{"id":10759,"date":"2011-02-02T12:03:58","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T12:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/?p=10759"},"modified":"2019-06-24T08:18:33","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T07:18:33","slug":"s-t-beru-gy611","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/2011\/02\/s-t-beru-gy611\/","title":{"rendered":"S.T. Beru GY611"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wartime visitor<\/em>
\nAdditional information courtesy of Bill Blow<\/em><\/p>\n

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

Official Number:132096
\nYard Number: 478
\nCompleted: 1911
\nGross Tonnage: 195
\nNet Tonnage: 87
\nLength: 115.3 ft
\nBreadth: 21.5 ft
\nDepth: 11.5 ft
\nEngine: 425ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
\nBuilt: Cochrane & Sons, Selby<\/p>\n

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

2.2.1911: Launched by Cochrane & Sons, Selby (Yd.No.478) for Henry Croft Baker (32\/64) & Arthur Grant (32\/64) Cleethorpes as BERU.
\n22.2.1911: Completed. (Builders\u2019 Certificate signed).
\n25.2.1911: Delivered.
\n25.2.1911: Registered at Grimsby (GY611).
\n25.2.1911: Arthur Grant designated managing owner.
\n11.1914: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-3pdr) (Ad.No.30). Based Aegean Sea.
\n29.2.1916: Henry Croft Baker (32\/64 shares sold to Alick Black (16\/64) and John Cash Store (32\/64), both Grimsby.
\n13.2.1917: Alick Black (16\/64) and John Cash Store (16\/64) shares sold to Arthur Grant (64\/64), Cleethorpes.
\nPost 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Grimsby (Arthur Grant, managing owner).
\n7.4.1931: Sold to Arthur Grant & Son Ltd (64\/64), Grimsby.
\n8.4.1931: Arthur Grant appointed manager.
\n26.7.1932: Vessel mortgaged (64\/64) to National Provincial Bank Ltd, London (A).
\n11.1939 Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (Hire rate \u00a348.15.0d\/month).
\n10.2.1940: Returned to owner.
\n27.9.1940: Mortgage (A) discharged.
\n30.9.1940: Sold to John Sherrif Ellis (64\/64), Scarborough.
\n30.9.1940: John Sherrif Ellis designated managing owner.
\n10.2.1941: Sold to Scarborough Pure Ice & Cold Storage Co Ltd (64\/64), Scarborough.
\n22.2.1941: James Johnson appointed manager.
\n24.9.1941: Vessel mortgaged (64\/64) to Barclay Bank Ltd, London (B).
\n6.4.1943: Mortgage (B) discharged.
\n28.4.1943: At Fleetwood, typical wartime landing, Home Waters. 92 kits – hake-16, cod\/codling-33, whiting-15, flats5, ling\/coley-14, roker-7, gurnard-3.
\n3.5.1943: Vessel mortgaged (64\/64) to Midland Bank Ltd, London (C).
\n16.4.1945: Mortgage (C) discharged.
\n18.4.1945: Sold to James Johnson (32\/64) & John William Johnson (32\/64), Scarborough.
\n20.4.1945: John William Johnson appointed manager.
\n21.8.1950: Sold to Scarborough Pure Ice & Cold Storage Co Ltd (64\/64), Scarborough.
\n25.8.1950: John William Johnson appointed manager.
\n4.1953: Sold to BISCO and allocated to James A . White, St Davids, Fife for breaking up.
\n17.11.1952: Delivered (Sk. Jack Mann plus five crew) to Granton from Scarborough (paid \u00a335.0.0d for delivery). Transferred to St Davids for breaking.
\n25.8.1953: Letter from BISCO stating \u201c… vessel has been completely demolished\u201d.
\n4.9.1953: Grimsby registry closed \u201cVessel broken up\u201d.<\/p>\n

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

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S.T. Beru GY611
Picture courtesy of The Jeffrey Pullen Collection<\/p><\/div>\n

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S.T. Beru GY611
Picture courtesy of The David Slinger Collection<\/p><\/div>\n

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S.T. Beru GY611
\nPicture courtesy of The George Westwood Collection<\/p><\/div>\n

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S.T. Beru GY611
\nPicture courtesy of Grimsby Reference Library<\/p><\/div>\n

Changelog<\/em>
\n02\/02\/2011: Page published. 4 updates since then.
\n13\/02\/2015: Picture added.
\n24\/06\/2019: Updated information and added an image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wartime visitor Additional information courtesy of Bill Blow Technical Official Number:132096 Yard Number: 478 Completed: 1911 Gross Tonnage: 195 Net Tonnage: 87 Length: 115.3 ft Breadth: 21.5 ft Depth: 11.5 ft Engine: 425ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull Built: Cochrane & Sons, Selby History 2.2.1911: Launched by Cochrane & […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":261,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,452,133],"tags":[204,134],"class_list":["post-10759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-steam-trawlers","category-steamers-picture","category-wartime-visitors","tag-no-fleetwood-owners","tag-wartime-visitor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10759","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=10759"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24453,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10759\/revisions\/24453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}