Author Archives: Bill Johnson

s.v. Lord Marmion FD131

Technical

Official Number: 73748
Gross Tonnage: 40
Net Tonnage: 25
Length: 59.1 ft
Breadth: 16.7 ft
Depth: 8.6 ft
Rig: Jigger smack – trawling
Built: Hugh Singleton, Fleetwood

History

1875: Completed by Hugh Singleton, Fleetwood for William Sumner, Fleetwood & Others as LORD MARMION.
1876: Registered at Fleetwood (FD131).
1.1.1880: Owned by Mrs Tabitha Leadbetter, Fleetwood.
29.12.1883: Sold to John Johnson, Fleetwood & others (managing owner).
20.2.1905: Sold to James Johnson, 9 Wellington Terrace, Preston & Others.
22.11.1906: Sold to Henry Robert Moss, 22 Windsor Terrace, Fleetwood (managing owner).
9.5.1917: Sold to John Edward Singleton, 55 Pharos Street, Fleetwood.
6.5.1918: Sold to Alice Maud Stennitt, 11 Imperial Terrace, Blackpool.
11.10.1918: Sold to Thomas Bradshaw & Alfred Batchelor, 57 Warren Street, Fleetwood.
Pre 1924: Sold to George Ellis, 9 Balmoral Terrace, Fleetwood (managing owner).
1929: Same.
24.4.1935 (20.5.1935?): Fleetwood registry closed. Ceased fishing.

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Lord Marmion

Changelog
18/05/2012: Page published. 2 revisions since then.
14/12/2014: Information amended.
20/08/2022: Added image.

S.T. Arian FD130

Additional information courtesy of Bill Blow

Technical

Official Number: 127866
Yard Number: 466
Completed: 1910
Gross Tonnage: 221
Net Tonnage: 102
Length: 120.4
Breadth: 21.5 ft
Depth: 11.5 ft
Built: Cochrane & Sons, Selby
Engine: 420ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by Gt. Central Co-op Engineering & Ship Repairing Co Ltd, Grimsby

History

8.6.1910: Launched by Cochrane & Sons, Selby (Yd.No.466) for The Great Central Co-Operative Engineering & Ship Repairing Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby as the ARIAN.
11.8.1910: George Lowe Alward designated manager.
12.8.1910: Registered at Grimsby (GY584).
24.8.1910: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to William Somerville Letten & George Somerville Letten, Grimsby for the sum of £2500 with interest at 51/2% (A).
25.8.1910: Completed.
19.4.1911: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to The Union of London & Smith’s Bank Ltd, London (B).
3.1915: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-6pdr) (Ad.No.1404). Based Lowestoft.
14.1.1916: William Somerville Letten died.
5.2.1916: George Somerville Letten mortgagee (A).
22.4.1918: Discharge of mortgages (A) & (B).
22.4.1918: Sold to John W. Smethurst (64/64), Grimsby.
24.4.1918: John W. Smethurst designated managing owner.
2.5.1918: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to The London Joint City & Midland Bank Ltd, London (C).
1919: Returned to owner at Grimsby.
19.3.1919: Mortgage (C) discharged.
20.3.1918: Sold to Taylor & Tomlinson Ltd (64/64), Fleetwood, after drydocking in Belfast.
21.3.1919: Joseph Allen Taylor designated manager.
24.3.1919: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to The London Joint City & Midland Bank Ltd, London (D).
31.3.1919: Grimsby registry closed.
1.4.1919: Registered at Fleetwood (FD130).
18.10.1919: Sold to Tudor Steam Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood. Joseph A. Taylor designated manager.
1924: James E. Sellars designated manager).
1937: Sold to Thos. W. Ward Ltd, Sheffield for breaking up at Preston.
15.7.1938: Fleetwood registry closed.

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S.T. Arian FD130
Picture courtesy of The David Slinger Collection

Lucida passing S.T. Arian FD130
Picture courtesy of The David Slinger Collection

Changelog
18/05/2012: Page published. 9 updates since then.
06/10/2017: Removed FMHT watermark.
08/07/2019: Updated information.
26/06/2020: Added an image.

S.T. Almeria FD117

Additional information courtesy of David Slinger

Technical

Official Number: 148220
Yard Number: TR19
Completed: 1918
Gross Tonnage: 271.22
Net Tonnage: 120.96
Length: 125.7 ft
Breadth: 23.5 ft
Depth: 12.7 ft
Built: Kingston Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Kingston, Ontario
Engine: 480ihp T.3-cyl by National S.B. Co Ltd, Goderich, Ontario

