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S.T. Invertay GY287

Additional information courtesy of Bill Blow and Andy Hall

Technical

Official Number: 138971
Yard Number: 176
Completed: 1916
Gross Tonnage: 229.89
Net Tonnage: 106.92
Length: 120.2 ft
Breadth: 22.0 ft
Depth: 12.1 ft
Built; Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co Ltd, Goole
Engine: 400ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull

History

9.2.1916: Launched by Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co Ltd, Goole (Yd.No.176) for The Grimsby & North Sea Steam Trawling Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby as CANCER.
6.1916: Completed.
28.6.1916: Registered at Grimsby (GY918).
28.6.1916: John Richardson Mackrill designated manager. Requisitioned from the builders for war service (Ad.No.2957).
6.1916: Fitted with WT and 6-pdr gun and fitted out as a minesweeper (Ad.No.2957).
10.1916: Allocated – Unit No.1212 ‘Trawler Sweepers’ based Devonport (Lieut. F.F. Wyeth RNR).
Post 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Grimsby.
5.8.1921: Sold to Lindsey Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
15.8.1921: Edwin Bacon Snr designated manager.
2.1.1923: Arrived Grimsby with steam trawler PORTSMOUTH (GY249) in tow picked up disabled with engine problems.
31.8.1929: Sold to David Dryburgh, Robert Dryburgh, Thomas Liston and George Hunter (64/64 joint owners), all Leith.
10.9.1929: David Dryburgh designated managing owner.
7.10.1929: David Dryburgh designated managing owner.
14.10.1929: Sold to David Dryburgh (16/64), Robert Dryburgh (16/64), Thomas Liston (16/64) and George Hunter (16/64), all Leith.
29.10:1929: George Hunter (16/64) shares mortgaged to Royal Bank of Scotland, Edinburgh (A).
18.5.1931: Mortgage (A) discharged.
19.5.1931: Sold by David Dryburgh (16/64), Robert Dryburgh (16/64), Thomas Liston (16/64) and George Hunter (16/64), all Leith to David Dryburgh, Robert Dryburgh, Thomas Liston and George Hunter, all Leith (64/64 joint owners).
21.5.1931: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Royal Bank of Scotland Ltd, Edinburgh (B).
26.5.1931: David Dryburgh designated managing owner.
5.2.1936: Grimsby registry closed.
21.3.1936: Registered at Granton as INVERTAY (GN49) (BoT Minute No.R.G.1020/1936 dated 31.1.1936).
1937: Sold to George R. Cooke, Edinburgh. George R. Cooke designated managing owner.
8.8.1939: Off Cape Wrath disabled with broken tail shaft. Steam trawler STAR OF THE EAST (LH36) (Sk. Watson Liston) connected and commenced tow 200 miles to Aberdeen.
11.8.1939: Arrived Aberdeen after 36 hour tow.
1939: Sold to George R. Cook & William Carnie Jnr, Newhaven, Edinburgh.
1940: Sold to Carnie & Gibb, Newhaven, Edinburgh. William Carnie Jnr designated manager.
8.1940: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (P.No.FY.1748) (Hire rate £65.3.4d/month).
1941: Sold to J. Bennett (Wholesale) Ltd, London. William Alfred Bennett designated manager.
29.12.1942: Roderick Finlayson Murray (32), Aberdeen, 2nd Hand missing, presumed drowned.
1946: Sold to Lord Line Ltd, Hull. Thomas W. Boyd designated manager.
30.5.1946: At Hull landed from a North Sea trip, 3,500 stone, including hake – 1,200, coley – 900, mixed – skate, ling, whiting, witches, etc – 1400 stone.
7.6.1946: Outward for the fishing grounds, put into North Shields with engine trouble.
6.1946: Sold to Bramwell Collinge (64/64), St. Anne’s-on-the-Sea.
6.1946: Granton registry closed.
24.6.1946: Registered at Grimsby (GY287).
24.6.1946: Bramwell Collinge designated managing owner.
7.1946: Returned to owner.
30.11.1945: Insured value £18,000; for 1946 proposed same.
31.8.1946: Sold to Harcol Trawling Co Ltd (64/64), St. Anne’s-on-the-Sea.
1.10.1946: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Barclays Bank Ltd, London (C).
3.10.1946: Arthur Gladstone Hamer, Grimsby designated manager.
10.1949: Fishing from Fleetwood.
30.1.1950: Last landing. Laid up.
29.3.1950: Meeting of creditors.
31.5.1950: Company placed in Voluntary Liquidation. Eric Stevenson Browne, Liverpool appointed Liquidator.
21.9.1950: Mortgage (C) discharged.
21.9.1950: Sold by the liquidator to Sir Thomas Robinson & Son (Grimsby) Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
28.9.1950: Frank Wheeler Robinson designated manager.
30.9.1953: Harcol Trawling Co Ltd wound up.
19.2.1954: Frank Bellamy Robinson designated manager.
7.10.1954: In gale conditions in North Sea shipped heavy seas flooding stokehold losing fires and disabled pumps. Trawler FLYING WING (GY690) responded to radio message, connected with difficulty and commenced 70 mile tow to Grimsby.
8.10.1954: Delivered Grimsby.
3.1961: Sailed Grimsby for North Sea grounds (Sk.A. Osborne); ten crew.
10.3.1961: On a North Sea trip (Sk. A. Osborne); nine crew all told. At about 1.20am. foundered after collision with German steam trawler FRANZ SCHAU (393grt/1949) in thick fog 190 miles off Humber in approx position 55°11N/5°10E. Crew* took to liferaft and picked up by German trawler GRUNDMANN and transferred to motor trawler SAXON PROGRESS (GY655), on maiden trip, for return to Grimsby.
6.12.1961: Grimsby registry closed “Vessel sunk… after collision”.

