with Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd to build two more middle water trawlers to the same design as the AVANTURINE (Yd.No.542) but with amendments in respect of hull dimensions. Contracts were signed with the shipyard and with Charles D. Holmes & Co Ltd to make the engines and boilers. The price agreed was £13,610 for the first vessel and £13,560 for the second. The names chosen were ALEXANDRITE and ANDRADITE. Two further trawlers were subsequently ordered to this design, ARAGONITE (Yd.No.594) and ACHROITE (Yd.No.596).
Total cost for ALEXANDRITE, with amendments, fishing gear and other equipment £14,242.12.9d.

21.12.1933: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd No.585) for Kingston Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull as ALEXANDRITE (named by Miss Billaney, daughter of skipper).
20.1.1934: Registered at Hull (H7).
23.1.1934: Completed trials and accepted.
25.1.1934: Sailed from Hull on first trip (Sk. William Billaney).
6.2.1934: Landed 755 kits grossed £966.
25.7.1939: Insured value £17,200.
10.8.1939: Last landing prior to being requisitioned.
28.8.1939: Admiralty telegram advising ALEXANDRITE and ANDRADITE would be requisitioned at 10.30 am.
28.8.1939: Requisitioned for war service (Hire rate £187.16.0d/month).
1.9.1939: Sailed for Aberdeen with RN crew. Fitted out on examination service (1-12pdr) (P.No. FY.560).
1940: Fitted out as a minesweeper. Based Grimsby with M/S Group 46 (Ty/Sk. G. D. Barker RNR).
1941: Based at Dover with M/S Group 46 (Ty/Sk. G. D. Barker RNR).
1942: Remained at Dover.
2.6.1945: Arrived at Hull for restoration by Saint Andrew’s Engineering Co Ltd.
1.11.1945: Returned to owner and reclassed at Hull.
30.11.1945: Insured value £30,000; for 1946 proposed £34,000.
17.12.1946: New boiler ordered from Charles D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull at a cost of £5.700.
6.1948: New boiler fitted.
23.2.1949: Sold to J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood (Geoffrey Edwards Marr, manager) for £30,250.
4.12.1951: Sold to North Star Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Aberdeen (John Alexander Harrow, manager) for £29,000.
1952: Fishing from Fleetwood ( J. Marr & Son Ltd, managers).
11.1955: Converted for burning oil fuel, F.P. above 150° F.
6.1955: Transferred to fish from Aberdeen.
1963: Sold to Motherwell Machinery & Scrap Co Ltd, Motherwell for breaking up at Grangemouth (yard formerly owned by G. & W. Brunton).
2.11.1963: Delivered Grangemouth.
20.11.1963: Hull registry closed.

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S.T. Alexandrite H7

S.T. Alexandrite H7
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S.T. Alexandrite H7

S.T. Alexandrite H7
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S.T. Alexandrite H7

S.T. Alexandrite H7
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Changelog
14/05/2012: Page published. 6 revisions since then.
11/07/2014: Picture added.
19/06/2017: Picture added.
18/06/2019: Information updated.

S.T. Anida FD299

Additional information courtesy of Christine Simm and David Slinger

Technical

Official Number: 139220
Yard Number: 280
Completed: 1917
Gross Tonnage: 270
Net Tonnage: 105.23
Length: 128.8 ft
Breadth: 23.0 ft
Depth: 12.6 ft
Built: Dundee Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Dundee
Engine: T.3-cyl by W. Beardmore & Co Ltd, Glasgow

