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S.T. Gozo H545

Additional information courtesy of Mike Thompson

Technical

Official Number: 113639
Yard Number: 308
Completed: 1902
Gross Tonnage: 172.42
Net Tonnage: 64.29
Length: 108.4 ft
Breadth: 21.3 ft
Depth: 11.2 ft
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Beverley
Engine: 240ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by Amos & Smith, Hull

History

27.2.1902: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Beverley (Yd.No.308) for The Hull Steam Fishing & Ice Co Ltd (64/64), Hull as GOZO.
18.4.1902: Registered at Hull (H545).
18.4.1902: Henry Toozes appointed manager
19.4.1902: Completed.
2.10.1905: In heavy weather in North Sea, Henry Boys, Bosun, was drowned.
30.10.1905: Joseph Vivian appointed manager.
13.3.1913: Sk. Charles Deyes received a letter of thanks from the German Ambassador for attempting to rescue the crew of the German barque Hermann in a severe gale in the North Sea. Boat overturned but a boat from steam trawler POONAH (H737) rescued the crew before the vessel foundered.
1.1.1914: Tonnage altered to 67.94net under provision of Merchant Shipping Act 1907.
10.1914: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-6pdr HA) (Ad.No.644). Based Portland.
By 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Hull.
13.5.1920: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to The London County, Westminster & Parr’s Bank Ltd, London (A).
11.11.1920: Outward for North Sea grounds on afternoon tide, fell in with a small boat at mouth of Humber which had onboard the crew of a Yarmouth herring drifter which had foundered; took onboard.
12.11.1920: Returned to Hull to land survivors.
16.1.1922: In blizzard conditions off the Humber driven onto Haile Sands. Spurn lifeboat in attendance and anchors run out. Subsequently refloated and proceeded.
10.3.1923: Mortgagee restyled Westminster Bank Ltd, London.
14.10.1927: Mortgage (A) transferred to William Augustus Hayward, Eastbourne.
14.10.1927: Mortgage (A) transferred to Mercantile Marine Finance Corporation Ltd, London.
22.10.1928: Robert Burton appointed manager.
19.11.1930: Mortgage (A) discharged.
19.11.1920: Sold to Colin Henry Brand (64/64), Milford Haven.
24.11.1930: Colin Henry Brand designated managing owner.
27.12.1930: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) To Barclays Bank Ltd, London (B).
30.12.1935: In heavy weather off the Smalls (Sk. Chris Masterton Jnr). At about 3.00 pm. went to assistance of steam drifter FEASIBLE (LT122) which had been battling to keep afloat for thirteen hours with wheelhouse, compass and lifeboat washed away, flooded below deck. and having lost deckhand Edward Halliday (27) of Lowestoft washed overboard. With difficulty connected and after a rough passage delivered Milford.
14.12.1937: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Robert Parcell Lewis, Fishguard for the sum of £312 with interest at 4.5% (C).
4.1938: With ALONSO (H887) converted for Spanish pareja trawling method.
