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S.D. Orient II – LT859

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Additional information courtesy of BARRY BANHAM Fishing Vessel Research

Technical

Official Number: 130014
Yard Number: 167
Completed: 1911
Gross Tonnage: 92.85
Net Tonnage: 43.90
Length: 86.0 ft
Breadth: 19.3 ft
Depth: 9.6 ft
Engine: 170ihp T.3-cyl by S. Richards & Co Ltd, Lowestoft (engine no.167)
Boiler: 140psi by Riley Brothers Ltd, Stockton on Tees

History

22.2.1911: Launched by S. Richards & Co Ltd, Lowestoft (Yd.No.167) for Arthur Mitchell, Lowestoft as ORIENT II.
28.4.1911: Registered at Lowestoft (LT859). Arthur Mitchell designated managing owner.
29.4.1911: Completed trials.
16.11.1914: At Lowestoft landed 25 cran of fresh herring at £6/cran and 40 cran of overlays at £4 7 0d/cran. This was a record price at the time.
1915: Requisitioned for war service as an A/S Net drifter (1-57mm) (Ad.No.1894).
12.1916: The Admiralty paid the crew £11. 2. 7d to bring the vessel home from the Isle of Man.
1918: Based Devonport.
By 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Lowestoft.
1920s: Seasonal fishing out of Fleetwood.
21.8.1923: Deckhand William Pleasants pulled overboard and drowned.
28.11.1924: Disabled with broken tail shaft. Picked up by steam drifter CONIFER (LT658) and towed home.
31.5.1928: At Fleetwood typical landing 53 boxes.
13.8.1930: Arthur Mitchel died.
1.1931: Arthur Claud Mitchel, Milford Haven and Derek Victor Mitchell, Bungay, Suffolk (joint owners).
16.5.1932: Damaged stem at Milford.
1933: Sold to Harry George Everard Williams, London. Harry G. E. Williams designated managing owner. Used as a scallop dredger at Brightlingsea.
13.1.1942: Lowestoft registry closed “ Vessel unseaworthy, sold for breaking up”. Advice received from owner.
1942: Vessel hulked on Brightlingsea beach.

Changelog
08/07/2021: Page published.
10/07/2021: Completed history and technical details.

S.T. Julian – BN88

Additional information courtesy of Christine Simm

Technical

Official Number: 113738
Yard Number: 642
Completed: 1900
Gross Tonnage: 185
Net Tonnage: 70
Length: 116.0 ft
Breadth: 21.1 ft
Depth: 11.0 ft
Engine: 375ihp T.3-cyl by North Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Sunderland
Built: Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, North Shields

History

26.9.1900: Launched by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, North Shields (Yd.No.642) for Boston Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Boston as JULIAN.
10.1900: Completed.
26.10.1900: Registered at Boston (BN88). Fred Donnison designated manager
1902: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Boston.
1909: Thomas D. Donaldson designated manager.
1911: Fishing out of Fleetwood (Fred Donnison, Fleetwood managing agent).
3.3.1911: At Fleetwood landed 50 boxes.
11.3.1911: At Fleetwood landed 40 boxes.
5.6.1911: At Fleetwood landed 157 boxes.
1012: Daniel Walker designated manager.
12.1.1913: Homeward to Boston (Sk.Pawley), stranded on the Long Sands in the Wash, doing considerable damage to shell plating and stern frame, breaking her rudder stock. The Hunstanton lifeboat was launched and stood by until the trawler refloated on the next tide.
13.1.1913: Arrived Boston with jury rudder rigged from otter board. Repairs cost about £300 without allowing for the trawler’s demurrage for time lost repairing. Cause of stranding was said to be that on the 1 January, Trinity House moved the Lynn Well Lightship some two miles from the former position and the proposed gas buoy had not yet been installed.
22.8.1914: Fishing in the North Sea (Sk. Charles Walkerley). Captured and sunk (officially fate listed as “unknown”) by German torpedo boats in North Sea, along with FLAVIAN (BN86), and INDIAN (BN90). Crews interned for duration of war.
9.1914: Boston registry closed.
8.1.1918: At Boston, 632 prisoners landed on their return from Ruhlebon and other German internment camps, amongst them sixteen fishermen including Charles Walkerley skipper of the JULIAN.

