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S.T. Fly FD166

Additional information courtesy of Colin Reed

Technical

Official Number: 95843
Yard Number: 36
Completed: 1890
Gross Tonnage: 158
Net Tonnage: 59
Length: 101.4 ft
Breadth: 20.6 ft
Depth: 11 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by Charles D. Holmes & Co, Hull
Built: Cochrane, Cooper & Schofield, Beverley

History

3.7.1890: Launched by Cochrane, Cooper & Schofield, Beverley (Yd.No.36) for British Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull as FLY.
21.8.1890: Completed.
30.8.1890: Registered at Hull (H104). William Lawson Robbins designated manager.
2.11.1912: Sold to James Alexander Robertson, Fleetwood.
10.11.1912: Arrived Fleetwood.
15.11.1912: Hull registry closed.
16.11.1912: Registered at Fleetwood (FD166).
7.12.1912: Sold to The Active Fishing Co Ltd, Fleetwood. James A. Robertson designated manager.
1.1.1914: Tonnage altered to 60.23 net under provision of Merchant Shipping Act 1907.
29.5.1917: Requisitioned for Fishery Reserve.
21.12.1917: Off Maughold Head, Isle of Man came upon an open boat with six men alive, but in poor condition and one dead, crew of the Point of Ayr Collieries steamer CLWYD (289grt/1909). Vessel had foundered two days previously twelve miles N of the Skerries after being in collision with the steamer PARAGON (408grt/89) while on passage Dublin-Point of Ayr, light. Landed survivors at Douglas.
1919: Released.
17.2.1920: Sold to Sidney Morris Cannon, Aberdeen.
20.2.1920: Fleetwood registry closed.
25.2.1920: Registered at Aberdeen (A284). Horace E. Stroud designated manager.
1924: Sold for breaking up.
26.9.1924: Aberdeen registry closed “Vessel broken up.”

Changelog

20/12/2008:Page published. 2 updates since then.
09/06/2018: Updated information.
11/09/2020: Updated history.

S.T. Ethel FD173

Technical

Official Number: 124698
Yard Number: 267
Completed: 1907
Gross Tonnage: 278.46
Net Tonnage: 99.37
Length: 130.0 ft
Breadth: 22.6 ft
Depth: 12.1 ft
Built: Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co Ltd, Goole
Engine: 429ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by W. V. V. Lidgerwood, Coatbridge

History

22.10.1907: Launched by Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co Ltd, Goole (Yd.No.267) for Louis Cohen (64/64), Norbreck as ETHEL.
12.1907: Completed.
27.12.1907: Registered at Fleetwood (FD173).
27.12.1907: Louis Cohen designated managing owner.
27.12.1907: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to London City & Midland Bank Ltd, London (A).
20.6.1912: Mortgage (A) discharged.
21.6.1912: Sold to Phoebe Hoyle (64/64), Halifax.
22.6.1912: Sold to George Edward James Moody (64/64), Grimsby.
24.6.1912: George E. J. Moody designated managing owner.
24.6.1912: Sold to The Active Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Fleetwood.
26.6.1912: James A. Robertson designated managing owner.
24.6.1912: Mortgaged for £4500 @ 5% to James Herbert Marr, Fleetwood (B).
12.7.1912: James A. Robertson designated manager.
1.1.1914: Tonnage altered to 108.58 net under provision of Merchant Shipping Act 1907.
6.1915: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-6pdr) (Ad.No.1595). Based Lerwick.
Post 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Fleetwood.
1919: Sold to Hf. Atlanta, Iceland. Elias Stefansson designated manager.
9.12.1919: Fleetwood registry closed.
12.1919: Registered at Reykjavik (RE237).
1920: Skuli Jonsson designated manager.
1923: Landed salt fish from Iceland £849 gross.
1923: Sold to J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood. James A. Robertson designated manager.
12.1923: Reykjavik registry closed.
18.12.1923: Registered at Fleetwood as IRVANA (FD430).
5.1.1924: BoT approval for sale to Portugal.
8.2.1924: Fleetwood registry closed.
1925: Sold to Comissariado Geral dos Abastecimentos, Lisbon. Registered at Lisbon as APOLO. 1.1927: Sold to Sociedade Comercial Maritima Ltda, Lisbon. Registered at Lisbon as CABO JUBY.
1958: Sold for breaking up.

Changelog

19/12/2008: Page published. 2 updates since then.
21/07/2020: Information updated.

