{"id":9316,"date":"2010-08-10T12:18:46","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T11:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/?p=9316"},"modified":"2018-09-08T08:40:10","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T07:40:10","slug":"s-t-van-oost-o296","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/2010\/08\/s-t-van-oost-o296\/","title":{"rendered":"S.T. Van Oost O296 (Wartime visitor)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a9 Mike Thompson for FMHT<\/em><\/p>\n

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

Official Number: 149077
\nYard Number: 461
\nCompleted: 1926
\nGross Tonnage: 352
\nNet Tonnage: 147
\nLength: 140.3 ft
\nBreadth: 24.0 ft
\nDepth: 12.9 ft
\nEngine: T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
\nbuilt: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley <\/p>\n

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

24.10.1925: The board of Kingston Steam Trawling Co Ltd decided to build two more distant water trawlers to the same design as the ANDALUSITE (Yd.No.461) built by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd. Contracts were signed with the shipyard to build the ships at a cost of \u00a38,350 each and with C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd to make the engines and boilers at \u00a36,175 each unit. Total cost \u00a314,525 per vessel. Names chosen were SARDIUS and TOURMALINE.<\/p>\n

4.3.1926: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.482) for Kingston Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull as TOURMALINE.
\n20.4.1926: Registered at Hull (H290) (Official Number: 149077).
\n28.4.1926: Completed trials and accepted (John W. Lown, manager).
\n1.5.1926: Sailed on first trip to Iceland.
\n20.5.1926: Landed 858 kits grossed \u00a31,050.
\n16.3.1939: Sold to N.V. Motorvisscherij, Ostend for \u00a33,650.
\n20.3.1939: Hull registry closed.
\n4.1939: May have been registered at Ostend as VANDERMEER (O296) for a short period.
\n4.1939: Re measured 336.45Brt 129.48n.
\n4.1939: Registered at Ostend as VAN OOST (O296).
\n5.1940: Escaped to England.
\n21.5.1940: Arrived Fleetwood.
\n7.7.1940: Requisitioned for war service on miscellaneous Naval duties (P.N. FY.330). Based Reydarfjord, Iceland as Local defence trawler. Belgian crew.
\n13.11.1945: Returned to owner.
\n4.1946: Special Survey at Ghent. Re classed as a Steam Trawler.
\n1948: Re measured in accordance with British rules 352g 147n.
\n1.1948: Sold to Government of Poland, Warsaw (Ministry of Industry & Commerce) (\u201cDalmor\u201d Przedsiobiorstwo Polowow DalekomorskichSp.z.ogr.odp, Gdynia, managers).
\n16.1.1948: Ostend registry closed.
\n16.1.1948: Registered at Gdynia as MERKURY (GDY120).
\n4.1962: Sold to Polish shipbreakers. Gdynia registry closed. <\/p>\n

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

\"S.T.<\/a>

S.T. Tourmaline H290
Picture courtesy The Mike Thompson Collection<\/p><\/div>\n

Changelog<\/em><\/p>\n

10\/08\/2010: Page published. 4 updates since then.
\n08\/09\/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a9 Mike Thompson for FMHT Technical Official Number: 149077 Yard Number: 461 Completed: 1926 Gross Tonnage: 352 Net Tonnage: 147 Length: 140.3 ft Breadth: 24.0 ft Depth: 12.9 ft Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley History 24.10.1925: The board of Kingston Steam […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":261,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,452,133],"tags":[134],"class_list":["post-9316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-steam-trawlers","category-steamers-picture","category-wartime-visitors","tag-wartime-visitor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9316","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=9316"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22923,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9316\/revisions\/22923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}