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S.D/T. Cyclamen LT1136 (Seasonal)

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Official Number: 130033
Yard Number: 202
Completed: 1911
Gross Tonnage: 93
Net Tonnage: 39
Length: 87.3 ft
Breadth: 18.5 ft
Depth: 9.1 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Crabtree & Co Ltd, Gt. Yarmouth
Boiler: Thomas Sudron & Co Ltd, Stockton on Tees
Built: Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Dundee

History

1911: Launched by Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Dundee (Yd.No.202) for Herring Fishing Co Ltd, Lowestoft as CYCLAMEN.
6.1911: Completed (William Thomas Tripp, Kessingland, manager).
20.6.1911: Registered at Lowestoft (LT1136).
9.1915: Requisitioned for war service as an A/S net drifter (1-3pdr HA) (Ad.No.1848).
12.1915: Renamed CYCLAMEN II. Based Dover.
By 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Lowestoft and reverted to CYCLAMEN (LT1136).
From 1925: Seasonal trawling from Padstow and Milford.
21.8.1927: Fishing Small’s grounds 5 miles NNE of St. Ann’s Head connected to Milford trawler LINCOLNIA (FD118) disabled with machinery defect. Towed to Milford arriving same day.
28.10.1927: Sidney James Tripp, Kessingland appointed manager.
1930s: Seasonal white fish trawling from Padstow, Milford and Fleetwood (Lowestoft Fish Selling Co Ltd, Lowestoft, managing agents).
24.10.1932: Delivered steam drifter HOLLY BANK (LT35) at Lowestoft having been picked up disabled with damaged rudder.
1938: Sold to Arthur C. Mitchell (13/64); William Wilcox (13/64); Kenneth Llewellin (13/64); William Henry Kerr (13/64), all Milford Haven and George Mitchell (12/64), Lowestoft (Arthur C. Mitchell, managing owner).
11.1957: Sold to Belgium for breaking up.
6.11.1957: Sailed Lowestoft for Bruges.
22.11.1957: Lowestoft registry closed.

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S.D/T. Cyclamen LT1136

S.D/T. Cyclamen LT1136
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S.D/T. Cyclamen LT1136

S.D/T. Cyclamen LT1136
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S.D/T. Cyclamen LT1136

S.D/T. Cyclamen LT1136
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S.D/T/ Cyclamen LT1136

S.D/T/ Cyclamen LT1136
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Changelog
07/01/2011: Page published
19/05/14: Information updated and picture 3 added
12/05/2016: Added picture.
19/02/2018: Removed FMHT watermarks.

S.D/T. Blue Haze LT564 (Seasonal)

Additional information courtesy of Barry Banham

Technical

Admiralty Number: 4144
Official Number: 139988
Yard Number: 8
Completed: 1919
Gross Tonnage: 97
Net Tonnage: 41
Length: 86.2 ft
Breadth: 18.5 ft
Depth: 9.3 ft
Built: J. W. Brooke & Co Ltd, Oulton Broad, Lowestoft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Urquhart, Lindsay & Robertson, Orchar Ltd, Dundee
Boiler: Great Central Co-operative Engineering & Ship Repairing Co Ltd, Grimsby

History

1919: Launched by J. W. Brooke & Co Ltd, Oulton Broad, Lowestoft (Yd.No.8) (“Admiralty drifter”) for The Admiralty as BLUE HAZE (Ad.No.4144).
5.2.1919: Forms for tender to purchase received by the Admiralty.
6.6.1919: Completed as a fishing vessel.
14.7.1919: Sold to Bertha Agusta Richards & Charles Aleyn Jordan, Lowestoft.
10.9.1919: Registered at Lowestoft (Part I & VI) as BLUE HAZE O.N.139988 (LT564).
4.10.1919: Off Dungeness in fog, in collision with Cardiff steamer MANIN II.
13.12.1919: Sold to Viking Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Lowestoft. James Pye designated manager.
20.8.1924: Sold to James Pye & Robert J. Read, Lowestoft (joint owners).
19.2.1925: Sold to Seven Ltd, Lowestoft. James Pye designated manager.
1930s: Seasonal trawling from Fleetwood (Lowestoft Fish Selling Co Ltd, Lowestoft, managing agents).
1940: Re-possessed by bank and laid up at Lowestoft.
5.1940: Hire negotiated with The Admiralty by Basil Parkes, Fleetwood.
18.5.1940: Requisitioned for war service on miscellaneous Naval duties (P.No.FY.1757) (Hire rate £32.0.0d/month).
22.5.1940: Sold to Fred Parkes, Blackpool.
1.7.1940: Sold to North Shore Fishing Co Ltd, Fleetwood. Basil Arthur Parkes, Cleveleys designated manager.
11.1940: Based Anstruther as a TRV.
4.2.1946: Laid up.
8.2.1946: Returned to owner. Laid up.
7.2.1949: Sold to Bisset Buchan Coull, Peterhead.
2.9.1949: Registered at Peterhead as LILIUM (PD67).
5.9.1949: Lowestoft registry closed.
1953: Sold to Sophia McL. Coull, Peterhead.
1955: Sold to John Cameron, Peterhead for breaking up. John Cameron designated managing owner.
12.1956: Still listed in MNL ie. Certificates not returned and cancelled.
Changelog

