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S.T. Kastoria GY1017

Additional information courtesy of Birgir Þórisson

Technical

Official Number: 139930
Yard Number: 349
Completed: 1917
Gross Tonnage: 307
Net Tonnage: 121
Length: 130.2 ft
Breadth: 23.0 ft
Depth: 12.2 ft
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley
Engine: T.3-cyl by Amos & Smith Ltd, Hull

History

28.10.1916: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.349) for The Great Grimsby & East Coast Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby as KASTORIA.
11.1.1917: Registered at Grimsby (GY1017). Walter W. Butt designated manager.
15.1.1917: Completed. Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-12pdr) (Ad.No.3324). Later employed on escort duties. Based Devonport.
By 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Grimsby (Walter W. Butt, manager).
21.03.1921. At Reykjavik, along with steam trawlers CARABINEER II (GY1048), SARGON (GY858) and SERIEMA (GY504) fined 10,000 krónur (£400) for illegal fishing with gear and catch confiscated. PAVLOVA (GY716) was fined 11,500 krónur because of the skipper’s long criminal record.
21.1.1931: Charged with illegal stowing of fishing gear along with eight Hull and Grimsby trawlers sheltering in Dýrafjörður. Five skippers received a warning and three received a small fine of 500-800 krónur. but Sk. Harold Leo of KASTORIA was fined 1.200 krónur for illegal stowing of the gear and obstruction of the police. (The skipper´s third offence.). It was initially believed that KASTORIA had made off with two guards from the coastguard ship ÆGIR (507grt/1929) onboard, and the Icelandic authorities had notified Danish and English authorities.
24.1.1931: Entered Patreksfjörður were the other trawlers had gone for sentencing. Sk. Harold Leo was fined 1,200 krónur for illegal stowing of the gear and obstruction of the police. (The skipper´s third offence.).
1.4.1930: Owners fined 15,000 krónur (£680) for illegal fishing in Icelandic waters. Gear and catch confiscated.
15.12.1930: Stranded Spurn Point when outward for the fishing grounds. Came off and proceeded seawards.
28.5.1940: Requisitioned for war service as an anti submarine trawler (P.No.4.148) (Hire rate £86.19.6d/month).
2.1941: Converted for minesweeping.
1.1942: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood Basil Arthur Parkes, Cleveleys designated manager.
2.1946: Returned to owner.
4.1947: Sold to Government of Poland, Warsaw (Ministry of Industry & Commerce) (“Dalmor” Przedsiobiorstwo Polowow Dalekomorskich, Gdynia, managers) under the UNRRA scheme.
4.1947: Grimsby registry closed.
1948: Registered at Gdynia as KASTORIA (GDY123).
1959: Sold to Polish shipbreakers for breaking up.

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S.T. Kastoria GY1017

S.T. Kastoria GY1017
Picture courtesy of The Birgir Þórisson Collection

Changelog
25/03/2010: Page published. 2 updates since then.
09/03/2021: Updated history.
09/03/2021: Added an image.
11/03/2021: Updated history.

S.T. Euryalus A309

Technical

Official Number: 139960
Yard Number: 728
Completed: 1917
Gross Tonnage: 242
Net Tonnage: 94
Length: 120.2 ft
Breadth: 22.2 ft
Depth: 12.2 ft
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby
Engine: T.3-cyl by Gt. Central Co-operative Engineering & Ship Repairing Co Ltd, Grimsby

History

1917: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.728) for John W. Smethurst, Grimsby (managing owner) as CARBILL.
1.9.1917: Completed and requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-12pdr, 1-6pdr HA) (Ad.No.1648).
16.11.1917: Registered at Grimsby (GY1100). Based Granton.
Post 12.3.1919: Returned to owners at Grimsby (John W. Smethurst, manager).
5.1924: Sold to Sir Alec Black, Bart, Grimsby.
6.1924: Sold to John W. Smethurst, Grimsby (managing owner).
5.1935: Sold to David Wood, Robert Mair, Andrew Christie & Isabella Cook Mair, Aberdeen (David Wood, manager).
9.5.1935: Grimsby registry closed.
13.5.1935: Registered at Aberdeen (A309).
30.5.1935: Registered at Aberdeen as EURYALUS (A309).
9.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (Hire rate £70.11.0d/month). Renamed HOVERFLY (P.No.FY.557). Based Granton with 105 M/S Group.
9.11.1943: Reverted to trawling.
24.7.1944: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood (B. A. Parkes, manager). 15.1.1945: Returned to owner and reverted to EURYALUS (A309).
12.4.1946: Sold to Humber Trawlers Ltd, Grimsby.
9.4.1946: Aberdeen registry closed.
4.1946: Registered at Grimsby (GY245).
4.1951: Sold to Seafield Fishing Co Ltd, Aberdeen.
4.1951: Grimsby registry closed.
27.4.1951: Registered at Aberdeen (A682).
1956: Sold to BISCO and allocated to Malcolm Brechin, Granton for breaking up.
29.2.1956: Arrived Granton from Aberdeen under own power.
15.10.1956: Aberdeen registry closed “Vessel broken up.”

