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S.T. Flanders FD165

Additional material courtesy of Bill Blow and Brian Booth

Technical

Official Number: 144391
Yard number: 417
Completed: 1919
As built: 360disp 125.6 x 23.5 x 12.8 feet
Gross Tonnage: 289
Net Tonnage: 113
Length: 125.5 ft
Breadth: 23.5 ft
Depth: 12.7 ft
Built: Cook Welton & Gemmell, Beverley
Engine: 500ihp T.3-cyl by Amos & Smith Ltd, Hull
Boiler: Earle’s Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Hull
Speed: 10.5 knots

History

18.6.1919: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.417)(“Castle” class) for The Admiralty as the CHARLES ANTRAM (Ad.No.4401).
13.2.1920: Completed as a fishing vessel.
25.2.1920: Registered by The Admiralty as a fishing vessel at London (LO335). Official No.144391.
29.8.1921: Sold to Société Anonyme Armement Ostendais, Ostend for £7000.
6.9.1921: London registry closed.
25.9.1921: Registered at Ostend as EDMOND VAN BEVEREN (O147).
27.9.1921: Arrived Ostend 1930s: Landing occasionally at Fleetwood.
1.1939: Sold to Rhondda Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby .
1.1939: Ostend registry closed.
12.1.1939: Registered at Grimsby as FLANDERS (GY10).
12.1.1939: Sir John Denton Marsden, Bart appointed manager.
30.8.1939: Requisitioned for war service on examination service and as a minesweeper (P.No.FY.600) (Hire rate £90.7.0d/month). Outfitting on Tyne.
27.1.1940: Ty/Sk. C. Evans RNR appointed CO. Based Tyne with M/S Group 54.
1.1941: Based Granton with M/S Group 33.
18.1.1941: Ty/Sk. Alex Watson DSC RNR appointed CO.
5.4.1942: Lieut. J. Mathew Clark-Campbell RN appointed CO. Based Dundee with M/S Group 32.
20.10.1942: Ty/Lieut. P. S. Stevenson RNVR appointed CO.
9.11.1942: Sold to Mason Trawlers Ltd (64/64), Fleetwood.
12.11.1942: Robert Houseman Bagshaw appointed manager.
1944: Based Stornoway.
21.11.1944: Off Tiree, picked up eight crew members of RAF Halifax – LL510 of 518 Squadron on Met duty from Tiree which ditched after engine problems on take off. Landed survivors at Tiree.
11.1945: Paid off.
11.12.1945: Returned to owner.
18.1.1946: Grimsby registry closed.
23.4.1946: Registered at Fleetwood (FD165).
9.11.1947: Responded to wireless call from steam trawler THOMAS ALTOFT (H132) stranded on rocks off Eilean Glas, Harris. With great seamanship, Sk. Kirby took his vessel between the rocks five times and by 3.00am. all fifteen crew taken off.
29.12.1950: Fishing about 15 miles SW of Barra, at about 1330 observed RAF Halifax – ST798 of 202 Squadron, Aldergrove (Sqd Ldr. Terence R. Cox) crash in sea. Hauled and steamed to area, some wreckage found but no survivors.
15.1.1951: Body of Sqd Ldr. Cox, and aircraft wreckage, recovered by Milford motor trawler MILFORD COUNTESS (M128) (Sk. J. R. Clark) whilst fishing 20 miles W of Castlebay, Barra. Landed body and wreckage at Tobermoray, Mull.
2/3.3.1957: Attempted to refloat SETHON (FD166) (Sk. J.E. Mitchinson) stranded on Black Rock, Sound of Islay. First attempt tow parted and subsequent attempt aborted when tide failed to make as predicted.
7.11.1959: Sold to BISCO and allocated to West of Scotland Shipbreaking Co Ltd, Troon for breaking up.
16.11.1959: Sailed Fleetwood for Troon.
17.11.1959: Delivered Troon Harbour (draughts 6’3”/14’6”).
11.1.1960: Breaking commenced.
19.2.1960: Beached (draughts 6’8”/10’6”).
19.5.1960: Breaking completed.
1960: Fleetwood registry closed.

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S.T. Flanders FD165

S.T. Flanders FD165
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S.T. Flanders FD165

S.T. Flanders FD165
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S.T. Flanders FD165

S.T. Flanders FD165 in the Fish Dock
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S.T. Flanders FD165

S.T. Flanders FD165
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21/04/2017: Removed disputed image and added another.
30/08/2020: Updated history.

