{"id":12750,"date":"2011-09-19T11:02:06","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T10:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/?p=12750"},"modified":"2019-01-03T09:28:10","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T09:28:10","slug":"s-t-boston-seafire-h584","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/2011\/09\/s-t-boston-seafire-h584\/","title":{"rendered":"S.T. Boston Seafire H584"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Boston (Fleetwood) ownership. Did not fish from Fleetwood.<\/em><\/p>\n

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

Official Number: 181351
\nYard Number: 759
\nCompleted: 1948
\nGross Tonnage: 689
\nNet Tonnage: 249
\nLength: 181.7 ft
\nBreadth: 30.6 ft
\nDepth: 15.1 ft
\nEngine: T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
\nFitted for burning oil fuel, F.P. above 150 \u00b0 F
\nBuilt: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley, 1948<\/p>\n

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

24.5.1948: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.795) for Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood as BOSTON SEAFIRE.
\n6.10.1948: Registered at Hull (H584).
\n27.10.1948: Completed. Basil A. Parkes appointed manager.
\n19.1.1952: Sold to Hudson Brothers Trawlers Ltd, Hull (Thomas Hudson, manager). Registered at Hull as CAPE TARIFA (H584).
\n5.2.1960: Company and assets taken over by Ross Group, Grimsby.
\n26.11.1961: Registered at Hull as ROSS TARIFA (H584).
\n27.6.1967: Transferred to Grimsby.
\n1968: Sold to Van Heyghen Freres S.A., Ghent for breaking up.
\n6.3.1968: In tandem tow with ROSS DUNER (H85) by London motor tug MOORCOCK (272grt\/1959 \u2013 1600bhp) Humber for Zeebruges, lost ROSS DUNER off the South Falls Buoy. Stranded near Dunkirk but subsequently refloated and delivered to Zeebruges.
\n7.3.1968: Broke away from tug and stranded on Goodwin Sands 11\/4 miles from East Goodwin Light Vessel. Settled and lost to sands.
\n3.1968: Hull registry closed. <\/p>\n

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

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S.T. Boston Seafire H584
\nPicture by Donald Innes courtesy of The Mark Stopper Collection<\/p><\/div>\n

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S.T. Boston Seafire H584
\nPicture courtesy of The Mark Stopper Collection<\/p><\/div>\n

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S.T. Boston Seafire H584
\nPicture by Mike Thompson courtesy of The Mark Stopper Collection<\/p><\/div>\n

\"S.T.<\/a>

S.T. Cape Tarifa H584
Picture courtesy of The JJ Collection<\/p><\/div>\n

\"S.T.<\/a>

S.T. Ross Tarifa H584
Picture courtesy of The JanH Collection<\/p><\/div>\n

Changelog<\/em><\/p>\n

19\/09\/2011: Page published. 7 updates since then.
\n03\/12\/2019: Removed FMHT watermark from image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Boston (Fleetwood) ownership. Did not fish from Fleetwood. Technical Official Number: 181351 Yard Number: 759 Completed: 1948 Gross Tonnage: 689 Net Tonnage: 249 Length: 181.7 ft Breadth: 30.6 ft Depth: 15.1 ft Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull Fitted for burning oil fuel, F.P. above 150 \u00b0 F […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":261,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[477,488,3,452],"tags":[77,24,40],"class_list":["post-12750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lost-vessels","category-non-fleetwood-vessels","category-steam-trawlers","category-steamers-picture","tag-boston-dsf-i","tag-lost","tag-parkes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12750","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=12750"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24088,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12750\/revisions\/24088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}