Changelog

20/02/2010: Page published. 2 updates since then.
28/07/2020: Updated history.

S.T. Fontenay GY397

Additional information courtesy of Bill Blow

Technical

Official Number: 146902
Yard Number: ??
Completed: 1917
Gross Tonnage: 271
Net Tonnage: 123
Length: 125.7 ft
Breadth: 23.5 ft
Depth: 12.7 ft
Built: Canadian Vickers Ltd, Montreal, Canada
Engine: 370ihp T.3-cyl by National Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Goderich, Ontario
Boiler: John Inglis & Sons, Toronto

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.23.
1.8.1918: Completed and commissioned in Royal Canadian Navy (1-12pdr).
31.1.1919: Paid off and laid up.
1920: Accepted offer of Rose Street Foundry & Engineering Co Ltd, Inverness (Captain Donald John Munro CMG RN 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.
1.1926: Still laid up.
2.1926: Rejected offer for all remaining trawlers at £2,000 each (B. Allenby, Aberdeen letter dated 10 Feb 1926).
8.1926: Sold “as is” to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby. Basil A. Parkes, Grimsby designated manager.
1926: Re-measured 297g 88n.
10.9.1926: Registered at Grimsby (Part I & IV) as FONTENAY O.N.146902 (GY397).
10.9.1926: Fred Parkes, Blackpool designated manager.
14.9.1926: Sold to Fred Parkes, Blackpool.
21.9.1926: Fred Parkes designated managing owner.
9.1926: Sold to Pêcheries & Armements “La Rochelle-Océan”, La Rochelle.
2.10.1926: Grimsby registry closed. Registered at La Rochelle as MARIE ROSELYNE (LR2894).
1936: Laid up.
1937: Sold to Soc. Nouvelle des Pêcheries à Vapeur, Nantes.
1937: Sold for breaking up. La Rochelle registry closed.

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S.T. Marie-Roselyne LR2894

S.T. Marie-Roselyne LR2894
Picture from the Internet

Changelog
26/04/2014: Information updated.
02/05/2014: Information updated.
17/06/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
13/09/2020: Updated history.

S.T. Pitstruan A86

Additional information courtesy of Granton Trawlers
Technical

Official Number: 148968
Yard Number: 621
Completed: 1930
Gross Tonnage: 211
Net Tonnage: 91
Length: 115.3 ft
Breadth: 22.6 ft
Depth: 12.2 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen
Built: A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen

History

18.12.1929: Launched by A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen (Yd.No.621) for Great Western Fishing Co Ltd, Aberdeen as PITSTRUAN.
15.1.1930: Registered at Aberdeen (A86).
2.1930: Completed. John Doig appointed manager.
7.1.1935: Sailed Aberdeen for Faroe grounds (Sk. George Abernethy).
20.1.1935: Stopped fishing and set course for home.
21.1.1935: At about 2.30am. when some 80 miles south of the Faroe Islands, with heavy seas and and gale force winds, struck by a very heavy sea that swept the ship, carrying away the wheelhouse, stoving in the steel base, knocking down the port stoke hole ventilator and carrying away the boat. Inside the remains of the wheelhouse was the mate, William Shepherd and the skipper’s son, deckhand George Abernethy Jnr, both with only minor injuries but also carried away and lost was the compass and clock and the wheel was damaged. A canvas dodger was rigged around the base of the wheelhouse but after running about fifty miles this was ripped off by the gale force wind. The trawler was hove to for ten hours awaiting a weather forecast and a more substantial screen was then constructed. The forecast was for southerly gales and heading into the wind they steamed slowly southwards until a light beam was observed which proved to be Noup Head, NW Orkney. When daylight came they were able to make their way through Westray Firth and once clear, set a SE course until they picked up Kinnaird Head.
24.1.1935: Arrived Aberdeen.
1.1.1937: Arrived Aberdeen with storm damage and landed 220 boxes and four score of cod. Reported that they had experienced very stormy weather when on the fishing grounds resulting in the boat being carried away and several wheelhouse windows smashed by the heavy seas.
25.5.1940: Requisitioned for war service and employed on miscellaneous duties (Hire rate £104.12.5d/month).
11.1940: Fitted out as a minesweeper (P.No.FY.1791). Based Swansea with M/S Group 155.
14.4.1941: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood. Basil Arthur Parkes, Cleveleys designated manager.
4.1944: Fitted out as a smoke making trawler and assigned to Operation Neptune – Normandy landings.
9.6.1944: Arrived Mulberry A from Yarmouth with Group A1. Employed smoke making with replenishment at Portland.
3.7.1944: Operation Neptune ended. Fitted out to a fuel carrier (Esso).
11.1944: Returned.
24.7.1945: Sold to Ardrossan Trawling Co Ltd, Ardrossan.
5.4.1946: Aberdeen registry closed.
4.1946: Registered at Glasgow as GRACE PATON (GW12). Walter K. Paton designated manager.
1958: Sold to Thomas L. Devlin & Sons Ltd, Granton. Glasgow registry closed. Registered at Granton as CONQUISTADOR (GN1).
1961: Sold to BISCO (£2532) and allocated to Shipbreaking Industries Ltd, Charlestown, Fife for breaking up (Contract No.5F).
20.12.1961: Delivered Charlestown from Granton under own power.
12.2.1962: Breaking up commenced. Granton registry closed.

