Category Archives: Lost Vessels

Vessels that have been lost

S.T. Joseph Hodgkins A186

Technical

Admiralty Number: 3855
Official Number: 139809
Yard Number: 650
Completed: 1919
Gross Tonnage: 275
Net Tonnage: 120
Length: 125 ft
Breadth: 23.4 ft
Depth: 12.6 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Belliss & Morcom Ltd, Birmingham
Built: Hepple & Co, Ltd, North Shields

History

18.12.1918: Launched as a fishing vessel by Hepple & Co (1919) Ltd, North Shields (Yd.No.650) (“Castle” class) for The Admiralty as JOSEPH HODGKINS (Ad.No.3855).
20.6.1919. Completed for Felix R. Samson, London (managing owner).
8.7.1919: Registered at Aberdeen (A186).
9.5.1920: Fishing from Milford (Brand & Curzon Ltd, managers).
4.1921: Sold to S & B Trawling Co, Fleetwood.
28.12.1921: During WNW Force 8 gale in collision off Maughold Head, Isle of Man with steam trawler CUIRASS (GY436). Subsequently foundered and crew picked up by JACINTA (FD325).
16.1.1922: Aberdeen registry closed.

(Joseph Hodgkins (aka Hodgskins), OS (prest), age 24, b. Battlesbridge, Essex – VICTORY (SB280))

Changelog
24/12/2008: Page published. 3 updates since then.

S.T. Joseph Button M272

Technical

Admiralty Number: 3584
Official Number: 143829
Yard Number: 379
Completed: 1918
As built: 360disp 125.6 x 23.5 x 12.8 feet
Gross Tonnage: 290
Net Tonnage: 119
Length: 125.5 ft
Breadth: 23.6 ft
Depth: 12.7 ft
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley
Engine: 480ihp T.3-cyl by Amos & Smith Ltd, Hull
Speed: 10.5 knots

History

17.12.1917: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.379) (“Castle” class) for The Admiralty as JOSEPH BUTTON (Ad.No.3584).
24.4.1918: Completed (1-12pdr, Hydrophone and W/T).
14.11.1919: Registered by The Admiralty at London (Part I) as JOSEPH BUTTON O.N. 143829.
30.12.1919: Registered by The Admiralty as a fishing vessel at London (LO241).
1920: Sold to The Skomer Steam Shipping Co Ltd, Cardiff (Lewis Bull).
16.11.1923: Sold to Brand & Curzon Ltd, Milford Haven (Edward Brand & Charles Curzon, joint managers).
11.12.1928: Sailed Milford for the fishing grounds (Sk. A. J. Beckett). In collision in the Haven with schooner MATILDA of Wexford (100grt/1870), which subsequently foundered with the loss of four crew members.
2.1.1938: On grounds off SW Ireland (Sk. Robert Limbrick) picked up crew of steam trawler VICTOR (M97) (Sk. John H. Ryan) which had foundered off Galway coast.
3.1.1938: Landed survivors at Valentia, Co.Kerry.
5.1938: Sold to Milford Fisheries Ltd, Milford Haven (Owen W. Limbrick, manager).
20.5.1938: London registry closed.
23.5.1938: Registered at Milford (M272).
4.1939: Transferred to Fleetwood.
31.7.1939: Sold to J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood (Geoffrey Edwards Marr, manager) for £3750.
29.8.1939: Requisitioned for war service (Hire rate £87.0.0d/month).
11.1939: Fitted out at Liverpool as a minesweeper (P.No.NR).
21.10.1940: In a group of four minesweeping off Suffolk coast in a minefield laid by German aircraft (Sk. A. J. Cowie RNR).
22.10.1940: Foundered after striking a mine off Aldeburgh, Suffolk whilst searching for survivors from one of the group, HMTrawler WAVEFLOWER (P.No.FY.703) mined the previous day. Five crew MPK*.
27.12.1941: Milford registry closed “Lost by enemy action”.

MPK* – Frederick C. Stebbings, Engineman; William Barker, Stoker PO; Ronald Garnham & Edward A. Pearson, Stokers; Bertie Hosking, OS.

(Joseph Button, Landsman (prest), age 23, b. Chelmsford, Essex – VICTORY (SB556))

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HMT Joseph Button LO241

HMT Joseph Button LO241
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Changelog
24/12/2008: Page published. 3 updates since then.
04/03/2021: Updated history and technical details.
17/02/2024: Added an image.

