Category Archives: Drifter/Trawler

S.D/T. Plough KY232

Technical

Official Number: 145552
Yard Number: 445
Completed: 1920
Yard Number: 445
Gross tonnage: 95
Net Tonnage: 39
Length: 86.1 ft
Breadth: 18.5 ft
Depth: 9.3 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Isaac J. Abdela & Mitchell Ltd, Brimscombe
Built: Isaac J. Abdela & Mitchell Ltd, Queensferry

History

1919: Launched by Isaac J. Abdela & Mitchell Ltd, Queensferry (Yd.No.445) (“Admiralty drifter”) for The Admiralty as FOAM.
1.10.1920: Completed as a fishing vessel.
12.10.1920: Transferred to Fishery Board for Scotland for disposal.
7.1.1921: Sold to John & P. Thomson & J. R. Brown, Cockenzie.
1921: Registered at Leith as STARWORT (LH288).
1923: Sold to Martin Gardner, Robert Gardner & Martin Gardner Jnr, Cellardyke (John T. Graham, Anstruther, manager).
1923: Registered at Kirkcaldy as MENAT (KY232).
1934: Sold to Robert Gardner, Cellardyke (John T. Graham, Anstruther, manager). Registered at Kirkcaldy as PLOUGH (KY232).
1939: Sold to Mrs R. F. Gardner, Cellardyke.
14.9.1939: Requisitioned for war service on miscellaneous Naval duties (Hire rate £32.0.0d/month).
1942: Sold to North Shore Fishing Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Basil A. Parkes, manager).
2.3.1946: Returned to owner.
10.4.1948: On passage Yarmouth – Fleetwood, struck submerged wreckage and foundered near E. Goodwins. Crew took to boat and picked up by Ramsgate lifeboat. Kirkcaldy registry closed.

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S.D/T. Plough KY232

S.D/T. Plough KY232

Changelog
03/02/2010: Page published. 4 updates since then.
30/07/2016: Picture added.

S.D/S. Ocean Trust YH160

Technical

Official Number: 137572
Completed: 1914
Gross Tonnage: 77
Net Tonnage: 37
Length: 90.8 ft
Breadth: 18.3 ft
Depth: 9.1 ft
Engine: C.2-cyl and boiler by Elliott & Garrood Ltd, Beccles
Built: John Chambers Ltd, Oulton Broad, Lowestoft

History

Wooden drifter/seiner

1914: Launched by John Chambers Ltd, Oulton Broad, Lowestoft (Yd.No.) for Bloomfields Ltd, Gt Yarmouth (43/64) & R. H. King, Winterton (21/64) as OCEAN TRUST.
23.11.1914: Ran sea trials.
4.12.1914: Registered at Yarmouth (YH160).
12.1914: Completed at a cost of £2607 (James Bloomfield, manager).
1.1918: Requisitioned for war service and employed on miscellaneous duties. Based Buncrana.
2.9.1919: Returned to owner at Gt. Yarmouth (Bloomfields Ltd, Gt. Yarmouth).
22.12.1922: Neil Mackay appointed manager.
21.10.1926: Landed 240 crans at Yarmouth.
194?: Transferred to Bloomfield’s Ltd, Fleetwood management. Landing Fleetwood and Ullapool.
1943. Transferred to Bloomfield’s Ltd, Gt Yarmouth.
18.10.1951: Landed 207 crans at Yarmouth having lost 8 nets (Sk. Leonard Stone).
1954: Sold for breaking up.
11.9.1954: Yarmouth registry closed.

Changelog
24/04/2009: Page published. 3 updates since then.

