Additional information courtesy of Bill Blow

Technical

Official Number: 133100
Yard Number: 482
Completed: 1911
Gross Tonnage: 264
Net Tonnage: 106
Length: 130.1 ft
Breadth: 22.5 ft
Depth: 12.0 ft
Engine: 500ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by C. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull

History

3.4.1911: Launched by Cochrane & Sons, Selby (Yd.No.482) for The Atlas Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby as VOLONEL.
12.5.1911: Registered at Grimsby (GY628).
12.5.1911: William Somerville Letten appointed manager.
15.5.1911: Completed.
1915: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (Ad.No.849). Based Humber.
5.2.1916: George Somerville Letten appointed manager.
Post 12.3.1919: Returned to owners at Grimsby.
1923: Re-measured 247g 87n.
6.1923: Sold to Soc. Anon Pêcheries Ostendaises, Ostend (Aspeslagh Frères & A. Deceuninck, managers).
9.6.1923: Grimsby registry closed. Registered at Ostend as NARVAL (O141).
1928: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Basil A. Parkes, Blackpool, manager). Registered at Ostend as KASAÏ (O271).
10.1929: Sold to Soc. Anon Pêcheries Ostendaises, Ostend (Aspeslagh Frères & A. Deceuninck, managers).
1930: Re-measured 264g 87n.
1930: Sold to N.V. Visscherij Maats “En Avant”, IJmuiden (Erenst & Weimar, managers). Ostend registry closed. Renamed EN AVANT (IJM8).
By 1938: Sold to N.V. Visscherij Maats “De Daad”, IJmuiden.
5.1943: With owners permission, requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (P.No.FY.1743).
1945: Returned to owners.
1951: Sold for breaking up. IJmuiden registry closed.

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S.T. Vonolel GY628
Picture courtesy of The Greenday Collection

Changelog
02/08/2009: Page published. 7 updates since then.
28/04/2017: Corrected incorrect Official Number and removed FMHT watermark.