{"id":4434,"date":"2009-01-24T12:38:16","date_gmt":"2009-01-24T12:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/?p=4434"},"modified":"2020-07-05T15:46:14","modified_gmt":"2020-07-05T14:46:14","slug":"st-st-botolph-fd31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/2009\/01\/st-st-botolph-fd31\/","title":{"rendered":"S.T. St. Botolph FD31"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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

Official Number: 180469
\nYard Number: 758
\nCompleted: 1946
\nGross Tonnage: 361
\nNet Tonnage: 138
\nLength: 136.1 ft
\nBreadth: 25.2 ft
\nDepth: 13.2 ft
\nEngine: 600ihp T.3-cyl by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
\nBuilt: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley, 1945 <\/p>\n

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

21.11.1945: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.758) for Saint Andrew\u2019s Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull as St. BOTOLPH.
\n22.1.1946: Completed. Registered at Hull (H188). Basil Arthur Parkes designated manager.
\n1946: Sold to Neale & West Ltd, Cardiff. Hull registry closed. Registered at Cardiff (CF8).
\n4.4.1949: Outward for the fishing grounds (Sk. Rymer). In heavy seas off Barra responded to distress rockets from Icelandic fish carrier ELDBORG (280grt\/1928) bound Fleetwood disabled with engine damage. Connected and commenced 250 mile tow to Fleetwood.
\n5.4.1949: Delivered Fleetwood, ELDBORG landed 2,900 kits.
\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).
\n6.1956: Sold to St. Christopher Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Fleetwood. Cardiff registry closed.
\n11.1956: Converted for burning oil fuel, F.P. above 150\u00b0 F.
\n20.6.1956: Registered at Fleetwood (FD31). Fred Parkes, Blackpool, designated manager.
\n20.3.1963: Laid up in Glasson Dock.
\n9.1963: Sold to Lacmots Ltd, Glasson Dock for breaking up.
\n11.11.1963: Breaking up commenced. Fleetwood registry closed. <\/p>\n

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

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S.T. St. Botolph CF8
Picture from the Internet<\/p><\/div>\n

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S.T. St Botolph CF8
Picture courtesy of The David Buckley Collection<\/p><\/div>\n

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S.T. St Botolph FD31
\nPicture courtesy of The Frank Pook Collection<\/p><\/div>\n

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S.T. St. Botolph FD31
Picture \u00a9 Mike Helm<\/p><\/div>\n

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S.T. St. Botolph FD31
Picture courtesy of The Osta Collection<\/p><\/div>\n

Changelog<\/em>
\n24\/01\/2009: Page published. 6 updates since then.
\n14\/03\/2017: Added image and removed disputed image.
\n05\/07\/2020: Updated information and added an image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Additional information courtesy of David Slinger Technical Official Number: 180469 Yard Number: 758 Completed: 1946 Gross Tonnage: 361 Net Tonnage: 138 Length: 136.1 ft Breadth: 25.2 ft Depth: 13.2 ft Engine: 600ihp T.3-cyl by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley, 1945 History 21.11.1945: Launched by Cook, Welton […]<\/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":[40,106],"class_list":["post-4434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-steam-trawlers","category-steamers-picture","tag-parkes","tag-st-christopher-sfc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4434","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=4434"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25050,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4434\/revisions\/25050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}