Yearly Archives: 2009

S.T. Lord Essendon FD75

Additional information courtesy of David Slinger

Technical

Official Number: 164934
Yard Number: 1158
Completed: 1936
Gross Tonnage: 486
Net Number: 201
Length: 161.3 ft
Breadth: 26.6 ft
Depth: 14.1 ft
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull

History

6.1936: Completed by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.1158) for Pickering & Haldane’s Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull as LORD ESSENDON.
22.6.1936: Registered at Hull (H312).
25.6.1936: Completed. Albert Turgoose & James Car designated joint managers. Cost to build £20,100.
30.6.1936: Sailed Hull on first trip to Greenland (Sk. C. Hansen).
6.1936: When in transit in Pentland Firth in thick fog stranded on east side of Stroma. Refloated without assistance and proceeded to Aberdeen (four days).
29.7.1936: At Hull landed 2,143 kits grossed £1,386.
25.7.1939: Insured value £23,200.
12.8.1939: Sailed Hull for Bear Island (Sk. E. Clarke).
30.8.1939: At Hull landed 1,104 kits £871 gross having been recalled for war service; fishing gear removed.
1939: To requisitioning, at Hull landed from Iceland/Bear Island (Sk. E. Clarke) 224 days 19,515 kits 14,560 gross.
9.1939: Requisitioned for war service as an anti-submarine trawler (P.No.FY.218) (Hire rate £301.12.0d/month).
1.1940: Based Ardrossan with 29th A/S Group (Senior Officer, Pby/Ty/Sub Lieut. M. R. Thwaites RNVR).
1942: Based Plymouth with 20th A/S Group.
1944: Assigned to Operation Neptune – Normandy landings.
23.5.1944: Convoy escort duties in British waters and across the Channel in support of landings.
3.7.1944: Operation Neptune ended.
20.6.1945: Sold to Lord Line Ltd, Hull for £21,100.
9.10.1945: Returned after survey and restoration at Hartlepool. Thomas W. Boyd designated manager.
30.11.1945: Insured value £42,500; for 1946 proposed £50,000.
7.1947: Converted by St. Andrew’s Engineering Co Ltd, Hull for burning oil fuel, F.P. above 150° F. Cost £7,000.
17.4.1950: Lord Line Ltd in liquidation. Sold to Associated Fisheries Trawling Co Ltd, Hull for £21,000. Thomas W. Boyd designated manager.
22.7.1953: Sold to Lord Line Ltd, Hull (Thomas W. Boyd, manager).
4.3.1957: David Clater (17) deckie learner lost overboard and drowned.
12.10.1962: Sailed Hull for Iceland, last trip from port (Sk. Kenneth Rose).
30.10.1962: At Hull landed 1,133 kits grossed £5,299.
17.12.1962: Transferred to Fleetwood.
1.1.1963: Sold to Wyre Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood for £28,653.
6.1.1964: Hull registry closed.
1.1964: Registered at Fleetwood (FD75).
03.1966: Laid up.
23.4.1966: Sold to James A. White & Co Ltd, St. Davids, Fife for breaking up.
06.07.1966: Sailed for breakers.
9.7.1966: Delivered St. Davids. Fleetwood registry closed.

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S.T. Lord Essendon H312
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S.T. Lord Essendon H312
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S.T. Lord Essendon FD75
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S.T. Lord Essendon FD75
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S.T. Lord Essendon FD75
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S.T. Lord Essendon FD75
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Changelog
28/01/2009: Page published. 6 updates since then.
26/03/2015: Picture added.
28/03/2015: Added 2 pictures.
04/02/2017: Removed disputed image.
18/10/2019: Updated information.
23/11/2019: Added an image.
10/07/2020: Updated information and added an image.
19/05/2022: Updated information.

