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s.v. William and Martha FD50

Technical

Official Number: 65225
Net Tonnage: 61
Rig: Ketch – Trawling
Built: ?? Rye
Owner: Mrs Anne Holden, Sunnyside, Ainsdale

History

1871: Completed by ??, Rye as WILLIAM & MARTHA. Registered at Hull (H??).
By 1874: Owned by Peter Bates, Hull.
By 1879: Owned by George Bates, 7 Melbourne Parade, Hessle Road, Hull.
By 1888: Owned by Mrs Anne Holden, Sunnyside, Ainsdale (George Miller, Church Street, Fleetwood, manager). Hull registry closed. Registered at Fleetwood (FD50).
1892: Owned by T. Chamney, ??.
1895: Fleetwood registry closed. FATE?

Changelog

15/12/2012: Page published. 4 updates since then.

s.v. Betsey and Sarah FD27

Additional information courtesy of Peter Goulding
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Technical

Official Number: 56262
Tonnage: 52
Length: 67 ft
Breadth: 18 ft
Depth: 12 ft
Rig: Smack-trawling

History

1867: Completed at Hull for George Anderson, 37 Humber Street, Hull as BETSEY and SARAH.
26.4.1867: Registered at Hull (H463).
27.4.1867: Appropriated.
By 1875: Owned by David Foyston, 3 Strickland Street, Hull.
1888: Sold to Lawrence Fish, 26 West Street, Fleetwood & others. Lawrence Fish managing owner.
1889: Sold to Thomas Roskell, 1 Victoria Street, Fleetwood & others. Thomas Roskell managing owner. Hull registry closed. Registered at Fleetwood (FD27). 1889: Sold to William Alexander Currie, Belfast for use by Belfast Harbour Board as an ‘auxiliary pilot tender and wreck light vessel’.
1890: Fleetwood registry closed. On completion of conversion and overhaul registered at Belfast as BERTHA.
7.6.1911: Reported sold to Mr J. C. W. Rea on behalf of the Bangor Committee for the Celebration of the Coronation (of George V) for £25.
22.6.1911: On the evening of the Coronation at 10.00pm, loaded with “highly inflammable material” towed out to the middle of Bangor Harbour and set alight, along with many bonfires around the harbour.
1911: Belfast registry closed.

Changelog
15/12/2012: Page published. 3 revisions since then.
23/09/2014: Information updated.
01/10/2020: Updated history.

S.D/L. Golden Sheaf BCK223

Technical

Official Number: 132178
Completed: 1916
Gross Tonnage: 95
Net Tonnage: 40
Length: 89.2 ft
Breadth: 19.2 ft
Depth: 9.1 ft
Built: G. Walker, Nairn
Engine: T.3-cyl by Rose Street Foundry & Engineering Co Ltd, Inverness
Boiler: A. & W. Dalglish, Pollockshaws, Glasgow

History

1916: Completed by G. Walker, Nairn (Yd.No.?) for R. Tindall & Sons Ltd, Fraserburgh (R. Tindall & A. M. Cowie, Buckie) as GOLDEN SHEAF.
27.11.1916: Registered at Buckie (BCK223).
8.1916: Requisitioned for war service as an A/S net drifter (1-6pdr) (Ad.No.2749). Based Falmouth.
Post 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Findochty (R. Tindall & Sons, Buckie).
1924: Buckie registry closed. Registered at Fraserburgh (FR20). Maxwell J. M. Tindall appointed manager.
1928: Owner R.Tindall & Sons Ltd, Fraserburgh (R. Tindall, Charles Summers, John Tait, Charles Summers Jnr, George Walker & James Stephen Melville). Alfred R. Tindall appointed manager.
Late 1930s: Seasonal white fish lining occasional landings at Fleetwood (Alex Keay managing agent).
1939: Sold to George Walker & Sons (Fraserburgh) Ltd, Fraserburgh & others.
9.2.1940: Requisitioned for war service employed on miscellaneous Naval duties (Hire rate £26.0.0d/month).
194?: Sold to C. Summers & Co, Fraserburgh.
31.8.1945: Returned to owner.
1949: Sold to Elizabeth Buchan, St. Combs & others.
1950: Sold for breaking up.
10.1951: Fraserburgh registry closed.

