Additional information courtesy of Finn Björn Guttesen, Christine Simm and Birgir Þórisson
Technical
Official Number: 113739
Yard Number: 639
Completed: 1900
Gross Tonnage: 186
Net Tonnage: 75
Length: 116.0 ft
Breadth: 21.1 ft
Depth: 11.0 ft
Engine: 375ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Sunderland
History
28.8.1900: Launched by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, North Shields (Yd.No.639) for Boston Sea Fishing Co Ltd, Boston as HUNGARIAN.
10.1900: Completed.
6.11.1900: Registered at Boston (BN89). Fred Donnison designated manager.
11.9.1901: At Boston landed an unusual supply of large haddock, realised £304.
1902: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Boston. Fred Donnison designated manager.
8.4.1903: At Boston landed from a sixteen day Faroe trip and realised £308.
29.8.1903: Outward to the fishing grounds grounded in the river and came fast. Towed off, returned to port and after survey sailed again for the fishing grounds.
19.1.1904: Arrived Bremen with the German schooner GERMANIA in tow. Vessel picked up disabled with some sails lost, one man drowned and one sick, while on a voyage from Southampton to Bo’ness with cargo of iron.
29.2.1904: At Boston Borough Police Court, Alfred Roberts (32), fisherman of the steam trawler HUNGARIAN was charged with being drunk and disorderly in South Street on 27th February. Fined 2s 6d and 6d costs.
1909: Thomas D. Donaldson designated manager.
10.12.1909: At anchor near the pilot sloop waiting for the tide to proceed to Boston (Sk K. Newman). The Ramsgate registered schooner NANCY (117tons/1890) (Master/owner George Smith (60), Sandwich), having loaded 210 tons of coal at Boston for Ramsgate, had been towed out of Boston by the tug BULLDOG (72grt/1884) and at about 6.30pm went to anchor with lights burning, about three cables from the pilot sloop. In the early evening in darkness and driving rain, the trawler weighed anchor by the light of a flare, the crew did not see the schooner ahead of them. When under way struck the bows of the NANCY which foundered quickly, the crew of five being taken off with some difficulty by the trawler’s boat and taken onboard.
11.12.1909: Survivors landed at Boston. NANCY subsequently salved, repaired and returned to service.
1910: Fishing out of Fleetwood (Fred Donnison, Fleetwood managing agent).
15.12.1910: At Fleetwood landed 50 boxes.
7.1.1911: At Fleetwood landed 50 boxes and 380 pairs of soles.
2-5.1911: Along with Boston trawlers FISHTOFT (BN94), INDIAN (BN90) and ANGERTON (BN92) on charter to Bookless Brothers Ltd, Aberdeen/Sheffield fishing out of Hafnarfjörður, Iceland.
1912: Daniel Walker designated manager.
23.12.1913: At Boston Borough Police Court, Thomas Hiley, California Place, Skirbeck, fisherman was fined 40s and 20s 6d costs for stealing two balls of twine from the trawler HUNGARIAN. Twine had been going missing from the trawler for some time.
11.1914: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-6pdr) (Ad.No.525). Based Larne, Co. Antrim.
4.3.1916: At Larne, struck by mail steamer PRINCESS MAUD (1655grt/1904), when swinging in the harbour on arrival from Stranraer. Sustained damage to shell plating on the port quarter, but seaworthy.
By 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Boston.
21.10.1919: Offered for sale by auction at the Baltic Exchange, London by Messrs Kellocks, with the steam trawlers, FISHTOFT (BN94), ETRURIAN (BN85) and CAMBRIAN (BN75). No change of ownership so possibly failed to reach reserve.
1920: Fred Parkes, Wyburton designated manager.
1922: Sold to E. Lombard, Arcachon. Boston registry closed. Registered at Arcachon as VILLE D’ARCACHON II.
1922: Remeasured 193g. 58n.
By 1930: Sold to Armement G. Verdet, Arcachon. LR 1930-31 annotated “ Now a pontoon “.
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S.T. Hungarian BN89
Changelog
03/07/2021: Page published.
04/07/2021: Added an image.