Category Archives: Steam Trawlers

S.D/T. Overfall – LT76

Technical

Official Number: 145241
Yard Number: 94
Completed: 1918
Gross Tonnage: 97
Net Tonnage: 43
Length: 86.2 ft
Breadth: 18.5 ft
Depth: 9.3 ft
Built: Colby Brothers Ltd, Lowestoft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Pollit & Wigzell Ltd, Sowerby Bridge

History

1918: Launched by Colby Brothers Ltd, Lowestoft (Yd.No.94) (“Admiralty drifter”) for The Admiralty as OVERFALL (Ad.No.3990).
29.10.1918: Completed as a minesweeper.
4.11.1918: Arrived Devonport.
8.11.1918: Sailed Devonport for Mediterranean.
27.5.1921: Transferred to Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries, London and placed on sales list.
1921: Sold to John Mair, Portsoy (managing owner).
3.12.1921: Registered at Banff (BF590).
28.11.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (P.No.FY.984) (Hire rate £32.0.0d/month).
30.5.1940: Sailed Yarmouth with twelve other drifters for Ramsgate (Sk. Donald Miller).
31.5.1940: Sailed Ramsgate for Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo). Assisted in evacuation.
1.1942: At Lowestoft as LL drifter.
10.1943: Employed on harbour defence patrol.
1.1.1944: Sold to Yolland & Llewellin, Milford Haven (John C. Llewellin, manager) for £3250.
3.1944: Employed on miscellaneous naval duties & balloon barrage.
7.1945: Sold to J. S. Yolland & Co Ltd, Milford Haven.
7.1945 Banff registry closed.
16.7.1945: Registered at Lowestoft (LT76).
10.1945: Returned to owner. Fishing from Lowestoft.
1.1.1946: Messrs Yolland & Llewellin partnership dissolved.
1.1946: Sold to Yolland Bros Ltd, Milford Haven (John Yolland Jnr, manager).
1946: Sold to Cairo Fishing Co Ltd, Milford Haven (John Yolland, manager).
24.7.1947: Fishing out of Milford.
1954: Sold to Yolland Brothers Ltd, Milford Haven.
1954: Sold to George A. Leech, Fleetwood (managing owner) (Ora Trawlers Ltd) for £2225.
3.6.1954: Last landing at Milford.
26.6.1954: First landing at Fleetwood, 37 boxes 10 baskets grossed £243.
10.1955: Sold to BISCO and allocated to Thos. W. Ward Ltd, Sheffield for breaking up.
2.11.1955: Arrived Barrow.
1958(1960?): Lowestoft registry closed on discharge of mortgage.

(Note. In Fleetwood Fishing Vessel Owners’ Association Ltd lists for 1953,1954 and 1955 (deleted 11.1955); manager/agent Ora Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood)

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HMD Overfall

HMD Overfall

S.T. Overfall BF590

S.T. Overfall BF590
Picture courtesy of The Scratcher Collection


Changelog
03/01/2009: Page published. 4 updates since then.
09/07/2016: Picture added.
09/04/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.

S.T. Our Mavis FD52

Technical

Official Number: 160101
Yard Number: 1013
Completed: 1928
Gross Tonnage: 270
Net Tonnage: 98
Length: 125.7 ft
Breadth: 23.5 ft
Depth: 8.9 ft
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull

History

8.2.1928: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.1013) for Ceylon Fisheries Ltd, Colombo, Ceylon as CEYLON BUL-BUL.
23.3.1928: Registered at Hull (H412).
31.3.1928: Completed.
10.4.1928: Hull registry closed.
4.1928: Registered at Colombo.
9.1935: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Basil A. Parkes, Cleveleys, manager). Colombo registry closed.
21.11.1935: Registered at Fleetwood as OUR MAVIS (FD52).
8.12.1935: First landing at Fleetwood..
1936: Sold to Uruguayan Government (Servicio Oceanografic y de Pesca), Montevideo.
3.12.1937: Completed fitting out and survey at Fleetwood following sale.
28.3.1938: Fleetwood registry closed. Registered at Montevideo as ANTARES.
1940: Removed from LR, vessel’s continued existence in doubt.

