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Additional information courtesy of Barry Banham and Bill Blow

Technical

Official Number: 110867
Yard Number: 231
Completed: 1899
Gross Tonnage: 172.41
Net Tonnage: 62.10
Length: 100.0 ft
Breadth: 21.0 ft
Depth: 11.0 ft
Built: Cochrane & Cooper Ltd, Beverley
Engine: 350ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co, Hull

History

31.1.1899: Launched by Cochrane & Cooper Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.231) for Queen Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby as BUCKINGHAM.
7.2.1899: Completed.
9.3.1899: Registered at Grimsby (GY1096).
9.3.1899: Charles Absolom Osborne appointed manager.
4.4.1899: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to The Lincoln & Lindsey Banking Company Ltd, Lincoln (A).
1.1.1914: Tonnage altered to 70.50 net under provision of Merchant Shipping Act 1907.
7.2.1914: Mortgage (A) discharged, The Lincoln & Lindsey Banking Co in liquidation.
29.5.1917: Requisitioned for Fishery Reserve.
1919: Released. 3.3.1930: Sold to Arthur Grant (64/64), Grimsby.
5.3.1930: Arthur Grant designated managing owner.
16.8.1930: Registered at Grimsby as WARREN (GY1096) (BoT Minute M/RG1274/1930 dated 12.8.1930).
7.4.1931: Sold to Arthur Grant & Son Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
8.4.1931: Arthur Grant appointed manager.
26.6.1932: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to National Provincial Bank Ltd, London (B).
Circa August 1940: Attacked by an enemy bomber. Cook, Edward Fifield, (awarded BEM) was wounded during the firefight, as was the Skipper Charles Alfred Sleeth (awarded MBE). Award gazetted in January of 1942.
7.10.1940: Mortgage (B) discharged.
8.10.1940: Sold to Shire Trawlers Ltd (64/64), London.
14.10.1940: William. Alfred Bennett, Sanderstead, Surrey appointed manager.
9.12.1940: Sold to J. Bennett (Wholesale) Ltd (64/64), London.
13.12.1941: William Alfred Bennett appointed manager.
1943-1944: Fishing from Fleetwood.
19.11.1943: Disabled on fishing grounds, steam drifter PATRIA (LT178) connected and delivered Fleetwood.
2.12.1943: Harry Markham Cook, Grimsby appointed manager.
15.12.1943: Sold to The Wembley Steam Fishing Co (Grimsby) Ltd (64/64), Fleetwood.
2.12.1943: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Barclays Bank Ltd, London (C).
2.1944: Company registered office transferred to Grimsby.
21.4.1944: Last landing at Fleetwood.
22.3.1945: Arthur Gladstone Hamer, Grimsby appointed manager.
23.10.1945: Mortgage (C) discharged.
12.11.1945: Sold to Samuel Stewart & Co (London) Ltd (64/64), London.
15.11.1945: Samuel Stewart appointed manager.
9.1.1946: Grimsby registry closed.
11.1.1946: Registered at Lowestoft (LT117).
25.6.1946: Sold to Cranley Shipping Co Ltd (64/64), London. Robert George Frankis appointed manager.
12.5.1949: Sold to Cranbrook Shipping Co Ltd (64/64), London. Leonard Frederick Milton appointed manager.
4.1952: Sold to BISCO and allocated to Thos. W. Ward Ltd, Sheffield for breaking up at Grays, Essex.
16.4.1952: Sailed Lowestoft for River Thames.
17.4.1952: Delivered.
16.1.1953: Lowestoft registry closed.

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S.T. Warren GY1096
Picture courtesy of Bill Blow

Changelog
07/09/2010: Page published. 7 revisions since then.
19/08/2014: Alteration to disposal details.
22/01/2016: Information updated.
23/09/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
04/09/2024: Updated info.