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Technical
Official Number: 149080
Yard Number: 483
Completed: 1926
Gross Tonnage: 352
Net Tonnage: 147
Length: 140.3 ft
Breadth: 24.0 ft
Depth: 12.9 ft
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
History
21.1.1926: The board of Kingston Steam Trawling Co Ltd decided to build two more distant water trawlers to the same design as the ANDALUSITE built by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd (Yd.No.461). Contracts were signed with the shipyard to build the ships at a cost of £8,450 each and with Charles D. Holmes & Co Ltd to make the engines and boilers at £6,130 each unit. Total cost £14,625 per vessel. A decision was made to add the Kingston prefix to the existing nomenclature. The names chosen were, KINGSTON DIAMOND and KINGSTON PEARL. The short lived General Strike of May 1926 and continuing Miners’ Strike led to delays in the completion of both vessels.
31.3.1926: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.483) for Kingston Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull as KINGSTON DIAMOND.
18.5.1926: Registered at Hull (H294) (O.N.149080).
19.5.1926: Programmed to carry out basin trials but delayed through shortage of coal.
27.7.1926: Taken over from builder.
9.8.1926: Completed trials and accepted (John W. Lown, manager).
14.8.1926: Sailed on first trip to Iceland.
7.9.1926: Landed 807 kits grossed £1,059.
3.1929: Skipper taken ill and put ashore at Reykjavik.
3.1929: Took onboard Sk. Godmund and crew of KINGSTON JASPER (H494) stranded 17.2.1926 at Medalland, Iceland.
7.3.1929: Sailed for Hull with Sk. Godmund in command.
12.3.1929: Arrived Hull and grossed £793 for the 44 day trip.
3.3.1930: Stranded at Valloc, Norway but got off without assistance. Berthed Sandnessjoen for survey; forepeak full of water, crew’s quarters, flooded, rudder and rudder frame badly damaged.
7.3.1930: Sailed Trondheim for Hull after temporary repairs.
1938: Laid up with Special Survey due and offered for sale.
11.3.1939: Sold to N.V. Motorvisscherij, Ostend for £3,562 with Special Survey due and without fishing gear and fishroom boards.
16.3.1939: Hull registry closed.
4.1939: Registered at Ostend as VAN DYCK (O298).
4.1939: Re measured 336.45Brt 129.48n.
5.1940: Escaped to England.
29.5.1940: Arrived Fleetwood. Transferred to Belgian Economic Mission, London. Fishing from Fleetwood.
21.9.1940: Homeward (to Fleetwood) from Icelandic grounds picked up seventeen crew and twelve passengers from boat, part of survivors from British steamer CITY OF SIMLA (10,138grt/1921) (Capt Herbert Percival) (Convoy OB-216 London/Glasgow for Cape Town and Bombay) torpedoed by U.boat (U138) 52 miles NW of Rathlin Island (20.9.1940).
22.9.1940: As directed landed at Liverpool.
12.2.1941: Requisitioned for war service as an anti submarine trawler (P.No.FY.106). Based at Scapa Flow with A/S Group 12 (French crew ?).
7.11.1945: Returned to Belgium.
13.11.1945: Returned to owner. With surveys outstanding, Special Survey at Ghent. Re classed as a Steam Trawler.
20.3.1946: Completed.
9.10.1948: Sold to Eidis Trolarafelag, Eidi, Faroe Islands.
9.10.1948: Ostend registry closed.
4.1948: Re measured 43,59 (143.0) x 7,35 (24.1) metres (feet) – 341g 135n.
10.1948: Registered at Eidi (Fuglefjord for Osterö Syssel)as EIDESKOLLUR (FD226).
17.10.1948: Sailed for Faroe Islands.
By 1952: Owned by P/f Eidis Trolarafelag A/S.
1952: Sold to P/f Nypan, Sandevaag. Registered at Sandevaag as VENUS (VA51).
1962: Sold to B. J. Nijkerk N.V, Ghent.
12.4.1962: Breaking commenced at Boom.
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S.T. Van Dyck O298
Picture courtesy of The Peter Green Collection
S.T. Van Dyck FD226
Picture from the Internet
S.T. Venus VA51
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Changelog
09/08/2010: Page published. 5 updates since then.
08/04/2015: Picture added.
02/07/2016: Picture added.
07/09/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
10/08/2021: Updated history.