History

9.1917: Completed by Dundee Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Dundee (Yd.No.280) for J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood as ANIDA.
24.9.1917: Registered (Part I & IV) at Fleetwood. O.N.139220 (FD299).
27.9.1917: Sold to The Devon Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Fleetwood. James A. Robertson, designated manager. Requisitioned by The Admiralty from the builders and fitted out as an anti submarine trawler (1-12pdr and hydrophone) (Ad.No.3059). Based Aegean Sea.
5.12.1918: Sold to J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood. James A. Robertson designated manager.
By 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Fleetwood.
10.12.1922: On the dock at Fleetwood, William Fox, fireman in the trawler was seen by Hornby Leadbetter, watchman, staggering about around a mooring ring on the dockside. When asked what he was doing he said that he had lost his ship. Leadbetter told him that the trawler had shifted berth and directed him to where she was tied up also telling him to keep clear of the dock edge. Fox was last seen walking between two sheds as though leaving the dock.
14.12.1922: At about 4.00pm, William Schofield, prawn fisherman, 72 Adelaide Street, Fleetwood, found the body of Fox about 20 yards from the water’s edge, on the east side of the Wyre Channel the inner side of No.4 black buoy. He informed the master of the tug, which was in the Channel and the body was conveyed ashore.
16.12.1922: At the inquest held at the Bourne Arms Hotel, Knott End, concerning the death of William Fox, the Lancaster Coroner, Mr Neville Holden, questioned the witnesses at length about the drinking habits of the Fleetwood fishermen in an effort to understand more fully the circumstances of the death. It seemed obvious that the deceased was in a drunken state when he disappeared and must have fallen into the dock. Verdict, “Found Drowned.”
15.10.1924: Sailed Fleetwood for St Kilda grounds (Sk. John Robson); thirteen crew all told.
27.10.1925: Homeward with only a moderate catch, stopped at the Klondyke ground for a last haul.
29.10.1924: Making for the North Channel with a fresh westerly breeze and frequent heavy rain showers reducing visibility, at 4.50am when off the Rhinns of Islay, stranded on a partially submerged part of Frenchman’s Rocks, about a mile and a half from Orsay Light. Close to high water and owing to the cross currents, there were big seas breaking over the rocks causing heavy surf. The order was given to launch the lifeboat and the crew ordered into it, however, after the 2nd engineer got in and the mate threw the apprentice in, two heavy seas swept the trawler carrying the crew and everything on deck overboard. In the water close to the lifeboat was the mate and after freeing himself from the net, his shouts for help resulted in him being able to grab the gunwale of the lifeboat and he was hauled onboard. A cry for help was heard but in the darkness and heavy surf they were unable to do anything, their task being to keep the boat head to sea to prevent being swamped. It took all their strength to keep the boat off the rocks and fortunately the tide which was making southward carried the boat round Orsay into Lochindaal. It was the intention to take the boat into Port Charlotte, but after going from a mile and a half to two miles, they saw a small cove in the rocks and also two men near the water’s edge who directed them to a safe landing; it was 8.30am when they landed. The survivors were taken to Wester Ellister farm, given food and dry clothing and later walked back to view the site of the stranding and observed that the trawler was breaking up and nothing further could be done. Later that day, eight of the islanders launched a boat and pulled to within 20 yards off the wreck, but owing to the surf could not get any closer. They searched every rock that was visible in the hope of finding survivors or bodies but nothing was discovered.
30.10.1924: Survivors taken by motor boat to Port Ellen where they started their journey back to Fleetwood by ferry and rail.
1.11.1924: Arrived Fleetwood on the 8.30am train.
26.11.1924: Fleetwood registry closed “ Vessel lost 29/10/24.”

(*Lost. All Fleetwood unless stated. Sk. John Robson, Warren Avenue North; Alexander B. Clarke, Bosun, Shakespear Road; George Southern, Chief engineer, 76 Blakiston Street; Patrick Nolan, 96 Dock Street, William Slater, Fishermen’s Mission, Jack Smith, Fraserburgh and Charles Davidson, Aughton Street, deckhands; Henry Morrice, cook, 1 Aughton Street; John Robinson, Fishermen’s Mission and Henry Walsh, firemen, 9 School Street, Blackburn. Survivors. Charles Hughan, Mate; Philip Rodgers, 2nd engineer and Robert Taylor, apprentice.)

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S.T. Anida FD229

S.T. Anida FD229
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Changelog
14/05/2012: Page published. 7 updates since then.
01/11/2019: Added an image.
16/05/2020: Updated information.
21/03/2023: Updated history.