Category Archives: War Losses

Vessels lot due to war

S.T. Shackleton FD409

Technical

Official Number: 133443
Yard Number: 559
Completed: 1913
Gross Tonnage: 288
Net Tonnage: 115
Length: 133.5 ft
Breadth: 23.0 ft
Depth: 12 ft
Built: Cochrane & Son Ltd, Selby
Engine: 76HP T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull

History

11.3.1913: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.559) for Pickering & Haldane’s Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull, as SHACKLETON.
14.6.1913: Registered at Hull (H1003).
19.6.1913: Completed. John McCann & Edward Cartwright appointed managers.
14.6.1913: Registered at Hull (H1003).
19.6.1913: Completed. John McCann & Edward Cartwright appointed managers.
5.1915: Requisitioned for war service as a minelayer (1-3pdr) (Ad.No.3219) (P.No.N.0A/N.93).
1920: Returned.
17.5.1922: Sold to The Lancashire Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Fleetwood (James A. Robertson, Cleveleys, manager), manager).
12.7.1922: Hull registry closed.
13.7.1922: Registered at Fleetwood (FD409).
12.10.1924: James A. Robertson died.
12.10.1924: Edward Towne appointed manager.
1.3.1930: Homeward from grounds off St. Kilda (Sk.W. Wilson), in thick fog and swell lost her position when south of Islay and shaping for North Channel. Grounded and stranded amongst rocks and in rough seas on Grannan Bo, north coast of Rathlin Island. Portrush lifeboat launched and Fleetwood trawlers CUIRASS (GY436) and PHRONTIS (FD142) and steamer CARA (1856grt/1929) responded to her distress radio message. Vessels could not approach and Rathlin Lifesaving team over eleven hours in very difficult conditions, rescued all fourteen crew. Crew picked up by CUIRASS and returned to Fleetwood.
11.3.1930: Fleetwood registry closed “Total loss”. Wreck lies in 4-12m in position 55.18.45N 06.14.30W..

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S.T. Shackleton H1003

S.T. Shackleton H1003
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S.T. Shackleton FD409

S.T. Shackleton FD409
Picture courtesy of David Slinger

S.T. Shackleton FD409 as a minelayer

S.T. Shackleton FD409 as a minelayer

S.T. Shackleton FD409

S.T. Shackleton FD409
Picture courtesy of The James Cullen Collection

S.T. Shackleton FD409

S.T. Shackleton FD409
Picture courtesy of The James Cullen Collection

Changelog
07/02/2009: Page published. 6 updates since then.
23/04/2017: Removed FMHT watermarks from images.
08/12/2002: Added an image.

S.T. Scomber (1) FD90

Technical

Official Number: 127572
Yard Number: 446
Completed: 1908
Gross Tonnage: 270
Net Tonnage: 102
Length: 130 ft
Breadth: 23 ft
Depth: 12.2 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby

History

24.10.1908: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.446) for The Mount Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Fleetwood as SCOMBER.
3.3.1909: Registered at Fleetwood (FD90).
6.3.1909: Completed (George E. J. Moody, Grimsby, manager).
1914: Sold to Galiana y del Valles Trillo S en C, Barcelona.
15.5.1914: Fleetwood registry closed. Registered at Barcelona.
1918: Sold to Government of France, Paris (Transports Maritimes et Marine Marchande). Renamed ANNIBAL.
1922: Sold to Victor Basquet, La Rochelle. Registered at La Rochelle as NEPTUNE I (LR.2534).
1934: Sold to “Sorima” Soc. Ricuperi Marittimi, Genoa. Registered at Genoa as RAMPINO. (converted to a salvage vessel).
1934: Fitted out to a salvage ship – 301g 112n.
1.1942: War loss.
1943: Salved and sold for breaking up.

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S.T. Scomber FD90

S.T. Scomber FD90
Picture courtesy of Stephen Bird

S.T. Neptune I LR2534

S.T. Neptune I LR2534

Changelog
27/01/2009: Page published. 4 updates since then.
19/09/2017: Removed FMHT watermark from image.

