Category Archives: War Losses

Vessels lot due to war

S.T. Mary FD84

Technical

Official Number: 122950
Yard Number: 169
Completed: 1906
Gross Tonnage: 256
Net Tonnage: 90
Length: 128.7 ft
Breadth: 22.7 ft
Depth: 11.4 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Shields Engineering Co Ltd, North Shields
Boiler: R. Stephenson & Co Ltd. Hebburn-on-Tyne
Built: Dundee Shipbuilding Co.Ltd, Dundee

History

17.10.1906: Launched by Dundee Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Dundee (Yd.No.169) for J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood as MARY.
13.11.1906: Registered at Fleetwood (FD84), James Herbert Marr appointed manager.
11.1906: Completed at a cost of £6450 (James Herbert Marr, manager).
7.12.1906: Mortgaged for £6750 @ 5% to James Herbert Marr, Fleetwood (A).
6.12.1907: Mortgage (A) discharged.
6.5.1908: Four shares sold to John Wignall, Fleetwood (fishing skipper).
29.4.1911: Four shares (John Wignall) sold to John Walsh, Fleetwood (trawling master).
1.5.1911: Four shares (John Walsh) mortgaged for £200 @ 5% to James Herbert Marr, Fleetwood.
1.1.1914: Tonnage altered to 98.62net under provision of Merchant Shipping Act 1907.
8.1914: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (Ad.No.361).
5.11.1914: Mined off Gt Yarmouth in position 52°35N/01°54E while minesweeping; eight lost.
18.11.1914: Fleetwood registry closed “Blown up by mine”.

(Lost – Skipper William S. Greenway; William Carter, 2nd Hand; John McKimmie, Engineman; William J. Burton, Ldg. Seaman; Frank A. Hall, Ernest Levitt & Samuel Pearson, deckhands; Robert Cockshott, trimmer.)

Changelog
27/12/2008: Page published. 4 updates since then.

S.T. Martaban FD147

Additional Material courtesy of Mike Thompson

Technical

Official Number: 98710
Yard Number: 57
Completed: 1890
Gross Tonnage: 148
Net Tonnage: 49
Length: 103.6 ft
Breadth: 20.0 ft
Depth: 11.0 ft
Engine: 50nhp T.3-cyland boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Hull
Speed: 10 knots

History

1890: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Hull (Yd.No.57) for George Beeching, Hull & Thomas Kelsall & Co, Manchester as MARTABAN. 20.11.1890: Completed (George Beeching managing owner).
20.11.1990: Registered at Hull (H115).
13.1.1896: Arrived Fleetwood and reported that she had grounded on Skerryvore Rocks and sustained considerable bottom damage.
8.1.1897: Sold to Kelsall Brothers & Beeching Ltd, Manchester (John E. A. Kelsal & George Beeching, Fleetwood, managers).
1.1887: Hull registry closed.
18.1.1897: Registered at Fleetwood (FD147).
1899: Transferred to Hull.
4.4.1899: Registered at Hull (H82).
12.5.1899: Fleetwood registry closed.
4.1.1904: Stranded at Holmpton, East Yorkshire. Refloated, repaired and returned to service.
8.9.1911: Registered office transferred to Hull (George Beeching, Hull & John E. A. Kelsall, London, managers).
3.5.1912: Fishing North Sea near Dogger Bank (Sk. G. Turner) at about 2.30pm. in collision with steam trawler AMARAPOORA (H59) (Sk.Parkinson), which foundered in almost 3 minutes; picked up crew of nine. Stern and starboard bow damaged.
4.5.1912: Landed survivors at Hull.
29.12.1912: Sold to Robert Moon & Joseph Moon, Torry, Aberdeen (joint owners) (Robert Moon managing owner).
5.12.1912: Hull registry closed.
7.12.1912: Registered at Aberdeen (A527).
2.5.1915: Stopped by U-boat (U41) while fishing 22 miles E.1/2 N. of Aberdeen and sunk by gunfire. Crew abandoned in boat and after seventeen hours landed at Stonehaven.
6.5.1915: Aberdeen registry closed “Sunk by a German submarine”.

