{"id":896,"date":"2008-12-19T17:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-19T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/?p=896"},"modified":"2020-07-22T08:15:47","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T07:15:47","slug":"st-ethel-crawford-fd404","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/2008\/12\/st-ethel-crawford-fd404\/","title":{"rendered":"S.T. Ethel Crawford FD404"},"content":{"rendered":"

Additional information courtesy of Douglas Paterson and Andy Hall<\/em><\/p>\n

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

Admiralty Number: 4229
\nOfficial Number: 143257
\nYard Number: 275
\nCompleted: 1919
\nGross Tonnage: 200
\nNet Tonnage: 97
\nLength: 115.8 ft
\nBreadth: 22.2 ft
\nDepth: 12.2 ft
\nEngine: 430ihp T.3-cyl by W. H. Allen, Son & Co Ltd, Bedford
\nBuilt: Scott & Sons Ltd, Bowling<\/p>\n

History <\/strong>
\n20.3.1919: Launched by Scott & Sons Ltd, Bowling (Yd.No.275) (\u201cStrath\u201d class) for The Admiralty as JOHN LANGSHAW (Ad.No.4229).
\n25.4.1919: Completed as a fishing vessel.
\n5.1919: Sold to Richard Wardell Crawford, Scarborough.
\n13.5.1919: Registered at Scarborough Part I & IV as ETHEL CRAWFORD. Official No.143257 (SH75). Richard Wardell Crawford designated managing owner.
\n21.11.1919: Sold to The Robin Hood Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Scarborough. Richard W. Crawford designated manager.
\n22.7.1920: Sold to Herbert Ford, Birmingham. Arthur G. Stietes, Liverpool designated manager.
\n22.12.1921: Sold to The Ethel Crawford Steam Fishing Co Ltd (Louis Cohen), Fleetwood
\n1.3.1922: Scarborough registry closed.
\n4.3.1922: Registered at Fleetwood (FD404). Jules H. Nierinck, Blackpool designated manager.
\n1924: Sold to Richard Watson Lewis, Pitfodels, Aberdeen.
\n18.9.1924: Fleetwood registry closed.
\n24.9.1924: Registered at Aberdeen (A36). Richard Watson Lewis designated managing owner.
\n24.6.1926: At Aberdeen Sheriff Court, James G. Bruce, fireman was charged with willfully disobeying the lawful command of the skipper to join the vessel. The accused\u2019s wife appeared and tendered a plea of guilty on his behalf. Fined two days wages (19s) with \u00a31.8.4d expenses. John Mair, deckhand pleaded guilty to a similar offence. Plea of guilty tendered by his mother and a similar penalty imposed.
\n22.3.1930: Outward for Shetland fishing grounds having coaled at a Forth port, stranded on rocks off May Island; bottom damage and crew taken off by m.f.v. WINEWAY (KY279).
\n26.3.1930: Refloated with Leith tug EARL OF POWIS (116grt\/1882) connected and delivered Anstruther.
\n15.12.1932: Sold to North Eastern Fisheries Ltd, Aberdeen. Sir Andrew Lewis designated manager.
\n31.10.1937: When lying alongside at Point Law, Aberdeen, a watchman saw flames coming from her port side. Fire brigade attended and found the outbreak had occurred in the coal bunkers. After two and a half hours fire extinguished and pumping began of the 4ft of water in the engineroom. The fire master and his deputy were down below when there was a sudden blue flash and a loud explosion, the two men feeling the blast. The wheelhouse door was blown to pieces and it was believed that the explosion was a result of gas accumulation under the deck. The damage repair amounted to \u00a3200.
\n9.2.1940: Sold to George Gallie Paton, Glasgow. George G. Paton designated managing owner.
\n23.4.1942: George Gallie Paton died.
\n22.7.1942: Ownership passed to Margaret Munro Crawford or Paton, John Grant, Glasgow and John Munro Crawford, Giffnock. Walter K. Paton Ltd, Glasgow, designated managers.
\n17.9.1942: Sold to Ardrossan Trawling Co Ltd, Ardrossan. Walter K. Paton Ltd, Glasgow designated managers.
\n20.4.1945: Foundered in Firth of Clyde off Ailsa Craig at about 9.00pm in position 55.13N 05.14W, after encountering a magnetic mine laid by U-Boat (probably U.218 laid on 18.4.1945); all ten crew MPK*<\/strong>.
\n30.4.1945: Aberdeen registry closed \u201cVessel blew up while fishing …\u201d.<\/p>\n

(John Langshaw (aka Langshawe), OS, age 21, b. Liverpool – VICTORY (SB892))<\/p>\n

(MPK*<\/strong> Skipper Arthur M. Scales (53), Edinburgh; William Bowman (56), Edinburgh, Mate; Roy H. C. Wright (27), Newhaven, 2nd fisherman; James W. Geddes (46), Chief Eng, Edinburgh; Thomas Drysdale (57), 2nd Eng.; Thomas T. Ritchie (53), Leith, deckhand; Thomas Shanley (44), Edinburgh, deckhand; Robert Ewing (52), Ayr, cook; Alexander S. Shields (38), Newhaven, fireman and John J. Henry (27), Leith, trimmer.)<\/p>\n

Click to enlarge image<\/em>
\n

\"Ethel<\/a>

Ethel Crawford Memorial
Picture from the Internet<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

Changelog<\/em>
\n8\/12\/2008: Page published. 4 updates since then.
\n21\/07\/2017: Information updated.
\n22\/07\/2020: Updated information and added an image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Additional information courtesy of Douglas Paterson and Andy Hall Technical Admiralty Number: 4229 Official Number: 143257 Yard Number: 275 Completed: 1919 Gross Tonnage: 200 Net Tonnage: 97 Length: 115.8 ft Breadth: 22.2 ft Depth: 12.2 ft Engine: 430ihp T.3-cyl by W. H. Allen, Son & Co Ltd, Bedford Built: Scott & Sons Ltd, Bowling History […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":261,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[477,3,478],"tags":[208,24,206,89,18],"class_list":["post-896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lost-vessels","category-steam-trawlers","category-war-losses","tag-ethel-crawford-sfc","tag-lost","tag-louis-cohen","tag-strath-class","tag-war-loss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896","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=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25092,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions\/25092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}