Category Archives: Lost Vessels

Vessels that have been lost

S.T. Marion (2) LO235

Technical

Official Number: 120683
Yard Number: 788
Completed: 1906
Gross Tonnage: 255
Net Tonnage: 98
Length: 125.7 ft
Breadth: 22.1 ft
Depth: 12 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Shields Engineering Co Ltd, North Shields
Built: Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, North Shields

History

25.1.1906: Launched by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, North Shields (Yd.No.788) for Mrs Marion L. Ryde, Godalming as MARION.
3.1906: Completed (Crawford Heron, Swansea, manager).
3.1906: Registered at London (LO235).
30.11.1912: Sold to George H. D. Birt, Milford Haven (managing owner).
8.1914: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-3pdr) (Ad.No.20).
6.1915: At Sheerness.
14.8.1915: Sailed for Mediterranean.
30.7.1917: Sold to The Croston Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Ernest Taylor, manager).
23.2.1918: Mined off Malta. ‘ During minesweeping operations struck mine about midday and sank in approximate position 35.45N 14.24E. Six lives lost.’
23.2.1918: ‘Ceased to be on Admiralty charter’.
10.3.1919: London registry closed “ Vessel lost on Admiralty Charter”. (Minefield was laid on 30/1/1918 by U.boat (UC25), beginning at 35°44.9’N, 14°24.6’E and running north with mines at 75 metre intervals. 18 mines total).

(Lost – Lieut Cdr. Joseph King; Henry Tarbitton, 2nd Hand; James Fisk & William E. Warman, deckhands; Robert Tetley, signalman; Samuel D. Tonkin, trimmer.)

Changelog
27/12/2008: Page published. 5 updates since then.

S.T. Margaret Rose GY355

Additional information courtesy of David Slinger and Bill Blow

Technical

Official Number: 161009
Yard Number: 1100
Completed: 1931
Gross Tonnage: 428.28
Net Tonnage: 172.48
Length: 145.7 ft
Breadth: 25.6 ft
Depth: 13.6 ft
Engine: 675ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by Amos & Smith Ltd, Hull

History

5.2.1931: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.1100) for Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd (64/64), Fleetwood as MARGARET ROSE.
10.3.1931: Registered at Grimsby (GY355).
12.3.1931: Completed.
12.3.1931: Basil Arthur Parkes, Blackpool appointed manager.
5.4.1931: Arrived Fleetwood (Sk. Walter Holmes).
6.4.1931: Landed 3760 stone, mostly hake.
7.4.1931: Sailed on her maiden from Fleetwood.
5.9.1932: Sailed from Fleetwood for East coast of USA (Georges Bank) (Sk Walter Holmes) on a trial trip to exploit the supposed hake grounds a few miles offshore, the trip to take from 24 – 32 days (340 tons bunker coal, 90 tons ice, 2 tons salt and one month’s provisions).
5.10.1932: Returned. Diverted to Grimsby to land 1400 boxes (mixed cod, haddock and flats); grossed £308 failed to cover a quarter of costs.
8.1933: Sold to Pêcheries de la Morinie, Boulogne (P. Ficheux, manager).
1933: Re measured 144.6 feet 409grt 149n.
15.8.1933: Grimsby registry closed.
8.1933: Registered at Boulogne as MARGUERITE ROSE.
8.1933: Stranded at Knott Spit Buoy when returning from trials.
18.8.1933: Sailed Fleetwood for Boulogne (with part Fleetwood crew).
10.1.1934: In North Sea, rendered assistance to Danish steamer Polly (798grt/) with rudder damage sustained on passage Baltic – Dundalk with coal. Connected and delivered Aberdeen.
8.1939: Requisitioned by Marine Francaise as an auxiliary minesweeper (P.No.AD23).
25.5.1940: At Dunkirk ‘Operation Dynamo’ (Commander Flachaire Roustan) attacked by German aircraft, two bombs exploded and vessel abandoned before sinking alongside French steamer Aïn El Turk (2508grt/1925).

Note: “The choice of the MARGARET ROSE to make the voyage to Georges Bank gave Mrs Holmes (wife of Skipper Walter Holmes named after herself MARY and daughter ROSE) great pleasure… Boston’s wasted no time in putting their project into operation and shortly afterwards the MARGARET ROSE lay in Wyre Dock looking more like a coal tip than a trawler.
Coal was piled everywhere – after the bunkers had been packed to capacity the decks were loaded high until the vessel&s scuppers were two inches below water and she was almost awash. At this point the Board of Trade stepped in and on their instructions a large quantity of coal was bagged and moved aft to lift the bows to a safer level. Even this adjustment left her alarmingly low in the water but she was given the all clear to sail.” With a crew of fifteen, she carried 400 tons coal, 100 tons ice, 2 tons salt and provisions for one month.

