{"id":2748,"date":"2009-01-08T13:15:44","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T13:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/?p=2748"},"modified":"2018-04-29T08:17:56","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T07:17:56","slug":"st-walwyns-castle-lo231","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/2009\/01\/st-walwyns-castle-lo231\/","title":{"rendered":"S.T. Walwyns Castle LO231"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Technical<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Official Number: 128945<br \/>\nYard Number: 537<br \/>\nCompleted: 1913<br \/>\nGross Tonnage: 225<br \/>\nNet Tonnage: 100<br \/>\nLength: 125 ft<br \/>\nBreadth: 23.5 ft<br \/>\nDepth: 12.3 ft<br \/>\nEngine: T.3-cyl by Smith&#8217;s Dock Co Ltd, Middlesbrough<br \/>\nBuilt: Smith&#8217;s Dock Co Ltd, Middlesbrough<\/p>\n<p><strong>History<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2.8.1913:  Launched by Smith\u2019s Dock Co Ltd, South Bank-on-Tees, Middlesbrough (Yd.No.537) for  The Castle Steam Trawlers  Ltd, Swansea as WALWYNS CASTLE.<br \/>\n19.9.1913:  Completed (Crawford Heron, manager).<br \/>\n19.9.1913:  Registered at Swansea (SA9).<br \/>\n8.11.1914:  Mortgaged to De Eerste Nederlandsche Scheepsverband Maatschappij, Dordrecht. (A).<br \/>\n5.1915:  Requisitioned for war service.<br \/>\n28.5.1915:  Commissioned.<br \/>\n29.5.1915:  Arrived Falmouth.   Fitted out for auxiliary patrol duties (Ad.No.1774).  Northern Patrol.<br \/>\n12.6.1918:  Transferred from Northern Patrol to Devonport.<br \/>\n1.7.1918:  Sailed Devonport for Falmouth.<br \/>\n6.7.1918:  Sailed Falmouth escorting Convoy O.F.42 to Mediterranean.  Based Malta.<br \/>\n22.10.1918:  Sold to Consolidated Steam Fishing &#038; Ice Co (Grimsby) Ltd, Grimsby (John D. Marsden, manager).<br \/>\nPost 12.3.1919:  Returned to owner at Hull, then continued to fish from Swansea<br \/>\n12.1919:  On a trip to Irish grounds.<br \/>\n30.12.1919:  When some 150 miles west of Lundy came upon a disabled motor boat with five men onboard.  Men were only survivors of eighteen onboard the American six masted schooner ELEANOR A. PERCY (3.401grt\/1900), cargo grain, Rio de Janeiro for Copenhagen, which had foundered on 26.12.1919 in approximate position 48.30N 17.45W after springing a leak.<br \/>\n31.12.1919:  Survivors landed at Swansea.<br \/>\n3.2.1919:  Mortgage discharged (A).<br \/>\n27.11.1923:  Mortgaged to London Joint City &#038; Merchants Bank Ltd, London (B).<br \/>\n29.6.1927:  Owners re-styled Consolidated Fisheries Ltd (Sir John D. Marsden, manager).<br \/>\n14.2.1940:  Requisitioned for war service and fitted out at Sharpness for minesweeping duties (P.No.FY.866)(Hire rate \u00a365.17.6d\/month) (Sk. J. McLeman RNR). Based Stornoway. 15.5.1942:  Mortgage discharged (B).<br \/>\n6.1942:  Sold to The Hewett Fishing Co Ltd, London &#038; Fleetwood (Robert H. Hewett, manager).<br \/>\n10.6.1942:  Swansea registry closed.<br \/>\n12.6.1942:  Registered at London (LO231).<br \/>\n3.1946:  Returned.<br \/>\n3.1946:  Sold to BISCO and allocated to West of Scotland Shipbreaking Co Ltd, Troon for breaking up.<br \/>\n25.3.1946:  Delivered Troon.<br \/>\n1946:  London registry closed.   <\/p>\n<p><em>Changelog<\/em><br \/>\n08\/01\/2009: Page published. 5 revisions since then.<br \/>\n21\/08\/2014: Information updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technical Official Number: 128945 Yard Number: 537 Completed: 1913 Gross Tonnage: 225 Net Tonnage: 100 Length: 125 ft Breadth: 23.5 ft Depth: 12.3 ft Engine: T.3-cyl by Smith&#8217;s Dock Co Ltd, Middlesbrough Built: Smith&#8217;s Dock Co Ltd, Middlesbrough History 2.8.1913: Launched by Smith\u2019s Dock Co Ltd, South Bank-on-Tees, Middlesbrough (Yd.No.537) for The Castle Steam Trawlers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":261,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-2748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-steam-trawlers","tag-hewett-fishing-co"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748","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=2748"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18760,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748\/revisions\/18760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}