{"id":4623,"date":"2009-01-26T17:00:42","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T17:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/?p=4623"},"modified":"2022-04-01T17:32:49","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T16:32:49","slug":"st-aby-fd138","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/2009\/01\/st-aby-fd138\/","title":{"rendered":"S.T. Aby FD138"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Official Number: 180326
\nYard Number: 755
\nCompleted: 1945
\nGross Tonnage: 361
\nNet Tonnage: 139
\nLength: 136 ft
\nBreadth: 25.2 ft
\nDepth: 13.2 ft
\nBuilt: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley
\nEngine: 600ihp T.3-cyl by Charles D Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
\nSpeed: 11.7 knots <\/p>\n

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

18.5.1945: Laid down.
\n22.9.1945: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gems Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.755) for Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood as ABY.
\n26.11.1945: Registered at Fleetwood (FD138). Fred Parkes, Blackpool designated manager.
\n27.11.1945: Completed.
\n12.1945: First landing at Fleetwood, 700kits from a 16 day Faroe trip (Sk. Bob Wright).
\n7.10.1946: Sold to Seddon Fishing Co Ltd, London & Fleetwood. Borys Kilaczycki, London designated manager.
\n14.2.1949: Sold to Neale & West Ltd, Cardiff.
\n14.2.1949: Fleetwood registry closed.
\n1949: Registered at Cardiff as CHAFFCOMBE (CF18).
\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).
\n21.5.1956: Arrived Fleetwood.
\n6.1956: Sold to The Don Fishing Co Ltd, Aberdeen.
\n6.1956: Cardiff registry closed.
\n20.6.1956: Registered at Fleetwood (FD30). Fred Parkes, Blackpool designated manager.
\n12.1956: Converted for burning oil fuel, F.P. above 150\u00b0 F.
\n1.1957: Registered at Fleetwood as BOSTON GANNET (FD30). Basil Arthur Parkes designated manager.
\nBy 12.1961: Laid up at Fleetwood along with SUPERNAL (H414) and St. BOTOLPH (FD31).
\n11.1962: Reactivated.
\n19.11.1962: Sailed Fleetwood for Home Water grounds (Sk. S. Roberson); fifteen crew.
\n6.12.1962: Experienced machinery problems and put into Oban for repairs. On berthing struck quay causing considerable damage over about 20yds and setting in bow plates.
\n7.12.1962: On completion of repairs, sailed Oban to resume fishing. After landing at Fleetwood returned to lay up.
\n20.3.1963: Removed to Glasson Dock and laid up.
\n10.1963: Sold to West of Scotland Shipbreaking Co Ltd, Troon for breaking up.
\n6.10.1963: Arrived Troon.
\n8.10.1963: Breaking commenced.
\n18.10.1963: First beaching.
\n31.1.1964: First rebirthing.
\n15.4.1964: Second rebirthing.
\n20.5.1964: Breaking up completed. Fleetwood registry closed.<\/p>\n

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S.T. Aby FD138
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Changelog<\/em>
\n26\/01\/2009: Page published. 4 updates since then.
\n13\/01\/2017: Removed disputed image.
\n06\/07\/2020: Updated information.
\n22\/07\/2020: Further information update.
\n22\/07\/2020: Image added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Technical Official Number: 180326 Yard Number: 755 Completed: 1945 Gross Tonnage: 361 Net Tonnage: 139 Length: 136 ft Breadth: 25.2 ft Depth: 13.2 ft Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley Engine: 600ihp T.3-cyl by Charles D Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull Speed: 11.7 knots History 18.5.1945: Laid down. 22.9.1945: 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":[77,40,50],"class_list":["post-4623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-steam-trawlers","category-steamers-picture","tag-boston-dsf-i","tag-parkes","tag-seddon-fc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4623","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=4623"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26176,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4623\/revisions\/26176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}