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S.T. Edouard Nierinck FD412

Additional information courtesy of Andy Hall and David Slinger

Technical

Admiralty Number: 4484
Official Number: 141962
Yard Number: 314
Completed: 1919
Gross Tonnage: 276
As built: 360disp 125.6 x 23.5 x 12.8 feet
Net Tonnage: 120
Length: 125.4 ft
Breadth: 23.4 ft
Depth: 12.6 ft
Built: J. P. Rennoldson & Sons Ltd, South Shields
Engine: 480ihp T.3-cyl by J. P. Rennoldson & Sons Ltd, South Shields

History

1919: Launched by J. P. Rennoldson & Sons Ltd, South Shields (Yd.No.314)(“Castle” class) for The Admiralty as DANIEL DILLON (Ad.No.4484).
28.7.1919: Completed as a fishing vessel and sold to Soc. Anon-Delta, Ostend (J. Nierinck, manager). Renamed EDOUARD NIERINCK (O206).
1921: Fishing from Fleetwood.
1922: Sold to Jules H. Nierinck, Blackpool (managing owner).
5.10.1922: Registered at Fleetwood (Part IV) (FD412).
2.12.1922: Registered at Fleetwood (Part I) O.N.141962.
1924: Sold to Scarisbrick Steam Trawlers (Fleetwood) Ltd, Fleetwood (William W. Brierley, manager).
1924: Registered at Fleetwood as EDWARD WALMSLEY (FD412) (BoT Minute M/RG 1480/24).
18.10.1935: Off the Western Isles in very heavy weather (Sk. George Abram*) observed rockets and flares from a vessel in distress. Steamed towards vessel and found steam trawler DHOON (FD348) disabled with severe heavy weather damage.*
20.10.1935: At 7.00am after almost twelve hours and many attempts, continuously swept by heavy seas, connected and proceeded for Fleetwood.
22.10.1935: At 4.20am. arrived Fleetwood after a very difficult 48 hour tow and delivered alongside at North End. Later landed 104 kits – 100 boxes 20 baskets, £359 gross.
30.8.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (P.No. FY.624) (Hire rate £86.5.0d/month).
7.1946: Reclassed at Fleetwood and returned to owner.
27.9.1949: One of five trawlers that went aground in the Wyre Channel in thick fog when outward for the fishing grounds. Refloated next tide and proceeded.
12.10.1949: Landed 308 kits, £1460 gross.
1952: Sold to The Cevic Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Richard Neave, manager).
1958: Sold to Haulbowline Industries Ltd, Passage West, Co. Cork for breaking up.
24.11.1958: Sailed Fleetwood for Cork.
26.11.1958: Arrived Passage West.
(Daniel (David) Dillon, OS, age 35, b. Dublin – ROYAL SOVEREIGN (SB68?))

Note.

* 16.1.1935: Sk. George Abram presented with a Board of Trade silver bowl in recognition of the skilled seamanship and persistence shown in assisting the DHOON).

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S.T. Edouard Nierinck FD412 as Edward Walmsley

S.T. Edward Walmsley FD412
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S.T. Edward Walmsley FD412

S.T. Edward Walmsley FD412
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S.T. Edward Walmsley FD412

S.T. Edward Walmsley FD412
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Changelog
23/01/2009: Page published. 5 updates since then.
01/07/2015: Picture added.
29/01/2016: Information updated.
25/04/2017: Removed FMHT watermark from images.
18/05/2020: Updated information.

S.T. Cyelse FD67

Additional information courtesy of David Slinger

Technical

Official Number: 128762
Yard Number: 523
Completed: 1912
Gross Tonnage: 237
Net Tonnage: 93
Length: 120 ft
Breadth: 21.5 ft
Depth: 11.8 ft
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby
Engine: 58ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by Charles D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull

