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Vessels that have been lost

S.T. Magnolia GY482 (2)

In Parkes ownership. Did not fish from Fleetwood.
Additional information courtesy of Bill Blow

Technical

Official Number: 137026
Yard Number: 181
Completed: 1909
Gross Tonnage: 259.76
Net Tonnage: 103.37
Length: 125.3 ft
Breadth: 22.1 ft
Depth: 11.7 ft
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley
Engine: 495ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by Gt. Central Co-op Engineering & Ship Repairing Co Ltd, Grimsby

History

7.6.1909: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.181) for G. E. Forum (64/64) (Anglo Danish principals), Esbjerg as KONG FREDERIK III.
27.7.1909: Completed. Registered at Fanö (F145). George William Margarson, Grimsby appointed manager
24.11.1914: Arrived Fleetwood on evening tide, searched by Customs officials and detained to await instructions from The Admiralty.
4.1915: Sold to Frank Barrett (64/64), Grimsby (BoT Minute M4711/1915).
4.1915: Fanö registry closed.
14.4.1915: Frank Barrett designated managing owner.
15.4.1915: Registered at Grimsby (Part I & IV) as KONG FREDERIK III O.N.137026 (GY482).
5.1915: Requisitioned for war service (Ad.No.2659). At Devonport fitted with 1-12pdr). i.a.w. Area XIV Patrol Orders dated 30.3.1915: Allocated to Relieving Unit (to take the place of trawlers when refitting) based Isles of Scilly (Sk. J. W. Hewett RNR).
1915: Renamed KING FREDERICK.
1915: Alterations following BoT survey at Grimsby dated 4.12.1915 relate to engine.
10.1916: Allocated Unit No.61 – Section A & B 3rd Division based Penzance (Sk. J. Hewitt (sic) RNR).
13.2.1916-19.2.1916: Refit at Falmouth.
13.2.1918: Picked up from boat crew of HM Trawler SARDIUS II (Ad.No.3357) (GY1140) inwards to Falmouth Bay which struck Runnelstone Rock. Badly holed drifted into Pendower Cove and became a total wreck. Landed survivors at Penzance.
1.10.1918: At Penzance for General Patrol and Escort work (Chief Skipper RNR) (Recorded as KING FREDERICK III in Adm.131/70 p.125).
Post 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Grimsby.
22.12.1919: Registered at Grimsby as KING FREDERICK III (GY482) (BoT Minute M.12433/19 dated 27.10.1919).
21.1.1920: Sold to Direct Fish Supplies Ltd (64/64), London.
21.1.1920: George William Payne Margarson, Grimsby designated manager.
27.1.1920: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Barclays Bank Ltd, London (A).
23.3.1922: Company in voluntary liquidation.
10.8.1922: Placed in compulsory liquidation.
6.9.1922: Sold by order of the mortgagee under mortgage (A) to Thomas William Baskcomb (64/64), Grimsby (managing owner).
6.9.1922: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Barclays Bank Ltd, London (B).
12.9.1922: Thomas William Baskcomb designated managing owner.
22.3.1928: Registered at Grimsby as MAGNOLIA (GY482) (BoT Minute M/RG 1076/1928 dated 10.3.1928).
22.10.1935: Sold by order of the mortagee under mortgage (B) to Fred Parkes (64/64), Fleetwood & Blackpool.
28.10.1935: Basil Arthur Parkes, Cleveleys designated manager.
28.10.1935: Sold to Harry Norman Franklin (64/64), Grimsby.
30.10.1935: Harry Norman Franklin designated managing owner.
7.11.1935: Harry N. Franklin sold shares (43/64) to Harry Franklin Ltd (43/64), Grimsby.
7.11.1935: Harry N. Franklin sold shares (21/64) to Sk. James Hendry (21/64), Grimsby.
7.11.1935: James Hendry shares (21/64) mortgaged to Harry Franklin Ltd, Grimsby (C).
9.11.1935: Harry Norman Franklin designated manager.
30.12.1935: Harry Franklin Ltd shares (43/64) mortgaged to Barclays Bank Ltd, London (D).
31.5.1940: Requisitioned for war service as an A/S trawler. Renamed GLACIER (P.No.4.257) (Hire rate £65.0.0d/month).
9.1941: Employed on balloon barrage.
1.1.1944: Mortgage (C) discharged.
1.1.1944: Sk. James Hendry sold shares (21/64) to East Anglian Fish Selling Co Ltd (21/64), Grimsby.
11.1.1944: Harry Norman Franklin designated manager.
28.6.1944: Returned to owner and reverted to MAGNOLIA (GY482).
13.4.1946: Mortgage (D) discharged.
19.8.1952: On a North Sea trip (Sk. Stanley Wing) in a heavy swell 45 miles NE of Spurn Light Vessel started to take in water. Steam trawler ROSE OF ENGLAND (GY 236) (Sk. Alf Walker), which had just landed left Grimsby with remaining crew (five) and a pump. Found casualty down by stern, transferred pump and connected, but in turning for the Humber seas swept over the stern and pump washed overboard.
20.8.1952: After nineteen hours under tow, started to settle and quickly foundered. Crew jumped in sea to be picked up by Rose of England, but three men lost*.
24.9.1952: Grimsby registry closed “Vessel foundered on 26th August 1952”.

