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S.T. Tewera LO9

Technical

Official Number: 161345
Yard Number: 1065
Completed: 1930
Gross Tonnage: 335
Net Tonnage: 142
Length: 135 ft
Breadth: 24.9 ft
Depth: 13.7 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by Amos & Smith Ltd, Hull
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby

History

2.11.1929: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.1065) for Brand & Curzon Ltd, Milford Haven as TEWERA.
4.1.1930: Registered at London (LO9).
7.1.1930: Completed (Edward Brand & Charles Curzon, managers).
10.9.1937: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Basil A. Parkes, Cleveleys, manager).
27.8.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (P.No.FY.526)(Hire rate £166.2.1d/month).
6.1946: Returned to owner.
10.1946: Sold to Government of Poland, Warsaw (Ministry of Industry & Commerce) (“Dalmor” Przedsiobiorstwo Polowow Dalekomorskich Sp.z.ogr.odn., Gdynia, managers) under the UNRRA scheme. Renamed SATURNIA (GDY91)
21.2.1966: Sold to Polish shipbreakers for breaking up at Gdansk.

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S.T. Tewera LO9

S.T. Tewera LO9
Picture courtesy of the James Cullen Collection

S.T. Saturnia GDY91

Picture from the Internet

Changelog
08/01/2009: Page published.
30/08/2013: Information updated.
16/06/2014: Picture added.
19/11/2017: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
01/04/2024: Added an image.

S.T. Tehana FD132

Technical

Official Number: 161200
Yard Number: 1039
Completed: 1929
Gross Tonnage: 333
Net Tonnage: 128
Length: 135.4 ft
Breadth: 24.9 ft
Depth: 13.3 ft
Engine: 98hp T.3-cyl and boiler by Amos & Smith Ltd, Hull
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby

History

27.12.1928: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.1039) for Brand & Curzon Ltd, Milford Haven as TEHANA.
27.2.1929: Completed (Edward Brand & Charles Curzon, managers).
27.2.1929: Registered at London (LO132).
3.9.1937: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Basil A. Parkes, Cleveleys, manager).
27.8.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (P.No.FY.525)(Hire rate £156.15.9d/month).
1.1944: Fitted out for wreck disposal (P.No.4.418). Based at Barry.
6.1944: Operation Neptune – Normandy landings. Assigned wreck dispersal duties.
3.1946: Returned to owner.
1946: Registered at Fleetwood (FD132).
1948: Sold to Government of Poland, Warsaw (Ministry of Industry & Commerce) (“Dalmor” Przedsiobiorstwo Polowow Dalekomorskich, Gdynia, managers) under the UNRRA scheme. Fleetwood registry closed. Registered at Gdynia as SATURN (GDY122).
1964: Sold to Polish shipbreakers for breaking up.

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HMT Tehana

HMT Tehana
Picture reproduced under IWM Non-Commercial Licence

S.T. Saturn GDY122

S.T. Saturn GDY122
Picture courtesy of Pieter van der Valk

S.T. Saturn GDY122

S.T. Saturn GDY122
Picture courtesy of Pieter van der Valk

Changelog
08/01/2009: Page published. 5 revisions since then.
09/09/2014: Two pictures added.

S.T. Tagalie GY744

Technical

Official Number: 134750
Yard Number: 529
Completed: 1912
Gross Tonnage: 209.98
Net Tonnage: 81.24
Length: 117.4 ft
Breadth: 22 ft
Depth: 11.6 ft
Built: Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, South Bank on Tees, Middlesbrough
Engine: 425ihp T.3-cyl by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, Middlesbrough
Boiler: J. T. Eltringham & Co, South Shields