History

3.4.1912: Launched by Cochrane & Sons, Selby (Yd.No.523) for David Pettit, Hakin as CYELSE.
20.5.1912: Registered at Milford (M138).
6.6.1912: Completed (David Pettit, managing owner).
24.6.1912: Arrived Milford.
1912: Transferred to David Pettit Ltd, Milford Haven (David Pettit, Hakin, manager).
11.12.1912: Leaving Milford at 5.30pm for fishing grounds in thick rain and blowing hard (Sk. Edward Gibbs). When between Thorne Island and Stack Rock Fort, collided with steam liner EAGLE (M64) inbound which sank with the loss of five crewmen.
19.2.1913: At BoT formal investigation at Milford, the Court found Sk. Gibbs guilty of failing to keep a proper look out and suspended his ticket for nine months. The Second Hand, William Blockwell was found guilty of unsatisfactory conduct in attempting to save life and his ticket suspended for three months.
9.2.1915: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-12pdr, 1-7.5” A/S Howitzer & W/T) (Ad.No.975). Fitted as Leader. Based Kirkwall.
By 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Milford Haven.
21.3.1929: Stranded on rocks off Lonehort Point, Bere Island, Co. Cork; making water. Destroyer HMS SCYTHE (P.No.H22) standing by. At 10.00am. refloated under own power and proceeded.
20.8.1931: Stranded on rocks off Irish Coast for six hours but refloated; boat lost.
25.2.1934: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Fred Parkes, Blackpool, manager).
30.2.1934: Sold to Mason Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood (Thomas Cardwell, manager).
30.10.1934: Milford registry closed
11.12.1934: Registered at Fleetwood (FD67) (Richard W. Mason, manager).
1939: R. H. Bagshaw appointed manager.
22.8.1940: Requisitioned for war service and appointed for minesweeping duties.
23.8.1940: Returned to owner.
1943: Forecastle head added.
12.3.1943: Requisitioned for war service and fitted with water tank (33ton tank for boiler feed) (P.No. Y.7.8) (Hire rate £59.5.0d/month).
1944: Employed as a fuelling trawler (for refuelling diesel landing craft) (P.No.Y.7.16).
5.1944: Assigned Operation Neptune-Normandy Landings.
23.5.1944: Assigned as a fuelling trawler to Force G.
3.7.1944: Operation Neptune ended.
1944: Reverted to water tank duties.
19.3.1946: Returned after restoration and re-classification at Belfast.
11.3.1949: On West of Scotland grounds (Sk. J.C.Smith); fourteen crew all told. In response to radio message attended Fleetwood trawler BEN BHEULA (A422) (Sk. W. Cowell) off Barra in heavy weather and hail storms taking in water in boiler room. Connected and towed into Castlebay for shelter.
13.3.1949: Still connected, in hail and sleet, swept by high seas on to reef. All crew abandoned in boat and taken onboard BEN BHEULA, later taken by Barra lifeboat to Castlebay.
15.3.1949: Liverpool & Glasgow Salvage Association attended but wreck declared a total loss.
1949: Fleetwood registry closed.

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S.T. Cyelse FD67

S.T. Cyelse FD67
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S.T. Cyelse FD67 in wartime livery

S.T. Cyelse FD67
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S.T. Cyelse FD67

S.T. Cyelse FD67
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S.T. Cyelse FD67

S.T. Cyelse FD67
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Changelog
23/01/2009: Page published. 4 updates since then.
16/01/2017: Image added.
16/02/2020: Updated information.

S.T. Doctor Lee FD411

Technical

Official Number: 136186
Yard Number: 586
Completed: 1914
Gross Tonnage: 307
Net Tonnage: 124
Length: 136.7 ft
Breadth: 23.2 ft
Depth: 12.3 ft
Built: Cochrane & Sons, Ltd Selby
Engine: 93hp T.3-cyl and boiler by Charles D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull

History

29.1.1914: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.586) for Pickering & Haldane’s Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull as Doctor Lee .
26.3.1914: Registered at Hull (H50).
11.4.1914: Completed (John McCann & Edward Cartwright, managers).
5.1915: Requisitioned for war service (Ad.No.1582). At Devonport fitted 1-12pdr and mine-sweep.
1916: Based Malta with Unit 93.
3.3.1919: Returned to owner at Hull.
10.6.1922: Mortgaged to William Deacons Bank Ltd, London.
21.6.1922: Sold to Dinas Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Joseph A. Marr, manager).
12.7.1922: Hull registry closed.
13.7.1922: Registered at Fleetwood (FD411).
Pre 8.1938: Laid up at Fleetwood.
5.12.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a boom defence vessel (P.No. Z.133) (Hire rate £81.17.4d/month). Based Leith.
23.11.1943: Compulsorily acquired by M.O.W.T.
1.1.1944: Fleetwood registry closed.
6.1944: Based at Portsmouth (Fraser & White Ltd, Portsmouth, agents).
2.1946: Laid up at Portsmouth “To return to fishing”.
3.1947: Sold to BISCO and allocated to Marine Metals Ltd, Littlehampton for breaking up.