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S.T. Conquistador GN1

S.T. Conquistador GN1
Picture courtesy of Shetland Museum

Changelog
29/04/2009: Page published. 6 updates since then.
18/03/2017: Updated information.

S.T. Caliph M197

Technical

Official Number: 121610
Yard Number: 804
Completed:: 1906
Gross Tonnage: 226
Net Tonnage: 87
Length: 120.5 ft
Breadth: 21.6 ft
Depth: 11.7 ft
Built: Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, North Shields
Engine: T.3-cyl by W.V.V. Lidgerwood, Coatbridge

History

1906: Launched by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, North Shields (Yd.No.804) for David Pettit,Milford; Morgan W. Howells, Hakin & Joseph W. Johnson, Neyland as CALIPH.
8.1906: Completed.
27.8.1906: Registered at Milford (M197) (David Pettit, managing owner).
19.11.1907 Fishing 180 miles WNW of Isles of Scilly (Sk. Alfred J. Kersey), at 6.30 pm. George Lednor (19), caught in sheave and lost leg. Landed at Queenstown but subsequently died.
18.5.1908: When fishing some 300 miles west of Lundy (Sk. Thomas Leggett) in collision with Cardiff owned steam trawler EUPHRATES (H329) (Sk. Bush) which sustained heavy damage to port side shell plating at bow.
20.5.1908: EUPHRATES arrived Swansea.
27.7.1908: Sold to David Pettit & Joseph W. Johnson, Milford Haven.
7.3.1911: About 18 miles off St. Ann’s Head (Sk. Thomas Leggett) in collision with drifter VERA (SN353); damage to bow.
21.1.1912: Sold to David Pettit, Milford Haven (managing owner).
1.1.1914: Tonnage altered to 86.61 net under provision of Merchant Shipping Act 1907.
8.1914: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-6pdr HA, 1-3.5” A/S Howitzer and Hydrophone) (Ad.No.133).
1917: Based at Portland. In company with HMTrawler MARISTO (Ad.No.1987)(M14) attacked a German submarine and claimed an unconfirmed kill.
1919: Returned to owner.
1.1928: Stranded at Helvick Head, nr Dungarvan, Co. Waterford, sustaining damage to rudder and after peak.
27.1.1928: Refloated by Cork tug MORSECOCK (325grt/1877)
28.1.1928: Arrived Passage West, Co. Cork for repair.
3.1.1933: Left Valentia (Sk. Jack H. Ryan) to assist Norwegian steamer HEILO (989g/1921). Stood by.
5.1.1933: Connected but tow parted. 6/7/1.1933: Stood by HEILO.
8.1.1933: To Valentia and located tug. Returned and stood by.
9.1.1933: At 9.30 am. released and left for Milford.
25.10.1934: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Basil A. Parkes, Blackpool manager).
21.11.1934: Sold to Harley & Miller Ltd, Liverpool (Richard H. Jones, Wallasey, manager).
1934: Milford registry closed.
22.11.1934: Registered at Liverpool (LL46).
6.1937: Sold to Edgar E. Carter, Milford Haven (managing/owner).
10.7.1937: Liverpool registry closed.
12.7.1937: Registered at Milford (M234).
7.12.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (Hire rate £56.10.0d/month).
13.1.1940: Returned.
21.6.1940: In Western Approaches, picked up nine crew members of the Newcastle registered steam tanker SARANAC (12,049grt/1918) (Capt Vernon H. Alcock) Convoy QA172, which had foundered about 270 miles SW of Lands End having been torpedoed and hit by gunfire from U-boat (U51). Landed survivors at Berehaven, Co. Cork. Master and thirty survivors picked up by HMS HURRICANE (P.No.H06) (Lt Cdr H. C. Simms RN) and landed at Plymouth.
2. 11.1941: On Irish grounds (Sk. ??). About 12 miles south of Old Head of Kinsale foundered after being bombed by German aircraft. Crew picked up by SLEBECH (M199) and landed at Milford.
4.11.1941: Thomas Swingler, Bosun died in hospital of injuries sustained in attack.
17.11.1941: Milford registry closed.
6.1942: Sk. Thompson, Hakin, skipper of SLEBECH awarded MBE and Ch. Eng. George Henry Springer awarded BEM, for bravery in rescuing crew of CALIPH.

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S.T. Caliph M197

S.T. Caliph M197
Picture courtesy of Milford Trawlers

Changelog
11/03/2009: Page published. 3 updates since then.
24/10/2019: Updated information and added an image.