Changelog

11/12/2012: Page published. 2 updates since then.
05/12/2020: Updated history.

Cochrane Shipbuilders

Cochrane Shipbuilders Volume 1: 1884 – 1914

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Publisher: Bernard McCall,
400 Nore Rd; Portishead,
Bristol BS20 8EZ

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Cochrane Shipbuilders

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S.D/T Harnser LT627 (Seasonal)

Additional material courtesy of Roy Breech and Barry Banham

Technical

Official Number: 139996
Yard Number: 73
Completed: 1918
Gross Tonnage: 100
Net Tonnage: 42
Length: 89.9 ft
Breadth: 20.0 ft
Depth: 10.0
Built: Colby Brothers Ltd, Oulton Broad
Engine: 270ihp T.3-cyl by F. W. Carver & Co, Gt. Yarmouth
Boiler: Riley Bros (Boilermakers) Ltd, Stockton-on-tees

History

1918: Ordered by The Admiralty from Colby Brothers Ltd, Oulton Broad (“Admiralty drifter”) as WINDHOWL.
17.12.1918: Order cancelled.
1919: Launched (Yd.No.73) for East Anglian Red Star Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Norwich as HARNSER.
3.12.1919: Registered at Lowestoft (LT627). John Victor Breech, Lowestoft, manager.
23.12.1919: Struck Lowestoft Pier causing damage.
24.4.1926: Sold to Jack Breech Ltd (64/64), Lowestoft (John Victor Breech, manager).
26.1.1928: Anchored off Buncrana, Co. Donegal, dragged and grounded when steam drifter SHEPHERD LAD (LT7) made fast alongside.
21.1.1933: Off Milford Haven rudder damaged.
1.9.1934: Off Peel, IoM in collision and damaged stem.
6.2.1937: At Lowestoft struck Inner Pier damagine stem.
1930s: Seasonal fishing in the Irish Sea and off west coast of Ireland, occasional landings at Fleetwood taking bunkers.
24.6.1938: At Fleetwood landed 300 small boxes of herring grossed £153.
5.1939: Sold to Bröderene Anda, Stavanger (John & Trygve Anda).
24.5.1939: Sailed Lowestoft for Norway.
1.6.1939: Lowestoft registry closed “Sold to Norwegians”.
2.1940: Converted to a purse seiner and cargo vessel.
2.1940: Converted to motor and fitted with 2-cyl Wichmann oil engine (reconditioned by Haldorsen-Sonner, built 1920).
1940: Registered at Stavanger as ANKER I following conversion.
1.3.1940: Sold to Ola Olsen, Jakob & Konrad Jakobsen, Auklandshamn (Ola Olsen, manager). Registered at Haugesund. Employed as a coaster.
11.1940: Sold to Jacob Lindberg, KJØPSVIK. Registered at Bergen as KJØPSVIK. Employed seasonal fishing and as a coaster.
1964: Re-engined with 180bhp Wichmann oil engine.
1973: Sold to A/S DYRØGUTT, Gibostad. Renamed DYRØGUTT.
1973: Re-engined with 3-cyl 220bhp Brunvoll oil engine.
197?: Sold to Leif Tøllefsen, Svolvaer.
197?: Sold to Arene Larsen, Henningsvaer.
198?: Sold to Harald Nygård, Hasvik. Renamed HEIMSUND.
1985: Condemned and deleted from Norwegian register.

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S.D/T Harnser LT627

S.D/T Harnser LT627
Picture courtesy of The Barry Banham Collection

Changelog

07/11/2012: Page published. 5 updates since then.
12/01/2019: Removed FMHT watermark.
24/12/2020: Updated history.