S.T. King Erik GY474

Trawler/Liner

Additional information courtesy of David Lewis, Birgir Þórisson and Bill Blow

Technical

Official Number: 110879
Yard Number: 233
Completed: 1899
Gross Tonnage: 227
Net Tonnage: 90
Length: 114 ft
Breadth: 21.6 ft
Depth: 12 ft
Engine: 420ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by Charles D. Holmes & Co, Hull
Built: Cochrane & Cooper Ltd, Selby

History

29.3.1899: Launched by Cochrane & Cooper Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.233) as a liner for Viking Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby as KING ERIK.
28.4.1899: Registered at Grimsby (GY10). John E. Rushworth designated manager.
28.4.1899: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Arthur Henry Leslie Melville & Eustace Abel Smith, Lincoln (joint mortgagees) (A).
29.4.1899: Completed.
9.1899: Converted to side fishing.
30.9.1899: Mortgage (A) discharged.
30.9.1899: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to The York City & County Banking Co Ltd (B).
29/30.1.1901: In North Sea with steam trawler DERBY (GY153), came upon German steamer MARTHA SAUBER (1463grt/1888), running short of coals whilst towing German steamer ETHEL (1036grt/), disabled with broken tailshaft on a voyage from Hamburg to Tyne. Cast off tow and both trawlers connected to ETHEL in position 54.5N 1.37E; towage to the Tyne was resumed at about 11.00am.
31.1.1901: Delivered Tyne at 11.30am.
19.4.1901: The Admiralty Division Court awarded each trawler £250 (Owners-£175; skipper-£25; mate-£15; engineer-£12 and crew £1 each).
6.11.1902: Sold by order of the mortgagee under mortgage (B) to Frank Barrett (64/64), Grimsby.
8.11.1902: Frank Barrett designated manager.
6.11.1902: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to The Stamford, Spalding and Boston Banking Co Ltd, Gt. Grimsby (C).
3.8.1904: Mortgage (C) discharged.
16.9.1904: Sold to Ole Gogstad, Sandefjord, Norway registered owner Aktieselsk “KING ERIK”.
29.9.1904: Grimsby registry closed.
10.1904: Registered at Sandefjord (SD33).
31.1.1907: At the Sheriff Court at Elgin, Sk. Hans Christian Andersen was found guilty of trawling within forbidden limits in the Moray Firth and fined £100 or sixty days imprisonment. Fine not paid and imprisoned at Inverness. Released following representation by the Norwegian Government.
1911: Sold to Gustav Emil Forum, Esbjerg. Sandefjord registry closed. Registered at Esbjerg (E169).
10.1911: New boiler by Palmer’s Shipbuilding & Iron Co, Hebburn-on-Tyne.
25.5.1914: Out of Grimsby for Moray Firth fishing grounds, blowing strong SW near gale. At 8.00 am when off Spurn Light, condenser burst. Set course for Grimsby but when off the Bull had to anchor to attend to ingress of water from condenser sea cock and pipework. Ingress not arrested and proceeded Clee Ness, beached and sea cock temporarily sealed, engine room pumped out. At about 2.00 pm summoned tugs, refloated and brought into Grimsby for repair.
1915: Sold to Frank Barrett (64/64), Grimsby.
3.1915: Sandefjord registry closed.
1915: Re measured 228g 90n.
31.3.1915: Registered at Grimsby (GY474).
31.3.1915: Frank Barrett designated manager.
11.4.1915: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-3pdr) (Ad.No.1368). Based Egypt.
By 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Grimsby.
1.1.1920: Sold to William Frank Gower (64/64), Grimsby.
12.4.1920: William Frank Gower designated managing owner.
1.4.1920: Sold to Direct Fish Supplies Ltd (64/64) London.
19.4.1920: George William Payne Margarson, Grimsby designated manager.
23.3.1922: Company in voluntary liquidation.
10.8.1922: Placed in compulsory liquidation.
9.10.1922: Sold by the liquidator George Digby Pepys, to Thomas William Baskcomb (64/64), Grimsby.
8.12.1922: Thomas William Baskcomb designated manager.
27.7.1923: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to The Grimsby Trawler Owners Direct Supply Co Ltd, Grimsby (D).
20.6.1924: Mortgage (A) transferred to Harry Allen Baskcomb, Grimsby.
31.3.1925: Mortgage (D) discharged.
1.4.1925: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Harry Allen Baskcomb, Grimsby (E).
1.4.1925: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to The Grimsby Trawler Owners Direct Supply Co Ltd, Grimsby (F).
1929: New boiler.
13.11.1937: Mortgage (F) discharged.
24.4.1940: Mortgage (E) discharged.
2.5.1940: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood.
9.5.1940: Basil A. Parkes, Thornton-le-Fylde designated manager.
3.9.1941: Sailed Fleetwood for Icelandic grounds (Sk. Francis H. Davidson); fifteen crew all told.
5.9.1941: Sailed Tobermory for Iceland after repair.
6.9.1941: When some 120 miles WSW of Faroe Islands, at 2330 torpedoed by U-boat (U.141) without warning, ship hit and exploded; all crew lost*.
27.10.1941: Loss reported to families.
7.5.1942: Grimsby registry closed “Ship missing since 5/9/41, presumed lost”.