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S.T. Doctor Lee FD411

S.T. Doctor Lee FD411

Changelog
23/01/2009: Page published. 3 updates since then.
13/05/2017: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
05/09/2021: Updated technical details.

S.T. Daily Herald FD101

Additional information courtesy of David Slinger and Granton Trawlers

Technical

Admiralty Number: 3745
Official Number: 143943
Yard Number: 645
Completed: 1918
As built: 360disp 125.6 x 23.5 x 12.8 feet
Gross Tonnage: 276
Net Tonnage: 106
Length: 125.6 ft
Breadth: 23.4 ft
Depth: 12.6 ft
Built: Hepple & Co Ltd, South Shields
Engine: 480ihp T.3-cyl by Bellis & Morcom Ltd, Birmingham
Boiler: R.W. Hawthorn Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle

History

17.10.1917: Launched by Hepple & Co Ltd, South Shields (Yd.No.645) (“Castle” class) for The Admiralty as MATTHEW FLYNN (Ad.No.3745).
23.2.1918: Completed (Commissioned) (1-12pdr).
10.12.1919: Registered by The Admiralty at London (Part I) as MATTHEW FLYNN O.N.143943).
1919: Allocated to Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries and engaged in commercial trawling.
1920: Allocated to the National Fishery Scheme for the setting up of the Minesweepers’ Cooperative Trawling Society Ltd, London.
13.08.1920: Minesweepers’ Cooperative Trawling Society Ltd, London registered.
28.08.1920: Registered by The Admiralty at London (Part IV) (LO435).
10.1920: At HM Dockyard, Devonport completed fitting out for fishing under Special Survey of Lloyd’s Register and classed 100A1 Stm Trawler at Plymouth.
01.1922: Scheme abandoned, the necessary working capital of £100,000 having not been subscribed. Laid up.
1922: Sold M. Francois, Boulogne.
8.2.1922: London registry closed.
2.1922: Registered at Boulogne as AMIRAL MARQUER. Altazin Frères, later Victor Fourny designated manager.
4.1930: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood.
5.1930: Boulogne registry closed.
17.5.1930: Registered at Fleetwood as DAILY HERALD (FD101) (BoT Minute M/R.G.1069/1930 dated 10.2.1930). Fred Parkes, Blackpool designated manager.
30.9.1932: Homeward from fishing grounds in mountainous seas (Sk. Robert Wright. Struck the Bragar Rocks, Isle of Lewis. Slid off but carried back on the rocks and pounding coming afloat again and backed away. Boat made ready. Wireless operator made contact with steam trawler DAILY TELEGRAPH (GY367) which stood by whilst checks carried out and found to be making a little water. Proceeded in company for Fleetwood.
2.10.1932: Arrived Fleetwood.
1935: Sold to Thomas L. Devlin & Sons, Granton.
5.10.1935: Fleetwood registry closed.
10.1935: Registered at Granton as COMMILES (GN34). Thomas L. Devlin designated manager.
31.8.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (P.No.FY.636) (Hire rate £82.16.0d/month).
1942: Transferred to Thomas L. Devlin & Sons Ltd, Granton. Thomas L. Devlin remained manager.
1942: Sold to Mrs Elizabeth D. Breen, Edinburgh.
10.1945: Re-classed at Fleetwood and returned to owner.
10.1945: Sold to Shire Trawlers Ltd (64/64), London. William Alfred Bennett, Sanderstead designated manager.
22.12.1945: Stranded at Dyra Fjord, Iceland. Refloated and returned to service.
11.1946: Granton registry closed.
26.11.1946: Registered at Grimsby (GY390).
16.12.1947: Sold to J. Marr & Son Ltd (64/64), Fleetwood for £12500.
23.12.1947: Geoffrey Edwards Marr, Cleveleys designated manager.
3.11.1948: Grimsby registry closed.
11.1948: Registered at Fleetwood (FD285).
12.1948: In blizzard conditions driven ashore at Kyle of Lochalsh. Two men brought ashore by breeches buoy, remaining crew taken off by launch from HMS FLAMBOROUGH HEAD.
12.1948: Refloated and returned to service.
8.6.1949: Sold to Anglo-Australian Fisheries (Pty) Ltd & Anglo-Australian Trawlers (Pty) Ltd, Perth, WA for £15000. Ian L. C. McNicol designated manager. 16.7.1949: Sailed Fleetwood for Fremantle, WA (Sk. Alfred Britton MBE(49)/Capt G. Thexton, Grasmere); fourteen crew all volunteers to settle in Australia and sailed under Western Australian Government immigration scheme; families to follow.
16.9.1949: Arrived Fremantle, WA. To fish out of Albany.
1953: Sold to Royal Australian Navy and after use as a target sunk off Rottnest Island W of Fremantle, WA as a dive site and fish haven.
(Matthew Flynn (or Flinn), Landsman (Volunteer), age 22, b. Dublin – VICTORY (SB160)

