Technical

Official Number: 163990
Yard Number: 1139
Completed: 1935
Gross Tonnage: 448
Net Tonnage: 190
Length: 157.3 ft
Breadth: 26.1 ft
Depth: 14.1 ft
Built: Cochrane & Son Ltd, Selby
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull

History

18.4.1935: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.1139) for Pickering & Haldane’s Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull as LORD STANHOPE.
3.6.1935: Registered at Hull (H199).
12.6.1935: Completed at a cost of £19,525 (Albert Turgoose & James Clark, joint managers).
17.6.1935: Sailed Hull for first trip to Iceland (Sk. C. Smith).
6.7.1935: At Hull landed 795 kits grossd £996.
5.1937: In collision with Norwegian fishing boat HILDUR near Baasfjord, northern Norway; boat cut in two and sank. Skipper and one man picked up but four lost.
25.7.1939: Insured value £21.800.
4.8.1939: Sailed Hull for White Sea (Sk. C. Smith).
25.8.1939: At Hull landed 1,881 kits £1,482 gross.
1939: To requisitioning, at Hull landed from White Sea/Iceland (Sks. C. Smith, G. Smith) 223 days 14,409 kits £14,586 gross.
25.8.1939: Requisitioned for war service as an anti-submarine trawler (1-4”, AA weapons) (P.No.FY.163) (Hire rate £280.0.0d/month). Based Plymouth with 20th A/S Group.
5.1944: Assigned to Operation Neptune – Normandy landings.
23.5.1944: Convoy escort duties in British waters and across the Channel in support of landings.
3.7.1944: Operation Neptune ended.
12.1944: Pickering & Haldane bought by J Bennett, London.
20.6.1945: Company restyled as Lord Line Ltd, Hull (Thomas W. Boyd, manager).
10.1945: Surveyed and restored at Hartlepool.
7.11.1945: Returned to owners.
30.11.1945: Insured value £40,000; for 1946 proposed £44,000.
10.1947: Converted for burning oil fuel, F.P. above 150° F.
17.4.1950: Sold to Associated Fisheries Trawling Co Ltd, Hull for £22,000 (Lord Line in liquidation)
22.07.1953: Company restyled Lord Line Ltd, Hull.
12.10.1962: Sailed Hull for Iceland, last trip from port (Sk. Niels M. Pederson).
1.11.1962: At Hull landed 613 kits grossed £4,105.
8.3.1963: Sold to Wyre Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood for £28,358 (Leslie Wheildon, manager).
9.4.1963: First landing at Fleetwood.
26.10.1963: Sailed Fleetwood for Icelandic grounds (Sk. George Harrison); sixteen crew.
27.10.1963: Landed sick Bosun in Belfast.
5.11.1963: On west of Iceland grounds, in view of heavy weather, decided to change to east of Iceland grounds.
7.11.1963: At about 0220 in heavy swell, E by N Force 7 and moderate visibility stranded on the south coast of Iceland, 4 miles West of Ingolfshofdi Light, in position 63°48N/ 16°40W; all eighteen crew (including two Norwegian gutters) ferried ashore in liferaft with shore assistance. Fleetwood trawler KINGSTON DIAMOND (FD84) stoodby. Later declared a total loss.
6.1.1964: Hull registry closed. “Transferred to Port of Fleetwood”.
15/16.9.1964: BOT Inquiry (S.469) found Sk. George Harrison partly to blame and suspended his ticket for twelve months; acting Bosun John J. Larkin censured.

Note: Allocated FD50 but never used the PLN

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S.T. Lord Stanhope H199
Picture courtesy of The Mark Stopper Collection

S.T. Lord Stanhope H199
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S.T. Lord Stanhope H199
Picture courtesy of the JJ collection

S.T. Lord Stanhope H199
Picture courtesy of The JJ Collection

S.T. Lord Stanhope H199
Picture courtesy of The Fred Baker Collection

Changelog
14/01/2009: Page published. 2 updates since then.
02/12/2017: Removed disputed image and FMHT watermarks.
04/11/2019: Added an image.
02/05/2021: Updated history.