{"id":1977,"date":"2009-01-01T09:51:15","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T09:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/?p=1977"},"modified":"2021-07-02T09:34:39","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T08:34:39","slug":"sd-ocean-dawn-yh47","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/2009\/01\/sd-ocean-dawn-yh47\/","title":{"rendered":"S.D\/T. Ocean Dawn YH47 (Seasonal)"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nCopyright 2010 Barry Banham<\/em><\/p>\n

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

Official Number: 137608
\nYard Number: 562
\nCompleted: 1919
\nGross Tonnage: 96
\nNet Tonnage: 41
\nLength: 86.2 ft
\nBreadth: 18.5 ft
\nDepth: 9.3 ft
\nEngine: T.3-cyl by A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen
\nBoiler: James Neilson & Son Ltd, Glasgow
\nBuilt: A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen<\/p>\n

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

1919: Launched by A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen (Yd.No.562) ( \u201cAdmiralty drifter\u201d) for The Admiralty as WAVELET (Ad.No.4121).
\n5.2.1919: Forms for tender to purchase received by the Admiralty.
\n21.2.1919: Completed as a fishing vessel.
\n4.1919: Sold to George W. Green Ltd, Gt Yarmouth (James Bloomfield, manager).
\n15.4.1919: Registered at Yarmouth as OCEAN DAWN (YH47). (First Admiralty standard steam drifter registered at Yarmouth). Trawling from Yarmouth.
\n22.12.1922: Neil Mackay, Gt Yarmouth appointed manager.
\n30.7.1925: Sold to Bloomfields Ltd, Gt Yarmouth.
\n1928 season: At Yarmouth best landing 283 cran of herring.
\n1941: Transferred to Bloomfield\u2019s Ltd, Fleetwood management. Trawling from Fleetwood during WW2.
\n28.9.1941: When some 9 miles SWbyS from Morecambe Bay Light Vessel, took off crew and connected to steam drifter MURIELLE (LT269) which had suffered an explosion from mine hauled in trawl. Commenced tow to Fleetwood, but started to settle and foundered 3 miles W by N of Blackpool Tower. All crew landed at Fleetwood.
\n17.7.1943: Typical wartime landing. 164 kits – hake-51, cod\/codling-43, whiting-29, flats-7, roker-29, gurnard-2, dogs-3.
\n1946: Transferred to Bloomfield\u2019s Ltd, Gt Yarmouth.
\n19.11.1945: At Yarmouth landed 170 crans.
\n22.3.1946: In heavy weather some 36 miles off Yarmouth (Sk. Charles Johnson). In the morning sighted a small motor-cruiser in difficulties. Closed boat and found four youths in distress and took them onboard, but weather prevented taking the boat in tow. On arrival Yarmouth, boys transferred to hospital. (Boat had been stolen from Broadstairs by the boys who had been without food and water for four or five days).
\n4.11.1946: At Yarmouth landed 210 crans.
\n1950s: Seasonal white fish trawling from Fleetwood.
\n5.10.1952: At Yarmouth landed 160 crans.
\n5.11.1953: At Yarmouth landed 160 crans.
\n14.11.1955: At Yarmouth landed 140 crans.
\n12.1955: Sold to Belgian shipbreakers for breaking up.
\n19.12.1955: Yarmouth registry closed.<\/p>\n

Click to enlarge images<\/em>
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\"S.T.<\/a>

S.T. Ocean Dawn YH47
\nPicture courtesy of The Barry Banham Maritime Photo Collection<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

\"S.D\/T.<\/a>

S.D\/T. Ocean Dawn YH47
Picture courtesy of The Peter Green Collection<\/p><\/div>\n

Changelog<\/em>
\n01\/01\/2009: Page published. 5 updates since then.
\n13\/06\/2016: Information updated.
\n07\/04\/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
\n02\/07\/2021: Updated history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Copyright 2010 Barry Banham Technical Official Number: 137608 Yard Number: 562 Completed: 1919 Gross Tonnage: 96 Net Tonnage: 41 Length: 86.2 ft Breadth: 18.5 ft Depth: 9.3 ft Engine: T.3-cyl by A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen Boiler: James Neilson & Son Ltd, Glasgow Built: A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen History 1919: Launched by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":261,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,3,452,133],"tags":[217,524,117,134],"class_list":["post-1977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seasonal-visitors","category-steam-trawlers","category-steamers-picture","category-wartime-visitors","tag-admiralty-drifter","tag-driftertrawler","tag-seasonal","tag-wartime-visitor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977","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=1977"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25728,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977\/revisions\/25728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}