{"id":1994,"date":"2009-01-02T10:15:22","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T10:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/?p=1994"},"modified":"2020-07-05T15:49:58","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T14:49:58","slug":"st-oku-cf3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/2009\/01\/st-oku-cf3\/","title":{"rendered":"S.T. Oku CF3"},"content":{"rendered":"

Additional information courtesy of David Slinger<\/em><\/p>\n

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

Official Number: 148311
\nYard Number: 882
\nCompleted: 1929
\nGross Tonnage: 303
\nNet Tonnage: 113
\nLength: 131 ft
\nBreadth: 24 ft
\nDepth: 13.2 ft
\nEngine: T.3-cyl by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, South Bank-on-Tees, Middlesbrough
\nBuilt: Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, South Bank-on-Tees, Middlesbrough<\/p>\n

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

3.10.1929: Launched by Smith\u2019s Dock Co Ltd, South Bank-on-Tees, Middlesbrough (Yd.No. 882) for Neale & West Ltd, Cardiff as OKU.
\n10.1929: Completed. Joshua S. Neale & Morley H. Neale designated managers. Registered at Cardiff (CF3).
\n31.8.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (Ad.No. (P.No.FY.660) (Hire rate \u00a3142.13.3d\/month).
\n2.1945: Returned.
\n5.1956: Neale & West Ltd closed their Cardiff base citing high coal prices, unruly crews and Spanish over-fishing; vessels for sale.
\n5.1956: Five vessels bought en bloc by Fred Parkes, Blackpool – AKITA (CF4), CHAFFCOMBE (CF18), OKU (CF3), SASEBO (CF27) and St. BOTOLPH (CF8).
\n5.1956: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fisheries Ltd, Fleetwood. Fred Parkes, Blackpool designated manager.
\n9.6.1956: Arrived Fleetwood.
\n10.2.1957: Sold to BISCO and allocated to Thos. W. Ward Ltd, Sheffield for breaking up.
\n19.2.1957: Sailed Fleetwood for Barrow.
\n20.2.1957: Delivered Barrow.
\n1957: Cardiff registry closed.<\/p>\n

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

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S.T. Oku CF3
Picture courtesy of The Greenday Collection<\/p><\/div>\n

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S.T. Oku CF3
Picture courtesy of The Greenday Collection<\/p><\/div>\n

Changelog<\/em>
\n02\/01\/2009: Page published. 3 updates since then.
\n20\/12\/2015: Pictures added.
\n08\/04\/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from images.
\n05\/07\/2020: Updated information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Additional information courtesy of David Slinger Technical Official Number: 148311 Yard Number: 882 Completed: 1929 Gross Tonnage: 303 Net Tonnage: 113 Length: 131 ft Breadth: 24 ft Depth: 13.2 ft Engine: T.3-cyl by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, South Bank-on-Tees, Middlesbrough Built: Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, South Bank-on-Tees, Middlesbrough History 3.10.1929: Launched by Smith\u2019s Dock Co […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":261,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,452],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-1994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-steam-trawlers","category-steamers-picture","tag-boston-dsf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994","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=1994"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25051,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions\/25051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}