{"id":11863,"date":"2011-06-24T14:28:23","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T13:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/?p=11863"},"modified":"2018-01-22T09:47:32","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T09:47:32","slug":"s-t-westella-1-h124","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/2011\/06\/s-t-westella-1-h124\/","title":{"rendered":"S.T. Westella (1) H124"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>In Marr (Fleetwood) ownership. Did not fish from the port.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Technical<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Official Number: 163956<br \/>\nCompleted: 1934<br \/>\nYard Number: 1129<br \/>\nGross Tonnage: 413<br \/>\nNet Tonnage: 160<br \/>\nLength: 152.8 ft<br \/>\nBreadth: 25.6 ft<br \/>\nEngine: 106nhp T.3-cyl and boiler by Amos &#038; Smith Ltd, Hull<br \/>\nBuilt: Cochrane &#038; Sons Ltd, Selby <\/p>\n<p><strong>History<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>25.9.1934:  Launched by Cochrane &#038; Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.1129) for J. Marr &#038; Son Ltd, Fleetwood as WESTELLA.<br \/>\n14.11.1934:  Registered at Hull (H124).<br \/>\n22.11.1934:  Completed (Geoffrey Edwards Marr, Cleveleys, manager). Crewed and operated by City Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull.<br \/>\n24.11.1934:  Sailed Hull on first trip to White Sea (Sk.S. Greaves).<br \/>\n17.12.1934:  At Hull landed 2,244 kits grossed \u00a31,112.<br \/>\n26.7.1939:  Sailed Hull for Bear Island (Sk. H. Parrott).<br \/>\n 12.8.1939:  At Hull landed 1,194 kits grossed \u00a31,207.<br \/>\n31.8.1939:  Sold to The Admiralty (\u00a322,448).  Fitted out as an anti submarine trawler  (1-4\u201d, AA weapons, ASDIC, DC) (P.No.FY.161).<br \/>\n15.11.1939:  Hull registry closed.<br \/>\n1940:  Based Dover with 10th A\/S Group (Ch. Sk. A. Gove RNR).<br \/>\n26.5.1940:  At 6.57pm. \u2018Operation Dynamo\u2019 (Dunkirk evacuation) put into effect.<br \/>\n28.5.1940:  On patrol.  2.6.1940:  On patrol off Dunkirk, at 4.00pm HMTrawler BLACKBURN ROVERS (P.No.FY.116) (GY102) was mined and blew up. On going to her aid and when closing to pick up survivors, damaged by explosions from BLACKBURN ROVERS depth charges; at 4.30pm also mined and disabled.  All survivors picked up by HMTrawler SAON (P.No.FY159) (H487) which with HMTrawler GRIMSBY TOWN (P.No.FY125) set her depth charges \u2018safe\u2019 and sank her in position 51.19N 02.05E.<br \/>\n3.6.1940:  Thomas M. Godfrey, Seaman died of wounds. <\/p>\n<p><em>Changelog<\/em><br \/>\n24\/06\/2011: Page published. 8 updates since then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Marr (Fleetwood) ownership. Did not fish from the port. Technical Official Number: 163956 Completed: 1934 Yard Number: 1129 Gross Tonnage: 413 Net Tonnage: 160 Length: 152.8 ft Breadth: 25.6 ft Engine: 106nhp T.3-cyl and boiler by Amos &#038; Smith Ltd, Hull Built: Cochrane &#038; Sons Ltd, Selby History 25.9.1934: Launched by Cochrane &#038; Sons [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":261,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[477,3,478],"tags":[24,19,18],"class_list":["post-11863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lost-vessels","category-steam-trawlers","category-war-losses","tag-lost","tag-marr","tag-war-loss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11863","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=11863"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22133,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11863\/revisions\/22133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}