S.T. Ionic GY256

Technical

Official Number: 96224
Yard Number: 339
Completed: 1890
Gross Tonnage: 159
Net Tonnage: 64
Length: 101 ft
Breadth: 20.6 ft
Depth: 10.7 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by Earle’s Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Hull
Built: Earle’s Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Hull

History

3.6.1890: Launched by Earle’s Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Hull (Yd.No.339) for The Grimsby Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby as IONIC.
6.1890: Completed. George E. J. Moody designated manager.
1.7.1890: Registered at Grimsby (GY256). Fishing from Fleetwood. William Moody Kelly managing agent.
1896: Sk. John Wright convicted on charges of fishing in the Minches with beam trawl.
18.6.1899: Arrested by HMS VIGILANT whilst trawling 21/2 miles inside the prohibited area off the Wigtownshire coast. Forty boxes of fish onboard.
5.7.1899: At Stranraer Sheriff Court Sk. Richard Wright was fined £50 or 30 days imprisonment.
1913: New boiler fitted.
3.1917: At Fleetwood. Fitted with Hotchkiss 6pdr gun (No.3621); complement increased by two gunners.
29.5.1917: Requisitioned for Fishery Reserve.
1919: Released.
1921: Fishing from Fleetwood.
4.1.1921: Sk. J. Ronson fined £15 at Bangor for trawling within the three mile limit and having immature fish onboard.
1926: Sir George E. J. Moody designated manager.
7.3.1928: Off the Humber in collision with Hull steam trawler HORNBILL (H244) which connected and commenced tow to the Humber. Vessel started to settle and foundered 4 miles NE of Spurn Lightship. All crew safe.
30.3.1928: Grimsby registry closed.

Changelog
24/12/2008: Page published.
03/06/2014: Information updated.
31/03/2021: Updated history.

S.T. Invertay GY287

Additional information courtesy of Bill Blow and Andy Hall

Technical

Official Number: 138971
Yard Number: 176
Completed: 1916
Gross Tonnage: 229.89
Net Tonnage: 106.92
Length: 120.2 ft
Breadth: 22.0 ft
Depth: 12.1 ft
Built; Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co Ltd, Goole
Engine: 400ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull

History

9.2.1916: Launched by Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co Ltd, Goole (Yd.No.176) for The Grimsby & North Sea Steam Trawling Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby as CANCER.
6.1916: Completed.
28.6.1916: Registered at Grimsby (GY918).
28.6.1916: John Richardson Mackrill designated manager. Requisitioned from the builders for war service (Ad.No.2957).
6.1916: Fitted with WT and 6-pdr gun and fitted out as a minesweeper (Ad.No.2957).
10.1916: Allocated – Unit No.1212 ‘Trawler Sweepers’ based Devonport (Lieut. F.F. Wyeth RNR).
Post 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Grimsby.
5.8.1921: Sold to Lindsey Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
15.8.1921: Edwin Bacon Snr designated manager.
2.1.1923: Arrived Grimsby with steam trawler PORTSMOUTH (GY249) in tow picked up disabled with engine problems.
31.8.1929: Sold to David Dryburgh, Robert Dryburgh, Thomas Liston and George Hunter (64/64 joint owners), all Leith.
10.9.1929: David Dryburgh designated managing owner.
7.10.1929: David Dryburgh designated managing owner.
14.10.1929: Sold to David Dryburgh (16/64), Robert Dryburgh (16/64), Thomas Liston (16/64) and George Hunter (16/64), all Leith.
29.10:1929: George Hunter (16/64) shares mortgaged to Royal Bank of Scotland, Edinburgh (A).
18.5.1931: Mortgage (A) discharged.
19.5.1931: Sold by David Dryburgh (16/64), Robert Dryburgh (16/64), Thomas Liston (16/64) and George Hunter (16/64), all Leith to David Dryburgh, Robert Dryburgh, Thomas Liston and George Hunter, all Leith (64/64 joint owners).
21.5.1931: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Royal Bank of Scotland Ltd, Edinburgh (B).
26.5.1931: David Dryburgh designated managing owner.
5.2.1936: Grimsby registry closed.
21.3.1936: Registered at Granton as INVERTAY (GN49) (BoT Minute No.R.G.1020/1936 dated 31.1.1936).
1937: Sold to George R. Cooke, Edinburgh. George R. Cooke designated managing owner.
8.8.1939: Off Cape Wrath disabled with broken tail shaft. Steam trawler STAR OF THE EAST (LH36) (Sk. Watson Liston) connected and commenced tow 200 miles to Aberdeen.
11.8.1939: Arrived Aberdeen after 36 hour tow.
1939: Sold to George R. Cook & William Carnie Jnr, Newhaven, Edinburgh.
1940: Sold to Carnie & Gibb, Newhaven, Edinburgh. William Carnie Jnr designated manager.
8.1940: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (P.No.FY.1748) (Hire rate £65.3.4d/month).
1941: Sold to J. Bennett (Wholesale) Ltd, London. William Alfred Bennett designated manager.
29.12.1942: Roderick Finlayson Murray (32), Aberdeen, 2nd Hand missing, presumed drowned.
1946: Sold to Lord Line Ltd, Hull. Thomas W. Boyd designated manager.
30.5.1946: At Hull landed from a North Sea trip, 3,500 stone, including hake – 1,200, coley – 900, mixed – skate, ling, whiting, witches, etc – 1400 stone.
7.6.1946: Outward for the fishing grounds, put into North Shields with engine trouble.
6.1946: Sold to Bramwell Collinge (64/64), St. Anne’s-on-the-Sea.
6.1946: Granton registry closed.
24.6.1946: Registered at Grimsby (GY287).
24.6.1946: Bramwell Collinge designated managing owner.
7.1946: Returned to owner.
30.11.1945: Insured value £18,000; for 1946 proposed same.
31.8.1946: Sold to Harcol Trawling Co Ltd (64/64), St. Anne’s-on-the-Sea.
1.10.1946: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Barclays Bank Ltd, London (C).
3.10.1946: Arthur Gladstone Hamer, Grimsby designated manager.
10.1949: Fishing from Fleetwood.
30.1.1950: Last landing. Laid up.
29.3.1950: Meeting of creditors.
31.5.1950: Company placed in Voluntary Liquidation. Eric Stevenson Browne, Liverpool appointed Liquidator.
21.9.1950: Mortgage (C) discharged.
21.9.1950: Sold by the liquidator to Sir Thomas Robinson & Son (Grimsby) Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
28.9.1950: Frank Wheeler Robinson designated manager.
30.9.1953: Harcol Trawling Co Ltd wound up.
19.2.1954: Frank Bellamy Robinson designated manager.
7.10.1954: In gale conditions in North Sea shipped heavy seas flooding stokehold losing fires and disabled pumps. Trawler FLYING WING (GY690) responded to radio message, connected with difficulty and commenced 70 mile tow to Grimsby.
8.10.1954: Delivered Grimsby.
3.1961: Sailed Grimsby for North Sea grounds (Sk.A. Osborne); ten crew.
10.3.1961: On a North Sea trip (Sk. A. Osborne); nine crew all told. At about 1.20am. foundered after collision with German steam trawler FRANZ SCHAU (393grt/1949) in thick fog 190 miles off Humber in approx position 55°11N/5°10E. Crew* took to liferaft and picked up by German trawler GRUNDMANN and transferred to motor trawler SAXON PROGRESS (GY655), on maiden trip, for return to Grimsby.
6.12.1961: Grimsby registry closed “Vessel sunk… after collision”.

