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S.D/T. Rowan Tree BF 199 (Seasonal)

Technical

Official Number: 127399
Yard Number: 168
Completed: 1918
Gross Tonnage: 91
Net Tonnage: 39
Length: 87.5 ft
Breadth: 19.2 ft
Depth: 9.7 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Cooper & Grieg Ltd, Dundee
Built: J. & G. Forbes, Sandhaven
Wooden built

History

1918: Purchased by The Admiralty on the stocks.
1918: Launched by J. & G. Forbes, Sandhaven (Yd.No.168) (“non-standard Admiralty drifter”) for The Admiralty as FLAT CALM.
3.6.1918: Completed as a minesweeper (1-6pdr) (Ad.No.3890).
1930: De-commissioned and offered for sale.
3.1930: Sold to Alexander West, Gardenstown & others (Alexander West managing owner).
14.4.1930: Registered at Banff as ROWAN TREE (BF199).
11.2.1938: White fish trawling from Fleetwood (Alex Keay managing agent). Landed 24 boxes grossed £37.
24.4.1938: Last landing at Fleetwood, 145 boxes grossed £117.
1939: Sold to Mrs E. West, Gardenstown & others.
25.1.1940: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeping drifter (Hire rate £26.0.0d/month).
21.11.1941: Sailed Lowestoft at 8.15 am and returning to port at about 3.00 pm struck shoulder of recently formed sand bank at the entrance. Lowestoft lifeboat MICHAEL STEPHEN (Cox Albert Spurgeon) launched at 3.30 approached and connected but line parted. Capsized when local tug had line connected, crew scrambling on to upturned hull. Cox Spurgeon took the MICHAEL STEPHEN alongside twice and took off all fifteen crew. Landed safely at Lowestoft.
12.1941: Banff registry closed declared a total loss.

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S.D/T. Rowan Tree BF199

S.D/T. Rowan Tree BF199
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Changelog

04/05/2012: Page published. 6 updates since then.
08/12/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.

S.D/T. Alcor LT140 (Seasonal)

Additional information courtesy of Barry Banham, Maurice Voss and Jan Harteveld

Technical

Yard Number: 768
Completed: 1922
Gross Tonnage: 97
Net Tonnage: 35
Length: 85.2 ft
Breadth: 19.1
Depth: 9.0 ft
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby
Engine: C.2-cyl by International Engine Works, Amherst, Nova Scotia to a Goldie & McCulloch Co Ltd, Galt, Ontario design
Boiler: International Engine Works, Amherst, Nova Scotia
(All machinery new 1917 and ex Canadian wooden Admiralty drifter CD.48 )

History

14.2.1922: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.768) for John McCann, Hull (Pickering & Haldane’s Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull) as OLEARIA.
28.3.1922: Completed.
25.4.1922: Registered at Hull (H478).
8.5.1922: Transferred to Pickering & Haldane’s Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull (John McCann & Edward Cartwright, managers).
2.1925: Sold to L. Espersen, Denmark.
17.2.1925: Hull registry closed. Registered at Esbjerg (E444).
16.11.1925: Sold to Soc. Anon. Armement Ostendais, Ostend.
25.11.1925: Registered at Ostend as HECTOR DENIS (O237).
16.9.1930: Laid up until sold.
6.2.1936: Sold to Jubilee Fishing Co Ltd, Lowestoft (Alfred S. Ling, manager). Ostend registry closed.
16.4.1936: Registered at Lowestoft as ALCOR (LT140).
1937: Seasonal white fish trawling from Fleetwood (Lowestoft Fish Selling Co Ltd, Lowestoft, managing agents).
24.11.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeping drifter (P.No.FY960) (Hire rate £35.3.3d/month).
3.1942: Employed on miscellaneous Naval duties.
12.8.1943: Sold to Northern Trawlers Ltd, London (William A. Bennett, manager).
12.1943: Employed on port duties.
8.4.1945: Arrived Lowestoft for restoration and survey.
17.9.1945: Returned to owner.
8.1948: Sold to Jozef Arts, Ostend.
14.8.1948: Lowestoft registry closed.
12.5.1948: Taken in hand by Scheepswerf Seghers, Ostend for conversion to motor and fitted with a 270bhp 4 stroke 5-cyl oil engine by Ruston & Hornsby Ltd, Lincoln
1948: Re measured 99.72g 42.98n.
20.9.1948: Renamed MARJOLENE on completion.
31.9.1948: Registered as a motor trawler at Ostend as MARJOLENE. (O337).
5.1950: Sold to P.V.B.A. Jozef Arts & Co, Ostend.
4.3.1955: Crewman Emiel Makelberghe washed overboard and drowned.
22.12.1956: Whilst on passage home from Newlyn for Christmas when off Start Point started to take in water in the engine room. Taken in tow by Brixham motor trawler ROGER BUSHELL (BM76) but started to settle and foundered in position 50 14 12 N 03 08 45 W. All crew picked up by ROGER BUSHELL and landed at Brixham.

