Category Archives: Drifter/Trawler

S.T. John and Norah LT203 (Seasonal)

Additional information courtesy of Barry Banham

Technical

Official Number: 135770
Yard Number: 141
Completed: 1913
Gross Tonnage: 95
Net Tonnage: 40
Length: 86 ft
Breadth: 18.5 ft
Depth: 9.7 ft
Built: Crabtree & Co Ltd, Gt. Yarmouth
Engine: T.3-cyl by Crabtree & Co Ltd, Gt. Yarmouth
Boiler: Riley Brothers (Boilermakers) Ltd, Stockton on Tees

History

1913: Launched by Crabtree & Co Ltd, Gt. Yarmouth (Yd.No.141) for Head & Wright Ltd, Lowestoft as JOHN & NORAH.
9.1913: Completed.
29.9.1913: Registered at Lowestoft (LT203).
29.9.1913: Ronald Walter Head, appointed manager.
9.1915: Requisitioned for war service as an A/S net drifter (1-6pdr HA) (Ad.No.1867). Based Dover.
1919: Returned to owner (William J. Head, manager).
1930s: Seasonal trawling from Fleetwood (William J. Head, managing agent).
7.1931: Connected to steam drifter/trawler LOYAL STAR (R246) stranded on Hats & Barrels rocks and pulled her clear.
9.7.1932: Out of Fleetwood, broke foremast when hauling.
18.3.1933: Off Trevose Head fouled propeller with gear.
3.10.1933: At Grimsby, badly damaged propeller.
26.11.1937: In collision with steam drifter SCORE HEAD (LT120).
13.1.1939: Off the Co. Waterford coast collided with Cork registered schooner BROOKLANDS (138grt/1859) damaging her above the waterline.
18.11.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (P.No.FY924) (Hire rate £27.0.0d/month).
26.5.1940: At 6.57pm. ‘Operation Dynamo’ (Dunkirk evacuation) put into effect.
5/6.1940: At Dunkirk evacuation.
1.6.1940: Arrived Ramsgate at 11.45am. landed 61 troops.
16.12.1942: Harold Frank Weeks, Fleetwood appointed manager.
10.1944: Employed on examining service.
1945: Returned to owner.
18.2.1946: Sold to East Anglian Fish Selling Co Ltd, Grimsby. Fitted out for seining.
9.3.1946: Lowestoft registry closed.
13.3.1946: Registered at Grimsby (GY215). Harry Norman Franklin appointed manager.
11.12.1946: Registered at Grimsby as VISCARIA (GY215).
1958: Sold for breaking up.
25.8.1958: Grimsby registry closed.

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S.D/T. John and Norah LT203

S.D/T. John and Norah LT203
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S.T. John and Norah LT203

S.D/T. John and Norah LT203
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S.D/T. Viscaria GY215

S.D/T. Viscaria GY215
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Changelog
26/01/2009: Page published. 3 updates since then.
09/06/2016: Information updated.
01/03/2021: Updated history.

S.D/T. Coriedoune – BCK417

Technical

Official Number: 120370
Yard Number: 345
Completed: 1907
Gross Tonnage: 91
Net Tonnage: 45
Length: 82.1 ft
Breadth: 18.4 ft
Depth: 8.6 ft
Built: Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, North Shields
Engine: C.2-cyl by MacColl & Pollock Ltd, Sunderland

History

1907: Completed by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, North Shields (Yd.No.345) for Smith’s Dock & Trust Co Ltd, North Shields (Archbald Miller, Gt Yarmouth, manager) as TWO.
6.6.1907: Registered at Yarmouth (YH211).
1908: James Bloomfield appointed manager.
1.1915: Requisitioned for war service as an A/S net drifter (Ad.No.1049). Based Taranto.
Post 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Gt. Yarmouth.
29.7.1920: Sold to West Country Fishing & Curing Syndicate Ltd, Falmouth (John A. Collett, London, manager).
17.5.1921: Sold to Fish Traders Ltd, London (Andrew Robertson, Aberdeen, manager).
12.1922: Sold to James, John & William Smith & J. Farquhar, Portessie, Buckie (William Smith managing owner).
1.1.1923: Yarmouth registry closed.
1.1923: Registered at Buckie as CORIEDOUNE (BCK417).
1926: John Farquhar, Buckie managing owner.
1935: Sold to Alex Keay, Fleetwood (managing owner).
1949: Sold to Joseph Duthie, Fraserburgh.
29.7.1949: Registered at Fraserburgh (FR481).
2.8.1949: Condemned. Fraserburgh registry closed. Sold for breaking up.