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S.T. Margaret Rose GY355

S.T. Margaret Rose GY355
Picture courtesy of The David Slinger Collection

S.T. Margaret Rose GY355

S.T. Margaret Rose GY355
Picture courtesy of The Fred Baker Collection

S.T. Margaret Rose GY355

S.T. Margaret Rose GY355
Picture courtesy of The David Slinger Collection

September 1932

September 1932
Picture courtesy of David Slinger

September 5 1932

September 5 1932
Picture courtesy of David Slinger

S.T. Margaret Rose GY355

S.T. Margaret Rose GY355
Sunk during Operation Dynamo
Picture from the Internet

Changelog
27/12/2008: Page published. 5 revisions since then.
11/08/2014: Information updated.
13/01/2017: Removed FMHT watermarks from images.

S.T. Margaret FD92

Technical

Official Number: 124684
Yard Number: 91
Completed: 1907
Gross Tonnage: 297.32
Net Tonnage: 117.17
Length: 135.0 ft
Breadth: 23.0 ft
Depth: 12.0 ft
Built: Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co Ltd, Goole
Engine: 500ihp T.3-cyl by Crabtree & Co Ltd, Gt. Yarmouth
Boiler: J. T. Eltringham, South Shields

History

20.10.1906: Launched by Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co Ltd, Goole (Yd.No.91) for The Lancashire Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Fleetwood as MARGARET.
19.12.1906: Registered at Fleetwood (FD92). James Alexander Robertson designated manager.
1.1907: Completed.
10.1.1907: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Williams Deacon’s Bank Ltd, London (A).
5.12.1907: Mortgage (A) discharged.
6.12.1907: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) for £6000 @ 5% interest to James Herbert Marr, Fleetwood (B).
27.2.1909: Mortgage (B) discharged.
27.2.1909: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) for £5000 @ 5% to James Herbert Marr, Fleetwood (C).
29.10.1910: Mortgage (C) discharged.
30.11.1910: Off Lune Buoy connected to steam trawler CYRANO (GY 80) which had been run down by steamer SHAMROCK (865grt/1879) bound Heysham and badly damaged on starboard quarter; three men injured. Delivered Fleetwood.
29.7.1911: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) for £4000 @ 5% to James Herbert Marr, Fleetwood (D).
22.6.1913: Mortgage (D) discharged.
1913: Sold to NV Nederlandsche Stoomvaartmats, IJmuiden (L. Groen, manager).
27.6.1913: Fleetwood registry closed.
7.1913: Registered at IJmuiden as TRES FRATRES (IJM194).
23.3.1917: Fishing in the North Sea NW of the Jutland peninsula, stopped by U.boat (U62) and crew ordered into boat. Trawler sunk by explosive charges in position 57.30N 6.10E. Crew pulled away and after 30 hours in the open boat made landfall on the Danish coast. After recovery returned to the Netherlands.
1918: Deleted from Netherlands register.

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S.T. Margaret FD92

S.T. Margaret FD92
Picture courtesy of The David Slinger Collection

Changelog
27/12/2008: Page published. 4 updates since then.
25/09/2020: Updated history.
30/09/2020: Added an image.
16/10/2020: Updated history.

S.T. Manda FD178

Technical

Official Number: 109543
Yard Number: 229
Completed: 1898
Gross Tonnage: 150
Net Tonnage: 39
Length: 100.6 ft
Breadth: 20.5 ft
Depth: 10.7 ft
Built: Mackie & Thomson, Govan
Engine: T.3-cyl by Ross & Duncan, Glasgow

History

1898: Launched by Mackie & Thomson, Govan (Yd.No.229) for Orient Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby as PLATO.
5.6.1898: Registered at Grimsby (GY726).
6.1898: Completed (Frank Barrett, manager).
11.2.1911: Sold to George Sutherland Patterson (salmon factor) & John Watson (shipwright), Montrose (George S. Patterson managing owner).
24. 4.1911: Sold to to Norway.
9.9.1912: Sold to George Sutherland Patterson (salmon factor) & John Watson (shipwright), Montrose (George S. Patterson managing owner).
3.5.1912: Registered at Aberdeen as MANDA (A468).
20.1.1913: Sold to George Sutherland Patterson, Montrose.
2?.1.1913: Sold to Clevedon Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Walter Morley, manager).
27.1.1913: Aberdeen registry closed.
28.1.1913: Registered at Fleetwood (FD178).
1.1.1914: Tonnage altered to 58.11 net under provision of Merchant Shipping Act 1907.
27.7.1914: At Fleetwood, Skipper reported that when he called at Killybegs, Co. Donegal for medical assistance for a crewman, Customs Officers searched the vessel for rifles and ammunition.
29.5.1917: Requisitioned for Fishery Reserve.
6.7.1917: Sold to Grant & Baker Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby (Arthur Grant, manager).
10.8.1917: Fleetwood registry closed.
14.8.1917: Registered at Grimsby (GY1093).
10.1918: Released.
23.12.1918: Posted missing; crew of ten lost.
10.4.1919: Grimsby registry closed “Vessel lost”.