4.1938: Newspaper clipping: “J. F. Gwyther has been favoured with instructions to offer for sale at the Conservative Club, on Friday 15th September, the steam trawlers ALONSO, CAIRO and GOZO. These ships are of the ex-fleeter type, strongly built, and the class suitable for pareja (pair fishing, Spanish style).”
3.8.1938: Mortgage (B) discharged.
3.12.1938: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Ruth Brand, Johnston and Lilian Gertrude Brand, Burton (joint mortgagees) for the sum of £667 with interest at 5% (D).
13.3.1939: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Albert Charles Hooper and Edward Reuben Cyprian Hooper, Cardiff (joint mortgagees) (E).
30.6.1939: Last landing at Milford. Laid up.
7.7.1939: Colin H. Brand filed for bankruptcy.
7.10.1939: Mortgages (D) & (E) discharged.
12.10.1939: Sold by order of the mortgagee under mortgage (C) to Fred Parkes and Charles Lucas Wilbraham (64/64 joint owners) both Blackpool.
30.10-.1939: Fred Parkes designated managing owner.
8.11.1939: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd (64/64), Fleetwood.
18.11.1939: Basil Arthur Parkes, Thornton-le-Fylde appointed manager.
1940: Fitted with Lewis gun.
12.3.1941: Sold to The Yolland Trawling Co Ltd (64/64), Milford Haven.
15.4.1941: John Charles Llewellin appointed manager.
9.4.1941: Sailed Milford for Irish grounds (Sk. E. G. Paul); ten crew all told, in company with steam trawler FORT RONA (M56).
19.4.1941: Fishing in company with FORT RONA NWbyN from Bull Rock and SEbyE from Fastnets in calm seas, good visibility and NE wind force 2. Steering a northeasterly course and making good about 11 knots, sighted two aircraft approaching from the south at about 40ft about the surface at a distance of 3 to 5 miles. Crews of both ships ordered to take cover and Bosun manned the Lewis gun but withheld fire when it was thought that smaller aircraft, painted green aft, was Irish; larger aircraft identified as a Fokker Condor. Both aircraft circled the two ships and when to windward started to emit a a thick dirty yellow vapour which swept by the breeze engulfed the two trawlers. Crew told to hold their breath as the ship altered course to clear the cloud but several affected in eyes and mouth. The two aircraft pulled away and the Condor released five bombs which landed close but three failed to explode, while a torpedo was also released passing under the ship. The FORT RONA was also bombed but these exploded on her starboard side without damage. The aircraft then departed. Stowed gear and with about 50 kits of fish left for home arriving Milford before midnight. FORT RONA put into Berehaven, Co. Cork.
16.5.1941: John Charles Llewellin, Hakin appointed manager.
17.2.1945: Sold to Milford Fisheries Ltd (64/64), Milford Haven.
12 3.1945: Owen Willie Limbrick appointed manager.
16.7.1945: Last landing at Milford.
24.7.1945: On South West Irish grounds (Sk. W. Corney). Lost after striking a mine 25 miles S by SW of Old Head of Kinsale; all crew picked up by Milford trawler PHOEBE (H881) and landed at Kinsale, Co. Cork.
27.7.1945: Crew returned to Milford.
27.11.1945: Milford registry closed. “Ship sunk on 24th July 1945 as a result of an explosion Ministry of Transport reference M15111/1945.”

