Additional material courtesy of Barry Banham

Technical

Official Number: 149213
Yard Number: 1025
Completed: 1928
Gross Tonnage: 114
Net Tonnage: 51
Length: 92.0 ft
Breadth: 19.6 ft
Depth: 9.5 ft
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby
Engine: T.3-cyl by W. Burrell & Co, Gt Yarmouth
Boiler: Riley Bros (Boilermakers) Ltd, Stockton on Tees

History

5.7.1928: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.1025) for Gilbert & Co Ltd, Lowestoft as COMRADES.
8.8.1928: Completed (Arthur George Gilbert, manager).
24.9.1928: Registered at Lowestoft (LT403).
29.9.1928: Trials at Lowestoft. First Skipper H. J. Bryant.
1929 – 1930s: Seasonal white fish trawling from Padstow and Fleetwood (Lowestoft Fish Selling Co Ltd, Lowestoft, managing agents).
15.3.1929: Off Trevose Head lost propeller.
1930: Company in liquidation.
18.3.1930: Sold by liquidator to reconstituted Gilbert & Co Ltd, Lowestoft (Arthur George Gilbert, manager).
13.12.1933: Struck bank at entrance to Lowestoft harbour causing bottom damage.
28.3.1935: Seasonal trawling out of Fleetwood lost propeller.
18.4.1937: Seasonal trawling out of Fleetwood lost propeller.
3.9.1939: Requisitioned for war service on contraband control (1-3pdr) (Hire rate £58.0.0d/month).
1.1941: Based at Weymouth as armed patrol drifter (Ty/Sk. D. T. Buck PNR).
1944: Employed on miscellaneous Naval and port duties.
19.9.1946: Returned to owner.
1950s: Seasonal white fish trawling from Fleetwood.
1955: Re measured after conversion – 118g 49n.
26.7.1955: Completed trials after conversion to motor.
30.7.1955: Converted to motor by L.B.S. Engineering Co Ltd, Lowestoft, fitted with 300bhp 3-cyl A.K.Diesel Ltd, Lowestoft installed by W. H. Podd Ltd, Lowestoft.
30.7.1955: Sailed Lowestoft.
18.8.1955: Re registered at Lowestoft as a motor drifter/trawler (LT403).
7.10.1955: Mortgaged to The White Fish Authority, London (A).
9.5.1961: Mortgage (A) discharged.
4.1964: Company and assets bought by Basil A. Parkes, Hull.
16.4.1964: Frederick Ernest Catchpole appointed manager.
22.3.1967: Sold to Richard Curnow, Helston (32/64) & Capt Silas Victor Oates, Penzance (32/64) (Silas Victor Oates, manager). Used as a platform to carry out unauthorised dives on wreck of Liberian steam tanker Torrey Canyon (61263grt/1959) (Stranded 18.3.1967 on Pollard’s Rock, Seven Stones, dispersed wreck in 30 metres at 50.2,50N 6.7,73W).
18.9.1967: Silas Victor Oates 32 shares sold to Lewis Ernest Adams, Oakhampton (32/64).
8.12.1967: Lewis Ernest Adams 32 shares mortgaged to Smith & Godwin Ltd, London to secure the sum of £10,000 with interest (B).
31.12.1967: Richard Curnow 32 shares mortgaged to Gilbert & Co Ltd, Hull to secure the sum of £1,350 with interest (C).
8.1968: Arrested at Poole following writ issued on behalf of Gilbert & Co Ltd, Hull for non payment of monies outstanding.
15.1.1969: Mortgage (B) transferred to Allcredits Ltd, London.
1970: Broken up at Poole.
1.8.1976: Lowestoft registry closed. (Not removed from Lloyd’s Register until 1992-1993 edition. “Vessel’s continued existence in doubt”.

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S.D/T. Comrades LT403
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S.D/T. Comrades LT403
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S.D/T. Comrades LT403
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S.D/T. Comrades LT403
Picture courtesy of The Wilbert Tulloch Collection

M.D/T. Comrades LT403
Picture courtesy of The Clione Collection

Changelog
10/12/2010: Page published. 12 updates since then.
21/06/2016: Information updated.
01/11/2018: Removed FMHT watermarks from images.
03/08/2019: Updated information and added an image.