History

1.1917: Ordered.
1918: Launched by Kingston Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Kingston, Ontario (Yd.No. – ) (Canadian “Castle” – “T.R.” class) for the The Admiralty (paid for and built under direction of RCN) as TR.19.
25.8.1918: Completed by Collingwood Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Collingwood, Ontario (Yd. No.-) and commissioned in the Royal Canadian Navy (1-12pdr).
7.1.1919: Paid off and laid up.
1920: Accepted offer of Rose Street Foundry & Engineering Co Ltd, Inverness (Captain Donald John Munro CMG RN as agent) to bring drifters with trawlers as escorts to UK for lay-up in Muirtown Basin, Caledonian Canal, Inverness prior to sale and possible refit for classification as steam trawlers (The Rose Street Foundry & Engineering Co Ltd letter dated 12 April 1920).
1921: Brought over at The Admiralty’s expense.
1.1926: Still laid up.
2.1926: Rejected offer for all remaining trawlers at £2,000 each (B. Allenby, Aberdeen letter dated 10 Feb 1926).
8.1926: Sold “as is” to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Basil A. Parkes, manager).
16.9.1926: Registered at Fleetwood as ALMERIA (FD117).
1928: Sold to Red Funnel Fisheries Ltd, Sydney, NSW.
3.9.1928: Registered at Fleetwood as GOOLGWAI (FD117) (MRG 1362/1928).
15.9.1928: Sailed Fleetwood for Sydney in company with DURRAWEEN (FD135).
12.1928: Arrived Sydney, NSW after 92 day passage, which included assisting DURRAWEEN stranded when calling at the Cocos Islands, Indian Ocean.
29.12.1928: Fleetwood registry closed.
12.1928: Registered at Sydney, NSW.
1933: Owners re-styled Red Funnel Trawlers Ltd, Sydney, NSW.
1937-1939: Landed 521,114 kg of fish.
3.9.1939: Requisitioned for war service by Royal Australian Navy as a minesweeper (1-12pdr, 1-20mm Oerlikon, 1-0.303 Vickers MG, 4-DC launchers).
6.10.1939: Commissioned into RAN (P.No. FY.94).
1940: Based Sydney, NSW with M/S Group 50, working NSW coast and later moved to Queensland – Cape York/Thursday Island.
8.1944: Joined TU 70.5.2 Surveying Torres Strait.
29.10.1945: Paid off and laid up pending return to owners.
17.6.1947: Returned to owner.
1951-1955: Landed 410,235kg of fish.
18.5.1955: Sailed Sydney for the Far South Coast of New South Wales grounds (Sk. Mullarkey); eleven crew all told.
29.5.1955: Approaching Sydney in heavy seas with 400 boxes onboard ran into thick fog and about 7.00 am. stranded on rocks at Boora Point, 10 miles south of Sydney Head, NSW.
6.6.1955: Ship broke up and washed westward. Possibly some wreckage amongst rocks in position 33.58S 151.15E. All crew rescued but the following were injured, John Munro, fireman, broken kneecap, Albert Tahtinen, cut head; ship’s cat survived but the dog ‘Sluggo’ drowned.

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S.T. Almeria FD117
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HMAS Durraween
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S.T. Almeria FD117
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Changelog
22/04/2014: Information updated.
25/06/2017: Removed FMHT watermarks, amended wreck location, repaired broken image link.
22/06/2019: Updated information and added an image.

S.T. Cygnet FD110

Additional information courtesy of Peter Bell

Technical

Official Number: 124687
Yard Number: 340
Completed: 1907
Gross Tonnage: 300
Net Tonnage: 111
Length: 130.5 ft
Breadth: 22.5 ft
Depth: 12.8 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Shields Engineering Co Ltd, North Shields
Boiler: Richardsons Westgarth & Co Ltd,
Built: Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, North Shields

History

27.2.1907: Launched by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, North Shields (Yd.No.340) for Richard Watson Mason (sailmaker) & John Wright (fishing master) (64/64 joint owners) Fleetwood as CYGNET.
18.4.1907: Registered at Fleetwood (FD110), John Wright appointed manager.
18.4.1907: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to London City & Midland Bank Ltd, London (A).
4.1907: Completed.
15.5.1907: Mortgage (A) discharged.
16.5.1907: Sold to Cygnet Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Richard W. Mason, manager).
17.5.1907: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to London City & Midland Bank Ltd, London (B).
1.11.1911: Thomas Caldwell appointed manager.
19.4.1911: In collision with sailing trawler KING DAVID (FD93) near ferry slipway. KING DAVID holed and beached on Knott Spit.
8.1914: Requisitioned for war service and fitted out at Devonport as a minesweeper (1-6pdr) (Ad.No.126).
1.1.1914: Tonnage altered to 116.61net under provision of Merchant Shipping Act 1907.
11.11.1914: At Plymouth; Parent ship VIVID.
3.1917: Renamed CYGNET II.
22.9.1915: Based Plymouth with Unit 122. Later based Stromness.
By 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Fleetwood and reverted to CYGNET (FD110).
1.11.1919: Mortgage (B). Mortgagee changed name to London Joint City & Midland Bank Ltd, London.
11.1925: Mortgage (B) discharged.
11.1925: Sold to Tr°ol AB Fiskm°asen, Uddevalla, Sweden (Sven Sanne, manager).
30.11.1924: Fleetwood registry closed.
1925: Registered at Uddevalla as STORMF°OGELN (U18).
1928: Johan Herman Sanne appointed manager.
11.1936: Sold to Knut Vartdal, Aalesund. Registered at Aasund as RAMOEN (M-1-VD).
1936: Transferred to Rederi A/S Ramoen, Aalsund (Knut Vartdal, manager).
9.1939: Transferred to Norwegian Navy as guardship in Oslofjord.
14.4.1940: Seized by Germans and put into service.
1945: Transferred to Rederi A/S Ramoen, Aalsund (Knut Vartdal, manager).
1948: Fitted out as a motor trawler.
1948: Re-engined with 500bhp 2stroke 5-cyl oil engine by Harland & Wolff Ltd, Glasgow. (engine made ?).
1960: Johannes K. Vartdal appointed manager.
1961: Re-engined with 600bhp 2stroke 6-cyl oil engine by Wichmann Mtrf., Rubbestadneset.
4.1964: Reported breaking up completed.

