{"id":4692,"date":"2009-01-27T17:21:13","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T17:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/?p=4692"},"modified":"2025-11-10T09:55:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T09:55:21","slug":"st-owl-h801","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/2009\/01\/st-owl-h801\/","title":{"rendered":"S.T. Owl H801"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Official Number: 118795
\nYard Number: 60
\nCompleted: 1904
\nGross Tonnage: 168.75
\nNet Tonnage: 49.61
\nLength: 110.3 ft
\nBreadth: 21.1 ft
\nDepth: 11.2 ft
\nBuilt: Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co Ltd, Goole
\nEngine: 285ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co, Hull<\/p>\n

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

23.11.1903: Launched by Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co Ltd, Goole (Yd.No.60) for Kelsall Brothers & Beeching Ltd (64\/64), Hull as OWL.
\n21.12.1903: Registered at Hull (H801). George Beeching, Hull & John E. A. Kelsall, London designated managers.
\n1.1904: Completed.
\n1.1.1914: Tonnage altered to 63.89 net under provision of Merchant Shipping Act 1907.
\n10.1914: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-6pdr HA) (Ad.No.373). Based Stornoway Command.
\n5.2.1915: Renamed OWL II.
\n5.2.1915: At about 4.00 pm. in high seas and SW gale, patrol vessels ran for shelter in Broad Bay. At about 7.25 pm. dragged anchor and grounded on rocks.
\n6.2.1915: Weather eased and at 1.00 am. crew launched boat and reached shore. Surveyed, 5ft clear of surface water at LWS with 35\u00b0 list to starboard, bilge keel gone and considerable damage to shell plating in vicinity, port side undamaged but water in bunkers and fishroom.
\n20.2.1915: Preparing launchways to refloat. Between 8.00 and 8.30 pm. with steam tug FLYING BUZZARD (200grt\/1912) and drifter connected failed to move; tide did not make as predicted.
\n21.2.1915: Further attempt at 8.15 am. but tug hawser parted.
\n8.15 – 8.40 pm. again unsuccessful.
\n22.2.1915: Tide failed to make as predicted.
\n21.3.1915: Refloated and beached at Stornoway. Subsequently towed to Belfast for repair and return to service. Based Humber.
\nBy 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Hull. Reverted to OWL (H801).
\n7.6.1919: Vessel mortgaged (64\/64) to The London County Westminster & Parr\u2019s Bank Ltd, London (A). John Slater designated manager.
\n6.3.1923: Mortgagee re-styled as Westminster Bank Ltd, London.
\n14.10.1927: Mortgage (A) transferred to William Augustus Hayward, Eastbourne.
\n14.10.1927: Mortgage (A) transferred to Mercantile Marine Finance Corporation Ltd, London.
\n28.9.1928: Robert Burton designated manager.
\n16.9.1932: Charles Hugh Emerson designated manager.
\n10.1932: Mercantile Marine Finance Corporation Ltd in liquidation.
\n1.11.1932: Mortgage (A) transferred to Harold Frank Hayward, London; Maud Florence Katherine Rogers, Chelsea and Ernest Norton, London (Joint mortgagees).
\n23.1.1936: Mortgage (A) discharged.
\n11.2.1936: Sold to Brixham Trawlers Ltd, Brixham.
\n14.2.1936: Vessel mortgaged (64\/64) to Harold Frank Hayward, London; Maud Florence Katherine Rogers, Corfe Castle and Ernest Norton, London (Joint mortgagees) for the sum of \u00a3750 with interest at 5% (B). Ralph S. Dugdale designated manager.
\n2.1936: Arrived Brixham after modifications costing \u00a3400. Sk. V. R. Smith appointed.
\n12.1937: Transferred to Fleetwood when Brixham Trawlers Ltd moved to the port.
\n3.12.1937: Sailed Brixham for Fleetwood in company with VIREO (H446), fishing round.
\n16.12.1937: First landing at Fleetwood, 78 boxes, grossed \u00a3140.
\n2.12.1938: Brixham Trawlers Ltd registered office transferred to Fleetwood. Ralph S. Dugdall designated manager.
\n9.2.1939: Mortgage (B) discharged.
\n13.2.1939: Vessel mortgaged to Midland Bank Ltd, London (C).
\n23.7.1943: Typical wartime landing, Home Waters. 340 kits – hake-80, cod\/codling-50, haddock-30, flats-30, ling\/coley-150.
\n01.10.1947: While fishing off The Chickens, Isle Of Man, (Sk. George Hargreaves) picked up a mine which exploded below the water. No injuries sustained. This was the second time that OWL had picked up a mine.
\n20.5.1953: Last landing at Fleetwood. Mortgage (C) discharged.
\n6.1953: Sold to William MacKenzie & Sons Ltd, Aberdeen. William MacKenzie designated manager.
\n1956: Sold for breaking up. (Belgium?). Hull registry closed.<\/p>\n

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Changelog<\/em>
\n27\/01\/2009: Page published. 2 updates since then.
\n31\/07\/2017: Removed disputed image and uploaded another.
\n22\/05\/2020: Updated information and added an image.
\n28\/02\/2021: Added an image.
\n10\/11\/2025: History updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Technical Official Number: 118795 Yard Number: 60 Completed: 1904 Gross Tonnage: 168.75 Net Tonnage: 49.61 Length: 110.3 ft Breadth: 21.1 ft Depth: 11.2 ft Built: Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co Ltd, Goole Engine: 285ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co, Hull History 23.11.1903: Launched by Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co Ltd, Goole […]<\/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":[76],"class_list":["post-4692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-steam-trawlers","category-steamers-picture","tag-brixham-trawlers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4692","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=4692"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27059,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4692\/revisions\/27059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}