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S.T. Ceylon Bul-Bul H412

S.T. Ceylon Bul-Bul H412
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S.T. Ceylon Bul-Bul H412

S.T. Ceylon Bul-Bul H412
Picture courtesy of Hull Maritime Museum

Changelog
26/04/2009: Page published. 4 updates since then.
10/01/2020: Updated information and added an image.

S.T. Ottoman Empire FD180

Additional information courtesy of Bill Blow

Technical

Official Number: 98745
Yard Number: 70
Completed: 1891
Gross Tonnage: 145
Net Tonnage: 55
Length: 100.9 ft
Breadth: 20.9 ft
Depth: 11.0 ft
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Hull
Engine: 45nhp T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co, Hull

History

22.5.1891: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Hull (Yd.No.70) for Edward Buckton Cargill (64/64), Hull (managing owner) as NORTH SEA.
12.6.1891: Registered at Hull (H147).
6.1891: Completed.
26.5.1897: Sold to The Cargill Steam Trawling Co Ltd (64/64), Hull (Edward B. Cargill, manager).
25.9.1899: Lengthened to 110.5 feet 162g 63n.
22.9.1899: Registered at Hull as OTTOMAN EMPIRE (H147).
2.1913: Sold to Clevedon Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Walter Morley, manager).
3.3.1913: Hull registry closed.
4.3.1913: Registered at Fleetwood (FD180).
1.1.1914: Tonnage altered to 64.59 net under provision of Merchant Shipping Act 1907.
29.5.1917: Requisitioned for Fishery Reserve.
8.1917: Sold to William Grant, Arthur Grant, Hugh Bourne Grant & John Wilfred Grant, Grimsby (joint owners 64/64).
10.8.1917: Fleetwood registry closed.
13.8.1917: Arthur Grant appointed manager.
14.8.1917: Registered at Grimsby (GY1094).
23.10.1917: Registered at Grimsby as NAVENBY (GY1094) (BoT Minute M.37312/1917).
12.4.1918: Shares (12/64) sold to Henry Goosemen (12/64), Grimsby.
1919: Released.
8.1924: Sold for breaking up.
19.8.1924: Grimsby registry closed “Vessel broken up”.

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S.T. Ottoman Empire H147

S.T. Ottoman Empire H147
Picture courtesy of the James Cullen Collection

Changelog
03/01/2009: Page published. 5 updates since then.
15/09/2017: Removed FMHT watermark from image.

S.T. Ottilie GY144

Wartime visitor

Technical

Official Number: 136010
Yard Number: 294
Completed: 1914
Gross Tonnage: 225.96
Net Tonnage: 112.84
Length: 117.0 ft
Breadth: 22.0 ft
Depth: 12.7 ft
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley
Engine: 460ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by Amos & Smith Ltd, Hull

History

12.3.1914: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.294) for Alick Black (64/64), Grimsby as OTTILIE.
19.5.1914: Builder’s Certificate issued.
6.1914: Completed.
12.6.1914: Alick Black designated managing owner.
15.6.1914: Registered at Grimsby (GY144). Fishing from Fleetwood.
18.6.1914: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to The Union of London & Smith’s Bank Ltd, London (A).
27.3.1915: Fishing about 60 miles SW of the Smalls (Sk. John Randell (Hoylake)). Stopped by U-boat (U.28) and informed that U.28 had sunk the Liverpool steamer ANGULLA (2114grt/1909) and survivors were in boats.
28.3.1915: Proceeded and succeeded in picking up master and 19 crew members; 6 crew and 2 passengers missing.
29.3.1915: Landed survivors at Fishguard.
29.4.1915: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-6pdr HA) (Ad.No.1757).
3.1.1916: Mortgage (A) discharged.
6.1.1916: Sold to Alfred William Baxter (64/64), Grimsby.
7.1.1916: Alick Black appointed manager.
12.1.1916: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to National Provincial Bank of England Ltd, London (B).
14.1.1916: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Alick Black for the sum of £2,000 with interest at 5% (C).
1916: Based Le Havre.
5.4.1917: Mortgage (C) discharged.
15.1.1918: By Deed Poll. Name of Alick Black changed to Alec Black.
14.2.1918: Mortgage (B) discharged.
2.8.1918: Sir Alec Black, Bart appointed manager.
Post 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Grimsby.
6.4.1919: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to London Joint City & Midland Bank Ltd, London (D).
22.4.1919: Sold to Neal Green (64/64), Grimsby.
22.4.1919: Sir Alec Black, Bart appointed manager.
9.2.1920: Mortgage (D) discharged.
10.2.1920: Sold to Harold Bacon; Thomas Norman Bacon both Grimsby; Henry Ernest Sharman, Frinton-on=Sea (joint owners (64/64)).
10.2.1920: Vessel mortgaged(64/64) to Barclays Bank Ltd (E).
16.2.1920: Harold Bacon designated managing owner.
25.3.1920: Mortgage (E) discharged.
26.3.1920: Sold to Trawlers (White Sea & Grimsby) Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
27.3.1920: Harold Bacon appointed manager.
14.3.1941: Charles George Mastin appointed manager.
15.1.1942: Company re-styled Trawlers Grimsby Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
28.1.1946: Harvey Wilfred Wilson appointed manager.
16.1.1946: Sold to Derwent Trawlers Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
9.2.1946: John Carl Ross appointed manager.
31.1.1946: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to National Provincial Bank Ltd, London (F).
29.8.1952: Mortgage (F) discharged.
19.12.1955: Sold to Establissements Van Heyghen Freres S.A., Ghent for breaking up.
16.12.1955: Delivered Ghent.
21.12.1955: Grimsby registry closed “ … on sale of vessel to foreigners (Belgian Subjects)’.