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National Railway Museum

S.T. Cygnet FD110

Changelog
18/05/2012: Page published. 10 updates since then.
14/09/2015: Information updated.
03/02/2016: Minor information update.
04/11/2017: Removed FMHT watermarks.

S.T. Britannic FD184

Additional information courtesy of Andy Hall, Lynne Elvin and Hull Trawlers

Technical

Official Number: 99548
Yard Number: 466
Completed: 1891
Gross Tonnage: 144.32
Net Tonnage: 30.55
Length: 105.4 ft
Breadth: 20.6 ft
Depth: 11.0 ft
Built: Hepple & Co, North Shields
Engine: 360ihp T.3-cyl by Hepple & Co, North Shields
Boiler: J. T. Eltringham & Co, South Shields

History

23.9.1891: Launched by Hepple & Co, North Shields (Yd.No.466) for John Kelsall (64/64), Prestwich, Manchester as BRITANNIC.
12.12.1891: Registered at Hull (H181).
12.1891: Completed. John Kelsall designated managing owner.
1895: Transferred to fish out of Fleetwood.
30.5.1896: At Fleetwood Police Court four men charged with a breach of the Merchant Shipping Act in assaulting the skipper and combining to disobey orders were found guilty and sentenced to seven days hard labour.
30.5.1897: Sold to Kelsall Brothers & Beeching Ltd (64/64), Manchester. John Edmund Ambrose Kelsall & George Beeching, Fleetwood designated managers.
9.1897: Hull registry closed.
4.9.1897: Registered at Fleetwood (FD184).
9.1.1899: Reported having lost a crewman (Grant) believed washed overboard and drowned.
24.3.1899: Fleetwood registry closed. Transferred to fish out of Hull.
13.4.1899: Registered at Hull (H447).
25.4.1905: Lengthened to 119.0 ft draught 10.8 ft – 168g 63n( 46n?).
25.4.1905: Hull registry closed on lengthening and vessel registered anew (H447).
8.9.1911: Registered office transferred to Hull. George Beeching, Hull & John E. A. Kelsall, London designated managers.
29.12.1912: In the North Sea off the Dogger Bank with the boxing fleet (Sk. Herbert Hugh Henery); nine crew all told. At about 8.00 am. having hauled the trawl and finished stowing the fish, struck amidships by Hull steam trawler BUZZARD (H971). Ch Eng H. Wise stopped the engine and came on deck to warn that she was rapidly filling. The crew put on their lifejackets and attempted to launch the boat but it foundered and they literally swam off the deck as the ship foundered. The skipper was seen putting on his lifejacket but he and the bosun, Smith went down with the ship. The bosun surfaced but there was no sign of the skipper and a search by other vessels in the fleet failed to find him. Other trawlers on the scene, VICEROY (GY786) picked up five men, KITE (H773) two and TANAGER (H134), one; all transferred to BUZZARD which had suffered only minor damage to her fore end.
31.12.1912: Survivors landed at Hull.
9.1.1913: Hull registry closed “Total loss”.

Crew saved – Albert Love, Mate; Smith, Bosun; W. Crickmore, Third hand; A. Dixey, Deckhand; H. Wise, Ch. Eng; L. Alders 2nd Eng; W. Sellers, Trimmer and J. Courtney, Cook.

Lost – Herbert Hugh Henery, Skipper.

Changelog
18/05/2012: Page published. 6 revisions since then.
29/11/2014: Information updated.
07/06/2017: Information update.
16/07/2016: Updated information.
07/10/2019: Updated information.

The Bosun's Watch

Fleetwood Steam and Sailing Trawlers

Author Archives: Bill Johnson

s.v. Lord Marmion FD131

S.T. Arian FD130

S.T. Almeria FD117

S.T. Cygnet FD110

S.T. Britannic FD184