S.D/T. Playmates YH141 (Seasonal)

Technical

Official Number: 144146
Yard Number: 964
Completed: 1925
Gross Tonnage: 93
Net Tonnage: 41
Length: 86.3 ft
Breadth: 18.6 ft
Depth: 9.0 ft
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby
Engine: T.3-cyl by Crabtree & Co Ltd, Gt. Yarmouth
Boiler: Riley Bros (Boilermakers) Ltd, Stockton-on-Tees

History

25.4.1925: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.964) for Clifford Edward Strowger (32/64) & Alfred Willie Wilkinson (32/64), Gorleston as PLAYMATES.
25.5.1925: Completed (Clifford E. Strowger managing owner).
27.6.1925: Registered at Yarmouth (YH141).
5.10.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (P.No.FY.738) (Hire rate £37.4.0d/month). Based Dover.
20-26.5.1940: Evacuation from Boulogne, Calais & Dunkirk.
25.5.1940: Sailed Dover for Calais in company with the trawlers ARLEY (P.No.FY.620) (FD41), BOTANIC (P.No.FY.707) (H463), BROCK (P.No.FY621) (FD47), CALVI (GY269), FYLDEA (P.No.666) (FD72), MARETTA (P.No.FY.665) (FD45), POLLY JOHNSON (H322) and drifter WILLING BOYS (P.No.FY.947) (LT737) with several river launches in tow.
26.5.1940: At 1.40am. arrived off the French coast. No evacuation order was given.
7.1943: Employed on balloon barrage.
9.10.1945: Returned to owner.
11.2.1946: Sold to East Briton Fishing Co Ltd, Lowestoft (Arthur Easto, manager).
2.1946: Yarmouth registry closed.
28.2.1946: Registered at Lowestoft (LT180).
1940s-1950s: Seasonal white fish trawling from Padstow and Fleetwood.
24.10.1952: Moving in Hamilton Dock, Lowestoft, struck by lightning losing top of mainmast.
3.1955: Fishing mackerel out of Newlyn.
22.3.1955: On a trip, last reported 40-50 miles WNW of Seven Stones Light Vessel.
28.3.1955: Posted missing, part of lifebuoy picked up, no other wreckage or survivors.
28.9.1955: Lowestoft registry closed.

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S.D/T. Playmates YH141
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S.D/T. Playmates YH141
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S.T. Playmates LT180
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S.D/T. Playmates YH141
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Seaman’s Discharge Certificate

Changelog
16/05/2010: Page published. 6 updates since then.
06/03/2015: Picture added.
12/01/2016: Picture added.
20/07/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.

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