{"id":4611,"date":"2009-01-26T14:24:26","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T14:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/?p=4611"},"modified":"2021-08-01T07:27:19","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T06:27:19","slug":"st-sea-sweeper-fd171","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/2009\/01\/st-sea-sweeper-fd171\/","title":{"rendered":"S.T. Sea Sweeper FD171"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Official Number: 139276
\nYard Number: 321
\nCompleted: 1915
\nGross Tonnage: 329
\nNet Tonnage: 138
\nLength: 136 ft
\nBreadth: 24 ft
\nDepth: 12.7 ft
\nEngine: 100nhp T.3-cyl and boiler by Amos & Smith Ltd, Hull
\nBuilt: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley
\nSpeed: 11 knots <\/p>\n

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

31.5.1915: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.321) for Humber Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull as SEA SWEEPER.
\n27.11.1915: Registered at Hull (H409).
\n9.12.1915: Completed. Richard Henry Hobbs designated manager.
\n1.1916: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-12pdr, Hydrophone) (Ad.No.1979). Based Harwich.
\n12.4.1917: Arrived Falmouth.
\n17.12.1917: Sailed Falmouth for Portland.
\n1918: Aegean Sea.
\nBy 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Hull.
\n3.11.1919: Sold to Fresh Fish Supplies Ltd, Hull. Thomas Nightingale designated manager.
\n8.2.1922: Sold to Thomas Hamling & Co Ltd, Hull along with SEA MONARCH (H411) for \u00a311,500 each. Harold Hall designated manager.
\n6.1.1926: Thomas Boyd designated manager.
\n4.5.1928: Sold to Dinas Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Fleetwood along with SEA MONARCH (H411) for \u00a37,000 each.
\n10.5.1928: Hull registry closed.
\n1.6.1928: Mortgaged to William Deacons Bank Ltd, London.
\n11.6.1928: Registered at Fleetwood (FD171). Joseph Arthur Marr Jnr designated manager.
\n18.6.1928: First landing at Fleetwood 280 boxes, mainly hake.
\n11.1939: On a trip to Donegal\/Tory Island ground (Sk. A. Tomlinson); eleven crew all told.
\n20.11.1939: Trawling 25 miles NW by W of Tory Island, Co. Donegal at 5.05 pm. stopped by U-boat (U.33) crew abandoned to boat and subsequently sunk by gunfire; crew picked up by steam trawler LOIS (FD424).
\n28.11.1939: Fleetwood registry closed \u201cSunk by enemy action\u201d.<\/p>\n

Click to enlarge image<\/em>
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S.T. Sea Sweeper FD171
\nPicture courtesy of The John Baird Collection<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

Changelog<\/em>
\n26\/01\/2009: Page published. 4 updates since then.
\n01\/08\/2021: Updated information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Technical Official Number: 139276 Yard Number: 321 Completed: 1915 Gross Tonnage: 329 Net Tonnage: 138 Length: 136 ft Breadth: 24 ft Depth: 12.7 ft Engine: 100nhp T.3-cyl and boiler by Amos & Smith Ltd, Hull Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley Speed: 11 knots History 31.5.1915: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":261,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,452,478],"tags":[21,24,18],"class_list":["post-4611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-steam-trawlers","category-steamers-picture","category-war-losses","tag-dinas","tag-lost","tag-war-loss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4611","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=4611"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25868,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4611\/revisions\/25868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}