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S.T. Loch Morar LO252

Technical

Official Number: 143800
Yard Number: 381
Completed: 1918
Gross Tonnage: 290 (279)
Net Tonnage: 119
Length: 125.5 ft
Breadth: 23.5 ft
Depth: 12.0 ft
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley
Engine: 480ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by Amos & Smith
Speed 10.5 knots

History

2.11.1917: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.381) (“Castle” class) for The Admiralty as JOSEPH BARRATT (Ad.No.3586).
1.3.1918: Completed (1-12pdr, Hydrophone and W/T).
6.11.1919: Registered by The Admiralty at London (Part I) as JOSEPH BARRATT O.N.143800. Engaged in commercial fishing.
1920: Sold to The Skomer Steam Shipping Co Ltd, Cardiff. Lewis Bull designated manager.
13.1.1920: Registered at London (Part IV) (LO252).
16.11.1923: Sold to Brand & Curzon Ltd, Milford Haven. Edward Brand & Charles Curzon designated managers.
3.6.1929: Sold to Arthur S. Bowlby, Harlow. Edward D. W. Lawford, Milford Haven designated manager.
6.7.1929: Registered at London as LOCH MORAR (LO252).
1930: Transferred to Fleetwood when Edward D. W. Lawford moved his vessels to the port.
1931: Sold to Vanessa Fishing Co Ltd, Fleetwood. Edward D. W. Lawford designated manager.
1932: Laid up at Fleetwood.
9.1932: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood. Basil Arthur Parkes, Blackpool designate manager.
10.1933: Sold to Soc. Anon des Pécheries Saint Pierre, Boulogne (P. H. Ficheux, manager).
2.11.1933: London registry closed. Registered at Boulogne as SAINT BARNABE (B-??).
1.1934: Sold to C. J. H. Kirk, Fleetwood.
1.1934: Boulogne registry closed.
11.1.1934: Registered at Fleetwood as HARRY HAWKE (FD5).
3.1934: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood. Basil Arthur Parkes, Cleveleys designated manager.
3.1934: Re measured 279g 108n.
11.12.1934: On West of Scotland grounds (Sk. George Birch). Responded to distress call from steam trawler DANE (H227) which had stranded the previous day on the West Dureberg Reef, off Monarch Islands, west of North Uist and had come afloat under own power but leaking. Stood by and escorted to Leverburgh, Isle of Harris for temporary repairs to be carried out.
7.1935: Sold to Caledonian Fishing Co Ltd, Hull. Harold Wright, designated manager.
10.7.1935: Fleetwood registry closed.
11.7.1935: Registered at Hull (H204).
29.7.1935: Registered at Hull as LOCH KINNORD (H204) (Ref. R.G.1290/35 dated 27.7.1935).
6.4.1939: Sold to Trident Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull.
26.4.1939: Registered at Hull as TILBURY NESS (H204) (Ref. R.G.1181/1939).
2.9.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (P.No. NR) (Hire rate £83.14.0d/month).
1.11.1940: Bombed and sunk by heavy German air attack in the Thames Estuary. Sheerness based Special Service (AA) paddle steamer ROYAL EAGLE (1539grt/1932) (Ty Cdr. E. F. A. Farrow RNR) and M/S tug SALVO (161grt/1918) (Sk. E. L. Fiske RNR) stood by, returned fire and successfully picked up ten survivors. Ten crew MPK/dead*.
1941: Hull registry closed.

MPK* – Edward Bessey, 2nd Hand; Samuel T. Pybus, Ch Engineman; William Stephen, Act Engineman; Hugh Lockett, Signalman; Harold Terry, AB; David J. Addison, Seaman; James C. Blandford, William A Grainger and James D. Savage, Stokers.
Picked up but died.
Percy R. Randall, Seaman cook.

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S.T. Joseph Barratt LO252

S.T. Joseph Barratt LO252
Picture courtesy of The John Stevenson Collection

Changelog
27/12/2008: Page published. 4 updates since then.
22/04/2017: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
01/05/2017: Information updated.
18/11/2018: Information updated.

S.T. Salmonby BN206

Technical

Admiralty Number: 3742
Official Number: 147960
Yard Number: 233
Completed: 1918
Gross Tonnage: 317
Net Tonnage: 127
Length: 138.9 ft
Breadth: 23.7 ft
Depth: 12.8 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Ferguson Bros (Port Glasgow) Ltd, Port Glasgow
Built: Ferguson Bros (Port Glasgow) Ltd, Port Glasgow

History

4.8.1918: Launched by Ferguson Bros (Port Glasgow) Ltd, Port Glasgow (Yd.No.233) (“Mersey” class) for The Admiralty as ROBERT DRUMMOND (Ad.No.3742).
26.6.1918: Completed (1 – 12pdr and W/T).
1924: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Boston (Fred Parkes, Wyburton, Boston, manager). Registered at Boston as SALMONBY (BN206). Operating from Grimsby.
1925: Homeward, in fog stranded on the Ness of Duncansby. Refloated with the help of local fishermen and continued passage.
23.3.1926: Sailed Grimsby for West of Scotland grounds and to land at Fleetwood and transfer to that port (Sk. Joseph Rawcliffe), twelve crew. When S of New Sands Gas Buoy suffered boiler explosion, foundered, two crew* rescued from rigging by Spurn Head lifeboat.

(*Saved: Harry Leadbetter, Mate, Fleetwood and Robert Butcher, deckhand, Grimsby) (Body of fireman C. Lewis, Boston washed up at Donna Nook.)