Changelog
26/12/2008: Page published. 4 updates since then.
04/06/2021: Updated history.

S.T. Malaga GY393

Additional information courtesy of Bill Blow and David Slinger

Technical

Official Number: 146901
Yard Number: 59
Completed: 1917
Gross Tonnage: 271
Net Tonnage: 122.76
Length: 125.7 ft
Breadth: 23.5 ft
Depth: 12.7 ft
Built: Dominion Shipbuilding Co Ltd (Thor Iron Works), Toronto
Engine: 370ihp T.3-cyl by National Shipbuilding Co, Goderich, Ontario
Boiler: John Inglis & Sons, Ontario

History

1.1917: Ordered by The Admiralty (paid for and built under direction of RCN) (Canadian “Castle”- “T.R.” class) from Collingwood Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Ontario (Yd.No.59) and subcontracted to Dominion Shipbuilding Co Ltd (Thor Iron Works), Toronto.
15.6.1918: Completed as TR.13 (1-12pdr).
8.1919: Paid off and laid up.
1920: Accepted offer of Rose Street Foundry & Engineering Co Ltd, Inverness (Captain Donald John Munro CMG RN as agent) to bring drifters with trawlers as escorts to UK for lay-up in Muirtown Basin, Caledonian Canal, Inverness prior to sale and possible refit for classification as steam trawlers (The Rose Street Foundry & Engineering Co Ltd letter dated 12 April 1920).
1921: Brought over at The Admiralty’s expense.
1.1926: Still laid up.
2.1926: Rejected offer for all remaining trawlers at £2,000 each (B. Allenby, Aberdeen letter dated 10 Feb 1926).
4.9.1926: Sold “as is” to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
4.9.1926: Fred Parkes, Blackpool appointed manager.
22.9.1926: Registered at Grimsby as MALAGA (GY393); fishing out of Fleetwood.
16.10.1926: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Midland Bank Ltd, London (A).
6.2.1928: Registered office transferred to Fleetwood.
25.4.1928: Alteration of particulars of IHP (500ihp). Certificate of Survey at Liverpool dated 18.10.1927.
24.6.1929: Mortgage (A) discharged.
14.12.1929: Sailed Fleetwood for West of Scotland/Butt of Lewis grounds.
27.12.1929: Berthed at Stornoway with forecastle and fish room flooded having struck submerged rocks off Butt of Lewis.
04.1932: On three month charter to Sea Fisheries Association of Ireland, to fish out of Dublin, Galway and other ports. Charter to be exended if needed.
28.04.1932: Sailed for Ireland.
17.01.1933: At 8.32 am, (SK. W. Kay) standing by SAN SEBASTIAN (FD126) stranded near White Beach Point, NE side of Galway Bay, and will connect and attempt to refloat. At 11.30 am. refloated and towed to anchorage to await tide to Galway. Due to dense fog unable to find the port for 24 hours.
18.01.1933: Spotted in fog by the pilot boat and guided into Galway.
05.06.1933: Chartered by Italian Government to provide support for a trans Atlantic flight involving 20 to 30 aeroplanes (Sk. Geoff Barcock).
9.5.1933: Sailed Fleetwood for NW Atlantic.
19.5.1933: Arrived St. John’s, Newfoundland.
8.10.1935: Sailed Fleetwood for fishing grounds (Sk. George A. Novo DSC); twelve crew.
17.10.1935: Spoke with trawler SAN SEBASTIAN (FD126); last communication.
18.10.1935: In severe storm conditions, missing off Portrush, Co. Antrim; no survivors *.
27.10.1935: Posted missing.
20.12.1935: Grimsby registry closed “ Vessel missing since 18th October 1935 and presumed lost with all hands”.

(* Lost – Sk.George Albert Novo DSC; George Albert Novo Jnr, Mate; Richard Blundell, Bosun; Walker Jackson, Ch. Eng; Edward Gove, 2nd Eng; George Nelson, Arthur Perry, Christopher Blair, deckhands; Daniel Logue and John Burke, firemen; William Ellis, cook; James Turner, boy;)

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S.T. Malaga GY393

S.T. Malaga GY393
Picture courtesy of The Fred Baker Collection

Changelog
27/04/2014: Information updated.
02/05/2014: Information updated.
08/01/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
19/10/2019: Updated information.
10/09/2024: Updated information.