*Crew: Sk. A. Osborne; A Hodson, Mate; W. Lambert, Third hand; H. Dodd, Ch Eng; C. Guyton, 2nd Eng; P. Wandel, W. Ramsey, A. Clark, Deckhands; J. Wardle, cook.

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S.T. Cancer GY918

S.T. Cancer GY918
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S.T. Invertay GY287

S.T. Invertay GY287
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S.T. Invertay GY287

S.T. Invertay GY287
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S.T. Invertay GY287

S.T. Invertay GY287
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S.T. Invertay GY287

S.T. Invertay GY287
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Changelog
24/12/2008: Page published. 7 updates since then.
10/06/2015: Picture added.
15/06/2016: Information updated.
06/03/2017: Image added.
23/12/2017: Removed FMHT watermarks from images.
26/04/2018: Information updated.
30/01/2021: Updated history.
29/04/2022: Added an image.

S.T. Inverneill A474

Additional information courtesy of Andy Hall

Technical

Admiralty Number: 3628
Official Number: 143910
Yard Number: 618
Completed: 1917
Gross Tonnage: 215.81
Net Tonnage: 93.28
Length: 115.4 ft
Breadth: 22.1 ft
Depth: 12.1 ft
Built: Hall, Russell & Co Ltd, Aberdeen
Engine: 430ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by Hall, Russell & Co Ltd, Aberdeen

History

13.9.1917: Launched by Hall, Russell & Co Ltd, Aberdeen (Yd.No.618) (“Strath” class) for The Admiralty as SAMUEL BARKAS (Ad.No.3628).
26.10.1917: Completed (1-12pdr HA).
2.12.1919: Registered by The Admiralty at London (Part I) as SAMUEL BARKAS O.N.143910.
1.1920: Sold to Alfred Rainbow (22/64), William Rainbow (22/64), Milford Haven; Harry Eastoe Rees (21/64) & Frank Berry Rees (21/64), Swansea.
30.1.1920: Registered at Milford (M84). Alfred Rainbow designated managing owner.
16.3.1920: Sold to Rainbow Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Milford Haven. Harry E. Rees designated manager.
28.5.1921: Arrived Dartmouth.
29.5.1921: Sailed Dartmouth for Channel fishing grounds.
11.1925: Sold to David Dryburgh, Leith.
6.7.1926: Milford registry closed.
8.7.1926: Registered at Granton (GN69). Robert Bell Jnr designated manager.
9.7.1926: Registered at Granton as INVERNEILL (GN69).
27.2.1929: In dense fog stranded near Dunbar. Refloated with assistance of Leith tug EARL of POWIS (116grt/1882) and returned to Granton.
Pre 1935: Planet Fishing Co Ltd, designated managers.
1937: Sold to Robert Baxter, Aberdeen.
21.3.1938: On arrival at Aberdeen reported that on 19th when fishing some 80 miles from the Out Skerries, Shetland the ship was struck by lightning. The mate had a miraculous escape as just before the lightening struck he stepped into the galley for a cigarette and thus avoided being injured by the falling aerial. The wireless apparatus damaged and the compass also affected.
5.1938: Granton registry closed.
20.5.1938: Registered at Aberdeen (A474). Robert Baxter designated managing owner.
26.12.1940: Sold to Bunch Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby. Herbert G. Crampin, designated manager.
1940: Directed to Fleetwood under wartime control.
3.5.1943: Typical wartime landing. 193 kits – hake-35, cod/codling-1, flats-6, ling/coley-140, roker-4, dogs-4, sole & prime-3.
11.12.1946: Sold to Camperdown Fishing Co Ltd, Aberdeen. John Walker designated manager.
1956: Sold to BISCO (£3850) and allocated to Shipbreaking Industries Ltd for breaking up at Charlestown, Fife (Contract No.13E).
29.11.1956: Delivered Charlestown from Aberdeen under own power.
12.1956: Breaking up commenced.
28.6.1957: Aberdeen registry closed “Vessel broken up”.