S.T. Ladylove LO167

Technical

Official Number: 116137
Yard Number: 341
Completed: 1902
Gross Tonnage: 230
Net Tonnage: 84
Length: 125 ft
Breadth: 21.7 ft
Depth: 12 ft
Engine: 70nhp T.3-cyl and boiler by Amos & Smith Ltd, Hull
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Hull

History

14.2.1902: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Hull (Yd.No.341) for Pickering & Haldane’s Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull as OPHIR.
21.3.1903: Registered at Hull (H725).
6.4.1903: Completed (H. A. L. Russell, manager).
1.1915: Requisitioned for war service as an armed trawler (1-12pdr, 1-6pdr HA & 1-7.5” A/S Howitzer) (Ad.No.1204).
2.1915: Renamed OPHIR III.
17.4.1915: Registered at Hull as OPHIR III (H725).
4.10.1918: Sold to Weston W. Crampin, Grimsby (managing owner).
21.10.1918: Hull registry closed.
24.10.1918: Registered at Grimsby (GY1220). Based Harwich.
By 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Grimsby.
2.1919: Sold to The Crampin Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby (Herbert G. Crampin, manager).
2.1933: Sold to Walker Steam Trawl Fishing Co Ltd, Aberdeen (Thomas Walker, manager).
1.2.1933: Grimsby registry closed.
9.2.1933: Registered at Aberdeen as STAR OF MORAY (A232).
1934: Sold to The Hewett Fishing Co Ltd, London & Fleetwood.
4.8.1934: Aberdeen registry closed.
9.8.1934: Registered at London (LO167).
29.9.1934: Registered at London as LADYLOVE (LO167).
7.1940: Requisitioned for war service and designated for minesweeping duties (P.No.FY.335).
10.1940: Returned to owner (Not recorded in Admiralty Folio MT65-467 A-L).
2.8.1941: Sailed Fleetwood for Icelandic grounds (Sk. Alfred C. Fletcher); thirteen crew.
24.8.1941: In evening after being involved in search, directed by aircraft, picked up three men in boat from Norwegian steamer INGER (1418grt/1930) (torpedoed at 2347 on 23.8.1941 by U-boat (U143) 30 miles from Butt of Lewis). Landed survivors at Stornoway.
25.8.1941: Sailed Stornoway.
27.8.1941: At 1435 U-boat (U.202) hit a trawler with a torpedo the vessel foundered in 15 seconds. Although no vessel identified, this must have been the LADYLOVE; crew of fourteen lost*.
30.8.1941: Posted missing (Official date of death of crew members – 7.9.1941).
23.3.1942: London registry closed.

ANNEX A

1.1915: Fitted with WT and Hotchkiss 12pdr, 6pdr HA and Bomb Thrower as an armed trawler (Ad.No.1204).
17.4.1915: Renamed Ophir III.(Ad.No.1204) and re-registered at Hull (H725).
By 1.10.1918: At Penzance (General Patrol and Escort work) (Lieut. RNR).

(Lost* – All Fleetwood unless stated. Sk. Alfred Crozier Fletcher (60), Analby; Thomas Brunt (44), Mate; John Dawson (44), Ch Eng; Walter Birkett (45), 2nd Eng; William Sharples (37), Bosun; Albert Chance (38), Hessle, John Thomas Mooney (33), Hull, Wilfred Thomas Liles (43), John Thomas Rossall (32), Blackpool, Thomas James Temple (38), Lowestoft & J. Millner (?), Deckhands; Stanley Smith (19) & Frederick Moss (42), Firemen; Norman Platt (45), Cook)

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S.T. Ladylove LO167

S.T. Ladylove LO167
Picture courtesy of Pauline Taylor

Changelog
27/01/2009: Page published. 5 revisions since then.
25/11/2017: Removed FMHT watermarks from image.

S.T. Jay (1) FD178

Technical

Official Number: 108534
Yard Number: 556
Completed: 1897
Gross Tonnage: 144
Net Tonnage: 44
Length: 106 ft
Breadth: 20.6 ft
Depth: 11 ft
Engine: 300IHP T.3-cyl and boiler by N. E. Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Sunderland
Built: Edward Bros, North Shields

