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S.T. Tanager LO250

Additional information courtesy of Lynne Elvin and Hull Trawlers

Technical

Official Number: 129285
Yard Number: 134
Completed: 1910
Gross Tonnage: 192.31
Net Tonnage: 71.74
Length: 110.1 ft
Breadth: 21.6 ft
Depth: 11.9 ft
Built: Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co Ltd, Goole
Engine: 300ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by Earle’s Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Hull

History
6.8.1910: Launched by Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co Ltd, Goole (Yd.No.134) for Kelsall Brothers & Beeching Ltd (64/64), Hull as TANAGER.
9.1910: Completed.
6.9.1910: Registered at Hull (H134). George Beeching, Hull & John E. A. Kelsall, London designated managers.
29.12.1912: In the North Sea off the Dogger Bank with the boxing fleet. With other trawlers responded following the foundering of steam trawler BRITANNIC (H447) after being run into amidships by steam trawler BUZZARD (H971). Picked up one survivor and transferred him to BUZZARD which suffered only minor damage to her fore end.
11.1914: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-3pdr) (Ad.No.386).
1918: Based Aegean Sea.
12.3.1919: Waiting instructions whether required for Post-War Service (SS).
1919: Returned to owner at Hull.
7.6.1919: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to The London County Westminster & Parr’s Bank Ltd, London (A). John Slater, London designated manager.
6.3.1923: Mortgagee re-styled as Westminster Bank Ltd, London.
14.10.1927: Mortgage (A) transferred to William Augustus Hayward, Eastbourne.
14.10.1927: Mortgage (A) transferred to Mercantile Marine Finance Corporation Ltd, London.
28.9.1928: Robert Burton designated manager.
16.9.1932: Charles Hugh Emerson designated manager.
10.1932: Mercantile Marine Finance Corporation Ltd in liquidation.
1.11.1932: Mortgage (A) transferred to Harold Frank Hayward, London; Maud Florence Katherine Rogers, Chelsea and Ernest Norton, London (joint mortgagees). 3.1936: Combined boxing and trawling fleet of Kelsall Bros. & Beeching Ltd and the Hull Steam Fishing & Ice Co Ltd consisting of 59 vessels laid up at Hull (declining catches, coal bill and increased maintenance costs had made the venture uneconomical).
6.3.1936: At Extraordinary General Meeting at Hull, Kelsall Brothers & Beeching Ltd placed in Creditors’ Voluntary Winding-up (Richard Field Helm of Messrs Hodgson Harris & Co, London appointed liquidators).
16.12.1936: Sold by order of the mortgagees under mortgage (A) to Plymouth Mutual Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Plymouth.
21.12.1936: Arrived Plymouth in company with WARBLER (H 507).
22.12.1936: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Harold Frank Hayward, London; Maud Florence Katherine Rogers, Corfe Castle and Ernest Norton, London (joint mortgagees) for £400 with interest at 5% (B).
5.1.1937: John Chant, Plymstock designated manager.
18.11.1937: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to William John Waldron Modley, D. Lester and Richard Edward Stephen Morris, Plymouth (joint mortgagees)(C).
5.1938: Sold to Torbay Trawlers Ltd, Brixham. Arthur E. R. Dexter designated manager.
1940: Sold to R. H. Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood.
16.4.1940: Hull registry closed.
17.4.1940: Registered at London (LO250). Robert H. Hewett designated manager.
194?: Fishing on the Kish Bank, damaged by German aircraft and taking water; repaired at Fleetwood.
11.5.1943: Typical wartime landing. 255 kits – hake-40, cod/codling-20, haddock-15, flats-20, ling/coley-40, dogs-120.
3.1945: Sold to R. G. Parsley, Milford Haven. R. G. Parsley designated managing owner.
23.3.1945: First landing at Milford.
10.1955: Sold to Jacques Bakker en Zonen, Bruges for breaking up.
14.10.1955: Delivered Bruges. London registry closed.

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S.T. Tanager LO250

S.T. Tanager LO250
Picture courtesy of Trawlerphotos

S.T. Tanager LO250

S.T. Tanager LO250
Picture courtesy of Robert Durrant

Changelog
08/01/2009: Page published. 4 revisions since then.
18/09/2014: Modified credits.
03/02/2015: Added picture.
16/07/2017: Updated information and removed FMHT watermark.
19/04/2021: Updated history.