*Lost – Sk. Francis Henry Davidson (40), Cleethorpes; John Bradford Brewer (32), 2nd Hand; Frederick Durbin (38), 3rd Hand, Hull; George Aisthorpe (56). Ch Eng; William Arthur Watson (37) 2nd Eng, Fleetwood; Eddie Christopher Bowles (54), John James Grundy (20), Fleetwood, Walter Austin Helme (18), Fleetwood, Arthur Leach (44), Hull, Thomas Wall (28), George Wilkins (50), Hessle and Joseph Wroe (37), Hull, Deckhands; George Cyril Bond (25) and William Matthew Lewis (38), Grimsby, Firemen/Trimmers; James Garton (52), Cook..
Note: U 141 (Schuler) hit two trawlers with torpedoes on consecutive days. One was JARLINN and the other KING ERIK. Both vessels exploded

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S.T. King Erik SD33

S.T. King Erik GY474 at Grimsby
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S.T. King Erik GY474

S.T. King Erik GY474
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Changelog
16/01/2009: Page published. 5 revisions since then.
02/12/2014: Information updated.
29/12/2018: Removed FMHT watermark and updated information.
04/12/2020: Updated history.

S.T. Drusilla A133

Technical

Official Number: 135993
Yard Number: 570
Completed: 1914
Gross Tonnage: 250
Net Tonnage: 97
Length: 125 ft
Breadth: 23.5 ft
Depth: 12.4 ft
Built: Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, Middlesbrough
Engine: T.3-cyl by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, Middlesbrough

History

24.12.1913: Launched by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, Middlesbrough (Yd.No.570) for Consolidated Steam Fishing & Ice Co (Grimsby) Ltd, Grimsby as DRUSILLA. 27.1.1914: Registered at Grimsby (GY951).
1.1914: Completed at a cost of £8762-4s-6d. John D. Marsden designated manager.
5.1915: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-10pdr) (Ad.No.36). Based Lerwick.
Post 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Grimsby.
29.6.1927: Owners re-styled Consolidated Fisheries Ltd. Sir John D. Marsden, Bart designated manager.
28.9.1929: Grimsby registry closed “To transfer to Nova Scotia”.
7.7.1930: Grimsby registry re-opened (GY958).
9.1934: Sold to North Star Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Aberdeen for the sum of £8,864.
19.9.1934: Grimsby registry closed.
20.9.1934: Registered at Aberdeen (A133). John Alexander Harrow designated manager.
31.10.1939: Sold to J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood for the sum of £4750. Geoffrey Edwards Marr designated manager.
2.1940: Stranded at Applecross, Sound of Sleet. Refloated, repaired and returned to service.
14.10.1940: Sold to The City Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull (J. Marr & Son Ltd). Leslie James Marr designated manager.
1943: Landing at Fleetwood from Faroe grounds.
3.5.1943: Typical landing. 1212 kits – cod/codling-430, haddock-722, whiting-24, ling/coley-35.
18.1.1945: Sold to Eton Fishing Co Ltd, Hull for the sum of £18,500. George Gillard designated manager.
20.1.1945: Aberdeen registry closed.
25.1.1945: Registered at Hull (H112).
14.7.1945: First trip out of Hull to North Sea grounds (Sk. Henry Lead); eleven crew all told.
27.7.1945: At Hull landed 864 kits £3,596 gross.
30.11.1945: Insured value £18,500; for 1946 proposed same.
22.2.1946: Sailed Hull for Icelandic grounds (Sk. Thomas Mason). Transferred to fish out of Grimsby.
15.3.1946: Sold to Vinur Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby.
19.3.1946: At Hull landed 1105 kits £3,653 gross.
22.3.1946: Hull registry closed.
26.3.1946: Registered at Grimsby (GY223). Charles Alfred Osborne designated manager.
19.2.1951: Sold to Alfred Bannister (Trawlers) Ltd, Grimsby. Fred Bannister designated manager.
4.1959: Sold to Jacques Bakker en Zonen, Bruges for breaking up.
29.4.1959: Grimsby registry closed.
30.4.1959: Delivered Bruges.

