Category Archives: Lost Vessels

Vessels that have been lost

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.

sv Blue Bell FD266

Technical

O.N. Registered Part IV
Completed: 1902
Gross Tonnage: 16.68
Net Tonnage: 16.68
Length: 38.8 ft
Breadth: 11.5 ft
Depth: 5.3 ft
Rig: Smack
Built: Freckleton

History

Smack/aux motor – trawling

1902: Completed by ??, Freckleton for ?? as BLUE BELL.
By1937: Registered at Douglas (DO79). Owner J. Swindlehurst, Douglas, IoM.
1942: Sold to Robert Charles Newton, 60 Coniston Avenue, Fleetwood.
30.5.1942: Registered at Fleetwood (FD266).
3.11.1944: Stranded. Total loss.
6.12.1944 Fleetwood registry closed.

Changelog
20/12/2009: Page published.

S.T. John Casewell PH181

Additional information courtesy of Gary Hicks (Plymouth Merchant Ships)

Technical

Admiralty Number: 3713
Official Number: 144276
Yard Number: 328
Completed: 1917
Gross Tonnage: 277.42
Net Tonnage: 120.79
Length: 125.6 ft
Breadth: 23.6 ft
Depth: 12.8 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Ailsa Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Troon
Built: Ailsa Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Troon

History

3.10.1917: Launched by Ailsa Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Troon (Yd.No.328) (“Castle” class) for The Admiralty as JOHN CASEWELL (Ad.No.3713).
8.11.1917: Completed as a minesweeper (1-12pdr, 1-3.5” A/S Howitzer).
1919: Registered by The Admiralty in the Registry of British Ships at London (O.N.144276).
4.5.1920: Sold by auction at Milford to Herbert Ford (64/64), Birmingham for £8250.
7.1920: London registry closed.
15.7.1920: Registered at Plymouth (PH181).
7.1920: Converted to a fishing vessel.
23.7.1920: John Maxwell Jones, Plymouth appointed manager.
20.9.1920: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Barclays Bank Ltd, London (A).
1921: Jules Nierinck, Fleetwood appointed manager.
22.10.1921: At 7.30 pm. entering Castletownbere, Co. Cork, stranded on Dog Rocks, eastern end of Bere Island. Crew left ship in own boats and landed Bere Island.
24.10.1921: Salvage lighter ADELAIDE (70grt/1876) despatched from Queenstown to assist.
25.10.1921: Surveyed. Rudder and stern frame broken, considerable bottom damage but little ingress of water.
26.10.1921: Salvage work progressing in fine weather.
27.10.1921: Ship stripped of all wood, entire bottom, keel and stern frame to renew, floors and engine bed plate fractured. Will require five 12” pumps and shallow draught vessel to go alongside. “Strongly recommend cutting loss as any south west wind will finish job off.”
2.1.1922: Report of Total loss.
24.3.1922: Plymouth registry closed.

(John Casewell, OS, age 21, b. Plymouth – VICTORY (SB837))

Changelog

13/06/2009: Page published. 4 updates since then.

s.v. Ebeneezer

Technical

Official Number: 27642
Completed: 1859
Net Tonnage: 33
Length: 54.7 ft
Breadth: 16.7 ft
Depth: 7.5 ft
Rig: Smack – trawling
Built: William & Richard Ashburner, Barrow

History

1859: Completed by William & Richard Ashburner, Barrow for Fleetwood owners as EBENEEZER.
1859: Registered at Liverpool (LL??) (126/1859).
1.1.1867: Owned by Richard Wright, Southport.
1.1.1880: Owned by George Wilson, Fleetwood.
1881: Census at Thornton le Fylde. George Wilson (49), b-Liverpool, Master; Charles Collins (40), b-Liverpool, Mate; Thomas Duncan (36), b-Liverpool, AB; Thomas Peers (35), b-Hoylake, Cook.
1.1.1883: Owned by Thomas Jones (64/64), 9 Marmion Road, Hoylake. Thomas Jones designated managing owner.
13.1.1893: vessel remeasured 32 regd tons.
4.1891: Liverpool registry closed.
18.4.1891: Registered at Douglas (DO229).
21.12.1900: In morning stranded off Hoylake “… and is a total wreck.” No lives lost.
14.1.1901: Douglas registry closed “Vessel has become a total wreck”.

Changelog
02/06/2009: Page published. 2 updates since then.
09/07/2015: Information updated.

sv Elizabeth Ann FD130

Additional information courtesy of Christine Simm

Technical

Official Number: 56682
Completed: 1867
Gross tonnage: 39.38
Net tonnage: 24.42
Length: 54.6 ft
Breadth: 16.5 ft
Draught: 8.0 ft
Jigger smack – trawling
Aka ‘Black Jack’
Built: George Rigby & Robert Rawstorne, Freckleton

History

1867: Completed by George Rigby & Robert Rawstorne, Freckleton for William Robinson, Southport as ELIZABETH ANN.
27.3.1867: Appropriated.
27.3.1867: Registered at Preston. Fishing out of Hoylake.
1.1.1880: Owned by William Hudson, Fleetwood.
24.12.1886: Sold to Mrs Margaret Hudson,
42 Warren Street, Fleetwood.
12.1886: Preston registry closed.
24.12.1886: Registered at Fleetwood (FD130).
7.12.1896: Sold to Thomas Fairclough, 4 Blakiston Street East, Fleetwood. Thomas Fairclough, skipper.
23.4.1907: At Fleetwood Police Court, Thomas Andrews was charged with stealing a quantity of foot rope. Sk David Herbert said that he left the foot rope on the quay side and when he returned it was missing. Thomas Brecknell, marine store dealer, said that the defendant brought the rope into the store and said two men had given it to him. Defendant denied the offence but was bound over for three months in the sum of £5.
25.9.1908: At Fleetwood Police Court, two youths, Edward Lyons and John Shields, who were remanded on the 21st on the charges of stealing articles, valued at 27s from the smack, faced further charges against them. Two charges of breaking into the flat DIANA and breaking into the shop of Mr Haworth, photographer. Both youths were committed for trial at the next Preston Sessions.
8.1.1910: Returning from the fishing grounds (Sk, David Herbert). Lying about three quarters of a mile SE of the Lune Light ship, with regulation lights burning, awaiting the turn of the tide to proceed into Fleetwood. The weather had been foggy but this had cleared and it was very dark. Fleetwood registered L&Y and L&NW railway steamer DUKE of CORNWALL (Capt McBrown) (1540grt/1898) bore in sight and Sk. Herbert lighted a torch and shouted, alerting the crew who came on deck. Seeing a vessel ahead the steamer turned to starboard but was unable to clear the trawler, striking her in the jigger mast rigging cutting the stern completely off. With the trawler settling, the punt was launched but the bung was missing along with the oars, one of the crew putting his thumb in the bung hole to prevent the boat filling. A shovel was found in the bottom of the boat and this was used as an oar. The DUKE of CORNWALL hove to and launched two boats, but in the darkness failed to find the punt. Using the shovel the trawler’s crew managed to get alongside the steamer and were taken onboard.
14.1.1910: Fleetwood registry closed “Vessel totally lost 8th January 1910. Advice received from owner ”.

Changelog
27/05/2009: Page published.
03/03/2022: Major information update.