Changelog
27/12/2008: Page published. 4 updates since then.
09/06/2021: Updated history.

S.T. Marion (2) LO235

Technical

Official Number: 120683
Yard Number: 788
Completed: 1906
Gross Tonnage: 255
Net Tonnage: 98
Length: 125.7 ft
Breadth: 22.1 ft
Depth: 12 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Shields Engineering Co Ltd, North Shields
Built: Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, North Shields

History

25.1.1906: Launched by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, North Shields (Yd.No.788) for Mrs Marion L. Ryde, Godalming as MARION.
3.1906: Completed (Crawford Heron, Swansea, manager).
3.1906: Registered at London (LO235).
30.11.1912: Sold to George H. D. Birt, Milford Haven (managing owner).
8.1914: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-3pdr) (Ad.No.20).
6.1915: At Sheerness.
14.8.1915: Sailed for Mediterranean.
30.7.1917: Sold to The Croston Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Ernest Taylor, manager).
23.2.1918: Mined off Malta. ‘ During minesweeping operations struck mine about midday and sank in approximate position 35.45N 14.24E. Six lives lost.’
23.2.1918: ‘Ceased to be on Admiralty charter’.
10.3.1919: London registry closed “ Vessel lost on Admiralty Charter”. (Minefield was laid on 30/1/1918 by U.boat (UC25), beginning at 35°44.9’N, 14°24.6’E and running north with mines at 75 metre intervals. 18 mines total).

(Lost – Lieut Cdr. Joseph King; Henry Tarbitton, 2nd Hand; James Fisk & William E. Warman, deckhands; Robert Tetley, signalman; Samuel D. Tonkin, trimmer.)

Changelog
27/12/2008: Page published. 5 updates since then.

S.T. Margaret Rose GY355

Additional information courtesy of David Slinger and Bill Blow

Technical

Official Number: 161009
Yard Number: 1100
Completed: 1931
Gross Tonnage: 428.28
Net Tonnage: 172.48
Length: 145.7 ft
Breadth: 25.6 ft
Depth: 13.6 ft
Engine: 675ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by Amos & Smith Ltd, Hull

History

5.2.1931: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.1100) for Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd (64/64), Fleetwood as MARGARET ROSE.
10.3.1931: Registered at Grimsby (GY355).
12.3.1931: Completed.
12.3.1931: Basil Arthur Parkes, Blackpool appointed manager.
5.4.1931: Arrived Fleetwood (Sk. Walter Holmes).
6.4.1931: Landed 3760 stone, mostly hake.
7.4.1931: Sailed on her maiden from Fleetwood.
5.9.1932: Sailed from Fleetwood for East coast of USA (Georges Bank) (Sk Walter Holmes) on a trial trip to exploit the supposed hake grounds a few miles offshore, the trip to take from 24 – 32 days (340 tons bunker coal, 90 tons ice, 2 tons salt and one month’s provisions).
5.10.1932: Returned. Diverted to Grimsby to land 1400 boxes (mixed cod, haddock and flats); grossed £308 failed to cover a quarter of costs.
8.1933: Sold to Pêcheries de la Morinie, Boulogne (P. Ficheux, manager).
1933: Re measured 144.6 feet 409grt 149n.
15.8.1933: Grimsby registry closed.
8.1933: Registered at Boulogne as MARGUERITE ROSE.
8.1933: Stranded at Knott Spit Buoy when returning from trials.
18.8.1933: Sailed Fleetwood for Boulogne (with part Fleetwood crew).
10.1.1934: In North Sea, rendered assistance to Danish steamer Polly (798grt/) with rudder damage sustained on passage Baltic – Dundalk with coal. Connected and delivered Aberdeen.
8.1939: Requisitioned by Marine Francaise as an auxiliary minesweeper (P.No.AD23).
25.5.1940: At Dunkirk ‘Operation Dynamo’ (Commander Flachaire Roustan) attacked by German aircraft, two bombs exploded and vessel abandoned before sinking alongside French steamer Aïn El Turk (2508grt/1925).