(Samuel Barkas, Landsman (Volunteer), b. Lancaster, Lancashire, age 23 – VICTORY (SB185))

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S.T. Inverneil A474

S.T. Inverneil A474
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24/12/2008: Page published. 2 updates since then.
28/04/2017: Image added.
24/04/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image and updated information.
29/01/2021: Updated history.

S.T. Hazeldene BCK47

Technical

Official Number: 109809
Yard Number: 214
Completed: 1898
Gross Tonnage: 141
Net Tonnage: 34
Length: 93.2 ft
Breadth: 20 ft
Depth: 10.7 ft
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Hull
Engine: T.3-cyl by Crabtree & Co, Gt. Yarmouth

History

1898: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Hull (Yd.No.214) for Alfred Bannister & Thomas Robinson, Grimsby as TEUTON.
8.8.1898: Registered at Grimsby (GY795).
8.8.1898: Completed (Alfred Bannister, managing owner).
22.1.1901: Sold to Onward Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby (Thomas Robinson, manager).
1913: New boiler fitted.
1.1.1914: Tonnage altered to 54.0 net under provision of Merchant Shipping Act 1907.
1.1915: Requisitioned for war service as an armed trawler (1-6pdr) (Ad.No.780).
1.1918: Returned to owner.
18.3.1918: Sir Thomas Robinson appointed manager.
20.3.1918: Registered at Grimsby as ANGOLIAN (GY795).
6.1918: Requisitioned for Fishery Reserve.
1919: Released.
18.3.1934: Sold to Andrew Wilson, Buckie.
24.3.1934: Grimsby registry closed.
3.1934: Registered at Buckie as HAZELDENE (BCK47). Fishing out of Fleetwood (Alex Keay, managing agent).
1940: Owners opened office in Fleetwood.
27.5.1943: Typical wartime landing, Home Waters.
141 kits – cod/codling-11, whiting-32, flats-6, roker-65, gurnard-6, dogs-4, sole & prime-17.
Pre 1952: Managers became Hazael Fishing Co Ltd (J. Thain).
14.4.1953: Last landing at Fleetwood.
4.1953: Sold to BISCO and allocated to Thos. W. Ward Ltd, Sheffield for breaking up.
30.4.1953: Delivered Barrow from Fleetwood under own power. Buckie registry closed.

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S.T. Hazeldene BCK47

S.T. Hazeldene BCK47
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Changelog

22/12/2008: Page published. 2 updates since then.
30/05/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
30/12/2020: Updated history.

S.T. Northern Gift LO166

Technical

Official Number: 165363
Yard Number: 556
Completed: 1936
Gross Tonnage: 655
Net Tonnage: 254
Length: 188.1 ft
Breadth: 28.1 ft
Depth: 15.5 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl & LP turbine with DR gearing & hydraulic coupling by Deutsche Schiffs und Maschinenbau AG Seebeck, Wesermünde
Built: Deutsche Schiffs und Maschinenbau AG Weser, Bremen

