Additional information courtesy of Mike Thompson and Gary Hicks and Barry Johnson (Milford Trawlers)
Technical
Official Number: 129281
Yard Number: 133
Completed: 1910
Gross Tonnage: 192.31
Net Tonnage: 71 .14
Length: 110.1 ft
Breadth: 21.6 ft
Depth: 11.9 ft
Built: Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co Ltd, Goole
Engine: 300ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by Earl’s Co Ltd, Hull
History
9.7.1910: Launched by Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co Ltd, Goole (Yd.No.133) for Kelsall Brothers & Beeching Ltd (64/64), Hull as GROSBEAK.
10.8.1910: Registered at Hull (H108).
10.8.1910: George Beeching, Hull & John E. A. Kelsall, London appointed managers.
8.1910: Completed.
10.1914: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-12pdr) (Ad.No.660). Based Granton.
26.4.1918: Transferred to Kirkwall.
12.12.1918: Reported for duty at Immingham.
By 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Hull.
7.6.1919: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to The London County Westminster & Parr’s Bank Ltd, London (A).
7.6.1919: John Slater, London appointed manager.
6.3.1923: Mortgagee re-styled as Westminster Bank Ltd, London.
14.10.1927: Mortgage (A) transferred to William Augustus Hayward, Eastbourne.
14.10.1927: Mortgage (A) transferred to Mercantile Marine Finance Corporation Ltd, London.
22.10.1928: Robert Burton appointed manager.
16.9.1932: Charles Hugh Emerson appointed manager.
10.1932: Mercantile Marine Finance Corporation Ltd in liquidation.
14.10.1932: Mortgage (A) transferred to Harold Frank Hayward, London; Maud Florence Katherine Rogers, Chelsea and Ernest Norton, London (joint mortgagees).
3.1936: Combined boxing and trawling fleet of Kelsall Bros. & Beeching Ltd and the Hull Steam Fishing & Ice Co Ltd consisting of 59 vessels laid up at Hull (declining catches, coal bill and increased maintenance costs had made the venture uneconomical).
6.3.1936: At Extraordinary General Meeting at Hull, Hull Steam Fishing & Ice Co Ltd placed in Creditors’ Voluntary Winding-up (Richard Field Helm of Messrs Hodgson Harris & Co, London appointed liquidators).
16.12.1936: Sold by order of the mortgagees under mortgage (A) to Plymouth Mutual Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Plymouth.
20.12.1936: Arrived Plymouth.
22.12.1936: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Harold Frank Hayward, London; Maud Florence Katherine Rogers, Corfe Castle and Ernest Norton, London (joint mortgagees) for £400 with interest at 5% (B).
5.1.1937: John Chant, Plymstock appointed manager.
18.11.1937: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to William John Waldron Modley and Richard Edward Stephen Morris, Plymouth (joint mortgagees)(C).
24.12.1927: Mortgage (B) discharged.
31.12.1937: Mortgage (C) discharged.
7.1.1938: Sold to Arthur Dexter, Brixham and Thomas Perrett, Newtown Abbot (64/64 joint owners).
17.1.1938: Arthur Dexter designated managing owner.
14.2.1938: Sold to Torbay Trawlers Ltd (64/64), Brixham.
15.2.1938: Arthur Dexter appointed manager.
28.2.1938: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Midland Bank Ltd, London (D).
4.3.1940: Mortgage (D) discharged.
9.3.1940: Sold to Heward Trawlers Ltd (64/64), London.
1.4.1940: Robert Scott Hewett appointed manager.
16.4.1940: Hull registry closed.
17.4.1940: Registered at London (LO249).
5.1940: Sold to Great Northern Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), London & Fleetwood. Fishing out of Fleetwood.
26.4.1943: Typical landing. 171 kits – hake-38, cod/codling-48, whiting-37, flats-7, ling/coley-5, roker-16, gurnard-15, sole & prime-5.
15.2.1945: Last landing at Fleetwood.
3.1945: Sold to R. G. Parsley (64/64), Milford Haven.
13.3.1945: First landing at Milford.
17.3.1946: Last landing at Milford.
4.1946: Fishing from Lowestoft.
1954: Sold to Don Trawlers Ltd (64/64), Milford Haven.
15.1.1954: First landing at Milford.
10.5.1955: Last landing at Milford.
1955: Sold to BISCO and allocated to Rees Shipbreaking Co Ltd, Llanelli for breaking up.
15.8.1955: Sailed Milford for Llanelli (Sk. Len Brown). London registry closed.
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S.T. Grosbeak H108
Picture courtesy of Grimsby Reference Library
Changelog
14/04/2014: Information updated.
08/08/2015: Updated information.
26/12/2017: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
19/12/2020: Updated history.