*Crew: Sk. A. Osborne; A Hodson, Mate; W. Lambert, Third hand; H. Dodd, Ch Eng; C. Guyton, 2nd Eng; P. Wandel, W. Ramsey, A. Clark, Deckhands; J. Wardle, cook.

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S.T. Cancer GY918

S.T. Cancer GY918
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S.T. Invertay GY287

S.T. Invertay GY287
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S.T. Invertay GY287

S.T. Invertay GY287
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S.T. Invertay GY287

S.T. Invertay GY287
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S.T. Invertay GY287

S.T. Invertay GY287
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Changelog
24/12/2008: Page published. 7 updates since then.
10/06/2015: Picture added.
15/06/2016: Information updated.
06/03/2017: Image added.
23/12/2017: Removed FMHT watermarks from images.
26/04/2018: Information updated.
30/01/2021: Updated history.
29/04/2022: Added an image.

S.T. Inverspey FD421

Additional information courtesy of Andy Hall

Technical

Admiralty Number: 3788
Official Number: 142270
Yard Number: 113
Completed: 1919
As built: 360disp 125.6 x 23.5 x 12.8 feet
Gross Tonnage: 280.25
Net Tonnage: 113.28
Length: 125.6 ft
Breadth: 23.6 ft
Depth: 14.12 ft
Built: Geo. Brown & Co Ltd, Greenock
Engine: 480ihp T.3-cyl by Mackie & Baxter Ltd, Glasgow

History

19.11.1918: Launched by Geo. Brown & Co Ltd, Greenock (Yd.No.113) (“Castle” class) for The Admiralty as WILLIAM GRIFFITHS (Ad.No.3788).
5.2.1919: Forms for tender to purchase received by the Admiralty.
21.2.1919: Completed as a fishing vessel.
1919: Sold to Lieut Andrew Hardie RNR, Cults, Aberdeenshire. Horace Edward Stroud designated manager.
2.5.1919: After fitting out at Greenock for trawling, registered at Greenock (Part I & IV as INVERSPEY O.N.142270 (GK20).
5.1919: Greenock registry closed.
9.5.1919: Registered at Aberdeen (A158).
5.12.1919: Sold to Thomas Crimlis, Filey. Thomas Crimlis designated managing owner.
6.12.1919: Aberdeen registry closed.
8.12.1919: Registered at Scarborough (SH173).
29.6.1920: Sold to The Pearl Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Scarborough. Benjamin Simpson Jn, Scarborough & Frank Crimlis, Filey designated managers.
11.1922: Sold to Sun Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Fleetwood James W. Armitage designated manager.
20.11.1922: Scarborough registry closed.
23.11.1922: Registered at Fleetwood (FD421).
13.8.1923: In dense fog changing grounds, stranded on rocks off NW shore of Inishmore, Aran Islands, Galway Bay. Crew* took to boat and after over four hours fog lifted and with difficulty landed below the light at Eeragh Island. Total loss.
20.9.1923: Fleetwood registry closed.

(Wiliam Griffiths, AB (volunteer), age 32, b. Carnarvonshire, N. Wales – ROYAL SOVEREIGN (SB36))

(* Lawrence Turner, James George, J. Reynolds, James Goggle, Jack Tennant, T. Burnett, Abdullah Gun, W. Jefferson, S. Jinks, D. Morrison, R. Cross).

Changelog
24/12/2008: Page published. 3 updates since then.
12/04/2020: Updated history.