{"id":13548,"date":"2012-05-14T10:02:27","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T09:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/?p=13548"},"modified":"2024-09-10T13:44:34","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T12:44:34","slug":"s-t-daily-mirror-fd71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/2012\/05\/s-t-daily-mirror-fd71\/","title":{"rendered":"S.T. Daily Mirror FD71"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Admiralty Number: 4294
\nOfficial Number: 143471
\nYard Number: 410
\nAs built: 360disp 125.6 x 23.5 x 12.8 feet
\nCompleted: 1919
\nGross Tonnage: 286
\nNet Tonnage: 109
\nLength: 125.5 ft
\nBreadth: 23.5 ft
\nDepth: 12.7 ft
\nBuilt: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley
\nEngine: 480ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by Amos & Smith
\nSpeed: 10.5 knots<\/p>\n

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

18.3.1919: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.410) (\u201cCastle\u201d class) for The Admiralty as Egilias Akerman (Ad.No.4294).
\n13.11.1919: Completed as a fishing vessel.
\n1.1920: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Boston. Renamed KESTEVEN (BN146). Fred Parkes designated manager.
\n1923: Sold to Victor Fourney, Boulogne.
\n1923: Boston registry closed.
\n1923: Registered at Boulogne as IMPR\u00c9VU (B789).
\n10.06.1925: Towed into Plymouth by the French steam trawler PROFESSEUR BERGONI\u00c9 after damaging her propeller on a sunken wreck.
\n1930: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood.
\n3.1930: Boulogne registry closed.
\n17.3.1930: Registered at Fleetwood as DAILY MIRROR (FD71). Fred Parkes, Blackpool designated manager.
\n21.11.1932: Landed at Fleetwood, 600 boxes of herring for only 15 hrs fishing.
\n1934: Sold to Thomas L. Devlin & Sons, Granton (Thomas L. Devlin, manager).
\n26.5.1934: Fleetwood registry closed.
\n5.1934: Registered at Granton as COMPUTATOR (GN42).
\n22.11.1936: Ran ashore at the back of the west pier Granton while returning from the fishing grounds in dense fog. Refloated without assistance and undamaged but will by dry-docked in Leith as a precaution.
\n27.3.1937: Stowing gear for trip home in heavy weather 100 miles ENE of Buchan Ness (Sk. David R. Liston), three crew washed overboard and drowned*<\/strong>.
\n03.05.1937: Homeward from the fishing grounds in dense fog, stranded four miles north of Buchan Ness, refloated on next tide. Later dry-docked at Leith for examination.
\n06.10.1937: Landed 660 eight stone boxes of iced trawled herrings at North Shields which made 6s down to 4s per box.
\n30.8.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (P.No.FY.635) (Hire rate \u00a389.7.6d\/month).
\n6.1941: Based Portland with M\/S Group 49 (Ch Sk. C. W. H. Shearing RNR). 1942: Transferred to Thomas L. Devlin & Sons Ltd, Granton (T. L. Devlin, manager).
\n21.1.1945: Foundered after collision with HMS VANOC (P.No.H33) in Seine Bay, Normandy.<\/p>\n

(Egilias Akerman, AB, age 26, b. Brussels, Belgium – ROYAL SOVEREIGN (SB163))<\/p>\n

(*<\/strong> Thomas Wood (40), 2nd Fisherman; James Rennie (22), deckhand, Newhaven and E. I. Peebles (21), trimmer, Leith)<\/p>\n

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

\"S.T.<\/a>

S.T. Daily Mirror FD71
Picture courtesy of The Emiel Rycx Collection<\/p><\/div>\n

Changelog<\/em>
\n14\/05\/2012: Page published. 7 Updates since then.
\n05\/10\/2015: Picture added.
\n24\/12\/2017: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
\n04\/03\/2020: Information updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Technical Admiralty Number: 4294 Official Number: 143471 Yard Number: 410 As built: 360disp 125.6 x 23.5 x 12.8 feet Completed: 1919 Gross Tonnage: 286 Net Tonnage: 109 Length: 125.5 ft Breadth: 23.5 ft Depth: 12.7 ft Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley Engine: 480ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by Amos & Smith Speed: 10.5 knots […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":261,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[477,3,452,478],"tags":[77,17,24,40,18],"class_list":["post-13548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lost-vessels","category-steam-trawlers","category-steamers-picture","category-war-losses","tag-boston-dsf-i","tag-castle","tag-lost","tag-parkes","tag-war-loss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13548","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=13548"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26966,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13548\/revisions\/26966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}