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S.T. Ottilie GY144

S.T. Ottilie GY144
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S.T. Ottilie GY144

S.T. Ottilie GY144
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S.T. Ottilie GY144

S.T. Ottilie GY144
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Changelog
03/01/2009: Page published. 5 updates since then.
10/01/2014: Information updated.
06/09/2014: Information updated.
12/04/2017: Added image and removed FMHT watermark.
04/02/2024: Added an image.

S.T. Ospray II (1) FD219

Technical

Official Number: 127565
Yard Number: 123
Completed: 1908
Gross Tonnage: 275
Net Tonnage: 106
Length: 130.1 ft
Breadth: 23.1 ft
Depth: 12.2 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by Earle’s Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Hull
Built: Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co Ltd, Goole

History

7.1908: Launched by Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co Ltd, Goole (Yd.No.123) for The Cygnet Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Fleetwood as OSPRAY II.
8.1908: Completed.
2.9.1908: Registered at Fleetwood (FD219). Richard Watson Mason appointed manager.
2.9.1908: Mortgaged to London City & Midland Bank Ltd, London (A).
5.3.1909: Mortgaged (A) discharged.
11.3.1909: Sold to John George Hammond (64/64), London.
8.4.1909: John George Hammond appointed manager
4.1909: Sold to The Admiralty.
15.4.1909: Fleetwood registry closed. Fitted out as a minesweeper for training fishery reserve crews. Renamed HMS SEAFLOWER (Ad.No.1) and based Chatham/Sheerness.
1.1920: Renamed SEA ROVER .
4.5.1920: Withdrawn from auction at Milford.
5.1920: Sold to Edward D. W. Lawford, Milford Haven.
12. 8.1920: Sold to Colin I. Mason, Cardiff (managing owner).
13. 21.8.1920: Registered at London(LO395).
14. 24.10.1922: Picked up crew of NILE (M186) which had foundered some 10 miles off Crookhaven, Co. Cork.
15. 25.10.1922: Landed survivors at Milford.
16. 3.1924: Sold to Schultz & Merz, Wesermünde.
17. 1.4.1924: London registry closed.
18. 4.1924: Registered at Wesermünde-G as HEINRICH BEERMANN.
19. 18.11.1932: Stranded at Mortingebazen, Nr Floroe, Norway.
20. 20.11.1932: Refloated by salvage steamers TRAUST (222grt/1921) and ACHILLES (217grt/1893); slight damage.
21. 1935: Sold to Allerich Luerssen, Bremerhaven.
22. 1936: Sold to Hanseatische Hochseefischerei A.G., Bremerhaven. Registered at Bremerhaven as SCHÜTTING.
23. 1937: Sold for breaking up.

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S.T. Ospray II FD219

S.T. Ospray II FD219
Picture courtesy of Fred Baker

HMS seaflower

HMS Seaflower

Changelog
03/01/2009: Page published. 6 updates since then.
21/05/2016: Information updated.