Note: “The choice of the MARGARET ROSE to make the voyage to Georges Bank gave Mrs Holmes (wife of Skipper Walter Holmes named after herself MARY and daughter ROSE) great pleasure… Boston’s wasted no time in putting their project into operation and shortly afterwards the MARGARET ROSE lay in Wyre Dock looking more like a coal tip than a trawler.
Coal was piled everywhere – after the bunkers had been packed to capacity the decks were loaded high until the vessel&s scuppers were two inches below water and she was almost awash. At this point the Board of Trade stepped in and on their instructions a large quantity of coal was bagged and moved aft to lift the bows to a safer level. Even this adjustment left her alarmingly low in the water but she was given the all clear to sail.” With a crew of fifteen, she carried 400 tons coal, 100 tons ice, 2 tons salt and provisions for one month.

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S.T. Margaret Rose GY355

S.T. Margaret Rose GY355
Picture courtesy of The David Slinger Collection

S.T. Margaret Rose GY355

S.T. Margaret Rose GY355
Picture courtesy of The Fred Baker Collection

S.T. Margaret Rose GY355

S.T. Margaret Rose GY355
Picture courtesy of The David Slinger Collection

September 1932

September 1932
Picture courtesy of David Slinger

September 5 1932

September 5 1932
Picture courtesy of David Slinger

S.T. Margaret Rose GY355

S.T. Margaret Rose GY355
Sunk during Operation Dynamo
Picture from the Internet

Changelog
27/12/2008: Page published. 5 revisions since then.
11/08/2014: Information updated.
13/01/2017: Removed FMHT watermarks from images.

S.T. Margaret FD92

Technical

Official Number: 124684
Yard Number: 91
Completed: 1907
Gross Tonnage: 297.32
Net Tonnage: 117.17
Length: 135.0 ft
Breadth: 23.0 ft
Depth: 12.0 ft
Built: Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co Ltd, Goole
Engine: 500ihp T.3-cyl by Crabtree & Co Ltd, Gt. Yarmouth
Boiler: J. T. Eltringham, South Shields

History

20.10.1906: Launched by Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co Ltd, Goole (Yd.No.91) for The Lancashire Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Fleetwood as MARGARET.
19.12.1906: Registered at Fleetwood (FD92). James Alexander Robertson designated manager.
1.1907: Completed.
10.1.1907: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Williams Deacon’s Bank Ltd, London (A).
5.12.1907: Mortgage (A) discharged.
6.12.1907: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) for £6000 @ 5% interest to James Herbert Marr, Fleetwood (B).
27.2.1909: Mortgage (B) discharged.
27.2.1909: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) for £5000 @ 5% to James Herbert Marr, Fleetwood (C).
29.10.1910: Mortgage (C) discharged.
30.11.1910: Off Lune Buoy connected to steam trawler CYRANO (GY 80) which had been run down by steamer SHAMROCK (865grt/1879) bound Heysham and badly damaged on starboard quarter; three men injured. Delivered Fleetwood.
29.7.1911: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) for £4000 @ 5% to James Herbert Marr, Fleetwood (D).
22.6.1913: Mortgage (D) discharged.
1913: Sold to NV Nederlandsche Stoomvaartmats, IJmuiden (L. Groen, manager).
27.6.1913: Fleetwood registry closed.
7.1913: Registered at IJmuiden as TRES FRATRES (IJM194).
23.3.1917: Fishing in the North Sea NW of the Jutland peninsula, stopped by U.boat (U62) and crew ordered into boat. Trawler sunk by explosive charges in position 57.30N 6.10E. Crew pulled away and after 30 hours in the open boat made landfall on the Danish coast. After recovery returned to the Netherlands.
1918: Deleted from Netherlands register.

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S.T. Margaret FD92

S.T. Margaret FD92
Picture courtesy of The David Slinger Collection

Changelog
27/12/2008: Page published. 4 updates since then.
25/09/2020: Updated history.
30/09/2020: Added an image.
16/10/2020: Updated history.