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S.D. Coriedoune BCK417

S.D. Coriedoune BCK417
Picture courtesy of The Barry Banham Maritime photo collection

Changelog
22/01/2009: Page published. 4 updates since then.
02/01/2020: Information updated.

S.D/T. Kipper LT1111

Additional information courtesy of Barry Banham

Technical

Official Number: 128532
Yard Number: 156
Completed: 1908
Gross Tonnage: 92
Net Tonnage: 32
Length: 86.9 ft
Breadth: 18.9 ft
Depth: 8.7 ft
Built: R. Cock, Appledore
Engine: C.2-cyl by Wm. Burrell, Great Yarmouth.
Boiler: Riley Brothers (Boilermakers) Ltd, Stockton on Tees

History

1907: Launched by R. Cock, Appledore (Yd.No.156) for Wm. Burrell, Great Yarmouth as KIPPER. Towed to Gt. Yarmouth for machinery fit.
8.1908: Completed. William Burrell designated manager.
17.8.1908: Registered at Yarmouth (YH385).
1911: Sold to James A. Harrington, Lowestoft.
24.1.1911: Yarmouth registry closed.
25.1.1911: Registered at Lowestoft (LT1111). James A. Harrington designated managing owner.
2.1915: Requisitioned for war service and operated as A/S net drifter (1-6pdr HA) (Ad.No.1106). Based Aegean Sea.
12.3.1919: Waiting instructions whether required for Post-War Service (SS).
1919: Returned to owner at Lowestoft (J. A. Harrington, Lowestoft).
1919: Sold to George & Louisa Breach, Lowestoft. George Breach designated managing owner.
21.9.1926: George Breach died. Ownership transferred to executors, Louisa Breach, George Alan Breach & Wm. Hutchings. George Alan Breach designated managing owner.
1928: Fishing out of Fleetwood.
1.6.1928: Typical landing 40 boxes.
Pre 8.1935: Fishing out of Fleetwood (Jack V. Breach, managing agent).
3.9.1935: At Bangor Magistrates Court, Sk. William John Durrant was fined £10 and costs for illegally trawling within the three miles limit in Cardigan Bay.
7.3.1936: Sold to Alfred Fitzgerald & Joseph Robert Searles, Fleetwood. Joseph R. Searles designated managing owner.
5.3.1937: Sold to Alfred Fitzgerald, Fleetwood. Alfred Fitzgerald designated managing owner.
11.1937: Lost funnel and mast in heavy weather and put into Douglas.
12.1937: Laid up in Fleetwood.
1.1938: Sold to Samuel Grey, Belfast for use as a salvage vessel. Assisted Messrs Carroll, Liverpool, in the attempted salvage of the steamer ANNAGHER (583grt/1924) which had foundered off Ballycopeland Point, Donaghadee, Co. Down following a shift in her scrap cargo.
28.10.1938: Lowestoft registry closed.
11.1938: Sold to Dutch shipbreakers for breaking up at Nieuw-Lekkerland.
1940: Sold to N.V. Mercurius, Vlaardingen. Registered at Vlaardingen as PAX (VL68).
4.1942: Sold to F. Pot, Vlaardingen. Requisitioned by German military.
1947: Sold to J. Roelofs, Ijmuiden. Renamed DOLFJN (RO2).
1951: Re-engined with 300bhp oil engine by Bolnes.
1951: Converted to motor and re-built as a beam trawler. Registered at IJmuiden as ZEEHAN (IJM55).
1972: Sold to Dutch owners and used for sea angling parties.
Post 1972: Sold for breaking up.

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S.T. Kipper LT1111

S.T. Kipper LT1111
Picture courtesy of The Barry Banham Collection

S.T. Kipper LT1111 as Zeehan

M.T. Zeehan IJM55
Picture courtesy of The Barry Banham Collection

S.D/T. Kipper LT1111

S.D/T. Kipper LT1111
Picture by Arado (TPF)

Changelog
22/01/2009: Page published. 3 updates since then.
18/02/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from images.
22/03/2021: Information updated.

