{"id":2610,"date":"2009-01-08T09:17:42","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T09:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/?p=2610"},"modified":"2017-05-18T09:04:38","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T08:04:38","slug":"st-taranaki-a445","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/2009\/01\/st-taranaki-a445\/","title":{"rendered":"S.T. Taranaki A445"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Technical <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Official Number: 129376<br \/>\nYard Number: 366<br \/>\nCompleted: 1912<br \/>\nGross Tonnage: 247<br \/>\nNet Tonnage: 91<br \/>\nLength: 120.6 ft<br \/>\nBreadth: 22.6 ft<br \/>\nDepth: 12.6 ft<br \/>\nEngine: 79nhp T.3-cyl by W. V. V. Lidgerwood, Coatbridge<br \/>\nBuilt: J Duthie Torrey Shipbuilding Co, Aberdeen<\/p>\n<p><strong>History <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>20.1.1912:  Launched by John Duthie Torry Shipbuilding Co, Aberdeen (Yd. No.366) for John G. Smith, Fleetwood (managing owner) as TARANAKI.<br \/>\n2.1912:  Completed.<br \/>\n21.2.1912:  Registered at Aberdeen (A445).<br \/>\n8.1914:  Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-12pdr, 1-6pdr) (Ad.No.347).<br \/>\n1915:  Fitted out and also employed as a \u2018Q\u2019 ship.<br \/>\n23.6.1915:  Operating off the Aberdeenshire coast as a decoy trawler (Lt Cdr Edwards RNR) towing\/and in company with HM S\/M C.24 (Lt Taylor RN).  C-24 stalked and subsequently sank U.boat (U40) in position 57\u00b000N\/01\u00b050W; twenty nine dead, unknown number of survivors.  Later reverted to minesweeping.  Based Granton.<br \/>\nBy 12.3.1919:  Returned to owner at Aberdeen.<br \/>\n1919:  Sold to The Stepney Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Scarborough (Abraham Moore, manager).<br \/>\n23.2.1920:  Aberdeen registry closed.<br \/>\n2.1920:  Registered at Scarborough (SH225).<br \/>\n5.1920:  On a North Sea trip (Sk. Charles Wray); ten crew.<br \/>\n9.5.1920:  At about 12.30am. hauling some 35 miles NE of Scarborough when a mine was seen snagged on the fore trawl board, veered the winch but mine exploded causing extensive damage to the fore end. Deckhand T. Mollon was killed.  As vessel foundered nine survivors took to boat and picked up an hour later by  steam trawler Strathspey (A92) which was fishing in the area.<\/p>\n<p>(Survivors &#8211; Sk. Charles Wray; Samuel Smelley, Mate;  Charles Mansfield, 3rd Hand;  George Skelton, Ch.Eng;  Thomas Raine, 2nd Eng; Arthur Wray, deckhand;  A. Fowler, spare hand;  W. Lindsay, fireman and W. Hollingsworth, cook)   <\/p>\n<p><em>Changelog<\/em><br \/>\n08\/01\/2009: Page published. 6 updates since then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technical Official Number: 129376 Yard Number: 366 Completed: 1912 Gross Tonnage: 247 Net Tonnage: 91 Length: 120.6 ft Breadth: 22.6 ft Depth: 12.6 ft Engine: 79nhp T.3-cyl by W. V. V. Lidgerwood, Coatbridge Built: J Duthie Torrey Shipbuilding Co, Aberdeen History 20.1.1912: Launched by John Duthie Torry Shipbuilding Co, Aberdeen (Yd. No.366) for John G. [&hellip;]<\/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],"tags":[517,24],"class_list":["post-2610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lost-vessels","category-steam-trawlers","tag-john-g-smith-fleetwood","tag-lost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610","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=2610"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21150,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610\/revisions\/21150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}