Category Archives: Lost Vessels

Vessels that have been lost

S.T. Vanilla GY202

Additional information courtesy of Bill Blow

Technical

Official Number: 108441
Yard Number: 173
Completed: 1897
Gross Tonnage: 158.11
Net Tonnage: 67 .03
Length: 101.0 ft
Breadth: 20.5 ft
Depth: 11.2 ft
Built: Cochrane & Cooper, Beverley
Engine: 250ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co, Hull

History

21.12.1896: Launched by Cochrane & Cooper, Beverley (Yd.No.173) for Arctic Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby as VANILLA.
5.2.1897: Registered at Grimsby (GY202).
2.1897: Completed.
6.2.1897: Edwin Bacon appointed manager.
15.9.1903: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Edwin Bacon Snr & John George Bates, Grimsby (joint mortgagees) (A).
10.5.1911: Mortgage (A) discharged.
10.5.1911: Sold to The South Western Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Fleetwood.
10.5.1911: Alick Black, Grimsby appointed manager.
22.5.1911: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to The London City & Midland Bank Ltd, London (B).
27.5.1914: Mortgage (B) discharged.
28.5.1914: Sold to The Savoy Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
5.6.1914: Henry Croft Baker appointed manager.
30.6.1914: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to The London City & Midland Bank Ltd, London (C).
18.4.1915: Mined 53 miles E by S from Inner Dowsing Light Vessel (On 17.4.1915 the German light cruisers STRALSUND and STRASSBURG laid a minefield from 53.30N, 02.30W to about 53.40N, 03.25W). Nine crew MPK including skipper.
26.4.1915: Grimsby registry closed “Vessel blown up and sunk in North Sea on the 18th April 1915 by a German submarine”.

(MPK – Sk. Thomas T. Bennett; John Maney, Mate; William W. May, Deckhand; George Cruse; C. Phillips; R. Lovelock; R. Ducker; T. Sanders & J. Macarthy)

Changelog

08/01/2009: Page published. 6 updates since then.

S.T. Valpa FD160

Technical

Official Number: 139202
Yard Number: 413
Completed: 1915
Gross Tonnage: 230
Net Tonnage: 90
Length: 123.3 ft
Breadth: 22.1 ft
Depth: 11.8 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Lidgerwood Ltd, Glasgow
Built: J. Duthie Torry Shipbuilding Co, Aberdeen

History

15.3.1915: Launched by J. Duthie Torry Shipbuilding Co, Aberdeen (Yd.No.413) for The Clifton Steam Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood as VALPA.
24.6.1915: Registered at Fleetwood (FD160).
6.1915: Completed. Requisitioned from the builders and fitted out for armed escort duties (1-12pdr) (Ad.No.1543).
19.3.1916: Mined off Spurn Head.
1.6.1916: Fleetwood registry closed “Lost in Admiralty service”.
(Lost – John Fowler, 2nd Hand; Robert W. Garnham, Ch. Gunner; William F. Skinner, CPO; Samuel Greep, seaman.)

Changelog

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

S.T. Valetta FD183

Additional information courtesy of Geoff Davidson

Technical

Official Number: 99545
Yard Number: 463
Completed: 1891
Gross Tonnage: 144
Net Tonnage: 31
Length: 105.4 ft
Breadth: 20.6 ft
Depth: 110 ft
Built: Hepple & Co Ltd, North Shields
Engine: 360ihp T.3-cyl by T.3-cyl by N.E. Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Sunderland
Boiler: J. T. Eltringham & Co, South Shields

History

26.8.1891: Launched by Hepple & Co Ltd, North Shields (Yd.No.463) for John Kelsall, Manchester as VALETTA.
10.1891: Completed.
6.11.1891: Registered at Hull (H178).
11.1891: Edmund Kelsall, Hull appointed manager. Vessel fishing out of Fleetwood.
1895: Transferred to John Kelsall, Fleetwood. Kelsall & Co appointed managers.
30.5.1897: Sold to Kelsall Brothers & Beeching Ltd, Manchester.
9.1897: Hull registry closed.
4.9.1897: Registered at Fleetwood (FD183). John Edmund Ambrose Kelsall & George Beeching, Fleetwood appointed managers.
13.1.1898: Reported that at Bowmore, Islay, Third Hand, Arthur George Whittleton (18) of Hull, carried away and drowned when anchor fell away while he was passing the chain stopper through the ring of the anchor. Body recovered and brought back to Fleetwood (Whittleton was the son of the skipper of the VALETTA).
24.3.1899: Fleetwood registration closed. Transferred to Hull.
13.4.1899: Registered at Hull (H446). George Beeching, Hull & John E. A. Kelsall, London appointed managers.
14.9.1899: Fishing in North Sea with K&B ’Gamecock’ fleet, James Fenton (50) of Hull lost overboard and drowned.
5.6.1903: Working North Sea grounds (Sk. Luther Hayward) with K&B ’Gamecock’ fleet. Foundered after being involved in a collision.
23.7.1903: Hull registry closed “Vessel sunk by collision in the North Sea on the 5th of July 1903”.

Changelog
08/01/2009: Page published. 4 updates since then.
04/02/2016: Information updated.

S.T. Trygon FD221

Technical

Official Number: 127566
Yard Number: 167
Completed: 1908
Gross Tonnage: 289
Net Tonnage: 112
Length: 130 ft
Breadth: 23 ft
Depth: 12.8 ft
Engine: 88nhp T.3-cyl and boiler by Amos & Smith Ltd, Hull
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley

History

30.6.1908: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.167) for The Mount Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Fleetwood as TRYGON.
7.9.1908: Registered at Fleetwood (FD221).
28.8.1908: Completed (George E. J. Moody, Grimsby, manager).
1911: Top trawler landed 11369 ten-stone boxes.
1912: Top trawler landed 9662 ten-stone boxes.
2.1915: Requisitioned for war service.
18.2.1915: Commissioned.
20.2.1915: Arrived Devonport. Fitted out for auxiliary patrol duties (Ad.No.978). Fitted as Leader.
30.3.1915: Lost in the Clyde after collision with unidentified vessel.
12.4.1915: Fleetwood registry closed.

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S.T. Trygon FD221

S.T. Trygon FD221
Picture courtesy of The David Slinger Collection

Changelog
08/01/2009: 4 updates since then.
06/09/2023: Added an 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.