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S.T. Drusilla GY223

S.T. Drusilla GY223
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S.T. Drusilla A133

S.T. Drusilla A133
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S.T. Drusilla A133

S.T. Drusilla A133
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16/01/2005: Page published. 5 updates since then.
11/03/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
09/08/2019: Added an image and updated information.
02/05/2020: Updated information.

S.T. Our Tena PD61

Technical Details

Official Number: 113579
Yard Number:280
Completed: 1900
Gross tonnage: 164
Net tonnage: 57
Length: 105.0 ft
Breadth: 21.0 ft
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Hull
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by Amos & Smith, Hull

History

8.10.1900: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Hull (Yd.No.280) for The Great Northern Steam Ship Fishing Co Ltd, Hull as EMU.
10.1900: Completed (William R. Nowell, manager).
31.10.1900: Registered at Hull (H516).
5.1915: Requisitioned for war service as an auxiliary patrol vessel (1-3pdr) and later boom working (Ad.No.1765).
5.1915: Sold to Tena Wood (16/64); Niels Fischer (16/64); Harry Wood (16/64) and Arthur Smith (16/64), Grimsby.
19.5.1915: Tena Wood, Niels Fischer and Harry Wood shares mortgaged to National Provincial Bank of England Ltd, London (A), (B), (C).
11.6.1915: Arthur Smith shares mortgaged to National Provincial Bank of England Ltd, London (D).
15.6.1915: William Hermon Stanley Doughty appointed manager.
22.7.1915: Niels Fischer changed name by Deed Poll to Neil Carew-Fisher.
8.7.1915: Mortgages (A), (B), (C) & (D) discharged.
8.7.1915: Four mortgages (E), (F), (G) & (H to secure £100 each @ 5% interest with Henry Croft Baker & John Lawrance Green, Grimsby.
1.9.1915: Mortgages (E), (F), (G) & (H), discharged.
2.9.1915: Shares of Arthur Smith (16/64) and Neil Carew-Fisher (16/64) sold to Harry Wood (32/64) & Tena Wood (32/64).
3.9.1915: Two mortgages (I) & (J) to Henry Croft Baker & John Lawrance Green, Grimsby, jointly.
9.9.1915: William Hermon Stanley Doughty appointed manager.
24.6.1918: Sold to Henry Croft Baker (16/64); John Lawrance Green (16/64); Sydney Croft Baker (16/64) & William Hermon Stanley Doughty (16/64), Grimsby.
26.10.1918: Hull registry closed.
2.11.1918: Registered at Grimsby (GY1227) Henry Croft Baker & John Lawrance Green, managing owners.
1919: Returned.
14.2.1919: Sold to Tena Blau (48/64) & Mark Wood (16/64), Grimsby.
15.2.1919: Two mortgages to National Provincial & Union Bank of England Ltd, London (A) & (B).
15.2.1919: Mark Wood appointed manager.
11.4.1919: Registered at Grimsby as OUR TENA (GY1227).
28.5.1919: Mortgages (A) & (B) discharged.
30.5.1919: Tena Blau (16/64 remaining after sale) sold eight shares each to Harry Wood (8/64); Charles Leopold Granville Chapman (8/64); Wilfred Harris (8/64) & Isadora Wood (8/64), Grimsby. Mark Wood (8/64 remaining after sale) sold eight shares to Sidney Wood (8/64), Grimsby.
30.5.1919: Seven mortgages to National Provincial & Union Bank of England Ltd, London (C), (D), (E), (F), (G), (H) & (I).
30.5.1919: Harry Wood appointed manager.
15.2.1924: National Provincial & Union Bank of England Ltd, London re-styled National Provincial Bank Ltd, London.
17.9.1924: Sold by National Provincial Bank Ltd, London under mortgages (C), (D), (E), (F), (G), (H) & (I) to Charles Dobson, Grimsby.
29.9.1924: Charles Dobson appointed managing owner.
21.5.1930: New Certificate of Registration issued.
10.7.1931: Mortgaged to Midland Bank Ltd, London (J).
30.3.1935: Mortgage (J) discharged.
31.3.1935: Sold to Andrew Summers (22/64); Stephen Summers (21/64) & Robertson Buchan (21/64), Peterhead.
23.4.1935: Grimsby registry closed.
4.1935: Registered at Peterhead (PD61).
1935-37: Fishing from Fleetwood (Alex Keay, managing agent).
1937: Sold to Thos. W. Ward Ltd, Sheffield for breaking up at Preston. Peterhead registry closed.