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S.T. Gozo H545

S.T. Gozo H545
Picture courtesy of The Alan Hirst Collection

Changelog
22/01/2009: Page published. 4 updates since then.
05/08/2016: Significant information update.
22/03/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
14/12/2020: Updated history.

S.T. Daystar H542

Additional material courtesy of Mike Thompson

Technical

Official Number: 164426
Yard Number: 1032
Completed: 1937
Gross Tonnage: 558
Net Tonnage: 222
Length: 173.6 ft
Breadth: 28.6 ft
Depth: 15 ft
Engine: 925ihp T.3-cyl by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, South Bank-on-Tees, Middlesbrough
Built: Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, South Bank-on-Tees, Middlesbrough

History

14.4.1937: Launched by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, South Bank-on-Tees, Middlesbrough (Yd.No.1032) for Vinur Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby as SCOTTISH.
5.1937: Completed (Edward J. Johnson, Cleethorpes, manager).
29.5.1937: Registered at Grimsby (GY397).
16.10.1939: Requisitioned for war service as an anti submarine trawler (1-4”) (P.No.FY.245).
1940: Based Scapa Flow with A/S Group 14 (Lt Cdr Jackson RNR).
12.1940: South Atlantic Command, Armed Boarding Vessel at Gibraltar (Cdr S. A. Brooks OBE Rtd).
14.9.1942: Sold to Kingston Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull (John William Lown, manager) for £40,000.
23.9.1942: Grimsby registry closed.
25.9.1942: Registered at Hull (H542) (fees £5.6.3d).
16.11.1942: Transferred to West Africa Command (Act. Cdr L. H. Phillips Rtd).
12.1943: Engaged and shot down Focke Wulf.
22.1.1945: Arrived Hull for refit and restoration by St.Andrew’s Engineering Co. Ltd. Hull.
16.5.1945: Ran trials.
17.5.1945 Returned to owner (William O’Dell manager ).
13.6.1945: Sailed Hull for Bear Island (Sk. W. Cornish).
6.7.1945: At Hull landed 2,876 kits grossed £9,653.
31.7.1945: Sailed for Bear Island (Sk. Albert Cornish).
20.8.1945: At Hull landed a record breaking catch, 4,156 kits and 20 ton of cod liver oil grossed £15,830 (Following this success Seven Seas Ltd the Hull cod liver oil refining company put a film crew onboard with Sk. Cornish and produced a documentary about the trawler’s round trip from Hull to Bear Island ( Featured in the Distant Grounds Video No.1 1993)).
7.12.1945: Registered at Hull as KINGSTON PEARL (H542).
30.11.1945: Insured value £50,000; for 1946 proposed £58,000.
16.2.1946: On a Norway Coast trip (Sk.J. W. Hornby). Dodging in heavy seas when struck by large waves and put almost on her beam end. All fittings swept from boat deck and engine room skylight badly damaged allowing water into engine room and accommodation; one fireman fatally injured. Righted herself and distress signal sent.
18.2.1946: Steam trawler KINGSTON ONYX (GY119) (Sk. John Davidson) responded and stood by.
20.2.1946: Salvage tug PARAT (191grt/1913) arrived on scene, connected and delivered Trondheim. Temporary repairs carried out.
3.3.1946: Arrived Hull.
6.1950: Converted for burning oil fuel, F.P. above 150° F.
1953: Made one trip to Greenland fishery.
20.12.1957: Sold to Robins Trawlers Ltd, Hull (Robins family) (William John Robbins, manager) for £49,00.
16.1.1958: Registered at Hull as DAYSTAR (H542).
31.1.1958: Terence George Robbins appointed manager.
1961: Company taken over by Boston Deep Sea Fisheries Ltd, Fleetwood (Basil A. Parkes, manager).
4.10.1963: Sailed Hull for Iceland, last trip before transfer (Sk. E. Fieldsend).
28.10.1963: At Hull landed 803 kits grossed £4,397.
13.11.1963: Transferred to Fleetwood.
13.11.1963: Last landing at Fleetwood, 800 boxes grossed £5,219.
1.1964: Sold to Lacmots Ltd, Glasson Dock for breaking up.
1.2.1964: Delivered Glasson Dock.
21.9.1964: Hull registry closed.

(Sk. John Davidson of the KINGSTON ONYX was presented with a silver cigarette case in appreciation of his efforts in standing by)

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S.T. Daystar H542

S.T. Daystar H542
Picture courtesy of the JJ collection

S.T. Daystar H542

S.T. Daystar H542
Picture courtesy of The JJ Collection

S.T. Daystar H542

S.T. Daystar H542
Picture courtesy of The Mike Thompson Collection

S.T. Daystar H542

S.T. Daystar H542
Picture courtesy of The JJ Collection

Changelog
22/01/2209: Page published. 3 updates since then.
19/01/2017: Removed disputed image.
04/12/2017: Removed FMHT logo from image.
05/04/2020: Updated information.

S.T. Boston Valiant FD214

Technical

Official Number: 185294
Yard Number: 197
Completed: 1946
Gross Tonnage: 297
Net Tonnage: 116
Length: 125.0 ft
Breadth: 24.5 ft
Depth: 14.0 feet
Engine: J. Lewis & Sons Ltd, Aberdeen
Built: J. Lewis & Sons Ltd, Aberdeen
Boiler: Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Dundee.

History

31.7.1946: Launched by J. Lewis & Sons Ltd, Aberdeen (Yd. No.197) for Francois & Mathieu Fourny, Boulogne-sur-mer as CÔTE d’ARGENT.
11.1946: Completed. Registered at Boulogne (B2345).
9.1953: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Fred Parkes, Blackpool, manager). Boulogne registry closed. Registered at Fleetwood as BOSTON VALIANT (FD214).
12.1957: Sold to Irvin & Johnson Ltd, Cape Town. Fleetwood registry closed. Registered at Cape Town (CTA122).
1967: Sold for breaking up.

