{"id":10471,"date":"2010-12-13T14:01:25","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T14:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/?p=10471"},"modified":"2020-11-20T07:45:27","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T07:45:27","slug":"s-dt-glow-lt668","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/2010\/12\/s-dt-glow-lt668\/","title":{"rendered":"S.D\/T. Glow LT668"},"content":{"rendered":"

Additional material courtesy of Barry Banham<\/em><\/p>\n

Technical<\/strong><\/p>\n

Admiralty Number: 3980
\nOfficial Number: 146042
\nYard Number: 557
\nCompleted: 1918
\nGross Tonnage: 96
\nNet Tonnage: 41
\nLength: 86.2 ft
\nBreadth: 18.7 ft
\nDepth: 9.3 ft
\nBuilt: A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen
\nEngine: T.3-cyl by A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen <\/p>\n

History<\/strong><\/p>\n

1918: Launched by A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen (Yd.No.557) (\u201cAdmiralty drifter\u201d) for The Admiralty as GLOW.
\n21.11.1918: Completed as a minesweeper (Ad.No.3980).
\n13.11.1919: Transferred to Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries, London.
\n5.2.1920: Registered at Lowestoft (Part IV) as Glow (LT668) and engaged in commercial fishing.
\n2.9.1920: Assisted into Lowestoft Boulogne steam trawler LILLOIS (B??) disabled after boiler explosion at sea in which two men were killed and two injured.
\n6.7.1921: Lowestoft registry closed at request of The Admiralty.
\n30.7.1921: Registered by The Admiralty at London (Part I) as GLOW (No.399 of 1921) O.N.146042.
\n8.1921: Sold to William Robbens & Sons Ltd, Lowestoft (William Robbens, manager).
\n8.1921: London registry closed.
\n26.8.1921: Lowestoft registry re-opened (LT668).
\n1.12.1925: In moderate weather off Southwold connected to steam drifter CLACH Na CUDEN (YH361) disabled with machinery problem and delivered Lowestoft.
\n7.3.1934: Sold to George Hitchim Catchpole, Lowestoft.
\n2.12.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeping drifter (P.No.FY.964) (Hire rate \u00a332.0.0d\/month). Fitted with LL sweep, based at Dundee.
\n6.1940: At Jarrow (Sk. C. Chamberlain RNR).
\n5.1943: Employed on miscellaneous Naval duties.
\n25.11.1943: Sold to North Shore Fishing Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Basil A. Parkes, Cleveleys, manager).
\n16.11.1945: Returned to owner.
\n1946: Sold to Norway.
\n7.10.1946: Lowestoft registry closed.
\n12.10.1946: Sailed Lowestoft for Norway.<\/p>\n

Click to enlarge images<\/em><\/p>\n

\"HMD<\/a>

HMD Glow
Picture reproduced under IWM Non-Commercial Licence<\/p><\/div>\n

\"S.D\/T.<\/a>

S.D\/T. Glow LT668
Picture courtesy of The John Baxter Collection<\/p><\/div>\n

Changelog<\/em>
\n13\/12\/2010: Page published. 3 revisions since then.
\n12\/09\/2014: Picture added.
\n02\/11\/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from images.
\n20\/11\/2020: Updated history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Additional material courtesy of Barry Banham Technical Admiralty Number: 3980 Official Number: 146042 Yard Number: 557 Completed: 1918 Gross Tonnage: 96 Net Tonnage: 41 Length: 86.2 ft Breadth: 18.7 ft Depth: 9.3 ft Built: A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen Engine: T.3-cyl by A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen History 1918: Launched by A. Hall […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":261,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,3,452],"tags":[217,112,40],"class_list":["post-10471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-driftertrawler","category-steam-trawlers","category-steamers-picture","tag-admiralty-drifter","tag-north-shore-fishing-co","tag-parkes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/261"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10471"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25307,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10471\/revisions\/25307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}