S.T. Tamora H853

Technical

Admiralty Number: 4220
Official Number: 144557
Yard Number: 205
Completed: 1920
Gross Tonnage: 275
Net Tonnage: 113
Length: 125.3 ft
Breadth: 23.4 ft
Depth: 12.6 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle
Built: C. Rennoldson & Co Ltd, South Shields

History

30.8.1919: Launched by C. Rennoldson & Co Ltd, South Shields (Yd.No.205) (“Castle” class) for The Admiralty as WILLIAM LOFT (Ad.No.4220).
1920: Allocated to the National Fishery Scheme for the setting up of the Minesweepers’ Cooperative Trawling Society Ltd, London.
13.05.1920: Completed as a fishing vessel ex fishing gear and fitted out for fishing under Special Survey of Lloyd’s Register and classed 100A1 Stm Trawler at South Shields.
13.08.1920: Minesweepers’ Cooperative Trawling Society Ltd, London registered.
24.08.1920: Registered by The Admiralty at London (Part I & IV) as WILLIAM LOFT O.N.144557 (LO456). Laid up on River Tyne.
01.1921: Not to proceed to Chatham as originally ordered but remain laid up.
01.1922: Scheme abandoned, the necessary working capital of £100,000 having not been subscribed. Continued in lay up.
11.1923: Sold to Hull Northern Fishing Co Ltd, Hull. W. R. Nowell designated manager.
15.11.1923: London registry closed.
17.11.1923: Registered at Hull (H853).
20.12.1923: Registered at Hull as TAMORA (H853).
Pre 1930: Managers became Hellyer Bros Ltd, Hull.
1930: Sold to Henderson’s Trawling Co Ltd, Hull. George Altoft, designated manager.
1933: John Henderson designated manager.
25.7.1939: Insured value £5,300.
31.8.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (P.No.FY.643)(Hire rate £89.7.6d/month).
9.1.1940: Off Gt Yarmouth, took in tow Trinity House vessel RECULVER (683grt/1934 damaged by German air attack while returning from relief of Cockle Light Ship. Passed tow to Trinity House vessel PATRICIA (1116grt/1938) for delivery to Yarmouth.
3.9.1941: Sold to The City Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull for £8200. Geoffrey Edwards Marr, Fleetwood designated manager.
1/2.1946: Restored and surveyed at North Shields.
3.1946: Returned to owner at Fleetwood.
10.6.1947: Sold to Dublin Trawling, Ice & Cold Storage Co Ltd, Dublin for £18500. Hull registry closed. Registered at Dublin (D303). Michael J. McCabe designated manager.
Late 1952: Laid up in Fleetwood (J. Marr & Son Ltd, agent).
1953: Offered for sale.
Early 1954: Sold for breaking up. Dublin registry closed.
(William Loft, OS (prest), age 24, b. Worcester, Worcestershire – VICTORY (SB265))

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HMT Tamora

HMT Tamora
Picture reproduced under IWM Non-Commercial Licence

Changelog
08/01/2009: Page published. 5 updates since then.
11/02/2017: Information updated.
02/05/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.

S.T. Tagalie GY744

Technical

Official Number: 134750
Yard Number: 529
Completed: 1912
Gross Tonnage: 209.98
Net Tonnage: 81.24
Length: 117.4 ft
Breadth: 22 ft
Depth: 11.6 ft
Built: Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, South Bank on Tees, Middlesbrough
Engine: 425ihp T.3-cyl by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, Middlesbrough
Boiler: J. T. Eltringham & Co, South Shields

History

12.10.1912: Launched by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, South Bank on Tees, Middlesbrough (Yd.No.529) for Sleight’s Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby as TAGALIE.
11.11.1912: Registered at Grimsby (GY744).
11.1912: Completed.
12.11.1912: Ernest Sleight designated manager.
27.11.1912: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Barclay & Co Ltd, London (A).
9.1914: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-6pdr HA) (Ad.No.451). Based Harwich.
12.5.1915: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to National Provincial Bank of England Ltd, London (B).
13.5.1915: Mortgage (A) discharged.
8.4.1918: Mortgagee re-styled National Provincial & Union Bank of England Ltd.
Post 12.3.1919: Returned to owner.
15.9.1921: Sir Ernest Sleight, Bart designated manager.
15.2.1924: Mortgagee re-styled National Provincial Bank Ltd.
10.10.1927: Mortgage (B) discharged.
12.10.1927: Sold to Overseas Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
12.10.1927: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to National Provincial Bank Ltd, London (C).
20.10.1927: Walter Harold Beeley designated manager.
16.12.1935: Mortgage (C) discharged.
19.12.1935: Sold to William Brebner (16/64), Albert Brebner (16/64), John Main Thomson Brebner (16/64), Mary Ann Brebner (16/64), all Aberdeen.
27.12.1935: Grimsby registry closed.
29.12.1935: William Brebner designated managing owner.
31.12.1935: Registered at Aberdeen (A391).
20.6.1942: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd (64/64), Fleetwood. Basil Arthur Parkes, Cleveleys designated manager. Working Home and Icelandic grounds.
28.4.1943: Typical wartime landing, Home Waters. 370 kits – hake-200, haddock-8, flats-2, ling/coley-160.
2.2.1945: Landed at Fleetwood.
10.2.1945: Sold to Tagalie Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Hull.
9.3.1945: Company re-located to Grimsby.
17.4.1945: Vessel mortgaged to Barclays Bank Ltd, London (D),
15.7.1945: Aberdeen registry closed.
16.7.1945: Registered at Grimsby (GY68).
16.7.1945: Albert W. Butt designated manager.
1950: Sold for breaking up.
4.9.1950: Grimsby registry closed ”… except in respect of mortgage (D)”.
25.7.1952: Mortgage (D) discharged.

