{"id":5458,"date":"2009-03-05T17:26:54","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T17:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/?p=5458"},"modified":"2019-11-07T08:54:54","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T08:54:54","slug":"st-castor-gy963","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/2009\/03\/st-castor-gy963\/","title":{"rendered":"S.T. Castor GY963"},"content":{"rendered":"

Additional information courtesy of of Bill Blow<\/em><\/p>\n

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

Official Number: 138983
\nYard Number: 670
\nCompleted: 1916
\nGross Tonnage: 209
\nNet Tonnage: 91
\nLength: 115.8 ft
\nBreadth: 21.5 ft
\nDepth: 11.6 ft
\nBuilt: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby
\nEngine: 400ihp T.3-cyl by Crabtree & Co Ltd, Great Yarmouth
\nBoiler: Riley Bros (Boilermakers) Ltd, Stockton-on-Tees<\/p>\n

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

22.1.1916: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.670) for John Denton Marsden (64\/64), Grimsby as CASTOR.
\n18.8.1916: Registered at Grimsby (GY963).
\n1.9.1916: Completed.
\n6.9.1916: Sold to The Grimsby & North Sea Steam Trawling Co Ltd (64\/64), Grimsby.
\n7.9.1916: John Richardson Mackrill designated manager.
\n9.1916: Requisitioned for war service (Ad.No.2960).
\n9.1916: Fitted with WT, Hotchkiss 12pdr gun and mine-sweep. Fitted as Half Leader. Allocated to Unit No.150 \u201cTrawler Sweepers\u201d based Devonport (Lieut. W. Leitch RNR).
\n10.1916: Remains with Unit No.150 \u201cTrawler Sweepers\u201d now based Falmouth to replace Unit No.87 transferred to Havre. (Lieut. W. Leitch RNR).
\n3.1917: Renamed CASTOR II. Based Falmouth.
\n1.10.1918: At Penzance for General Patrol and Escort work (Lieut. RNR).
\n7.10.1918: At 10.45pm in collision and sank HM Drifter OCEAN FOAM (Ad.No.1954) (YH970) in Penzance Bay. All crew saved.
\nBy 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Grimsby and reverted to CASTOR (GY963).
\n19.12.1919: Alfred Bannister appointed manager.
\n5.8.1921: Sold to Lindsey Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby.
\n15.8.1921: Edwin Bacon Snr appointed manager.
\n15.4.1931: Vessel mortgaged (64\/64) to Edwin Bacon Snr, Grimsby.
\n29.11.1939: Requisitioned for war service designated for minesweeping conversion.
\n2.12.1939: Returned to owner.
\n21.5.1940: Mortgage (A) discharged.
\n22.10.1943: Sold to Bay Fisheries Ltd (64\/64), Fleetwood.
\n27.10.1943: Basil Arthur Parkes appointed manager.
\n02.05.1946: Grimsby registry closed.
\n04.05.1946: Sold to Government of Poland, Warsaw under the UNRRA scheme; operated by Przedsiebiorstwo Polowow Dalekomorskich i Uslug Rybackich “Dalmor”, Gdynia. Registered at Gdynia as KASTOR (GDY100).
\n18.05.1946: Arrived at Gdynia and employed in the Baltic Sea training fishermen.
\n27.07.1949: Taken out of service and temporarily used to supply steam to the training hulk BENIOWSKI (1912grt\/1905). Later broken up and Gdynia registry closed.<\/p>\n

ANNEX A<\/p>\n

9.1916: Fitted with WT and Hotchkiss 12pdr gun and fitted out for minesweeping duties (Ad.No.2960). Allocated to Unit 150 \u201cTrawler Sweepers\u201d based Devonport (Lieut. W. Leitch RNR).<\/p>\n

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

\"S.T.<\/a>

S.T. Kastor GDY100
Picture courtesy of The Roger Griffiths Collection<\/p><\/div>\n

\"S.T.<\/a>

S.T. Castor GY963
Picture courtesy of The Bill Blow Collection<\/p><\/div>\n

\"S.T.<\/a>

S.T. Castor GY963
Picture courtesy of The David Slinger Collection<\/p><\/div>\n

05\/03\/2009: Page published. 6 updates since then.
\n30\/06\/2016: Picture added.
\n09\/11\/2016: Picture added.
\n07\/11\/2019: Information updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Additional information courtesy of of Bill Blow Technical Official Number: 138983 Yard Number: 670 Completed: 1916 Gross Tonnage: 209 Net Tonnage: 91 Length: 115.8 ft Breadth: 21.5 ft Depth: 11.6 ft Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby Engine: 400ihp T.3-cyl by Crabtree & Co Ltd, Great Yarmouth Boiler: Riley Bros (Boilermakers) Ltd, Stockton-on-Tees History 22.1.1916: […]<\/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":[136,40],"class_list":["post-5458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-steam-trawlers","category-steamers-picture","tag-bay-fisheries-ltd","tag-parkes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5458","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=5458"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24700,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5458\/revisions\/24700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}