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S.D/T. Alcor LT140

S.D/T. Alcor LT140
© Ford Jenkins-Robert Durrant Collection

S.T. Alcor LT140

S.T. Alcor LT140
Picture courtesy of the Barry Banham Maritime Photo Collection

M.T. Marjolene O337

M.T. Marjolene O337
Picture courtesy of the Barry Banham Maritime Photo Collection

M.T. Marjolene O337

M.T. Marjolene O337
Picture courtesy of The Jan Harteveld Collection

Changelog

08/04/2012: Page published. 12 updates since then.
06/01/2019: Removed FMHT watermarks from images.
16/06/2019: Updated information.

S.D/T. Cicero LT141 (Seasonal)

Additional material courtesy of Barry Banham and Maurice Voss

Technical

Official Number: 146439
Yard Number: 762
Completed: 1921
Gross Tonnage: 97
Net Tonnage: 35
Length: 85.2 ft
Breadth: 19.1 ft
Depth: 9.0 ft
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby
Engine: C.2-cyl by International Engine Works, Amherst, Nova Scotia to a Goldie & McCulloch Co Ltd, Galt, Ontario design
Boiler: International Engine Works, Amherst, Nova Scotia.
(All machinery new 1917 and ex Canadian wooden Admiralty drifter CD.24)

History

9.1921: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.762) for John McCann, Hull (Pickering & Haldane’s Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull) as BIOTA.
23.1.1922: Completed.
21.2.1922: Transferred to Pickering & Haldane’s Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull (John McCann & Edward Cartwright, managers).
21.2.1922: Registered at Hull (H425).
3.1925: Sold to Soc. Anon. Armement Ostendais, Ostend. 26.3.1925: Hull registry closed. Registered at Ostend as PAUL PASTUR (O234).
3.4.1925: Arrived Ostend in company with FERNAND HARDYNS (O235) (ex DEUTZIA (H435))
14.6.1930: Laid up.
6.2.1936: Sold to Jubilee Fishing Co Ltd, Lowestoft (Alfred S. Ling, manager).
13.7.1936: Registered at Lowestoft as CICERO (LT141).
1937: Seasonal white fish trawling from Fleetwood (Lowestoft Fish Selling Co Ltd, Lowestoft, managing agents).
12.11.1941: Sold to Berrys (Stranraer) Ltd, Stranraer (James Berry, manager).
3.12.1941: Lowestoft registry closed “No longer used for fishing”.
15.8.1943: Requisitioned for war service with Ministry of Aircraft Production (Berrys (Stranraer) Ltd, managers) (Hire rate £25.0.0d/month).
Post 1945: Returned to owner.
1.1948: Sold to BISCO and allocated to West of Scotland Shipbreaking Co Ltd, Troon for breaking up.
18.2.1948: Delivered Troon.
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S.D/T. Cicero LT141

S.D/T. Cicero LT141
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Changelog
07/04/2012: Page published. 5 revisions since then.
23/08/2014: Information updated.
25/08/2021: Updated history.

S.T. Audrey YH215 (Seasonal)

Additional information courtesy of Andy Hall and Barry Banham

Technical

Official Number: 123212
Yard Number: 312
Completed: 1906
Gross Tonnage: 186
Net Tonnage: 73
Length: 108.9 ft
Breadth: 21.5 ft
Depth: 11.3 ft
Built: Mackie & Thomson, Govan
Engine: T.3-cyl by W.V.V. Lidgerwood, Coatbridge
Boiler: A. & W. Dalglish, Pollockshaws, Glasgow