S.T. Bush FD60

Additional information courtesy of Andy Hall

Technical

Official Number: 127416
Yard Number: 382
Completed: 1908
Gross Tonnage: 221.5
Net Tonnage: 84.93
Length: 120.4 ft
Breadth: 21.5 ft
Depth: 11.5 ft
T.3-cyl by W. V. V. Lidgerwood, Coatbridge

History

10.6.1908: Launched by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, North Shields (Yd.No.382) for Neyland Steam Trawling & Fishing Co, Neyland as BUSH.
7.1908: Completed.
25.7.1908: Registered at Milford (M227). Alexander Scott, Llanstadwell, Neyland designated manager.
4.8.1908: First landing at Milford (Sk. Ernest A. Sheldon), £231 gross.
7.6.1911: Coaling at Neyland pontoon, struck amidships by CALDY (M228) sustaining damage.
5.1915: Requisitioned for war service as an armed trawler (1-12pdr) (Ad.No.2667). Based Aegean Sea.
1918: David G. Jones designated manager.
24.2.1919: Sold to The Scarisbrick Steam Trawlers (Fleetwood) Ltd, Fleetwood.
3.3.1919: Milford registry closed.
5.3.1919: Registered at Fleetwood (FD60). Joseph A. Taylor designated manager.
1.1920: As previously programmed, returned to owner at Neyland.
2.1920: Completed refurbishment and survey at Belfast. Subsequently arrived Fleetwood (incorrectly painted up, PLN (M227), port of registry Milford).
1924: William W. Brierley designated manager.
1938: Hulbert M. Bird (The Clifton Steam Trawlers Ltd) designated manager.
15.12.1928: Homewards from West of Scotland grounds (Sk. Charles Coxall); eleven crew. Approaching Islay Sound in thick fog went ashore on rocks off the Mull of Cantire. During the night in a severe snow storm, lifeboat launched but damaged ranging alongside.
16.12.1928: Steam trawler WIGAN (FD241) reported to Malin Head W/T Station that no assistance was required, steam trawlers EDWARD CATELLY (FD204) and VERA GRACE (FD211), standing by, the latter has a line aboard. Every possibility of getting off on to-night’s tide. Attempt at refloating was unsuccessful.
18.12.1928: Owners informed, underwriters’ representative left Fleetwood for the site and Glasgow steam tug, FLYING SERPENT (199grt/1911) engaged to refloat. Fleetwood steam trawler FLORENCE BRIERLEY (FD105) routed to take off catch.
19.12.1928: FLORENCE BRIERLEY arrived and catch, 2,000 stone, transhipped by boat. On completion sailed for Fleetwood.
20.12.1928: Glasgow tug, FLYING SERPENT on the scene, vessel listing 20° to starboard and after cabin flooded; preparations made to refloat.
22.12.1928: Refloated. Checks of hull integrity and machinery state carried out and vessel permitted to sail for Fleetwood.
24.12.1928: Arrived Fleetwood.
24/25.12.1936: At Lochboisdale, South Uist, Ch.Eng Edward Diver (28), fell between the ship and the jetty when returning onboard and was drowned.
22.2.1937: Two Fleetwood fishermen, Harry E. Reynolds (19) and William A. Martin (21) were each fined £1 by Fleetwood Magistrates for failing the join the ship. Both men pleaded guilty.
3.11.1937: At Blackpool County Court, Jane Diver, widow of Edward Diver who drowned at Lochboisdale, successfully applied for compensation from the owners, The Scarisbrick Steam Trawlers (Fleetwood) Ltd. The Judge granted the applicant the relief asked for, namely £300 for herself and £217 for her child; the respondents to pay the costs.
1939: Hulbert M. Bird c/o Clifton Steam Trawlers Ltd, designated manager.
28.5.1940: Requisitioned for war service as an anti submarine trawler (P.No.NR) (Hire rate £55.10.0d/month).
5.1941: Employed on harbour defence patrol.
8.1943: Employed on miscellaneous duties.
4.1944: Converted for salvage work (Liverpool & Glasgow Salvage Association, managers).
27.9.1946: Returned to owner.
1948: Sold to Dundee Fishing Co Ltd, Dundee. Cameron & McFarlane Ltd, designated managers.
1950: Sold to R. Fenton, Dundee. Fleetwood registry closed. Registered at Dundee as Lynn Fenton (DE24). R. Fenton designated managing owner.
1954: Sold for breaking up. Dundee registry closed.