S.T. Eileen Wayman H235

Additional information courtesy of David Slinger

Technical

Official Number: 137362
Yard Number: 306
Completed: 1914
Gross Tonnage: 194
Net Tonnage: 86
Length: 115.6 ft
Breadth: 22.0 ft
Depth: 11.8 ft
Built: Jos. T. Eltringham & Co Ltd, Willington Quay
Engine: T.3-cyl by Shields Engineering Co Ltd, North Shields

History

3.9.1914: Launched by Jos. T. Eltringham & Co Ltd, Willington Quay (Yd.No.306) for The Prince Fishing Co Ltd, North Shields as SOUTHERN PRINCE.
22.10.1914: Registered at North Shields (SN121).
10.1914: Completed. Richard Irvin designated manager.
22.7.1915: Sold to Richard Irvin & Sons Ltd, North Shields. Richard Irvin designated manager.
1.9.1919: First landing at Milford.
8.9.1919 (regd): Sold to The Swansea Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Swansea. (Rees & Co, Milford Haven). Harry Eastoe Rees, designated manager.
1921: Brand & Curzon Ltd, Milford designated managers.
14.3.1921: Between 1030 and 1100pm, Joseph Boyle (23), a native of Co. Donegal and a fireman onboard, was found on the dock at Milford pinned under a fallen trawl board, by Sidney Coleman of Plymouth. Coleman who had been drinking with Boyle earlier. Coleman attempted to release him, but it was not until the watchman arrived that the trawl board could be lifted and Boyle, still alive was released and conveyed to the Nursing Home where he died a few hours later.
8.1921: Sold to Wear Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Sunderland
4.10.1921: North Shields registry closed.
10.1921: Registered at Sunderland (SD90).
1929: Registered at Sunderland as EILEEN WAYMAN (SD90). James Hall designated manager.
17.11.1939: Sold to Fillets Ltd, Hull. W. C. Farrow designated manager.
2.11.1939: Insured value increased from £2,500 to £3,000.
11.1939: Sunderland registry closed.
17.11.1939: Registered at Hull (H235).
30.11.1939: Insured value increased from £3,000 to £3,5000.
1940: Fishing out of Fleetwood. Geoffrey Edwards Marr designated manager.
14.5.1943: Good wartime landing, Home Waters, 452 kits – hake-182, cod/codling-12, ling/coley-256, roker-2.
3.9.1943: On West of Scotland grounds (Sk. Alfred J.W. Britton), ‘dodging’ in heavy weather, lost rudder. Rigged jury rudder with otterboard and proceeded for home.
5.9.1943: At 6.00 pm. arrived Peel, IoM.
8.9.1943: Arrived Fleetwood *.
22.2.1944: Sold to The Active Fishing Co Ltd, Fleetwood (J. Marr & Son Ltd).
26.11.1945: Sailed Fleetwood for West of Scotland grounds (Sk. John Clarkson); fourteen crew all told.
8.12.1945: Towards the end of the trip, in the early hours, stranded on rocks under Sheshader Cliffs at Grannan Point, Isle of Lewis. Villagers responded to distress and helped the crew to shore. Boat had been launched but damaged on the rocks. At daybreak trawler had slipped off rocks and disappeared.
10.12.1945: Crews arrived back in Fleetwood. Declared a total loss. Fleetwood registry closed.

* Sk. Britton received inscribed gold watch and monetary award and crew members also received monetary awards from FSTMI Co Ltd for “meritorious service”. Later awarded MBE.

Crew Members, all Fleetwood unless stated: Sk.John Clarkson, Broadway; Mate, A. Britton, Coniston Avenue; Bosun, F. Cowell, Homestread Drive; Ch. Eng, J. Bond, Jemmett Street, Preston; 2nd Eng, A. Niquist, Warrenhurst Road; Deckhands, C. Harrison, Shakespeare Road, J.F. Rayworth, Cambridge Road, E.E. Meyer, Wilton Avenue (landed at Stornoway earlier in the trip, ill), P. E. Morley; Firemen, R. E. Robinson, Radcliffe Street and J. McGlone, Fishermens’ Mission; Cook, A. Simpson, Flovers Street, Preston; H. Mansfell (14) apprentice deckhand.
Changelog
19/12/2008: Page published. 5 updates since then.
01/06/2020: Updated information.
06/06/2021: Updated history.
07/06/2021: Updated history.