Changelog
08/01/2009: Page published. 4 updates since then.
07/08/2021: Updated history and technical details.

S.T. Tacsonia M36

Technical

Official Number: 112470
Yard Number: 761
Completed: 1905
Gross Tonnage: 243
Net Tonnage: 77
Length: 125.5 ft
Breadth: 22.1 ft
Depth: 11 ft
Built: Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, North Shields
Engine: T.3-cyl by W. V. V. Lidgerwood, Coatbridge

History

21.12.1904: Launched by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, North Shields (Yd.No.761) for Southern Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Waterford, Co. Waterford (Cornelius C. Morley, Milford Haven, manager) as TACSONIA.
1.1905: Completed.
31.1.1905: Registered at Milford (M36).
9.1912: Transferred to Fleetwood (Messrs Morley & Price, managers).
1.1913: Returned Milford for slipping and repair. On entering the Docks ran into wall and sustained extensive bow damage.
1.1.1914: Tonnage altered to 93 net under provision of Merchant Shipping Act 1907.
1.1915: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-6pdr QF, W/T) (Ad.No.783). Auxiliary Patrol Liverpool.
11.1916: At Fleetwood (Lieut. W.H. Baker RNR).
25.04.1916: At Fleetwood. Minesweeping gear embarked (gun replaced with 1-6pdrHA).
1919: Returned to owner.
1919: Sold to John McR. Knight & Morgan W. Howells, Hakin (John McR. Knight, manager).
9.2.1920: Sold to Direct Fish Supplies Ltd, London (John McR. Knight, manager).
10.1921: Transferred to Grimsby (G. W. P. Margarson, manager).
14.10.1921: Milford registry closed.
7.11.1921: Registered at Grimsby (GY1308).
23.3.1922: Company in voluntary liquidation.
10.8.1922: Placed in compulsory liquidation.
10.1922: Sold to Charles Dobson, Grimsby (Norman Stockdale, manager).
1928: New boiler fitted.
20.8.1931: Proceeding to sea from Aberdeen, grounded in navigation Channel. Refloated but grounded again. Tug CHESTER (90grt/1900) in attendance.
21.8.1931: Refloated with assistance of tug and returned to Aberdeen.
4.1938: Sold to Netherlands for breaking up.
9.4.1938: Grimsby registry closed.

Changelog
08/01/2009: Page published. 4 updates since then.
07/08/2021: Updated history and technical information.

S.T. Sylvia H439

Technical

Official Number: 109094
Yard Number: 220
Completed: 1898
Gross Tonnage: 213
Net Tonnage: 85
Length: 117.6 ft
Breadth: 21.5 ft
Depth: 11.5 ft
Built: Cochrane & Cooper, Beverley, 1898
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co, Hull

History

3.11.1898: Launched by Cochrane & Cooper, Beverley (Yd.No.220) for Armitage’s Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull as SYLVIA.
21.12.1898: Completed (George T. Armitage, manager).
23.12.1898: Registered at Hull (H439).
1914: Transferred to Fleetwood (James W. Armitage, Fleetwood, manager).
6.1915: Requisitioned for war service as a boom defence trawler. Based Cromarty.
1.1918: Sold to Joseph R. E. Mordaunt, Grimsby.
26.1.1918: Hull registry closed.
30.1.1918: Registered at Grimsby (GY1112).
8.1918: Returned to owner.
10.1918: Sold to Henry Rachkind, Cleethorpes (managing owner).
9.1919: Sold to The Faroe Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby (Henry Burns, manager).
11.1921: Sold to Forward Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby.
1936: John Bannister appointed manager.
7.4.1941: Foundered off Faroe Islands in approx position 61.27N 05.48W. after being bombed and damaged by German air attack. Ten crew rescued, one man lost*.
22.7.1941: Grimsby registry closed “Sunk by enemy action 7/4/41”.

*Lost: W.A. Templeman, Grimsby

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S.T. Sylvia H439

S.T. Sylvia H439
Picture courtesy of the Mike Thompson Collection

Changelog
07/01/2009: Page published. 4 updates since then.
21/04/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
07/08/2021: Updated history.