{"id":1232,"date":"2008-12-21T10:47:24","date_gmt":"2008-12-21T10:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/?p=1232"},"modified":"2020-12-19T07:37:56","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T07:37:56","slug":"st-grosbeak-lo249","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/2008\/12\/st-grosbeak-lo249\/","title":{"rendered":"S.T. Grosbeak LO249"},"content":{"rendered":"

Additional information courtesy of Mike Thompson and Gary Hicks and Barry Johnson (Milford Trawlers)<\/em><\/p>\n

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

Official Number: 129281
\nYard Number: 133
\nCompleted: 1910
\nGross Tonnage: 192.31
\nNet Tonnage: 71 .14
\nLength: 110.1 ft
\nBreadth: 21.6 ft
\nDepth: 11.9 ft
\nBuilt: Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co Ltd, Goole
\nEngine: 300ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by Earl\u2019s Co Ltd, Hull<\/p>\n

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

9.7.1910: Launched by Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co Ltd, Goole (Yd.No.133) for Kelsall Brothers & Beeching Ltd (64\/64), Hull as GROSBEAK.
\n10.8.1910: Registered at Hull (H108).
\n10.8.1910: George Beeching, Hull & John E. A. Kelsall, London appointed managers.
\n8.1910: Completed.
\n10.1914: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-12pdr) (Ad.No.660). Based Granton.
\n26.4.1918: Transferred to Kirkwall.
\n12.12.1918: Reported for duty at Immingham.
\nBy 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Hull.
\n7.6.1919: Vessel mortgaged (64\/64) to The London County Westminster & Parr\u2019s Bank Ltd, London (A).
\n7.6.1919: John Slater, London appointed manager.
\n6.3.1923: Mortgagee re-styled as Westminster Bank Ltd, London.
\n14.10.1927: Mortgage (A) transferred to William Augustus Hayward, Eastbourne.
\n14.10.1927: Mortgage (A) transferred to Mercantile Marine Finance Corporation Ltd, London.
\n22.10.1928: Robert Burton appointed manager.
\n16.9.1932: Charles Hugh Emerson appointed manager.
\n10.1932: Mercantile Marine Finance Corporation Ltd in liquidation.
\n14.10.1932: Mortgage (A) transferred to Harold Frank Hayward, London; Maud Florence Katherine Rogers, Chelsea and Ernest Norton, London (joint mortgagees).
\n3.1936: Combined boxing and trawling fleet of Kelsall Bros. & Beeching Ltd and the Hull Steam Fishing & Ice Co Ltd consisting of 59 vessels laid up at Hull (declining catches, coal bill and increased maintenance costs had made the venture uneconomical).
\n6.3.1936: At Extraordinary General Meeting at Hull, Hull Steam Fishing & Ice Co Ltd placed in Creditors\u2019 Voluntary Winding-up (Richard Field Helm of Messrs Hodgson Harris & Co, London appointed liquidators).
\n16.12.1936: Sold by order of the mortgagees under mortgage (A) to Plymouth Mutual Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64\/64), Plymouth.
\n20.12.1936: Arrived Plymouth.
\n22.12.1936: Vessel mortgaged (64\/64) to Harold Frank Hayward, London; Maud Florence Katherine Rogers, Corfe Castle and Ernest Norton, London (joint mortgagees) for \u00a3400 with interest at 5% (B).
\n5.1.1937: John Chant, Plymstock appointed manager.
\n18.11.1937: Vessel mortgaged (64\/64) to William John Waldron Modley and Richard Edward Stephen Morris, Plymouth (joint mortgagees)(C).
\n24.12.1927: Mortgage (B) discharged.
\n31.12.1937: Mortgage (C) discharged.
\n7.1.1938: Sold to Arthur Dexter, Brixham and Thomas Perrett, Newtown Abbot (64\/64 joint owners).
\n17.1.1938: Arthur Dexter designated managing owner.
\n14.2.1938: Sold to Torbay Trawlers Ltd (64\/64), Brixham.
\n15.2.1938: Arthur Dexter appointed manager.
\n28.2.1938: Vessel mortgaged (64\/64) to Midland Bank Ltd, London (D).
\n4.3.1940: Mortgage (D) discharged.
\n9.3.1940: Sold to Heward Trawlers Ltd (64\/64), London.
\n1.4.1940: Robert Scott Hewett appointed manager.
\n16.4.1940: Hull registry closed.
\n17.4.1940: Registered at London (LO249).
\n5.1940: Sold to Great Northern Fishing Co Ltd (64\/64), London & Fleetwood. Fishing out of Fleetwood.
\n26.4.1943: Typical landing. 171 kits – hake-38, cod\/codling-48, whiting-37, flats-7, ling\/coley-5, roker-16, gurnard-15, sole & prime-5.
\n15.2.1945: Last landing at Fleetwood.
\n3.1945: Sold to R. G. Parsley (64\/64), Milford Haven.
\n13.3.1945: First landing at Milford.
\n17.3.1946: Last landing at Milford.
\n4.1946: Fishing from Lowestoft.
\n1954: Sold to Don Trawlers Ltd (64\/64), Milford Haven.
\n15.1.1954: First landing at Milford.
\n10.5.1955: Last landing at Milford.
\n1955: Sold to BISCO and allocated to Rees Shipbreaking Co Ltd, Llanelli for breaking up.
\n15.8.1955: Sailed Milford for Llanelli (Sk. Len Brown). London registry closed.<\/p>\n

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

\"S.T.<\/a>

S.T. Grosbeak H108
\nPicture courtesy of Grimsby Reference Library<\/p><\/div>\n

Changelog<\/em>
\n14\/04\/2014: Information updated.
\n08\/08\/2015: Updated information.
\n26\/12\/2017: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
\n19\/12\/2020: Updated history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Additional information courtesy of Mike Thompson and Gary Hicks and Barry Johnson (Milford Trawlers) Technical Official Number: 129281 Yard Number: 133 Completed: 1910 Gross Tonnage: 192.31 Net Tonnage: 71 .14 Length: 110.1 ft Breadth: 21.6 ft Depth: 11.9 ft Built: Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co Ltd, Goole Engine: 300ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by Earl\u2019s Co […]<\/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],"tags":[230,81],"class_list":["post-1232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-steam-trawlers","category-steamers-picture","tag-great-northern-fc","tag-heward-trawlers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232","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=1232"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26628,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions\/26628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}