Technical

Official Number: 138954
Yard Number: 336
Completed: 1915
Gross Tonnage: 226.02
Net Tonnage: 108.81
Length: 117.0 ft
Breadth: 22.0 ft
Depth: 12.7 ft
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley
Engine: 460ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by Amos & Smith Ltd, Hull

History

9.11.1915: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.336) for The North Western Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby as NOVELLI.
4.4.1916: Registered at Grimsby (GY889).
4.4.1916: Alick Black appointed manager.
18.5.1916: Completed. Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-12pdr, 1-7.5” A/S Howitzer) (Ad.No.3279).
5.12.1916: Vessel mortgaged to Union of London & Smith’s Bank Ltd, London (A).
1.2.1917: Mortgage (A) discharged.
5.2.1917: Sold to Rowland Hill (64/64), Grimsby.
5.2.1917: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to National Provincial Bank of England Ltd, London (B).
5.2.1917: Walter Harold Beeley designated managing owner.
17.9.1917: Rowland Hill sold (4/64) shares to Walter Harold Beeley (4/64), Grimsby.
15.9.1917: Mortgage (B) discharged.
18.9.1917: Walter Harold Beeley appointed manager.
18.9.1917: Rowland Hill mortgaged (60/64) shares to National Provincial Bank of England Ltd, London (C).
19.2.1918: Mortgage (C) discharged.
20.2.1918: Sold in two Bills of Sale to Great Northern Steamship Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Hull.
22.2.1918: William Richard Nowell appointed manager.
2.3.1918: Grimsby registry closed.
4.3.1918: Registered at Hull (H592). Based Portland.
Post 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Hull.
30.5.1919: Sold to John Edward Rushworth (64/64), Grimsby. John Edward Rushworth designated managing owner.
10.6.1919: Hull registry closed.
12.6.1919: Registered at Grimsby (GY361).
20.6.1919: Sold to The Shaftesbury Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
20.6.1919: John Edward Rushworth appointed manager.
24.6.1919: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Barclays Bank Ltd, London (D).
24.7.1924: Mortgage (D) discharged.
25.7.1924: Sold to Harold Bacon (16/64); James Norman Bacon (16/64), both Grimsby; Arthur Gladstone Bacon (16/64), Scartho and Frederick Newton Husbands (16/64), Burton-on-Trent.
2.8.1924: Harold Bacon designated managing owner.
31.12.1929: Harold Bacon died intestate.
5.6.1930: Administration granted to Gertrude Catherine Bacon, Grimsby; Edwin Bacon ‘the Elder’. Grimsby and Charles George Martin, Scartho ((16/64) joint owners).
5.9.1930: Sold in four Bills of Sale to Kottingham Trawling Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
29.9.1930: James Norman Bacon appointed manager.
7.12.1939: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Barclays Bank Ltd, London (E).
14.3.1941: Charles George Mastin appointed manager.
12.11.1943: Mortgage (E) discharged.
3.1.1944: Sold to Parkholme Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood.
3.1.1944: Harvey Wilfred Wilson, Grimsby appointed manager.
18.1.1944: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to National Provincial Bank Ltd, London (F).
4.9.1945: Mortgage (F) discharged.
10.9.1945: Sold to Trawlers Grimsby Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
10.9.1945: Charles George Mastin appointed manager.
6.8.1947: Harvey Wilfred Wilson appointed manager.
10.4.1953: Sold to Derwent Trawlers Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
11.4.1953: Harvey Wilfred Wilson appointed manager.
23.11.1956: Sold to Yorkshire Trawlers Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
26.11.1956: John Carl Ross appointed manager.
5.3.1959: Sold to Van den Bossche & Co, Belgium.
8.3.1959: Arrived Boom for breaking up.
11.3.1956: Grimsby registry closed “… on sale to foreigners (Belgian Subjects)”.
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S.T. Novelli GY361
Picture courtesy of The JJ Collection

Changelog
09/05/2010: Page published. 4 revisions since then.
08/09/2014: Information updated.
15/07/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.