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S.T. Emu H516

S.T. Emu H516
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S.T. Our Tena GY1227

S.T. Our Tena GY1227
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S.T. Our Tena GY1227

S.T. Our Tena GY1227
Grimsby 1920's

S.T. Our Tena PD61

S.T. Our Tena PD61
Waiting scrapping at Preston 1937

Changelog
16/01/2009: Page published. 7 revisions since then.
25/12/2014: Picture added.
03/04/2016: Picture added.
01/06/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
04/11/2018: Added an image.

S.T. Lord Hotham FD64

Additional information courtesy of Mike Thompson

Technical

Official Number: 164927
Yard Number: 1156
Completed: 1936
Gross Tonnage: 466
Net Number: 178
Length: 161.3 ft
Breadth: 26.6 ft
Depth: 14.1 ft
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull

History

8.4.1936: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.1156) for Pickering & Haldane’s Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull as LORD HOTHAM.
26.5.1936: Registered at Hull (H309).
28.5.1936: Completed at a cost of £20,659 (Albert Turgoose & James Clark, joint managers).
2.6.1936: Sailed Hull on first trip to Icelandic grounds (Sk. E. Stoner).
23.6.1936: At Hull landed 1,622 kits grossed £11,879.
09.08.1939: Landed at Hull having been recalled for war service; fishing gear removed.
01.11.1939: Sold to The Admiralty (£25,676).
15.11.1939: Hull registry closed. Fitted out as an anti-submarine trawler (P.No. FY.133). Based Gibraltar with 7th A/S Group.
20.10.1945: A Control Committee was formed to manage Hull and Grimsby trawlers which had been bought by the Admiralty pre war and were being offered for sale back to their original owners. The owners who bought back these vessels and wanted to take part in the scheme agreed to register the trawlers under the Hull Ice Co. Ltd and profits were shared. Management of the trawlers was given to the companies which had bought them.
6.3.1946: Sold to Hull Ice Co Ltd, Hull for £18,659.
16.3.1946: Registered at Hull (H231). Thomas Boyd, manager.
16.11.1946: Sold to Lord Line Ltd, Hull (Thomas W. Boyd, manager) for £18,659.
1.1948: Converted by Palmers Hebburn Co Ltd, Hebburn, for burning oil fuel, F.P. above 150° F and fitted with superheaters
20.05.1949: Outward for fishing grounds (Sk. Walter Hayes); twenty-four crew. In patchy fog at 2.00am in collision near Saltend with Swedish motor vessel BERGSUND (1320grt/1949) (Capt. Yvar Lovgren). BERGSUND holed amidships and foundered in shallow water 10 minutes later, all 26 crew took to ship’s lifeboat and reached shore safely. With severe damage to fore end, Sk. Hayes stood by until it was clear all crew from the BERGSUND were safe before beaching the trawler as a precaution. After inspection, refloated on the afternoon tide and returned to St.Andrew’s Dock under tow. No casualties in either crew.
17.4.1950: Lord Line Ltd in liquidation. Sold to Associated Fisheries Trawling Co Ltd, Hull for £25,000 (Thomas W. Boyd, manager).
25.11.1952: Escorted into Tromsö by Norwegian destroyer for alleged fishing in territorial waters. Sk. Niels M. Pedersen refused to pay a fine and elected to go to court.
28.11.1952: At a court in Tromsö, Sk. Pedersen was fined in total £4,450.
22.7.1953: Company restyled Lord Line Ltd, Hull (Thomas W. Boyd, manager).
27.10.1961: Sailed Hull for Iceland, last trip from port (Sk. Niels M. Pedersen).
13.11.1961: At Hull landed 915 kits grossed £4,685.
23.12.1961: Arrived Fleetwood.
4.1.1962: Sold to Wyre Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood for £31,501 (Leslie Wheildon, manager).
20.2.1962: Hull registry closed. Registered at Fleetwood (FD64).
1967: Sold to Scrappingco S.r.l., Brussels for breaking up.
19.3.1967: Sailed Fleetwood for Antwerp.
21.3.1967: Delivered Antwerp. Fleetwood registry closed.

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S.T. Lord Hotham H231

S.T. Lord Hotham H231
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S.T. Lord Hotham H231

S.T. Lord Hotham H231
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S.T. Lord Hotham FD64

S.T. Lord Hotham FD64
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S.T. Lord Hotham FD64

S.T. Lord Hotham FD64
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S.T. Lord Hotham FD64

S.T. Lord Hotham FD64
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S.T. Lord Hotham FD64

S.T. Lord Hotham FD64
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Changelog
16/01/2009: Page published. 4 updates since then.
04/05/2017: Removed FMHT watermarks from images.
08/09/2019: Added an image and updated information.
11/10/2019: Added an image.