History

12.10.1912: Launched by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, South Bank on Tees, Middlesbrough (Yd.No.529) for Sleight’s Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby as TAGALIE.
11.11.1912: Registered at Grimsby (GY744).
11.1912: Completed.
12.11.1912: Ernest Sleight designated manager.
27.11.1912: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Barclay & Co Ltd, London (A).
9.1914: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-6pdr HA) (Ad.No.451). Based Harwich.
12.5.1915: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to National Provincial Bank of England Ltd, London (B).
13.5.1915: Mortgage (A) discharged.
8.4.1918: Mortgagee re-styled National Provincial & Union Bank of England Ltd.
Post 12.3.1919: Returned to owner.
15.9.1921: Sir Ernest Sleight, Bart designated manager.
15.2.1924: Mortgagee re-styled National Provincial Bank Ltd.
10.10.1927: Mortgage (B) discharged.
12.10.1927: Sold to Overseas Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
12.10.1927: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to National Provincial Bank Ltd, London (C).
20.10.1927: Walter Harold Beeley designated manager.
16.12.1935: Mortgage (C) discharged.
19.12.1935: Sold to William Brebner (16/64), Albert Brebner (16/64), John Main Thomson Brebner (16/64), Mary Ann Brebner (16/64), all Aberdeen.
27.12.1935: Grimsby registry closed.
29.12.1935: William Brebner designated managing owner.
31.12.1935: Registered at Aberdeen (A391).
20.6.1942: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd (64/64), Fleetwood. Basil Arthur Parkes, Cleveleys designated manager. Working Home and Icelandic grounds.
28.4.1943: Typical wartime landing, Home Waters. 370 kits – hake-200, haddock-8, flats-2, ling/coley-160.
2.2.1945: Landed at Fleetwood.
10.2.1945: Sold to Tagalie Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Hull.
9.3.1945: Company re-located to Grimsby.
17.4.1945: Vessel mortgaged to Barclays Bank Ltd, London (D),
15.7.1945: Aberdeen registry closed.
16.7.1945: Registered at Grimsby (GY68).
16.7.1945: Albert W. Butt designated manager.
1950: Sold for breaking up.
4.9.1950: Grimsby registry closed ”… except in respect of mortgage (D)”.
25.7.1952: Mortgage (D) discharged.

Changelog
08/01/2009: Page published. 4 updates since then.
07/08/2021: Updated history and technical details.

S.T. Sturdee LT588

Technical

Official Number: 139345
Yard Number: 657
Completed: 1919
Gross Tonnage: 215
Net Tonnage: 88
Length: 115.4 ft
Breadth: 22.1 ft
Depth: 12.1 ft
Engine: 74hp T.3-cyl by Hall, Russell & Co Ltd, Aberdeen
Built: Hall, Russell & Co Ltd, Aberdeen

History

12.6.1919: Launched by Hall, Russell & Co Ltd, Aberdeen (Yd.No.657) (“Strath” class) for The Admiralty as MICHAEL BRION (Ad.No.4430).
9.7.1919: Completed as a fishing vessel for Leonard C. Cockrell, Wivenhoe as STURDEE.
21.7.1919: Registered at Hull (H72).
1919: On registration at Hull measured 202g.
17.9.1919: Hull registry closed.
22.9.1919: Registered at Lowestoft (LT588).
12.1919: Sold to Vanessa Fishing Co Ltd, Lowestoft (Leonard C. Cockrell, manager).
1923: Sold to Arthur S. Bowlby, Harlow (Edward D. W. Lawford, c/o Iago Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Milford Haven, manager).
7.5.1925: Arrested for trawling inside the limits in Bantry Bay, Co. Cork (Sk. Henry A. Edward).
27.8.1925: Appeared at Bantry District Court and fined.
1930: Transferred to Fleetwood when Edward D. W. Lawford moved his vessels to the port.
1932: Laid up at Fleetwood.
9.1932: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Basil A. Parkes, manager).
9.1932: Sold to John Gore, Aberdeen (managing owner).
5.11.1932: Lowestoft registry closed.
19.11.1932: Registered at Aberdeen (A219).
1933: Sold to Gorspen Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Aberdeen (Alexander J. Spence, manager).
1937: Sold to Alexander A. Davidson, Aberdeen (managing owner).
25.11.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper; employed on auxiliary patrol duties (Nore/Harwich)(Hire rate £63.2.6d/month).
31.1.1940: Returned.
1940: Sold to T. W. N. Davidson, Aberdeen (Alexander A. Davidson, manager).
1940: Directed to Fleetwood under wartime controls (Iago Steam Trawling Co Ltd, managers).
1944: Returned to Aberdeen.
1945: Sold to Looker Fishing Co Ltd, Aberdeen (Alexander A. Davidson, manager).
11.10.1956: Sailed Aberdeen on a North Sea trip (Sk.William Wilson); eleven crew.
19.10.1955: Arrived back off Aberdeen at 5.30 pm decided not to enter port but to drift in Aberdeen Bay until morning. Weather deteriorated in the evening, W to SW wind, moderate to heavy ground swell with poor visibility in passing rain showers. At about 9.30 pm. low water, stranded in a position to the northward of the Aberdeen North Breakwater . Crew of eleven* taken off by Aberdeen lifeboat HILTON BRIGGS (Cox. George Flett) and landed in Aberdeen.
20.10.1955: Catch landed.
10.1955: Declared a CTL and subsequently broken up in situ.
12/12.3.1956: At the Formal Investigation (S.435) held at Aberdeen, the Court found that the stranding and subsequent total loss was due to the fault of Sk Wilson and also of Reuben Rae, who had falsely claimed to hold a Second Hand’s Certificate. Sk. Wilson’s ticket was suspended for one year and Reuben Rae ordered to pay £15 towards the cost of the investigation.