Changelog
04/07/2021: Page published.

sv Lottie FD31

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Technical
2nd Class – prawner
Gross Tonnage: 25

History

3.6.1896: Registered at Fleetwood.
18.1.1917: Transferred to Barrow.

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sv Lottie FD31

sv Lottie FD31
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sv Lottie FD31

sv Lottie FD31
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Changelog
24/05/2020: Page published.
19/06/2020: Added an image.

S.T. Dairycoates H270

Technical

Official Number: 149046
Yard Number: 988
Completed: 1926
Gross Tonnage: 350.33
Net Tonnage: 140.93
Length: 140.3 ft
Breadth: 24.0 ft
Depth: 13.1 ft
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby
Engine: 600ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by Charles D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull

History

20.10.1925: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.988) for The City Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Hull as DAIRYCOATES.
3.1.1926: Registered at Hull (Part I) O.N.149046.
4.1.1926: Completed.
5.1.1926: Registered at Hull (Part IV)(H270).
5.1.1926: John Arthur Laverack designated manager.
26.6.1926: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to National Provincial Bank Ltd, London (A).
1.1.1932: Fred Crawforth designated manager.
26.4.1934 (1.5.1934 regd): Mortgage (A) discharged.
26.4.1934: The City Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull bought by J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood along with the two vessels.
26.4.1934 (1.5.1934 regd): Sold to J. Marr & Son Ltd (64/64), Fleetwood.
7.5.1934: Geoffrey Edwards Marr designated manager.
19.7.1934: Sold to The City Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Hull.
19.7.1934: Leslie J. Marr, Thornton-le-Fylde designated manager (Fred Crawforth manager and fish salesman at Hull).
5.1939: Sold to The Admiralty and converted to a boom defence vessel.
28.6.1939: Hull registry closed. Renamed QUANNET (P.No.Z.44). Deployed to South Atlantic Command. Based Freetown, Siera Leone.
19.9.1940: Sailed Freetown escorting convoy HS as part of Operation Menace, the unsuccessful attempt by the Allies to capture the strategic port of Dakar in French West Africa.
28.9.1940: Returned to Freetown.
1941: Working the Freetown harbour A/S boom.
1941: Ty Lieut. W. P. Jones RNR I/C.
7-14.3.1942: Warship week. Adopted by Ogmore Valley and District, Glamorgan.
1.1946: Sold to Joseph Craig (64/64), Aberdeen.
8.5.1946: After restoration and re-classification, registered at Aberdeen as DAIRYCOATES (A88).
23.4.1947: Sold to Northern (Fishing) Ltd (64/64), Aberdeen.
1948: Sold to NV Visscherij Maats “De Daad”, IJmuiden.
12.3.1948: Aberdeen registry closed.
3.1948: Registered at IJmuiden as KLAAS WYKER (IJM85).
3.1958: Sold to NV Frank Rijsdyk’s Ind, Rotterdam and broken up at Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht. IJmuiden registry closed.

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S.T. Klass Wijker IJM85

S.T. Klass Wiyker IJM85
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Changelog
15/03/2020: Page published.
20/04/2020: Added an image.

sv Lownds FD??

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Additional information courtesy of Gordon Wilson and Christine Simm

Technical

Official Number: 18202
Net Tonnage: 31
Smack

History

1854: Completed at Liverpool.
30.11.1854: Registered at Chester.
20.04.1855: Appropriated. Coasting.
By 1860: Owned by John Calder, Fleetwood. Chester registry closed. Registered at Fleetwood.
1877: Fleetwood registry closed. Registered at Ramsey (3 of 77).
1877: Ramsey registry closed. Owned by Richard McClean, Dingle, Co. Kerry. Registered at Tralee (T1342).
By 1890: Owned by Thomas McClean, Dingle, Co. Kerry. 189?: Sold to Peter Houlahan, ??.
1894: Tralee registry closed.

Changelog
15/11/2019: Page published.
05/05/2022: Minor update.