S.T. Bush FD60
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S.T. Bush FD60
Picture (Ashore Rinns of Cantyre December 1928) courtesy of The David Slinger Collection

Steam Tug Flying Serpent
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Changelog
28/01/2009: Page published. 2 updates since then.
18/10/2017: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
17/05/2020: Updated information.
18/06/2020: Updated information and added images.
03/07/2020: Updated information.
21/07/2020: Updated information and added an image.

S. T. Marloes FD170

Additional information courtesy of David Slinger and Maurice Voss

Technical

Official Number: 128753
Yard Number: 466
Completed: 1911
Gross Tonnage: 220
Net Tonnage: 85
Length: 117.4 ft
Breadth: 21.6 ft
Depth: 11.8 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, South Bank-on-Tees, Middlesbrough
Built: Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, South Bank-on-Tees, Middlesbrough

History

30.3.1911: Launched by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, South Bank-on-Tees, Middlesbrough (Yd.No.466) for Thomas G. Hancock, Hakin & John D. Harries, Milford Haven as MARLOES.
5.1911: Completed (Thomas G. Hancock, managing owner).
26.5.1911: Registered at Milford (M76).
8.1914: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-6pdr HA) (Ad.No.15).
1918: Sold to John W. Smethurst, Grimsby (managing owner). Based Harvre.
Post 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Grimsby.
5.1919: Sold to The Hesketh Steam Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood (Joseph A. Taylor, manager).
20.5.1919: Milford registry closed.
21.5.1919: Registered at Fleetwood (FD170).
1922: Joseph A. & Harold Taylor, Fleetwood appointed managers.
1924: Magnus B. J. Wedum appointed manager.
30.12.1924: Sold to George J. Ward & Frederick Swann, Lytham (Seafield Trawling Co) (Walter Morley, Fleetwood, manager).
1926: Sold to Cie Belge de Pêcheries Maritimes, Ostend.
5.8.1926: Fleetwood registry closed.
8.1926: Registered at Ostend as COMMANDANT BULTINCK (O177).
Pre 1929: Sold to Société Anonyme Pêcheries à Vapeur, Ostend (John Bauwens, manager).
3.10.1929: Homeward to Ostend (Sk. Gerwia Van den Bergen) after fishing off Isle of Man, in a hail storm gusting 70mph, rain, thunder & lightning, decided to run for Fleetwood, driven off course stranded on Rossall Beach in the early hours; three crew members lost attempting to get ashore for help (Celestinus-Franciscus Tratsaert, Mate; Pierre-Michel Luyens, deckhand and Willie Walter Ernest Van Yper, deck boy). Broken up in situ. Ostend registry closed.

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S.T. Marloes FD170
Picture courtesy The David Slinger Collection

S. T. Commandant Bultinct O95 on Rossall Beach
Picture courtesy of David Shuttleworth

S.T. Commandant Bultinct 095
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S.T. Commandant Bultinck O95
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S.T. Commandant Bultinck O177

Commandant Bultinck Lost Crew
Picture courtesy of Mario Couvreur & Marc Denman

Surviving Crew
Picture courtesy of The David Buckley Collection

Changelog
28/01/2009: Page published. 7 revisions since then.
27/11/2014: Added crew pictures and amended PLN.
10/03/2015: Added picture.
07/09/2017: Removed FMHT watermark from images.
17/01/2018: Added a link to movie page.
04/08/2022: Added an image.