(Crew* – All Aberdeen unless stated. Sk. William Wilson, Macduff; Reuben Rae, Mate; Charles Trowbridge, 2nd fisherman; John A. Reid, Buckie, Ch Eng; James Connell, 2nd Eng; Larry McEhatton, James Findlay, John Morrice, deckhands; Charles Shand, William Watt, firemen; Gordon Westland, cook.)

(Michael Brion, Landsman, age 25, b. Bandon, Co. Cork – ROYAL SOVEREIGN (SB728))

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S.T. Sturdee LT588

S.T. Sturdee A219
Picture courtesy of Billy Worrall

Changelog
07/01/2009: Page published. 4 updates since then.
25/06/2015: Picture added.
20/01/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.

S.T. Strathlethen A984

Technical

Official Number: 129347
Yard Number: 482
Completed: 1911
Gross Tonnage: 191.70
Net Tonnage: 73.75
Length: 112.75 ft
Breadth: 21.90 ft
Depth: 11.7 ft
Built: Hall, Russell & Co Ltd, Aberdeen
Engine: T.3-cyl by Hall, Russell & Co Ltd, Aberdeen

History

19.10.1910: Launched by Hall, Russell & Co Ltd, Aberdeen (Yd.No.482) for The Aberdeen Steam Trawling & Fishing Co Ltd, Aberdeen as STRATHELTHEN.
5.1.1911: Registered at Aberdeen (A340).
1.1911: Completed. John Brown designated manager.
6.1915: Requisitioned for war service and fitted out as an accommodation ship for boom working vessels (1-3pdr). Based Scapa.
Post 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Aberdeen.
1919: Sold to Wallace L. Mullender, Walter Shipp & William Hutchings, Lowestoft.
13.8.1919: Aberdeen registry closed.
15.8.1919: Registered at Lowestoft (LT493). Walter Shipp designated managing owner.
1923: Sold to John Craig, James Craig, George Craig & Joseph Craig, Aberdeen. John Craig designated managing owner.
12.10.1923: Lowestoft registry closed.
23.10.1923: Registered at Aberdeen (A948).
29.4.1932: In dense fog 6 miles off Aberdeen in collision with trawler BRACONASH (A728) which subsequently foundered. Crew picked up and landed Aberdeen.
29.12.1933: Entering Aberdeen in gale and heavy seas, carried away steering chains and struck north pier. Damaged and taken in tow by steam tug CHESTER (90grt/1900/25nhp ) and berthed safely.
7.11.1935: Sold to George Craig, Aberdeen. George Craig designated managing owner.
14.1.1937: Sold to River Ness Fishing Co Ltd, Aberdeen George Craig designated manager.
4.1.1939: Sold to Andrew Robertson Jnr & James Reid, Aberdeen. A. Robertson designated managing owner
1939: Sold to A. Robertson Jnr, Aberdeen. A. Robertson designated managing manager.
1940: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood. Basil Arthur Parkes, Cleveleys designated manager.
2.8.1941: Sold to Transvaal Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Fleetwood. J. N. Ward & Son designated managers).
19.5.1943: Typical wartime landing. 249 kits – hake-175, flats-12, ling/coley-51, roker-7, gurnard-1, dogs-3.
5.4.1944: Sold to Brebner Fishing Co Ltd, Aberdeen. William Brebner designated manager.
1956: Sold to BISCO for breaking up.
1956: Sailed Bo’ness for breaking.
5.10.1956: Aberdeen registry closed “Vessel broken up”.

Changelog
07/01/2009: Page published. 4 updates since then.
10/03/2020: Information updated.