S.D/T. Leonard LT149 (Seasonal)

Additional information courtesy of Jan Harteveld, Barry Banham and Hans-J Heise

Technical

Official Number 149227
Yard Number: 901
Launched 1913
Completed: 1913
Gross Tonnage: 107
Net Tonnage: 40
Length: 27.25m (89.4 ft)
Breadth: 6.04m (19.8 ft)
Depth: 2.83m (9.3 ft)
Built: Gebr. Boot Scheepsbouwwerf “De Hoop”, Leiderdorp
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by Burgerhout’s Maschfb. Rotterdam

History

1913: Completed by Gebr. Boot Scheepsbouwwerf “De Hoop”, Leiderdorp, (Yd.No.901) for NV Zeevisscherij Mij. “Majestic”, IJmuiden as MAJESTIC.
19.8.1913: Registered at IJmuiden (IJM46). NV Visscherij Exploitatie Mij. “Witte Ster”, IJmuiden designated managers.
1917: L. J. Van der Weyden designated manager.
191?: New survey remeasured 111g 42n.
2.7.1918: Sold to Partenreederei Hofman & Co, Altona. Registered at Altona as EGON (SD78).
21.2.1920: Sold to NV Visscherij Mij. “Helegoland”, IJmuiden.
1922: New survey remeasured 115g 31n.
15.2.1922: Registered at IJmuiden as HELGA (IJM46).
23.2.1927: Sold to Stoomvissch Mij. “Helgoland”, IJmuiden.
1930: New survey remeasured 105g 45n 90.6 x 19.9 x 9.5 feet.
11.1.1930: Sold to Head & Wright Ltd, Lowestoft.
13.2.1930: Registered at Lowestoft (Part I & IV) as Leonard O.N.149227 (LT149). Seasonal fishing from Fleetwood. Sir Alec Black Bt managing agent.
9.11.1940: In a NNW gale and heavy seas put into Llandudno with fish room full of water. Lifeboat THOMAS & ANNIE WADE RICHARDS (Cox Trevor Davies) was
launched to take pump and fireman to ship.
10.11.1940: By 0645 pumped out, fish landed and other gear put on pier. Escorted by lifeboat, sailed for Bangor for repairs.
4.9.1941: Letter to owners from HM Customs & Excise, Fleetwood stating that Certificate of Registry had not been endorsed for the year and requesting that it be brought or forwarded without delay.
27.10.1941: In Irish Sea (Sk. G. E. Knights); nine crew all told. When hauling and lifting bag, mast broke with weight of fish.
15.11.1941: When hauling and lifting bag, mast broke again with weight of fish.
7.5.1943: Typical wartime landing. 72 kits – cod/codling-19, whiting-16, plaice-1, roker-15, gurnard-12, dogs-3, sole & prime-6.
8.2.1946: Sold to Cranbrook Shipping Co Ltd, London. Leonard Frederick Milton designated manager.
10.1955: Sold to Jacques Bakker en Zonen, Bruges for breaking up.
27.10.1955: Sailed Lowestoft for Bruges (Sk. Scarlett).
28.10.1955: Delivered.
4.11.1955: Lowestoft registry closed “ Sold to Belgian subjects for demolition”.

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S.T. Leonard LT149

S.T. Leonard LT149
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Leonard HMC&E Letter

Leonard HMC&E Letter
Picture courtesy of Barry Banham

Changelog

14/01/2009: Page published. 3 updates since then.
07/05/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
12/05/2018: Updated information.
18/05/2018: Updated information and added image.

S.D/L. Trustful PD366

Information courtesy of Barry Banham

Technical

Official Number: 123626
Completed: 1906
Gross Tonnage: 87
Net Tonnage: 31
Length: 84 ft
Breadth: 18.9 ft
Depth: 9.6 ft
Engine: C.2-cyl by A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen
Built: Carnegie & Matthews, Peterhead

History

1906: Completed by Carnegie & Matthews, Peterhead (Yd.No.) for Alexander & George Mair Snr, Portknockie (George Mair Snr managing owner), as TRUSTFUL (BF369).
1915: Requisitioned for war service as a boom tender (Ad.No.2441). Based Longhope. Renamed TRUSTFUL II.
Post 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Buckie (George Mair, Portknockie). Reverted to TRUSTFUL (BF369).
1920: Sold to Richard Irvin & Sons Ltd, North Shields (Sir John H. Irvin, Aberdeen, manager). Banff registry closed. Registered at Peterhead (PD366).
1921: Fishing from Fleetwood as a liner (Alex Keay, managing agent).
1922: Sold to William H. Moorhouse, Thornton-le-Fylde (Harry Dingle, Thornton-le-Fylde, manager).
1923: Peterhead registry closed. Registered at Douglas (DO27).
29.12.1924: Fishing off Bray Head, Co. Wicklow, SW gale sprang up and vessel shipped heavy seas. Engine room flooded. About 5.00 pm anchored and let off flares. No response, took to boat and laid off as vessel started to settle, boiler exploded and vessel foundered. After several hours, picked up by Kingstown pilot boat, landed and taken to Dublin.
2.1.1925: Crew returned to Fleetwood. Douglas registry closed.

Changelog
08/01/2009: Page published. 4 updates since then.