S.T. William Cale LO79

Additional information courtesy of David Slinger

Technical

Admiralty Number: 3666
Official Number: 145176
Yard Number: 346
Completed: 1917
As built: 360disp 125.6 x 23.5 x 12.8 feet
Gross Tonnage: 276
Net Tonnage:
Length: 125.6 ft
Breadth: 23.4 ft
Depth: 12.8 ft
Built: Bow, McLachlan & Co Ltd, Paisley
Engine: 480ihp T.3-cyl by Bow, McLachlan & Co Ltd, Paisley
Armament 1 x 12 pdr

History

19.9.1917: Launched by Bow, McLachlan & Co Ltd, Paisley (Yd.No.346) (“Castle” class) for The Admiralty as WILLIAM CALE (Ad.No.3666).
4.10.1917: Completed as a minesweeper (1-12pdr).
13.08.1920: Minesweepers’ Cooperative Trawling Society Ltd, London registered.
1921: Allocated to the Minesweepers’ Cooperative Trawling Society Ltd, London.
22.3.1921: Registered by The Admiralty at London (Part I) as WILLIAM CALE O.N.145176.
11.5.1921: Registered by The Admiralty at London (Part IV) as WILLIAM CALE (LO510).
01.1922: Scheme abandoned, the necessary working capital of £100,000 having not been subscribed. Laid up.
5.1922: Sold to John McR. Knight & Morgan W. Howells, Hakin.
17.6.1922: London registry closed.
21.6.1922: Registered at Milford (M250). John McR. Knight designated managing owner.
29.1.1927: Sold to Iago Steam Trawler Co Ltd, Milford Haven.
29.1.1927: Milford registry closed.
11.5.1927: Registered at London (LO79). Edward D. W. Lawford designated manager.
1930: Transferred to Fleetwood when Edward D. W. Lawford moved his vessels to the port.
29.8.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (P.No. FY.535)(Hire rate £80.10.0d/month).
1.1941: Minesweeping Group 41 based at Hartlepool (Ty/Sk. C. E. Gornall RNR).
1.1942: Minesweeping Group 41 based at Grimsby.
6.12.1942: Off Yorkshire coast in collision with WINHA (3391grt/1904).
26.1.1943: A/Capt Edward Douglas Wyndham Lawford RN awarded DSO for service in HMS POZARICA (P.No.4.261) A/A ship on Russian convoys.
6.1945: Restored and surveyed at Glasgow.
12.7.1945: Returned to owner at Fleetwood.
17.12.1945: At about 3.00am coming down the Minch homewards (Sk.Harry Farrer (55)) in a severe northerly gale and heavy seas, when about five miles off Stornoway, bridle wire of trawl washed overboard and fouled propeller. Tried to clear the wire which had made it impossible to move ahead or astern, but without success and wire chopped away. A sea anchor was made up with the trawl boards but after a while this was carried away and the vessel was blown before the gale to a position some seven miles off Rubn’ Re Light (Rubha Reidh), Wester Ross. The Fleetwood steam trawler RED LANCER (LO442)(Sk. John Tomlinson (42)) homeward from the Icelandic grounds responded to the distress signals, changed course and made for the casualties position. Closing the casualty it was obvious that little could be done until daybreak when, in a northerly wind of hurricane force and heavy seas (glass below 27), attempts were made to get a line onboard by rocket, but the lines all broke and eventually all rockets were expended. At about 10.00am the Stornoway lifeboat, WILLIAM & HARRIET, alerted by the Coastguard at 6.00am, and launched at 7.00am in winds of over 90mph, arrived at the position and stood by. At 2.15pm the coastguard reported that a small fishing boat DELIGHT was drifting ashore in Gruinard Bay near Laid, between Loch Broom and Loch Ewe, Wester Ross and the lifeboat left the scene to go to her assistance. The company trawler RED CHARGER (LO460) sheltering in Stornoway was alerted to assist, but her services were not required. Skilfully manoeuvring his vessel as close to the casualty as possible, Sk. Tomlinson succeeded in floating a line across on corks and this time the tow rope held.
18.12.1945: At 1.30am, twenty-two hours after fouling her propeller, the trawler was brought to anchor in Branahuie Bay, Lewis. At about 9.30am they came into Stornoway and the trawler was beached for removal of the wire from her shaft and propeller.
1955: Sold to BISCO and allocated to West of Scotland Shipbreaking Co Ltd, Troon for breaking up.
18.10.1955: Arrived Troon Harbour from Fleetwood under own power (draughts 5’6”/14’6”).
14.11.1955: Breaking commenced.
7.12.1955: Reberthed.
9.2.1956: Reberthed.
21.2.1956: Reberthed.
1.3.1956: Beached (draughts 3’0”/9’0”).
12.4.1956: Breaking completed. London registry closed.