History

12.9.1905: Launched by Mackie & Thomson, Govan (Yd.No.312) for Hellyer’s Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull as AUDREY.
1.1906: Completed (Charles Hellyer, manager).
26.1.1906: Registered at Hull (H854).
29.5.1917: Requisitioned for Fishery Reserve.
16.4.1916: At Hull, Skipper Albert Menzies Johnston charged under the Defence of the Realm Act with being in a prohibited area and fined £50.
7.7.1916: Off North Coast of Scotland rescued all crew of the Swedish steamer LISA (1606grt/) damaged by mine and run ashore, landing them in Thurso Bay. Crew paid £100 for efforts in picking up survivors.
1919: Released.
6.2.1919: Sold to Charles Henry George, Caister on Sea (managing owner).
9.12.1919: Hull registry closed.
11.12.1919: Registered at Gt. Yarmouth (YH215).
26.1.1920: Sold to John Halifax, Southtown, Gt. Yarmouth (managing owner).
1920’s: Seasonal fishing from Fleetwood (Sk. John Halifax).
11.1923: In River Yare in collision with steam drifter FAITHFUL (BK246) striking her amidships causing her to founder.
19.4.1926: Sold to Robert Boyle (32/64) and John Thomas Coulson (32/64), North Shields (Robert Boyle managing owner).
12.5.1925: Yarmouth registry closed.
15.1.1926: Registered at North Shields (SN38).
6.9.1933: Foundered.
25.9.1933: North Shields registry closed “Total loss”.

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S.T. Audrey YH215

S.T. Audrey H854
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Changelog

20/02/2012: Page published. 5 updates since then.
05/01/2019: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
20/07/2019: Updated information.

S.D/T. Three Kings LT517 (Seasonal)

Additional material courtesy of Roy Breach and Barry Banham

Technical

Official Number: 127357
Yard Number: 377
Completed: 1912
Gross Tonnage: 98
Net Tonnage: 41
Length: 86.0 ft
Breadth: 18.45 ft
Depth: 9.0 feet
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by James Abernethy & Co, Aberdeen
Built: John Duthie Torry Shipbuilding Co, Aberdeen

History

1912: Launched by John Duthie Torry Shipbuilding Co, Aberdeen (Yd.No.377) for for George Addison, Cullen & others as THREE KINGS.
1912: Completed (George Addison managing owner). Registered at Banff (BF495).
5.1915: Requisitioned for war service as an A/S net drifter (1-6pdr) (Ad.No.2419). Based at Larne.
1916: Sold to Alexander Mair, Buckie & others (Alexander Mair managing owner).
1919: Returned to owner at Buckie (Jas. Archibold, Buckie).
29.5.1920: Sold to John Victor Breach (64/64), Lowestoft. John Victor Breach appointed managing owner.
29.5.1920: Sold to Jack Breach Ltd (64/64), Lowestoft. John Victor Breach appointed manager.
29.5.1920: Registered at Lowestoft (LT517).
1.6.1920: Banff registry closed.
9.6.1923: Stranded at Lerwick. Steam drifters EILEEN EMMA (LT342) and JUST REWARD (LT726) connected, refloated and returned to Lerwick.
26.7.1925: With steam drifters TWO BOYS (LT1157) and UNITED FRIENDS (LT55) succeeded in refloating the Norwegian steamer GEZINA (1828grt/1917), which had stranded on Dennis Head, North Ronaldsay in dense fog.
12.6.1926: At Lerwick sustained damage in collision with steam drifter CLOVERDALE (BF170).
18.7.1928: At Stronsay, Orkney with broken propeller.
1930s: Seasonal white fish trawling from Fleetwood (Alex Keay managing agent).
13.8.1930: At Fraserburgh with broken propeller.
31.8.1934: At Workington (Sk. H. Stone) with broken propeller.
5.5.1936: With Sk. A. Catchpole, sustained damage in collision with steam drifter CLARA SUTTON (HL88).
15.11.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeping drifter (1-MG) (P.No.FY918) (Hire rate £27.0.0d/month).
1.1.1942: At Harwich LL sweep drifter (Hire rate increased to £27.013.6d/month).
1.1944: John Victor Breach died.
9.4.1944: Ronald H. Self appointed manager.
9.1944: Employed on miscellaneous Naval duties.
1945: Returned to owner. Laid up.
19.4.1945: Charles William Dance appointed manager.
26.7.1946: Jack Breach Ltd reconstituted as The Shoals Fishing Co Ltd, Lowestoft (Charles W. Dance, manager).
29.11.1946: Lowestoft fishing registry closed “No longer used for fishing”.
7.1947: Sold to Belgian principals for breaking up (Sanctioned by MOT letter No. GSP 6477 dated 9.7.1948).
14.6.1950: Lowestoft registry closed “Vessel broken up”.

Changelog

20/09/2011: Page published. 6 updates since then.