06/01/2011: Page published. 2 updates since then.
07/09/2019: Updated information.

S.T. Elector LT579 (Seasonal)

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Technical

Official Number: 109092
Yard Number: 244
Completed: 1898
Gross Tonnage: 169
Net Tonnage: 54
Length: 104.0 ft
Breadth: 21.0 ft
Depth: 10.7 ft
Built: Mackie & Thomson, Govan
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by Muir & Houston Ltd, Glasgow

History

17.10.1898: Launched by Mackie & Thomson, Govan (Yd.No.244) for Great Northern Steamship Fishing Co Ltd, Hull as ELECTOR.
12.1898: Completed (William R. Nowell, Hessle, manager).
15.12.1898: Registered at Hull (H438).
1.1.1914: Tonnage altered to 66.63 net under provision of Merchant Shipping Act 1907.
29.5.1917: Requisitioned for Fishery Reserve.
1919: Released.
12.6.1919: Sold to Arthur Gouldby, Kessingland.
10.6.1919: Hull registry closed.
12.6.1919: Registered at Lowestoft (LT579).
16.6.1919: Registered owners, Arthur Gouldby (56/64) and Charles Sansom (8/64), both Lowestoft (Arthur Goulby, managing owner).
23.6.1919: Registered owners, Arthur Gouldby (44/64); Charles Sansom (8/64) Betsy Garrood (8/64) and Harriet Prior (4/64), all Lowestoft (Arthur Goulby, managing owner).
26.7.1920: Registered owners, Arthur Gouldby (44/64); Charles Sansom (8/64); Dorothy Garrood (8/64) and Harriet Prior (4/64), all Lowestoft (Arthur Goulby, managing owner).
6.12.1921: Registered owners, Arthur Gouldby (44/64); Charles Sansom (8/64); Dorothy Garrood (8/64) and Harry George Prior (4/64), all Lowestoft (Arthur Goulby, managing owner).
11.4.1922: Registered owners, Arthur Gouldby (44/64); Charles Sansom (8/64); Dorothy Garrood (4/64); Harry George Prior (4/64) and Betsy Garrood (4/64), all Lowestoft (Arthur Goulby, managing owner).
1930s: Seasonal trawling from Fleetwood (Lowestoft Fish Selling Co Ltd, managing agents).
26.2.1937: Registered owners, Harry Garrood (43/64); Arthur Gouldby 13/64); Dorothy Garrood (4/64) and Betsy Garrood (4/64), all Lowestoft.
5.4.1937: Registered owners, Harry Garrood (43/64); Arthur Gouldby (13/64); Dorothy Garrood (4/64) ; George & Harry James Garrood (4/64 joint). All Lowestoft.
4.1937: Sold to Dutch principals for breaking up.
14.4.1937: Lowestoft registry closed “Sold Dutch for demolition”.

Changelog

31/12/2010: Page published. 3 updates since then.
04/06/2020: Updated information.