S.D/T. Ocean Rambler YH725 (Seasonal)

Wartime visitor

Technical

Official Number: 135078
Yard Number: 499
Completed: 1914
Gross Tonnage: 96
Net Tonnage: 37
Length: 86.5 ft
Breadth: 18.7 ft
Depth: 9.3 ft
Built: A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen
Engine and boiler: T.3-cyl by A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen

History

13.5.1914: Launched by A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen (Yd.No.499) for Bloomfields Ltd, Gt Yarmouth as OCEAN RAMBLER.
8.6.1914: Registered at Yarmouth (YH725). James Bloomfield designated manager.
6.1914: Completed at a cost of £4381.
9.1914: Requisitioned for war service as a patrol drifter (Ad.No.246).
13.11.1914: At Lowestoft, parent ship HALCYON.
By 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Gt. Yarmouth (Bloomfields Ltd, Gt. Yarmouth).
22.12.1922: Neil Mackay designated manager.
13.10.1924: At Gt. Yarmouth landed 160 crans of herring.
5.10.1925: At Gt. Yarmouth landed 180 crans.
28.10.1925: At Gt. Yarmouth landed 230 crans.
1930s: Seasonal trawling from Padstow.
6.3.1931: Damaged in collision with FELLOWSHIP (LT65)) in Padstow Harbour.
1942: Transferred to Bloomfield’s Ltd, Fleetwood, management. Trawling from Fleetwood and Padstow.
11.6.1943: Typical wartime landing. 105 kits – hake-2, cod/codling-11, whiting-7, flats-26, roker-55, gurnard-2, dogs-1, sole & prime-1.
1945: Transferred to Bloomfield’s Ltd, Gt Yarmouth.
5.8.1954: Sold to Alfred King, Gt. Yarmouth.
27.9.1954: Sold to George Edward Haylett, Caister on Sea.
11.10.1954: At Gt. Yarmouth landed 150 crans.
11.1955: Sold to Belgium shipbreakers for breaking up.
10.11.1955: Yarmouth registry closed.

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S.T. Ocean Rambler YH725

S.T. Ocean Rambler YH725
Picture courtesy of The Barry Banham Maritime Photo Collection

Changelog
24/04/2009: Page published. 4 updates since then.
08/04/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
04/07/2021: Updated information.

S.D/T. Ramsey Bay FD378

Additional material courtesy of Barry Banham

Technical

Official Number: 141957
Yard Number: 5
Completed: 1918
Gross Tonnage: 97
Net Tonnage: 39
Length: 86 ft
Breadth: 18.5 ft
Depth: 9.3 ft
Built: J. W. Brooke & Co Ltd, Oulton Broad, Lowestoft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Plenty & Sons Ltd, Newbury

History

1918: Launched by J. W. Brooke & Co Ltd, Oulton Broad, Lowestoft (Yd.No.5) (“Admiralty Drifter”) for The Admiralty as FORK LIGHTNING (Ad.No.4112).
22.11.1918: Completed as a minesweeper (1- 6pdr).
1920: Transferred to Board of Agriculture & Fisheries, London for disposal.
1920: Sold to Harry Dingle & Wright Bros, Fleetwood under HM Treasury mortgage agreement (Disposal of Admiralty Drifters to Ex-service Fishermen). Harry Dingle designated managing owner.
6.8.1920: Registered at Fleetwood (Part I & Part IV) O.N.141957 (FD378).
28.6.1921: Registered at Fleetwood as Ramsey Bay (FD378).
8.1923: Repossessed by Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries, London.
25.8.1923: Fleetwood registry closed “ceased fishing”.
21.12.1923: Sold to Dennis Nathaniel Randlesome (32/64), Frank Burton (16/64) & Arthur Gouldby (16/64), Lowestoft.
21.12.1923: Registered at Lowestoft (LT1290).
7.3.1928: Sold to Dennis Nathaniel Randlesome (48/64) & Arthur Gouldby (16/64), Lowestoft.
1928: Seasonal white fish trawling out of Fleetwood.
19.6.1928: Typical landing 40 boxes.
10.2.1930: Sold to Dennis Nathaniel Randlesome, Lowestoft.
1930s: Seasonal trawling from Padstow and Fleetwood (Alex Keay managing agent).
14.4.1937: Trawling in Morecambe Bay (Sk. D. N. Randlesome), Ch.Eng Sidney Howe of Lowestoft disappeared, presume fell overboard and drowned.
31.12.1938: Sold to Locarno Fishing Co Ltd, London.
Pre 1943-1944: Fishing out of Fleetwood.
24.7.1943: Typical landing. 110 kits – hake-50, cod/codling-25, whiting-15, flats-10, roker-10.
3.1955: Sold to Jacques Bakker & Zonen, Bruges for breaking up.
3.3.1955: Sailed Lowestoft for Antwerp in tow of steam drifter BYNG (LT632), also for breaking up.
9.3.1955: Delivered Bruges.
16.6.1955: Lowestoft registry closed.

