S.T. Van Oost O296 (Wartime visitor)

© Mike Thompson for FMHT

Technical

Official Number: 149077
Yard Number: 461
Completed: 1926
Gross Tonnage: 352
Net Tonnage: 147
Length: 140.3 ft
Breadth: 24.0 ft
Depth: 12.9 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley

History

24.10.1925: The board of Kingston Steam Trawling Co Ltd decided to build two more distant water trawlers to the same design as the ANDALUSITE (Yd.No.461) built by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd. Contracts were signed with the shipyard to build the ships at a cost of £8,350 each and with C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd to make the engines and boilers at £6,175 each unit. Total cost £14,525 per vessel. Names chosen were SARDIUS and TOURMALINE.

4.3.1926: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.482) for Kingston Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull as TOURMALINE.
20.4.1926: Registered at Hull (H290) (Official Number: 149077).
28.4.1926: Completed trials and accepted (John W. Lown, manager).
1.5.1926: Sailed on first trip to Iceland.
20.5.1926: Landed 858 kits grossed £1,050.
16.3.1939: Sold to N.V. Motorvisscherij, Ostend for £3,650.
20.3.1939: Hull registry closed.
4.1939: May have been registered at Ostend as VANDERMEER (O296) for a short period.
4.1939: Re measured 336.45Brt 129.48n.
4.1939: Registered at Ostend as VAN OOST (O296).
5.1940: Escaped to England.
21.5.1940: Arrived Fleetwood.
7.7.1940: Requisitioned for war service on miscellaneous Naval duties (P.N. FY.330). Based Reydarfjord, Iceland as Local defence trawler. Belgian crew.
13.11.1945: Returned to owner.
4.1946: Special Survey at Ghent. Re classed as a Steam Trawler.
1948: Re measured in accordance with British rules 352g 147n.
1.1948: Sold to Government of Poland, Warsaw (Ministry of Industry & Commerce) (“Dalmor” Przedsiobiorstwo Polowow DalekomorskichSp.z.ogr.odp, Gdynia, managers).
16.1.1948: Ostend registry closed.
16.1.1948: Registered at Gdynia as MERKURY (GDY120).
4.1962: Sold to Polish shipbreakers. Gdynia registry closed.

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S.T. Tourmaline H290

S.T. Tourmaline H290
Picture courtesy The Mike Thompson Collection

Changelog

10/08/2010: Page published. 4 updates since then.
08/09/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.