{"id":1993,"date":"2009-01-03T09:38:27","date_gmt":"2009-01-03T09:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/?p=1993"},"modified":"2014-08-20T10:27:32","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T09:27:32","slug":"st-octavia-h274","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/2009\/01\/st-octavia-h274\/","title":{"rendered":"S.T. Octavia H274"},"content":{"rendered":"

Additional information courtesy Dictionary of Shipwrecks off the Isle of Man by Adrian Corkhill c2001 and Bill Blow.<\/em><\/p>\n

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

Official Number 123238
\nYard Number: 99
\nCompleted: 1906
\nGross Tonnage: 173.15
\nNet Tonnage: 53
\nLength: 108.5 ft
\nBreadth: 21.6 ft
\nDepth: 11.5 ft
\nEngine: 270ihp T.3-cyl by Amos & Smith, Hull
\nBuilt: Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Beverley
\nSpeed: 9.5 knots <\/p>\n

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

11.12.1905: Provisionally registered at Hull (H876).
\n13.2.1906: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Beverley (Yd.No.99) for Hellyer\u2019s Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull as OCTAVIA.
\n22.3.1906: Completed (Charles Helyer, manager).
\n29.3.1906: Registered at Hull (H876).
\n1.1.1914: Tonnage altered to 67.52 net under provision of Merchant Shipping Act 1907.
\n29.5.1917: Requisitioned for Fishery Reserve.
\n1919: Released.
\n9.1.1919: Sold to Charles Dobson (64\/64), Grimsby.
\n9.1.1919: Charles Dobson designated managing owner.
\n7.2.1919: Hull registry closed.
\n10.2.1919: Registered at Grimsby (GY102).
\n10.10.1919: Sold to The Home & Colonial Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64\/64), Great Yarmouth.
\n13.10.1919: William Thomas Young appointed manager.
\n12.12.1919: Vessel mortgaged (64\/64) to National Provincial & Union Bank of England Ltd, London (A).
\n23.4.1921: William Charles Pitcher, Gorleston appointed manager.
\n9.3.1922: Nat Swann, Gorleston appointed manager.
\n15.2.1924: Mortgagee re-styled National Provincial Bank Ltd, London.
\n24.8.1925: Mortgage (A) transferred to Eleanor Stewart, Newcastle upon Tyne.
\n23.9.1925: Sold by mortgagee under mortgage (A) to Fred Parkes, Blackpool (managing owner).
\n16.10.1925: Fred Parkes appointed manager.
\n31.12.1925: Sold to Sydney Charles Fox (16\/64), William Claudius Farrow (16\/64), William Boyd (16\/64) and George Altoft (16\/64) all Hull.
\n7.1.1926: Grimsby registry closed.
\n7.1.1926: William Claudius Farrow designated managing owner.
\n11.1.1926: Registered at Hull (H274).
\n1926: Sold to Ocean Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64\/64), Hull (George Altoft, manager).
\n6.11.1929: Sold to Holderness Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull (Kenneth Pocklington, managers).
\n1930: Kenneth Pocklington & James C. Wood appointed joint managers.
\n8.1.1936: Henry Laverack fell overboard in St. Andrews Dock, recovered and subsequently died from heart failure.
\n1936: Sold to Robert Hudson, Preston (managing owner) (The Sun Steam Trawling Co Ltd, managing agents).
\n15.8.1936: First landing at Fleetwood, 55 boxes grossed \u00a385.
\n13.2.1937: Foundered after collision 12m SE of Maughold Head, Isle of Man with the Fleetwood trawler GEORGE COUSINS (LO66); crew taken onboard GEORGE COUSINS.
\n14.2.1937: Survivors landed at Fleetwood. Wreck lies at a depth of 23.5 m in an upright position minus funnel.
\n26.7.1937: Hull registry closed \u201cTotal loss 13.2.37\u201d.<\/p>\n

Note : On Saturday night on the 12th of February 1937, the Hull registered trawler OCTAVIA, H 274, was in collision with the Fleetwood vessel GEORGE COUSINS roughly 12 miles south-east of Maughold Head on the Isle of Man. OCTAVIA was so badly damaged that she sank in a few minutes. The crew managed to scramble aboard GEORGE COUSINS with no loss of life.<\/p>\n

Aboard the OCTAVIA, two of the crew, the bosun H. Haslam and a deckhand W.Durbin had a very lucky escape. The two men had turned in and were asleep when water began to rush in through a gaping hole. The forecastle door jammed with the force of the impact and a lamp was upset pouring blazing paraffin all over the deck. For a few moments it was touch and go until they were able to force the door and release the men.<\/p>\n

The wreck lies at a depth of 23.5m and is still intact today, although the superstructure has sustained some damage. OCTAVIA stands upright with a slight starboard list although the funnel is detached. <\/p>\n

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

\"S.T.<\/a>

S.T. Octavia H274
\nPicture courtesy of The Mark Stopper Collection<\/p><\/div>\n

Changelog<\/em>
\n03\/01\/2009: Page published. 5 revisions since then.
\n20\/08\/2014: Information updated with latest information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Additional information courtesy Dictionary of Shipwrecks off the Isle of Man by Adrian Corkhill c2001 and Bill Blow. Technical Official Number 123238 Yard Number: 99 Completed: 1906 Gross Tonnage: 173.15 Net Tonnage: 53 Length: 108.5 ft Breadth: 21.6 ft Depth: 11.5 ft Engine: 270ihp T.3-cyl by Amos & Smith, Hull Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":261,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[477,3,452],"tags":[24,421],"class_list":["post-1993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lost-vessels","category-steam-trawlers","category-steamers-picture","tag-lost","tag-robert-hudson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993","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=1993"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11923,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions\/11923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}