{"id":2642,"date":"2009-01-08T09:38:54","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T09:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/?p=2642"},"modified":"2021-07-14T12:26:58","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T11:26:58","slug":"st-thomas-crofton-fd400","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/2009\/01\/st-thomas-crofton-fd400\/","title":{"rendered":"S.T. Thomas Crofton FD400"},"content":{"rendered":"

Additional information courtesy of Gary Hicks Plymouth Merchant Ships<\/a> and David Slinger<\/em><\/p>\n

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

Admiralty Number: 3661
\nOfficial Number: 143853
\nYard Number: 341
\nCompleted: 1917
\nGross Tonnage: 276.29
\nNet Tonnage: 124.66
\nLength: 125.0 ft
\nBreadth: 23.3 ft
\nDepth: 13.5 ft
\nBuilt: Bow, McLachlan & Co Ltd, Paisley
\nEngine: 480ihp T.3-cyl by Fawcett, Preston & Co Ltd, Liverpool
\nBoiler: Dunsmuir & Jackson Ltd, Govan <\/p>\n

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

18.6.1917: Launched by Bow, McLachlan & Co Ltd, Paisley (Yd.No.341) (\u201cCastle\u201d class) for The Admiralty as THOMAS CROFTON (Ad.No.3661).
\n12.7.1917: Completed (1 – 12pdr, hydrophone).
\n20.11.1919: Registered by The Admiralty at London (Part I) as THOMAS CROFTON O.N.143853.
\n4.5.1920: Sold by auction at Milford to Herbert Ford (64\/64), Birmingham for \u00a38,500.
\n7.1920: London registry closed.
\n15.7.1920: Registered at Plymouth (Part IV) (PH174).
\n23.7.1920: John Maxwell Jones, Plymouth designated manager.
\n20.1.1921: Vessel mortgaged (64\/64) to Barclays Bank Ltd, London (A).
\n16.10.1921: Mortgage (A) discharged.
\n24.10.1921: Sold to Crofton Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64\/64), Fleetwood.
\n16.12.1921: Vessel mortgaged (64\/64) to Barclays Bank Ltd, London (B).
\n17.12.1921: Vessel mortgaged (64\/64) to Herbert Ford, Birmingham for the sum of \u00a35,000 with interest at 6% (C).
\n17.12.1921: Mortgage (C) transferred to Barclays Bank Ltd, London.
\n24.12.1921: Jules Henri Nierinck, Blackpool designated manager.
\n20.2.1922: Plymouth registry closed.
\n21.2.1922: Registered at Fleetwood (FD400).
\n1924: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Grimsby.
\n9.3.1925: Registered at Fleetwood as REVESBY (FD400). Fred Parkes, Boston designated manager. Fishing out of Fleetwood.
\n24.6.1928: Crewed by a Faroese skipper and pilot and a mixed Fleetwood\/Faroese crew. Arrived Fleetwood from a thirty-two day Greenland halibut lining trip and landed forty head of mixed halibut and about a ton of salted cod caught on the Iceland grounds. First trip by a Fleetwood vessel to these grounds and suffered a financial loss.
\n26.6.1928: Despite a loss on the previous Greenland trip, coaled (230 tons) & iced in preparation for a another trip. Sailed on the evening tide on the 2,000 mile voyage. Included in the crew of sixteen are four Fleetwood men, Sk. George Carrol, flag skipper; Leo Malley, Ch Eng; Ernest Rogerson, 2nd Eng; and J. McSweeney, cook, the rest are Faroese.
\n25.7.1928: Arrived Fleetwood from Greenland and landed 1,800 head of halibut, 700 stone of cod and 3 tons of salt cod caught in only four days fishing.
\n1929: Sold to John McR Knight, Hakin; James C. Ward; George Knight & Morgan W. Howells, Milford Haven.
\n17.7.1929: Fleetwood registry closed.
\n18.7.1929: Registered at Milford (M28). John McR Knight, Hakin designated manager.
\n1931: Sold to Harry E. Rees, Milford Haven. Harry E. Rees designated managing owner.
\n20.10.1933: Sold to Morgan W. Howells, Milford Haven.
\n9.11.1933: Registered at Milford as GWMAHO (M28).
\n3.2.1936: Morgan W. Howells died.
\n23.10.1936: Sold to Gwenllian Howells & Charles E. Morris, Milford Haven.
\n4.11.1936: James Gwyther designated manager.
\n26.11.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a boom defence vessel (P.No.Z.135)(Hire rate \u00a380.10.0d\/month).
\n23.11.1943: Compulsorily acquired by M.O.W.T.
\n2.2.1946: Milford registry closed.
\n1951: Sold to BISCO and allocated to Thos. W. Ward Ltd, Sheffield for breaking up.
\n4.8.1951: Arrived at Briton Ferry. <\/p>\n

(Thomas Crofton, Private, Marine, age 29, b. Dublin – VICTORY (ML19))<\/p>\n

Changelog<\/em>
\n08\/01\/2009: Page published. 5 updates since then.
\n11\/01\/2014: Information updated.
\n30\/03\/2019: Information updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Additional information courtesy of Gary Hicks Plymouth Merchant Ships and David Slinger Technical Admiralty Number: 3661 Official Number: 143853 Yard Number: 341 Completed: 1917 Gross Tonnage: 276.29 Net Tonnage: 124.66 Length: 125.0 ft Breadth: 23.3 ft Depth: 13.5 ft Built: Bow, McLachlan & Co Ltd, Paisley Engine: 480ihp T.3-cyl by Fawcett, Preston & Co Ltd, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":261,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[77,17,439,40],"class_list":["post-2642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-steam-trawlers","tag-boston-dsf-i","tag-castle","tag-crofton-sfc","tag-parkes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642","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=2642"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25789,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642\/revisions\/25789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}