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S.T. Boston Valiant FD214 as Coté d' Argent

S.T. Boston Valiant FD214 as Coté d' Argent
Picture courtesy of Pierre-Adrien Fourny

S.T. Cote D' Argent B2345

S.T. Cote D’ Argent B2345

S.T. Boston Valiant FD214

S.T. Boston Valiant FD214
Picture courtesy of the JJ collection

S.T. Boston Valiant FD214 off Cape Town

S.T. Boston Valiant FD214 off Cape Town
Picture courtesy of Janet Hannah

Changelog
22/01/2009: Page published.
29/08/2014: Picture added.

S.T. Mumby BN174

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Technical

Admiralty Number: 3675
Official Number: 143844
Yard Number: 355
Completed: 1918
As built: 360disp 125.6 x 23.5 x 12.8 feet
Gross Tonnage: 277
Net Tonnage: 122
Length: 125.7 ft
Breadth: 23.4 ft
Depth: 12.8 ft
Built: Bow, McLachlan & Co Ltd, Paisley
Engine: 480ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by Bow, McLachlan & Co Ltd, Paisley

History

9.4.1918: Launched by Bow, McLachlan & Co Ltd, Paisley (Yd.No.355) (“Castle” class) for The Admiralty as EDWARD COLLINGWOOD (Ad.No.3675).
26.4.1918: Completed as a minesweeper (1-12pdr, hydrophone and W/T).
19.11.1919: Registered by the Admiralty at London (Part I) as EDWARD COLLINGWOOD O.N.143844. Engaged in commercial trawling.
19.02.1920: Registered by The Admiralty at London (Part IV) as EDWARD COLLINGWOOD (LO330).
03.1920: At HM Dockyard, Pembroke completed fitting out for fishing under Special Survey of Lloyd’s Register and classed 100 A1 Stm Trawler at Milford.
By 18.06.1920: Allocated to Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries, London and engaged in commercial trawling.
1920: Allocated to the National Fishery Scheme for the setting up of the Minesweepers’ Cooperative Trawling Society Ltd, London.
13.08.1920: Minesweepers’ Cooperative Trawling Society Ltd, London registered.
By 18.12.1920: Returned to The Admiralty.
01.1922: Scheme abandoned, the necessary working capital of £100,000 having not been subscribed.
16.02.1922: Advertised for sale.
1922: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Boston.
7.7.1922: London registry closed.
7.1922: Registered at Boston as MUMBY (BN174). Fred Parkes, Wyburton, Boston appointed manager.
1923: Transferred to Fleetwood.
1924: Sold to René Maubaillarcq & Cie, La Rochelle.
1924: Re measured 296g 89n.
1924: Boston registry closed. Registered at La Rochelle as TAVANNES.
9.1933: Sold to Hudson Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull.
9.1933: La Rochelle registry closed.
10.1933: New boiler fitted.
1933: Re measured 279g 109n.
26.9.1933: Registered at Hull as T. R. FERENS (H510). Archibald Hudson appointed manager.
1938: Sold to Iago Steam Trawler Co
Ltd, London & Fleetwood.
29.3.1938: Hull registry closed.
30.3.1938: Registered at London (LO210). Edward D. W. Lawford appointed manager.
29.8.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (P.No.FY.532) (Hire rate £83.14.0d/month).
4.1945: Returned to owner.
6.1945: Sold to Messrs Yolland & Llewellin, Milford Haven. Fishing from Fleetwood.
1.1.1946: Messrs Yolland & Llewellin partnership dissolved.
9.1.1946: Sold to J. C. Llewellin (Trawlers) Ltd, Milford Haven. John Charles Llewellin appointed manager. Continued fishing from Fleetwood.
29.9.1948: Sold to J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood for £13,861.
10.1948: London registry closed.
10.1948: Registered at Fleetwood (FD282).
10.1948: Geoffrey Edwards Marr appointed manager.
20.3.1953: Sailed Fleetwood for St. Kilda ground (Sk. William Lloyd), thirteen crew all told.
26.3.1953: When hauling in a heavy swell, mate Redvers William Edwards (57) lost his footing and fell overboard. Skipper threw three lifebuoys but mate failed to grasp one. Deckhand Owen Johnston (19) threw off seaboots and oilskins and jumped in alongside Edwards but swell carried the mate away. Johnston recovered and trip aborted.
27.3.1953: Returned to Fleetwood.
7.1953: Sold for breaking up.
14.7.1953: Last landing at Fleetwood.
16.7.1953: Sailed Fleetwood for ??.