History

15.7.1897: Launched by Edwards Bros, North Shields (Yd.No.556) for Kelsall Brothers & Beeching Ltd, Manchester as JAY.
13.10.1897: Registered at Fleetwood (FD178).
10.1897: Completed
13.10.1897: John E. A. Kelsall & George Beeching, Fleetwood appointed managers.
24.3.1899: Fleetwood registry closed. Transferred to Hull.
13.4.1899: Registered at Hull (H278).
8.9.1911: Registered office transferred to Hull (George Beeching, Hull & John E. A. Kelsall, London, managers).
15.7.1913: Hull registry closed and vessel registered anew in consequence of material alterations (H278).
15.7.1913: Re-measured after lengthening to 119.0 ft 166g 64n.
10.1914: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-6pdr HA) (Ad.No.375).
11.8.1917: Returning to Gt. Yarmouth, torpedoed by U-boat (UB35) 500yds NE of “C” Buoy in position 55°19N/1°49E; nine crew lost*, three (two?)crew and dog saved+.
27.12.1917: Hull registry closed “Total loss”.

(Lost* – Sk. Edward N. Bullock (40); John C. Hack (35), Mate; Harry E. Pratt (38), Eng; Bryan Williams(18), Henry S. Parfitt (35), Dick G. Pestel (22) & Frederick Shreeve, deckhands; Adam Clark (19) & John MacLean, trimmers)

(Saved+ – James Keysor & Hugh Rogers)

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S.T. Jay FD178

S.T. Jay FD178 Picture from Internet

Changelog
27/01/2009: Page published. 3 updates since then.
13/09/2017: Removed FMHT watermark from image.

S.T. Wellvale FD140

Additional information courtesy of Tony Rodaway

Technical

Official Number: 148227
Yard Number: ??
Completed: 1918
Gross Tonnage: 271
Net Tonnage: 124
Length: 125.7 ft
Breadth: 23.5
Depth: 12.7
Built: Canadian Vickers Ltd, Montreal, Canada
Engine: 480ihp T.3-cyl by Canadian Vickers Ltd, Montreal, Canada

History

1.1917: Ordered.
1918: Launched by Canadian Vickers Ltd, Montreal, Canada (Yd.No.) (Canadian “Castle” – “T.R.” class) for The Admiralty (paid for and built under direction of RCN) as TR.28.
30.5.1918: Completed (1-12pdr) and commissioned in Royal Canadian Navy.
31.1.1919: Paid off and laid up.
1920: Accepted offer of Rose Street Foundry & Engineering Co Ltd, Inverness (Captain D. J. Munro as agent) to bring drifters with trawlers as escorts to UK for lay-up in Muirtown Basin, Caledonian Canal, Inverness prior to sale and possible refit for classification as steam trawlers (The Rose Street Foundry & Engineering Co Ltd letter dated 12 April 1920).
1921: Brought over at The Admiralty’s expense for lay-up.
1.1926: Still laid up.
2.1926: Rejected offer for all remaining trawlers of £2,000 each (B. Allenby, Aberdeen letter dated 10 Feb 1926).
8.1926: Sold “as is” to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Grimsby (Fred. Parkes, Blackpool, manager).
22.9.1926: Registered at Fleetwood as WELLVALE (FD140).
20.5.1927: Sold to Arthur S. Bowlby, Harlow (Edward D. W. Lawford c/o Iago Steam Trawlers Ltd, Milford Haven, manager). Continued to fish from Fleetwood.
1932: Laid up at Fleetwood.
8.11.1932: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Basil A. Parkes, Cleveleys, manager).
5/6/7.1933: Chartered for by Italian Government to provide support for a trans Atlantic flight involving 20 to 30 aeroplanes.
6.4.1935: Arrived Fleetwood on evening tide in tow of AUTHORPE (FD91) having sustained crank shaft damage on the fishing grounds.
12.9.1939: Missing since this date. “Presumed sunk by enemy action”.
16.9.1939: Believed lost off the Hebrides by U-boat action, but not recorded (U.35 was in the area); Sk. F. W. Slapp and twelve crew lost.
17.1.1940: Fleetwood registry closed “Missing since 12/9/1939. Sunk by enemy action”.

(Lost – Sk. F. W. Slapp, R. Barcock, J. W. Eastham, M. J. Gordon, T. W. Grayson, George Grimley (31), 2nd Eng. b. Co.Armagh, R. R. Gunn, H. Parker, P. Speariett, G. R. Townsend, I. P. Turner, W. Wright)

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S.T. Wellvale FD140

S.T. Wellvale FD140
Picture © John Clarkson

Changelog
26/01/2009: Page published.
27/04/14: Information updated.
29/03/2019: Information updated.