Changelog

27/12/2008: Page published. 4 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. Malaga GY393

Additional information courtesy of Bill Blow and David Slinger

Technical

Official Number: 146901
Yard Number: 59
Completed: 1917
Gross Tonnage: 271
Net Tonnage: 122.76
Length: 125.7 ft
Breadth: 23.5 ft
Depth: 12.7 ft
Built: Dominion Shipbuilding Co Ltd (Thor Iron Works), Toronto
Engine: 370ihp T.3-cyl by National Shipbuilding Co, Goderich, Ontario
Boiler: John Inglis & Sons, Ontario

History

1.1917: Ordered by The Admiralty (paid for and built under direction of RCN) (Canadian “Castle”- “T.R.” class) from Collingwood Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Ontario (Yd.No.59) and subcontracted to Dominion Shipbuilding Co Ltd (Thor Iron Works), Toronto.
15.6.1918: Completed as TR.13 (1-12pdr).
8.1919: 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).
4.9.1926: Sold “as is” to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
4.9.1926: Fred Parkes, Blackpool appointed manager.
22.9.1926: Registered at Grimsby as MALAGA (GY393); fishing out of Fleetwood.
16.10.1926: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Midland Bank Ltd, London (A).
6.2.1928: Registered office transferred to Fleetwood.
25.4.1928: Alteration of particulars of IHP (500ihp). Certificate of Survey at Liverpool dated 18.10.1927.
24.6.1929: Mortgage (A) discharged.
14.12.1929: Sailed Fleetwood for West of Scotland/Butt of Lewis grounds.
27.12.1929: Berthed at Stornoway with forecastle and fish room flooded having struck submerged rocks off Butt of Lewis.
04.1932: On three month charter to Sea Fisheries Association of Ireland, to fish out of Dublin, Galway and other ports. Charter to be exended if needed.
28.04.1932: Sailed for Ireland.
17.01.1933: At 8.32 am, (SK. W. Kay) standing by SAN SEBASTIAN (FD126) stranded near White Beach Point, NE side of Galway Bay, and will connect and attempt to refloat. At 11.30 am. refloated and towed to anchorage to await tide to Galway. Due to dense fog unable to find the port for 24 hours.
18.01.1933: Spotted in fog by the pilot boat and guided into Galway.
05.06.1933: Chartered by Italian Government to provide support for a trans Atlantic flight involving 20 to 30 aeroplanes (Sk. Geoff Barcock).
9.5.1933: Sailed Fleetwood for NW Atlantic.
19.5.1933: Arrived St. John’s, Newfoundland.
8.10.1935: Sailed Fleetwood for fishing grounds (Sk. George A. Novo DSC); twelve crew.
17.10.1935: Spoke with trawler SAN SEBASTIAN (FD126); last communication.
18.10.1935: In severe storm conditions, missing off Portrush, Co. Antrim; no survivors *.
27.10.1935: Posted missing.
20.12.1935: Grimsby registry closed “ Vessel missing since 18th October 1935 and presumed lost with all hands”.

(* Lost – Sk.George Albert Novo DSC; George Albert Novo Jnr, Mate; Richard Blundell, Bosun; Walker Jackson, Ch. Eng; Edward Gove, 2nd Eng; George Nelson, Arthur Perry, Christopher Blair, deckhands; Daniel Logue and John Burke, firemen; William Ellis, cook; James Turner, boy;)

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S.T. Malaga GY393

S.T. Malaga GY393
Picture courtesy of The Fred Baker Collection

Changelog
27/04/2014: Information updated.
02/05/2014: Information updated.
08/01/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
19/10/2019: Updated information.
10/09/2024: Updated information.

S.T. Lushby FD24

Technical

Admiralty Number: 3695
Official Number: 143864
Yard Number: 106
Completed: 1917
As built: 360disp 125.6 x 23.5 x 12.8 feet
Gross Tonnage: 280
Net Tonnage: 110
Length: 125.6 ft
Breadth: 23.5 ft
Depth: 12.7 ft
Engine: 48ihp T.3-cyl by Gauldie, Gillespie & Co Ltd, Glasgow
Built: Geo. Brown & Co, Greenock

History

1.11.1917: Launched by Geo. Brown & Co, Greenock (Yd.No.106) (“Castle” class) for The Admiralty as JOHN CAMPBELL(Ad.No.3695). 13.12.1917: Completed (1-12pdr).
22.11.1919: Registered by The Admiralty at London (Part I) as GEORGE DIXON O.N.143864.
1919: Allocated to Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries and engaged in commercial trawling.
28.01.1920: Allocated to the Government scheme for the setting up of the Minesweepers’ Cooperative Trawling Society Ltd, London.
8.1.1920: Registered by The Admiralty at London (Part IV) (LO260).
13.8.1920: Minesweepers’ Cooperative Trawling Society Ltd, London registered.
12.1920: At HM Dockyard Chatham fitted out for fishing under Special Survey of Lloyd’s Register and classed 100 A1 Stm Trawler at London.
4.1921: Paid off at The Nore. Laid up at Brightlingsea.
1.1922: Scheme abandoned, the necessary working capital of £100,000 had not been subscribed. Laid up.
1923: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Grimsby (Fred Parkes, Wyberton, Boston, manager).
1924: Transferred to fish out of Fleetwood (Fred Parkes, Blackpool, manager).
14.11.1924: London registry closed.
21.11.1924: Registered at Fleetwood as LUSHBY (FD24).
19.12.1925: Lost after stranding on south side of Tory Island, Co. Donegal.
2.3.1926: Fleetwood registry closed “ Vessel lost”.

(John Campbell, AB, age 20, b. Stirling, Scotland – ROYAL SOVEREIGN (SB364))

Changelog
21/12/2008: Page published. 3 updates since then.
14/05/2021: Updated history and technical details.