{"id":1240,"date":"2008-12-21T10:50:03","date_gmt":"2008-12-21T10:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/?p=1240"},"modified":"2020-12-20T07:43:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T07:43:40","slug":"st-gunner-gy434","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/2008\/12\/st-gunner-gy434\/","title":{"rendered":"S.T. Gunner GY434"},"content":{"rendered":"

Additional information courtesy of Bill Blow<\/em><\/p>\n

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

Official Number:146905
\nYard Number: 996
\nCompleted: 1927
\nGross Tonnage: 349
\nNet Tonnage: 151
\nLength: 140.4 ft
\nBreadth: 25 ft
\nDepth: 13.3 ft
\nEngine: 600ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
\nBuilt: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby<\/p>\n

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

5.2.1927: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.996) for Consolidated Steam Fishing & Ice Co (Grimsby) Ltd (64\/64), Grimsby as GUNNER.
\n29.3.1927: Registered at Grimsby (GY434). John Denton Marsden appointed manager.
\n6.4.1927: Completed.
\n29.6.1927: Owners restyled Consolidated Fisheries Ltd, Grimsby (Sir John D. Marsden, Bart, manager).
\n1928: Stranded near the Ness of Duncansby in dense fog. Refloated at high water.
\n30.11.1928: Vessel mortgaged (64\/64) to Midland Bank Ltd, London (A).
\n12.1936: Sailed Grimsby on an Icelandic trip but seven crew members suffering from influenza and put into Stromness.
\n1.1937: Sailed Stromness for Iceland grounds.
\n3.1937: Arrested for alleged fishing within Icelandic territorial waters and taken to Reykjavik.
\n9.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (P.No.FY.568) (Hire rate \u00a3146.17.5d\/month). Based Aberdeen then Ardrossan with M\/S Group 37.
\n3.1944: Fitted out as a dan layer and assigned to Operation Neptune – Normandy landings.
\n23.5.1944: Attached to the 31st Minesweeping Flotilla (Canadian) in Force O as a dan layer. At Omaha Beach landing.
\n3.7.1944: Operation Neptune ended.
\n31.6.1944: Thomas Daran Ronald appointed manager.
\n4.7.1945: Sold to The Great Grimsby & East Coast Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64\/64), Grimsby.
\n7.7.1945: Albert Wright Butt appointed manager.
\n12.7.1945: Mortgage (A) discharged.
\n23.10.1945: Returned to owner.
\n4.5.1946: Sold to United Trawlers Ltd, Milford Haven for \u00a325425.
\n16.5.1946: Henry James Horwood appointed manager.
\n28.5.1946: Vessel mortgaged (64\/64) to Midland Bank Ltd, London (B).
\n10.1953: Laid up at Milford Haven.
\n1953: United Trawlers Ltd in liquidation.
\n2.3.1954: Sold by order of the mortgagee under mortgage (B) to The Dinas Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Fleetwood for \u00a34000.
\n3.3.1954: Sailed Milford for Fleetwood.
\n6.3.1954: Grimsby registry closed. Frank Marr appointed manager. Laid up.
\n7.1954: Sold to Van Heyghen Freres, Ghent for breaking up.
\n13.7.1954: Arrived Ghent from Fleetwood.<\/p>\n

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

\"S.T.<\/a>

S.T. Gunner GY434
\nPicture courtesy of The JJ collection<\/p><\/div>\n

Changelog<\/em>
\n21\/12\/2008: Page published. 4 updates since then.
\n22\/03\/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
\n20\/12\/2020: Updated history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Additional information courtesy of Bill Blow Technical Official Number:146905 Yard Number: 996 Completed: 1927 Gross Tonnage: 349 Net Tonnage: 151 Length: 140.4 ft Breadth: 25 ft Depth: 13.3 ft Engine: 600ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby History 5.2.1927: Launched by Cochrane & Sons […]<\/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":[21],"class_list":["post-1240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-steam-trawlers","category-steamers-picture","tag-dinas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240","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=1240"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25356,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions\/25356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}