History

1936: Ordered by Leverhulme Ltd, London to absorb frozen credits in Germany.
11.1936: Completed by Deutsche Schiff und Maschinenbau AG Seebeck, Wesermünde (Yd.No.556) for MacLine Ltd, London (Leverhulme Ltd) as NORTHERN GIFT.
23.11.1936: Registered at London (LO166). Operating out of Fleetwood (Edward D. W. Lawford, manager).
18.12.1936: First landing at Fleetwood, 500 boxes grossed £680.
21.9.1937: Last landing at Fleetwood, 780 boxes grossed £645.
9.10.1937: Sold to Northern Trawlers Ltd, London (H. Markham Cook, Grimsby, manager).
1.9.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a patrol vessel (P.No.4.50) (Hire rate £425.15.0d/month).
1942: Fitted out for anti-submarine duties.
5.4.1943: Convoy ONS-3 comprising eighteen ships (plus others joining later), escorted by Escort Group 40 sailed Liverpool for Halifax, NS, Commodore (Capt Jeffery Elliott DSO RD RN in steamer ASHIANTIAN (4,917grt/1935) (Master Charles Carter Taylor). NORTHERN GIFT (Ty/Act/LtCdr A.J. Clemence, RNR) with NORTHERN PRIDE (P.No.) (Ty/Lt Albert Richard Cornish RNR)detailed as rescue ships.
10.4.1943: NORTHERN PRIDE left convoy for Belfast with machinery defects.
21.4.1943: At 8.00 am. SE of Cape Farewell convoy attacked by U-boats. At 8.07 am. ASHANTIAN was struck by one torpedo fired by U.415 sustaining damage on the starboard side between No.3 hold and the stokehold, ingress of water leading to a list of 45° and started to settle by the bow. Crew abandoned in port lifeboat (47 men) and a raft, others jumped in to sea and clung on to debris and rafts. ASHANTIAN foundered some seven minutes after the torpedo struck, the Master, Commodore, thirteen crew and one gunner were lost. Within three hours, NORTHERN GIFT had taken onboard fifty survivors. At 8.14 am. steamer WANSTEAD (5,486grt/1928)(Master William B. Johnston) was struck by one torpedo fired from the stern tubes of U.415 and the ship set on fire. The Master, forty crew and seven gunners abandoned and picked up by HMS POPPY (P.N.K213) (Lt N.K. Boyd, DSC RN) and Northern Gift. POPPY attempted to sink the WANSTEAD but a torpedo from U.413 at 1.45 pm resulted in her sinking.
25.4.1943: At St. John’s, NFL landed survivors of both ships; 3rd Eng of ASHANTIAN died from exposure on route.
1944: Assigned to Operation Neptune – Normandy landings.
23.5.1944: Convoy escort duties in British waters and across the Channel in support of landings.
3.7.1944: Operation Neptune ended.
10.1944: Stranded off the Needles; repaired at Birkenhead and returned to service.
10.1944: Remeasured 620g 254n.
1945: Employed as ocean escort vessel.
23.10.1945: Returned to owner.
1947: Sold to Alliance H/F, Reykjavik, Iceland. Renamed KÁRI (RE195).
1950: Sold to Ludwig Janssen & Co, Wesermünde. Renamed GRONLAND.
1957: Sold to W. Ritscher, Hamburg for breaking up.
7.3.1957: Delivered Hamburg.

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S.T. Northern Gift LO166

S.T. Northern Gift LO166
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HMS Northern Gift

HMS Northern Gift
Survivors from Ashantian and Wanstead

S.T. Kári RE195

S.T. Kári RE195
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Changelog
22/12/2008: Page published. 5 updates since then.
19/11/2017: Removed FMHT watermark from images.
19/04/2019: Added information and image.

S.T. Thrush (2) GY114

Technical

Official Number: 122717
Yard Number: 372
Completed: 1906
Gross Tonnage: 264
Net Tonnage: 105
Length: 130.0 ft
Breadth: 22.0ft
Depth: 11.8 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by Earle’s Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Hull
Built: Earle’s Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Hull

History

23.12.1905: Launched by Earle’s Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Hull (Yd.No.372) for Pioneer Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby as THRUSH .
2.1906: Completed (George E. J. Moody, manager).
12.2.1906: Registered at Grimsby (GY114). Fishing from Fleetwood.
26.8.1908: Off West Coast of Ireland ran down French schooner ARIANE. All twenty-six crew picked up.
28.8.1908: Survivors landed at Fleetwood.
9.8.1915: Stopped by U-boat (U38) 50 miles W of Eagle Island, Co Mayo, crew put in boat. Sunk by explosive charges.
12.8.1915: After sixty-two hours in open boat, picked up and brought into Buncrana by HMTrawler SCOTT (A179) (Ad.No.1580).
18.8.1915: Grimsby registry closed “Sunk by a submarine”.

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S.T. Thrush GY114

S.T. Thrush GY114
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Changelog
21/12/2008: Page published. 4 updates since then.
24/04/2015: Picture added.
05/12/2017: Removed FMHT watermark from image.