{"id":3396,"date":"2009-01-14T12:25:47","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T12:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/?p=3396"},"modified":"2016-12-10T09:35:27","modified_gmt":"2016-12-10T09:35:27","slug":"st-braconglen-fd283","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/2009\/01\/st-braconglen-fd283\/","title":{"rendered":"S.T. Braconglen FD283"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Official Number: 180337
\nYard Number: 377
\nCompleted: 1949
\nGross Tonnage: 338
\nNet Tonnage: 123
\nLength: 137.5 ft
\nBreadth: 25.6 ft
\nDepth: 12.3 ft
\nEngine: T.3-cyl by Amos & Smith Ltd, Hull. Built 1945, fitted 1949. Fitted: for burning oil fuel, F.P. above 150\u00b0 F
\nBuilt: Richards Ironworks Ltd, Lowestoft<\/p>\n

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

2.12.1948: Launched by Richards Ironworks Ltd, Lowestoft (Yd.No.377) for Don Fishing Co Ltd, Aberdeen (Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood) (Basil A. Parkes, manager) as BRACONGLEN.
\n3.1949: Completed. Registered at Fleetwood (FD283).
\n13.5.1949: First landing at Fleetwood, 1286 boxes grossed \u00a33,729.
\n28.7.1950: Last landing at Fleetwood 381 boxes grossed \u00a31,219.
\n7.1950: Sold to Government of Ceylon, Colombo (Edmund R. A. de Zylva, Director of Fisheries). Taken in hand by Richards and fitted with refrigerated fishroom and air conditioning.
\n1950: At Lowestoft yard of Richards Ironworks Ltd. Fitted with fish room refrigeration and accommodation modfied and air conditioned by J. & E. Hall Ltd, Dartford.
\n1950: Fleetwood registry closed.
\n1951: Registered at Columbo.
\nPre 1966: Transferred to Government of Ceylon (Government Stores Dept), Colombo.
\n1971: Sank in Colombo harbour. <\/p>\n

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

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S.T. Braconglen FD283
\nPicture courtesy of The Osta Collection<\/p><\/div>\n

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S.T. Braconglen FD283
\nPicture courtesy of the JJ collection<\/p><\/div>\n

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S.T. Braconglen FD283
\nPicture courtesy of Fred Baker<\/p><\/div>\n

Changelog<\/em>
\n14\/01\/2009: Page published. 3 updates since then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Technical Official Number: 180337 Yard Number: 377 Completed: 1949 Gross Tonnage: 338 Net Tonnage: 123 Length: 137.5 ft Breadth: 25.6 ft Depth: 12.3 ft Engine: T.3-cyl by Amos & Smith Ltd, Hull. Built 1945, fitted 1949. Fitted: for burning oil fuel, F.P. above 150\u00b0 F Built: Richards Ironworks Ltd, Lowestoft History 2.12.1948: Launched by Richards […]<\/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":[77,24,40],"class_list":["post-3396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lost-vessels","category-steam-trawlers","category-steamers-picture","tag-boston-dsf-i","tag-lost","tag-parkes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3396","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=3396"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26341,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3396\/revisions\/26341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}