Technical

Official Number: 106692
Yard Number: 129
Completed: 1897
Gross Tonnage: 162
Net Tonnage: 63
Length: 104.2 ft
Breadth: 20.5 ft
Depth: 10.7 ft
Built: Mackie & Thomson, Govan, Glasgow
Engine: T.3-cyl by Muir & Houston Ltd, Glasgow

History

2.12.1896: Launched by Mackie & Thomson, Govan, Glasgow (Yd.No.129) for Hagerup, Doughty & Co Ltd, Grimsby as IPSWICH.
4.1.1897: Registered at Grimsby (GY178). Fred E. Hagerup designated manager.
1.1897: Completed.
4.1906: Transferred to Consolidated Steam Fishing & Ice Co (Grimsby) Ltd, Grimsby on the formation of the company. John D. Marsden designated manager.
6.1913: New boiler fitted.
12.1914: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-6pdr HA) (Ad.No.429). Based Tyne.
By 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Grimsby.
4.10.1920: Transferred to Lowestoft.
8.1.1925: Grimsby registry closed.
9.1.1925: Registered at Lowestoft (LT128).
9.1927: Owners restyled Consolidated Fisheries Ltd, Grimsby. (Sir John D Marsden, Bart designated manager.
12.3.1932; Off Sunk Light Vessel collided with steamer PHRYGIA (4137grt/1928) sustaining damage to stem and shell plating.
14.3.1932: Arrived Lowestoft.
11.3.1940: Off Aldeburgh picked up nine crew of steam trawler HALIFAX (LT144) which had foundered following damage when mine exploded having hit trawl door when hauling.
12.3.1940: Landed survivors at Lowestoft.
1940: Directed to Fleetwood under wartime control.
1941: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood. Basil Arthur Parkes, Cleveleys designated manager.
24.5.1943: Typical wartime landing, Home Waters. 179 kits – cod/codling-22, haddock-34, whiting-58, place-12, flats-11, ling/coley-37, roker-5.
3.1944: Sold to Ocean Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull.
3.1944: Lowestoft registry closed. 3.1944: Registered at Hull (H56). J. W. Rose designated manager.
1944: Sold to K. Percival (Trawlers) Ltd, Hull. Kenneth Percival designated manager.
1946: Sold to Cranbrook Shipping Co Ltd, London.
5.1953: Sold to BISCO and allocated to Thos W. Ward Ltd, Sheffield for breaking up at Grays, Essex.
1953: Lowestoft registry closed.

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S.T. Ipswich GY178
Picture by Jonathan courtesy of The Mark Stopper Collection

Changelog
24/12/2008: Page published. 4 updates since then.
04/01/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
01/02/2021: Updated history.