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S.T. Daily Herald FD101

S.T. Daily Herald FD101
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S.T. Commiles FD285

S.T. Commiles FD285
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Changelog
23/01/2009: Page published. 5 updates since then.
13/01/2017: Information updated.
15/07/2017: Removed FMHT watermark.
02/03/2020: Updated information and added an image.

S.T. Cotswold H194

Technical

Admiralty Number: 3556
Official Number: 143839
Yard number: 816
Completed: 1917
Gross Tonnage: 312
Net Tonnage: 130
Length: 138.5 ft
Breadth: 23.7 ft
Depth: 12.8 ft
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby
Engine: 600ihp T.3-cyl by Campbell Gas Engine Co Ltd, Halifax
Armament: 1 x 12 pdr AA

History

23.7.1917: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.816) (“Mersey” class) for The Admiralty as GEORGE ANDREW (Ad.No.3556).
29.10.1917: Completed as a minesweeper (1 – 12pdr HA and W/T).
18.11.1919: Registered by The Admiralty at London (Part I) as GEORGE ANDREW O.N.143839.
23.4.1920: Paid off and laid up.
1921: Sold to Pickering & Haldane’s Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull (John McCann & Edward Cartwright, managers).
19.7.1921: Registered at Hull (H194).
13.9.1921: Registered at Hull as LORD ASTOR (H194).
7.2.1929: Sold to W. B. Willey & Sons Ltd, Hull (William B Willey Junr, manager).
5.7.1929: Registered at Hull as COTSWOLD (H194).
30.4.1936: Sailed Hull for Faroes grounds on last trip before sale (Sk. J. Blackshaw).
15.5.1936: At Hull landed 391 kits grossed £510.
20.5.1936: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Basil A. Parkes, manager).
13.6.1936: At Fleetwood, first box of fish sold to C. F. Stonebanks for £6.15.0d.
28.8.1939: Requisitioned for war service on examination service and as a minesweeper. Renamed CRANEFLY (P.No.FY.539). (Hire rate £91.0.0d/month)
1940: Based Dundee with M/S Group 34.
4.1.1940: Escorted HM Submarine H.34 from Dundee to Rosyth.
1942: Based Grimsby with M/S Group 34.
6.1945: Sold to Grimsby Motor Trawlers Ltd, Grimsby.
30.6.1945: Hull registry closed.
7.1945: Registered at Grimsby as COTSWOLD (GY77).
1.1946: Returned to owner at Grimsby.
5.1946: Completed Special Survey at Troon.
6.6.1946: Sold to A. J. Tilbrook Ltd, Milford Haven.
10.1948: Sold to Yolland Brothers Ltd, Milford Haven (John Yolland, manager).
8.1954: Sold to B. J. Nijkerk SA, Antwerp for breaking up.
11.8.1954: Sailed Milford for Belgium.
8.1954: Grimsby registry closed.

(George Andrew, Secretary’s Clerk, age ?, b. ?? – VICTORY (SB?))

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S.T. Cotswold H194

S.T. Cotswold H194
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Changelog
23/01/2009: Page published. 3 updates since then.
16/02/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
07/01/2020: Updated information.