{"id":13990,"date":"2012-05-20T11:14:24","date_gmt":"2012-05-20T10:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/?p=13990"},"modified":"2018-05-14T08:35:11","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T07:35:11","slug":"s-t-braconlea-a227","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/2012\/05\/s-t-braconlea-a227\/","title":{"rendered":"S.T. Braconlea A227"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Technical<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Official Number: 137620<br \/>\nYard Number: 584<br \/>\nCompleted: 1920<br \/>\nGross Tonnage: 200<br \/>\nNet Tonnage: 76<br \/>\nLength: 115.5 ft<br \/>\nBreadth: 22.0 ft<br \/>\nDepth: 11.7 ft<br \/>\nEngine: T.3-cyl  and boiler by A. Hall &#038; Co Ltd, Aberdeen<br \/>\nBuilt: A. Hall &#038; Co Ltd, Aberdeen<\/p>\n<p><strong>History<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>9.1.1920:  Launched by A. Hall &#038; Co Ltd, Aberdeen (Yd.No.584) for Charles H. George, Caister on Sea, Gt Yarmouth as DONUM MARIS.<br \/>\n6.8.1920:  Registered at Gt. Yarmouth (YH227).<br \/>\n7.1920:  Completed.<br \/>\n12.8.1920:  Sold to  Don Fishing Co Ltd, Aberdeen (John S. Doeg, manager).<br \/>\n14.9.1920:  Yarmouth registry closed.<br \/>\n23.9.1920:  Registered at Aberdeen as BRACONLEA (A227).<br \/>\n17.3.1940:  In North Sea in company with AVONDEE (A826), bombed by German aircraft; no damage sustained and fire returned.<br \/>\n1942:  Company and fleet sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing &#038; Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Basil A. Parkes, manager).<br \/>\n7.1945:  Sold to Haven Trawlers Ltd, Milford Haven (R. P. Lewis, manager).<br \/>\n1946:  Sold to John W. Johnstone, Aberdeen.<br \/>\n5.10.1952:  In strong gale decided to make for Mid Yell Voe, Shetland to shelter (Sk. William Summers).  At entrance to Voe struck rocks at the Baas of Hascosay and immediately started to take water.  Boat launched and requested assistance by radio and siren.  Already at anchor in the Voe sheltering was the Aberdeen steam trawler GEORGE H. HASTIE (SN274);  weighed anchor and with local boat in tow proceeded to the casualty.  Crew transferred by local boats to GEORGE H. HASTIE and landed at Mid Yell.<br \/>\n6.19.1952:  With exception of Skipper and Ch. Engineer, crew embarked in STRATHLEVEN (A47) for Aberdeen.  Subsequently declared a CTL.  Aberdeen registry closed.                   <\/p>\n<p><em>Click to enlarge images<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11228\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/braconlea.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11228\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/braconlea-300x195.png\" alt=\"S.T. Braconlea A227\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11228\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/braconlea-300x195.png 300w, http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/braconlea.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11228\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">S.T. Braconlea A227<br \/>Picture courtesy of The Mark Stopper Collection<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Changelog<\/em><br \/>\n20\/05\/2012: Page published. 5 updates since then.<br \/>\n14\/05\/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technical Official Number: 137620 Yard Number: 584 Completed: 1920 Gross Tonnage: 200 Net Tonnage: 76 Length: 115.5 ft Breadth: 22.0 ft Depth: 11.7 ft Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by A. Hall &#038; Co Ltd, Aberdeen Built: A. Hall &#038; Co Ltd, Aberdeen History 9.1.1920: Launched by A. Hall &#038; Co Ltd, Aberdeen (Yd.No.584) for Charles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":261,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[477,3,452],"tags":[77,24,40],"class_list":["post-13990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lost-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\/13990","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=13990"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22639,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13990\/revisions\/22639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}