{"id":9342,"date":"2010-08-12T08:51:47","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T07:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/?p=9342"},"modified":"2021-02-27T07:44:36","modified_gmt":"2021-02-27T07:44:36","slug":"s-t-john-morrice-a786","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/2010\/08\/s-t-john-morrice-a786\/","title":{"rendered":"S.T. John Morrice A786"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wartime Visitor<\/em><\/p>\n

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

Admiralty Number: 4417
\nOfficial Number: 144316
\nYard Number: 644
\nCompleted: 1918
\nGross Tonnage: 203
\nNet Tonnage: 88
\nLength: 115.4 ft
\nBreadth: 22.1 ft
\nDepth: 12.1 ft
\nEngine: 430ihp T.3-cyl by Hall, Russell & Co Ltd, Aberdeen
\nBuilt: Hall, Russell & Co Ltd, Aberdeen<\/p>\n

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

9.10.1918: Launched by Hall, Russell & Co Ltd, Aberdeen (Yd.No.644) (\u201cStrath\u201d Class) for The Admiralty as THOMAS BARCLAY (Ad.No.4417).
\n31.10.1918: Completed unarmed.
\n7.1.1920: Registered by The Admiralty at London (Part I) as THOMAS BARCLAY O.N.144316.
\n1920: Allocated to the Minesweepers\u2019 Cooperative Trawling Society Ltd, London.
\n13.8.1920: Minesweepers\u2019 Cooperative Trawling Society Ltd, London registered.
\n8.1920: At Wivenoe completed fitting out for fishing under Special Survey of Lloyd\u2019s Register and classed 100A1 Stm Trawler at Wivenhoe.
\n24.08.1920: Registered by The Admiralty at London (Part IV) (LO444). Laid up.
\n11.1921: Sold to Harry Alexander Holmes, Aberdeen.
\n7.11.1921: London registry closed.
\n22.11.1921: Registered at Aberdeen (A786).
\n30.12.1921: Registered at Aberdeen as JOHN MORRICE (A786) (BoT Minute No.36595 dated 23.12.1921).
\n30.1.1929: Sold to George Dow Taylor, Alexander Malcolm Morrice, Margaret Morrice, John Morrice & Mary Morrice, Aberdeen (Alexander M. Morrice, managing owner).
\n28.5.1937: Landed at Fleetwood 240 boxes \u2018rock lined\u2019, \u00a3345 gross.
\n27.6.1938: Sold to George D. Taylor, Alexander Malcolm Morrice, John Morrice, Mary Jane Hardie Morrice, James Johnstone & William Davidson, Aberdeen (H. A. Holmes, manager).
\n28.3.1940: Sold to North Star Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Aberdeen (John A. Harrow, manager).
\n1940: Fishing from Fleetwood.
\n9.3.1940: Fishing 12 miles NW of Tory Island, Co. Donegal in company with ALVIS (H52); FLYING ADMIRAL (H66); PELAGOS (GN55) and SEDOCK (SN12) and reported with the Irish trawler LEUKOS (D86) also in the vicinity. Group approached by U-boat (U.38) which fired a single round at a trawler, hitting her in the engineroom and sinking her. Although no conclusive evidence confirms, the trawler probably was the LEUKOS; all eleven crew lost*<\/strong>.
\n6.1940: Slipped at Fleetwood.
\n1942: Returned to Aberdeen.
\n9.2.1946: Sold to The River Ness Fishing Co Ltd, Aberdeen (George Craig, manager).
\n7.9.1955: Company re-styled River Ness Fishing Co (1955) Ltd.
\n23.2.1959: Sold to John Lewis & Sons Ltd, Aberdeen for breaking up at Montrose.
\n9.1959: Sold to Atlantic Rhederei F. & W. Joch, Hamburg.
\n4.10.1959: Delivered Hamburg for breaking up.
\n8.10.1959: Aberdeen registry closed \u201c Vessel sold to foreigners (German subjects)\u201d.<\/p>\n

Lost*<\/strong> – Sk. James P. Thomason (28), Fleetwood & Dublin; William Donnelly, Blackpool, Mate; P. J. Scanlon, Cleethorpes, Bosun; Alexander McLeod, Stornoway, Ch Eng; Bernard Smith (23), Dublin, 2nd Eng; Thomas Mulligan, Fleetwood & Dublin & Anthony Pill, Fleetwood & Dublin, deckhands; Michael Cullen (17), Dublin, fireman; Patricio McCarthy (42) Dublin, cook; James Hawkins (17) Fleetwood & Dublin & Robert Sumler (16), Fleetwood & Dublin, apprentices<\/p>\n

Click to enlarge image<\/em>
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S.T. John Morrice A786
Picture courtesy of The Tony Frith Collection<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

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S.T. John Morrice A786
Picture courtesy of The JJ Collection<\/p><\/div>\n

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S.T John Morrice A786 at the breakers.
\nPicture courtesy the Walter L Hume Collection<\/p><\/div>\n

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

12\/08\/2010: Page published. 8 updates since then.
\n11\/09\/2018: Removed FMHT watermarks from images.
\n27\/02\/2021: Updated history and technical details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wartime Visitor Technical Admiralty Number: 4417 Official Number: 144316 Yard Number: 644 Completed: 1918 Gross Tonnage: 203 Net Tonnage: 88 Length: 115.4 ft Breadth: 22.1 ft Depth: 12.1 ft Engine: 430ihp T.3-cyl by Hall, Russell & Co Ltd, Aberdeen Built: Hall, Russell & Co Ltd, Aberdeen History 9.10.1918: Launched by Hall, Russell & Co Ltd, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":261,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,452,133],"tags":[204,89,134],"class_list":["post-9342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-steam-trawlers","category-steamers-picture","category-wartime-visitors","tag-no-fleetwood-owners","tag-strath-class","tag-wartime-visitor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9342","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=9342"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25470,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9342\/revisions\/25470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fleetwood-trawlers.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}