Technical

Official Number: 98727
Yard Number: 61
Completed: 1891
Gross Tonnage: 147
Net Tonnage: 56
Length: 101.3 ft
Breadth: 20.3 ft
Depth: 11.0 ft
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Hull
Engine: 45nhp T.3-cyl and boiler by Charles D. Holmes & Co, Hull
Speed: 10 knots

History

10.2.1891: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Hull (Yd.No.61) for Charles Hellyer & Co Ltd, Hull as EUDOCIA.
6.3.1891: Registered at Hull (H130).
3.1891: Completed (Charles Hellyer, manager).
10.12.1893: When some 230 miles NE from Spurn picked up crew of Norwegian brig JANEE Burntisland for Lauvig cargo coals who had taken to their boat before vessel foundered.
15.12.1893: Landed survivors at Hull.
24.8.1897: Transferred to Hellyer’s Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull (Charles Hellyer, manager).
22.12.1908: Sank the steam trawler LYCURGUS (H93) in collision in North Sea.
26.11.1914: Sold to Thomas Lauder, Aberdeen.
26.11.1914: Hull registry closed.
1.12.1914: Registered at Aberdeen (A205).
5.5.1917: Aberdeen registry closed.
10.5.1917: Sold to John W. Smethurst, Grimsby (managing owner).
29.5.1917: Requisitioned for Fishery Reserve.
5.10.1917: Registered at Grimsby (GY1049).
1919: Released.
22.2.1924: Sold to James H. Mein, Grimsby.
28.11.1924: Sold to Consolidated Steam Fishing & Ice Co (Grimsby) Ltd, Grimsby (Sir John D. Marsden, Bart, manager).
6.11.1924: Transferred to Lowestoft and registered at that port (LT113).
29.6.1927: Owners re-styled Consolidated Fisheries Ltd (Sir John D. Marsden, Bart, manager).
3.9.1930: Arrived Lowestoft with crew of sailing trawler REFUGE (LT715) with whom she had been in collision in North Sea; REFUGE foundered.
1940: Directed to Fleetwood under wartime controls.
1941: Sold to Dinas Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Fleetwood.
24.7.1943: Typical landing, Home Waters. 363 kits – hake-304, cod/codling-22, whiting-13, flats-8, ling/coley-8, roker-4, gurnard-1, dogs-3.
1945: Sold to Odafoam Ltd, Liverpool. William Stevenson, St. Anne’s-on-the-Sea designated manager.
1.9.1949: Last landing in Fleetwood, 44 boxes, £158 gross (broken trip).
10.1950: Sold to BISCO and allocated to Thos W. Ward Ltd, Sheffield for breaking up at Preston. Lowestoft registry closed.

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S.T. Eudocia LT113
Picture courtesy of Billy Worrall

Changelog
19/12/2008: Page published. 2 updates since then.
13/06/2016: Picture added.
24/07/2020: Updated information.