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S.D/T. Ramsey Bay LT1290

S.D/T. Ramsey Bay LT1290
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S.D/T. Ramsey Bay LT1290

S.D/T. Ramsey Bay LT1290
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Changelog
26/01/2009: Page published. 3 updates since then.
22/08/2015: Picture added.
08/07/2017: Removed FMHT watermarks from images.
21/09/2020: Updated history.

S.D/T. Faithful Star LT323 (Seasonal)

Additional information courtesy of Barry Banham

Technical

Official Number: 148197
Yard Number: 998
Completed: 1927
Gross Tonnage: 103
Net Tonnage: 44
Length 90.3: ft
Breadth: 19 ft
Depth: 9.2 ft
Built by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby
Engine 260ihp T.3-cyl by Crabtree & Co Ltd, Gt. Yarmouth

History

7.3.1927: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.999) for Star Drift Fishing Co Ltd, Lowestoft as Faithful Star.
9.4.1927: Completed (Frederick E. Catchpole, Lowestoft, manager) (valued at £3,900).
19.6.1927: Registered at Lowestoft (LT323).
1930s: Seasonal white fish trawling from Fleetwood (Alex Keay, managing agent).
3.9.1939: Requisitioned for war service employed on contraband control (1-3pdr) (Hire rate £49.11.4d/month).
6.1941: Based Weymouth as armed patrol (Ty/Sk. W. G. Hitter RNR). 9.3.1946: Returned to owner.
15.10.1946: At Lowestoft landed 190 crans of herring.
11.1952: Converted to motor by L.B.S. Engineering Co Ltd, Lowestoft, re-engined with 300bhp 4 stroke 3-cyl diesel by W. H. Podd Ltd, Lowestoft.
21.11.1952: Surveyed following conversion to diesel propulsion.
14.12.1957: At night in a strong onshore wind and snow showers got into difficulties whilst seeking shelter and stranded about 1/4 mile S of Orford Ness Lighthouse (Sk. George Challis). Two crew got ashore and raised alarm, other crew members made it to shore but Sk. Challis was rescued by LSA breeches buoy. Salvage arranged with Yarmouth tug RICHARD LEE BARBER (122grt/1940) but delayed due to picking up a barge which was adrift and delivering Harwich. Pushed further up the beach and damaged by heavy seas. Declared a Total loss.
15.5. 1958: Lowestoft registry closed.

(Crew – Sk. George Challis; Jack Bessey, Mate; Robert Norman, 3rd Hand; Charles O’Neill, Ch Eng; Eric Burwood, 2nd Eng; Stanley Humphrey & Kenneth Womack, deckhands; Frank Webb, cook.)

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S.T. Faithful Star LT323

S.D/T. Faithful Star LT323
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S.T. Faithful Star LT323

S.T. Faithful Star LT323
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S.D/T. Faithful Star LT323

S.D/T. Faithful Star LT323
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S.T. Faithful Star LT323

S.D/T. Faithful Star LT323
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S.T. Faithful Star LT323

S.D/T. Faithful Star LT323
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M.T. Faithful Star LT323

M.T. Faithful Star LT323
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M.T. Faithful Star LT323

M.T. Faithful Star LT323
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Changelog
26/01/2009: Page published. 5 updates since then.
22/09/2017: Removed FMHT watermarks from images.
28/10/2017: Added an image.
15/08/2020: Updated history.