(William Cale, Landsman (prest), age 21, b. London – VICTORY (SB449))

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S.T. William Cale LO79
Clipping courtesy of The Stan Mayes Collection

Changelog
27/01/2009: Page published. 5 updates since then.
20/11/2017: Removed FMHT watermark from images.
05/06/2021: Updated information.

S.T. Springwell FD297

Technical

Official Number: 139219
Yard Number: 173
Completed: 1917
Gross Tonnage: 286
Net Tonnage: 113
Length: 130.3 ft
Breadth: 22.7 ft
Depth: 12 ft
Built: Goole Shipbuilding & Repair Co Ltd, Goole
Engine: 80hp T.3-cyl by W. Beardmore & Co Ltd, Glasgow

History

1917: Launched by Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co Ltd, Goole (Yd.No.173) for The Sun Steam Trawling Co Ltd (64/64), Hull as SPRINGWELL.
18.5.1917: Registered at Fleetwood (FD297). James W. Armitage, Fleetwood designated manager.
5.1917: Completed. Requisitioned from the builders for war service as a minesweeper (1-12pdr) (Ad.No.3341) and later used as a convoy escort. Based Devonport.
By 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Hull. James W. Armitage, Fleetwood designated manager.
1927: Highest single trip landing at Fleetwood – 1127 10st boxes.
1928: Highest single trip landing – 978 boxes.
15.12.1933: In the Sheriff Court, Stornoway, Sk. Henry Elliot, was fined £100 for illegal trawling and £10 for damaging the long lines of the steam drifter/liner HANDY (SY2).
1933: Highest single trip landing – 982 boxes.
13.12.1934: Arrived Leverburgh, Isle of Harris, with salvage equipment to assist steam trawler DANE (H227) which had been safely refloated after stranding off the Monarch Islands. After transferring gear and labour, loaded fish and sailed for Fleetwood.
15.12.1934: Arrived Fleetwood and landed 140 boxes ex DANE.
4.5.1943: Typical landing, Home Waters. 578 kits – hake-69, cod/coley-4, flats-3, ling/coley-488, roker-5, dogs-3, sole & prime-6.
1950s: Only Fleetwood trawler to regularly fish at Faroes. Michael A. Munby designated manager.
21.1.1959: Owners re-styled Sun Trawlers, Fleetwood.
1959: Sold to Michael A. Munby, Fleetwood (Sun Trawlers, managers).
1960: Sold to BISCO and allocated to Thos. W. Ward Ltd, Sheffield for breaking up.
30.8.1960: Delivered Barrow-in-Furness from Fleetwood under own power.

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S.T. Springwell FD297
Picture courtesy of The John Clarkson Collection

Changelog
27/01/2009: Page published. 4 updates since then.
11/04/2017: Removed disputed image.
30/04/2017: Updated information and removed FMHT watermark.
04/08/2021: Updated history.

The Bosun's Watch

Fleetwood Steam and Sailing Trawlers

Yearly Archives: 2009

S.T. Lord Essendon FD75

S.T. Bush FD60

S. T. Marloes FD170

S.T. William Cale LO79

S.T. Springwell FD297