Technical

Official Number: 105100
Yard Number: 153
Completed: 1896
Gross Tonnage: 184
Net Tonnage: 79
Length: 110.9 ft
Breadth: 21.3 ft
Depth: 11.3 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by Charles D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
Built: Cochrane & Cooper, Beverley, 1896

History

28.3.1896: Launched by Cochrane & Cooper, Beverley (Yd.No.153) for George Thomas Armitage & John Henry Lynn, Hull as Elsie.
29.4.1896: Completed (George T. Armitage, manager).
30.4.1896: Registered at Hull (H320).
28.7.1896: Sold to George Thomas Armitage, Hull.
14.7.1899: Sold to Armitage’s Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull (George T. Armitage, manager).
9.1909: New boiler.
1914: Fishing from Fleetwood.
1.1915: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-6pdr) (Ad.No.944). Based Moray Command.
12.1917: Sold to The Gamecock Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Scarborough (Albert F. G. McConkey, manager).
5.1918. Detached to Northern Patrol, Scapa Flow.
6.1918: Returned Moray making water.
21.6.1918: Surveyed at Invergordon – unseaworthy. Returned Cromarty and laid up.
10.7.1918: Ref. M. Branch Acquaint No.M011688/18, Ser.No.907. to be returned to owner at Scarborough.
5.9.1918: ‘Ceased to be on Admiralty charter.’
1919: Sold to The Ellis Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Scarborough (John S. Ellis, manager).
192?: New boiler fitted at Hartlepool.
29.3.1920: Hull registry closed.
30.3.1920: Registered at Scarborough (SH280).
8.12.1928: Sold to James Pattison, West Hartlepool (managing owner).
1934: Sold to Stanley Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Fleetwood (James Brierley, Rochdale, manager).
18.5.1934: Scarborough registry closed.
1.6.1934: Registered at Fleetwood (FD27).
1937: Sold for breaking up.
24.2.1937: Fleetwood registry closed, breaking up completed.

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S.T. Elsie FD27
Picture courtesy of The Fred Baker Collection

S.T. Elsie SH280
Picture courtesy of The Peter Green Collection

Changelog
18/12/2008: Page published. 2 updates since then.
24/07/2017: Removed FMHT watermark and added an image.
20/06/2020: Updated information.