S.D/T. Lord St. Vincent LT79 (Seasonal)

Technical

Official Number: 149220
Yard Number: 576
Completed: 1929
Gross Tonnage: 115
Net Tonnage: 48
Length: 92.0 ft
Breadth: 20.1 ft
Depth: 8.0 ft
Built: John Chambers Ltd, Lowestoft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Wm. Burrell, Gt. Yarmouth
Boiler: Riley Bros (Boilermakers) Ltd, Stockton on Tees

History

1929: Launched by John Chambers Ltd, Lowestoft (Yd.No.576) for Lowestoft Steam Herring Drifters Co Ltd, Lowestoft as LORD St. VINCENT.
7.1929: Completed (Harold Jackson, manager).
25.7.1929: Registered at Lowestoft (LT79) and insured for £4,500.
18.11.1929: At Lowestoft in collision with steam drifter NORFORD SUFFLING (LT685),
1930s: Seasonal trawling out of Padstow and Fleetwood (Lowestoft Fish Selling Co Ltd, Lowestoft, managing agents).
24.3.1932: At Newlyn with damaged propeller.
2.10.1933: Disabled off Lowestoft with piston rod failure. LNER tug LOWESTOFT (172grt/1898) connected and delivered Lowestoft.
9.8.1938: Off Milford Haven connected to disabled steam drifter LORD SUFFOLK (LT44) and delivered Milford.
4.9.1939: Requisitioned for war service on contraband control (Hire rate £61.13.4d/month).
26.5.1940: At 6.57pm. ‘Operation Dynamo’ (Dunkirk evacuation) put into effect.
28.5.1940: With Senior Officer (Cdr J. S. M. Glendinning RNR retd) in steam tug JAVA (128grt/1905-500ihp) (Capt W. Jones) left Ramsgate for Dunkirk at 3.00pm in company with steam drifters LORD RODNEY (LT390), LORD COLLINGWOOD (LT79) and LORD KEITH (LT181).
29.5.1940: At 4.30am. ferrying troops to ships. 10.00am. alongside Dunkirk Pier embarking troops. 5.00pm. left Dunkirk beaches for Ramsgate.
30.5.1940: At Ramsgate at 7.40am. landed 150 troops.
7.7.1941: Mined off North East Gunfleet Buoy in Thames Estuary (Sk. J. S. Alexander RNR). One casualty – James W. Utting, stoker, killed.
9.7.1941: Robert E. Cullingford, Engineman died of his wounds.
23.7.1941: Lowestoft registry closed “Vessel lost 7.7.41”.

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S.D/T. Lord St. Vincent LT79

S.D/T. Lord St. Vincent LT79
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Changelog

31/12/2010: Page published. 8 updates since then.
06/11/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.

S.D/T. George Baker LT1253 (Seasonal)

Technical

Admiralty Number: 4131
Official Number: 137616
Yard Number: 572
Completed: 1919
Gross Tonnage: 96
Net Tonnage: 41
Length: 86.2 ft
Breadth: 18.7 ft
Depth: 9.3 ft
Built: A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen
Engine: T.3-cyl by A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen

History

1919: Launched by A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen (Yd.No.572) ) (“Admiralty drifter”) for The Admiralty as WATERMEET (Ad.No.4131).
16.9.1919: Completed as a fishing vessel.
11.1919: Sold to Edward A. Baker, Gt. Yarmouth (managing owner).
10.11.1919: Registered at Yarmouth as GEORGE BAKER O.N.137616 (YH210).
10.1922: Sold to Robert W. Sillett, Lowestoft (managing owner).
11.10.1922: Yarmouth registry closed.
14.10.1922: Registered at Lowestoft (LT1253).
1927: Sold to John Mitchell, Lowestoft (managing owner).
1930s: Seasonal white fish trawling from Padstow and Fleetwood (William Head, managing agent).
27.8.1939: Requisitioned for war service on port duties (Hire rate £32.16.0d/month). Renamed SKIRMISHER.
1940: Registered at Lowestoft as GEORGE BAKER (LT1253).
2.1944: Employed on miscellaneous Naval duties.
1943: Sold to Saint Andrew’s Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull (Basil A. Parkes, manager).
23.10.1945: Returned to owner.
1947: Sold to Carry On Fishing Co Ltd, Lowestoft (Maj. A. W. Suddaby MBE, Gorleston, manager).
10.1955: Sold to Jacques Bakker en Zonen, Bruges for breaking up.
14.10.1955: Delivered Bruges.
1955: Lowestoft registry closed.

Changelog

21/12/2010: Page published. 2 updates since then.
03/11/2020: Updated history.