(Francis Edward Collingwood, AB, age 23, b. Milford, Wales – VICTORY (SB?))

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S.T. T. R. Ferens LO210

S.T. T. R. Ferens LO210
Picture © John Stevenson

Changelog
22/01/2009: Page published. 4 updates since then.
17/03/2015: Information updated.
20/09/2016: Information updated.
18/06/2021: Updated history and technical details.

S.T. Hondo H565

Technical

Official Number: 132132
Yard Number: 520
Completed: 1912
Gross Tonnage: 229
Net Tonnage: 118
Length: 119.2 ft
Breadth: 22 ft
Depth: 11.5 ft
Built: Cochrane & Son Ltd, Selby
Engine: 66HP T.3-cyl and boiler by Charles D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull

History

22.2.1912: Launched by Cochrane & Sons, Selby (Yd.No.520) for Henry L. Taylor Ltd, Grimsby (managing owner) as HONDO.
29.4.1912: Registered at Grimsby (GY701).
5.1912: Completed.
8.1914: Requisitioned for war service as an armed trawler (1-6pdr HA) (Ad.No.16).
1919: Returned.
10.1922: Sold to Diamonds Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby (H. L. Taylor) (Henry G. Hopwood, manager).
1935: New boiler fitted (made 1934).
1940: Directed to Fleetwood under wartime control (Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood, managers).
9.1941: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood.
9.3.1943: Dutch motor trawler ALIDA (SCH6) sailed Fleetwood for Irish Sea grounds.
20.3.1943: Homeward in dense fog, at 1030 am. to seaward of Morecambe Bay Light Vessel, struck ALIDA on starboard side 12ft in front of winch. Despite rigging tarpaulin ingress of water too great and connected for tow to Fleetwood. At 1.30 pm. ALIDA foundered and crew taken onboard, landing at Fleetwood at 5.45 pm. Owners admitted liability for collision.
1943: Working Icelandic grounds.
11.1943: Sold to Charleson-Smith Trawlers Ltd, Hull.
9.11.1943: Grimsby registry closed.
10.11.1943: Registered at Hull (H565). To continue fishing out of Fleetwood (Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood, managing agents).
7.5.1943: Typical landing from Iceland grounds. 856 kits – hake-8, cod/codling-800, haddock-122, plaice-21, flats-27.
16.11.1943: Sailed Fleetwood for West of Scotland grounds (Sk. John Nicholson); thirteen crew.
24.11.1943: Last contact after sighting off Barra Head.
2.12.1943: Body of Sk. Nicholson recovered and buried at Castlebay, Barra.
10.12.1943: Body of Joseph Croft recovered and buried at Fleetwood.
31.12.1943: Posted missing, believed lost by stress of weather off Barra Head; 14 crew lost*. Later body of Norman Leach, Mate recovered and buried also body of Frederick Mearns, deckhand. Believed buried at Coileg, Eriskay.
1944: Hull registry closed.

* Lost – Sk. John Nicholson (43); Norman Leach (39), Mate; Norman Stirzacker, Bosun; Herbert H. Scuffell, Ch.Eng; Sidney Beswick, 2nd Eng; Frederick Mearns (38): Joseph Croft (19); William Cameron; W. Harrison; S. Olsen & J. Braunberch, deckhands; Patrick Wilson (16), deckie learner; James Hill (60), fireman; Bertie Lees (43), cook.

Joseph Croft was 19 years old and was buried at Fleetwood after his body was recovered from the Scottish coast. The mate had sailed after leaving a sick bed with a bout of flu as he hadn’t wished to let his skipper down.

Patrick Wilson, at 16 years old, was the youngest person aboard.

James Hill was a survivor of other wrecks having been sunk three times. He was the only survivor of the Fleetwood vessel OONA HALL when she was run down off the Calf of Mann by a French armed merchant cruiser.

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S.T. Hondo H565

S.T. Hondo H565

Changelog
22/01/2009: Page published. 4 updates since then.
14/01/2021: Updated history.