*Lost – Sk. Stanley Wing; Ch.Eng Albert Forster and deckhand Roland Willis

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S.T. Magnolia GY482

S.T. Magnolia GY482
Picture courtesy of The Mark Stopper Collection

Changelog
14/06/2010: Page published. 3 revisions since then.
13/12/2014: Information updated.
13/10/2017: Removed FMHT watermark.
25/05/2021: Updated history.

S.T. Honora GY374

In Parkes Ownership. Did not fish from Fleetwood

Technical

Official Number: 146898
Yard Number: 13
Completed: 1919
Gross Tonnage: 394
Net Tonnage: 154
Length: 140.8 ft
Breadth: 25.2 ft
Depth: 13.6 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Goldie & McCulloch Co Ltd, Galt, Ontario
Built: Foundation Co, Savannah, Ga

History

1919: Launched by Foundation Co, Savannah, Ga (Yd.No.13) for the Government of France, Paris as WATTIGNIES.
1919: Completed as a minesweeper for the Marine Francaise.
1920: Sold to Pêcheries de L’Ouest S.A., Fécamp. Renamed BOIS DES CAURES.
1925: Re-possessed by bank and laid up at Fécamp.
12.1925: Sold to Fred Parkes, Blackpool (managing owner) (en bloc with Bois des Buttes and Magenta for c£5,000).
23.12.1925: Registered at Grimsby as HONORA (GY374).
5.1926: Sold to Luis Mitre y Manuel Rodriguez Giles, Buenos Aires.
19.6.1926: Grimsby registry closed. Registered at Buenos Aires.
1926: Re measured 194n.
6.1926: Sailed Grimsby to bunker at Boulogne due to Miner’s Strike, before sailing for South America.
1927: Sold to Empreza Rodriguez Giles, Buenos Aires.
1931: Sold to Manuel Rodriguez Giles, Buenos Aires.
27.8.1933: Wrecked near Maldonado, Uruguay (River Plate estuary).

Changelog

11/06/2010: Page published. 3 updates since then.

S.T. Bois des Buttes ??

In Parkes ownership. Did not fish from Fleetwood

Technical

Official Number (USA): 227162
Yard Number: 12
Completed: 1919
Gross Tonnage: 362
Net Tonnage: 108
Length: 140.8 ft
Breadth: 25.2 ft
Depth: 13.6 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Goldie & McCulloch Co Ltd, Galt, Ontario
Built: Foundation Co, Savannah, Ga

History

1919: Launched by Foundation Co, Savannah, Ga (Yd.No.12) for Government of France, Paris as HONDSHOOTE.
1919: Completed as a minesweeper for the Marine Francaise.
1920: Sold to Pêcheries de L’Ouest S.A., Fécamp. Renamed BOIS des BUTTES.
1925: Re-possessed by bank and laid up at Fécamp.
1925: Sold to Fred Parkes, Blackpool (en bloc with BOIS des CAURES and MAGENTA for c£5,000). Not registered in UK (B. A. Parkes, Grimsby, manager).
1926: Sailing under French flag as a ‘tug’ during General/Miner’s Strike shipping coal to UK.
1928: Sold to Bay State Fishing Co, East Boston, Mass. Fécamp registry closed. Registered at Boston, Mass as BREEZE. (US.O.N.227162).
1928: Re measured 384g 261n.
1938: Sold to Seaboard Navigation Co, Boston, Mass. Renamed KENNEBEC.
1938: Converted to cargo. Re measured 400g 232n.
1940: Sold to Government of France, Paris (Marine Francais) and fitted out as a minesweeper. Boston, Mass registry closed. Renamed La QUIMPEROISE.
22.6.1940: French government signed surrender. ‘Demobilised and disarmed’ under German control. Commissioned into the Kriegsmarine (P.No.M.4000). Re-numbered (P.No.M.4009).
12.2.1945: Scuttled in River Loire.

Changelog

11/06/2010: Page published. 3 updates since then.

S.T. Bromelia GY113

In Parkes ownership. Did not fish from Fleetwood

Technical

Official Number: 122718
Yard Number: 358
Completed: 1905
Gross Tonnage: 242
Net Tonnage: 121
Length: 126.2 ft
Breadth: 22.0 ft
Depth: 11.4 ft
Built: Cochrane & Sons, Selby
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull

History

14.14.1905: Launched by Cochrane & Sons, Selby (Yd.No.358) for The North Eastern Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby as BROMELIA.
13.2.1906: Registered at Grimsby (GY113).
1.1909: Converted for lining.
7.1909: Converted back for trawling.
6.1915: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-12pdr & Hydrophone) (Ad.No.3203). Northern Patrol.
11.1919: Returned to owner at Grimsby.
12.1919: Sold to Thomas W Baskcomb, Grimsby (managing owner).
22.10.1935: Fleet of Thomas W Baskcomb sold to Fred Parkes, Fleetwood.
11.1935: Sold to United Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby (William T. Moss, manager).
22.6.1942: Sailed Grimsby for Icelandic grounds in company with other trawlers (Sk. William Edward Webb): thirteen hands all told.
22.6.1942: Ceased fishing off East Coast of Iceland and set course for home; seen and spoke with other trawlers in approximate position 63.50N 14.40W.
29.6.1942: Posted missing. Possibly foundered following an explosion (mine or internal explosion?) Witnessed by German U-boat – in area U88, U173, U376 but no report of trawler sinking. All crew lost.
07.1942: The body of John Henry Nicholls was washed up at Vágur, a small town on the island of Suðuroy, Faroes. Due to lack of identification papers, the body was only identified in 2019. Resident Tina Tausen, 90, had tended the unknown grave for 78 years.
19.10.1942: Grimsby registry closed “Ship missing since 22/6/1942”.

Lost: Skipper William Edward Webb; Charles Frederick Bore, 2nd hand; John Henry Nicholls, 3rd hand; Thomas Rogers, Ch Eng; Leo Corcoran, 2nd Eng; Edward Abraham Edwards; William Ellis; William Osgothorpe; Frederick Arthur Perrin; Ralph Herbert Clark, deck hands; Rolf James & James Hitchman, trimmers; Sidney Victor Cuthbert, cook.

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S.T. Bromelia GY113

S.T. Bromelia GY113
Picture courtesy of The Steve Farrow Collection

Changelog
10/06/2010: Page published. 4 updates since then.
22/06/2015: Crew list added.
11/08/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
11/10/2019: Updated information.
21/05/2020: Updated information.

S.D/T. Renascent LT288 (Seasonal)


Copyright 2010 Barry Banham

Technical

Official Number: 149192
Yard Number: 307
Completed: 1926
Yard Number: 307
Gross Tonnage: 100
Net Tonnage: 43
Length: 85.7 ft
Breadth: 19.7 ft
Depth: 10.2 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl (Fellows Admiralty type) and boiler by Elliot & Garrood Ltd, Beccles
Built: Fellows & Co Ltd, Gt. Yarmouth

History

(Wooden Built)

15.2.1926: Launched by Fellows & Co Ltd, Gt. Yarmouth (Yd.No.307) for Stephen Granville Beamish, Lowestoft (managing owner) as RENASCENT.
26.5.1926: Ran trials.
5.1926: Completed.
2.6.1926: Registered at Lowestoft (LT288).
1930s: Seasonal fishing from Fleetwood & Padstow.
23.9.1932: Sold to Frederick William Moxey, Lowestoft.
10.12.1929: Connected to smack LESLIE (122769) (LT??) disabled with gaff and boom carried away in gale and delivered Lowestoft.
11.9.1936: Attended steam drifter FORETHOUGHT (LT763) stranded at Scarborough, refloated and delivered Scarborough.
3.11.1936: At Yarmouth landed 190 crans of herring.
8.10.1937: In Yarmouth harbour in collision with steam drifter TWINKLING STAR (KY347) and sustained damage.
26.11.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (P.No.FY.1520) (Hire rate £37.10.0d/month).
10.1944: Employed on miscellaneous Naval duties.
25.1.1946: Returned to owner.
1946: Sold to Norwegian owners.
16.9.1946: Lowestoft registry closed.
18.10.1946: Sailed Lowestoft for Norway but put back.
27.10.1946: Sailed Lowestoft for Norway.
28.10.1946: Foundered 70-90 miles from Lowestoft. Four Norwegian crew picked up by steam trawler GRACKLE (H224) (Sk. Charlie Mewse). The Shipwrecked Mariners Society awarded Skipper Charles Mewse and Second Hand George Cooper the Emile Robin award for the British Master and Chief Officer who incurred the greatest peril in rescuing survivors at sea.

Notes

Skipper Charles Mewse and Second Hand George Cooper of the British trawler GRACKLE awarded the Emile Robin award for their services in connection with the rescue of the crew of the Norwegian drifter RENASCENT. On 28 October, the RENASCENT, when about 90 miles east north-east from Lowestoft, in a rough sea, sprang a leak; the water was kept under control for several hours until the pumps became choked with coal dust and ashes. Some ten hours later the position became precarious and the GRACKLE, in answer to distress signals, arrived in the vicinity at 11.30 am. Skipper Mewse handled the GRACKLE with great ability, and a high degree of courage. He brought the GRACKLE right alongside the RENASCENT and took off the crew in a very rough sea, with a wind at or approaching gale force. The RENASCENT was rolling heavily and the GRACKLE bumped her head doing some damage to the upper works of the RENASCENT. There was considerable risk to the GRACKLE. The Norwegian drifter was left in a rapidly sinking condition and her crew were landed at Lowestoft.

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S.T. Renascent LT288

S.T. Renascent LT288
Picture courtesy of The Barry Banham Maritime Photo Collection

Changelog
17/05/2010: Page published. 5 updates since then.
29/01/2015: Emile Robin award added.
22/07/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.