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S.T. Daniel Clowden FD355

Technical

Admiralty Number: 4446
Official Number: 141952
Yard Number: 122
As built: 360disp 125.6 x 23.5 x 12.8 feet
Completed: 1919
Gross Tonnage: 280
Net Tonnage: 113
Length: 125.6 ft
Breadth: 23.5 ft
Depth: 12.7 ft
Built: George Brown & Co, Greenock
Engine: 480ihp T.3-cyl by Gauldie, Gillespie & Co, Glasgow
Pennant FY531

History

1919: Ordered by The Admiralty (“Castle” class) (Ad.No.4446).
8.8.1919: Sold while building to Victory Steam Trawling Co (Fleetwood) Ltd, Fleetwood.
13.11.1919: Completed by George Brown & Co, Greenock (Yd.No.122) as DANIEL CLOWDEN.
13.10.1919: Registered at Fleetwood (Part IV) O.N.141952.
20.11.1919: Registered at Fleetwood (Part IV) (FD355). Walter Morley designated manager.
9.10.1922: Registered at Fleetwood as HANNAH WOODBRIDGE (FD355).
1928: Sold to Iago Steam Trawlers Ltd, London & Milford Haven (Edward D. W. Lawford, manager).
8.3.1928: Fleetwood registry closed.
10.3.1928: Registered at London (LO129).
16.5.1928: Registered at London as DANIEL CLOWDEN (LO129).
3.1930: Transferred to Fleetwood when Edward D. W. Lawford moved his vessels to the port.
6.1930: On Klondyke (Inishtrahull) ground in scruffy weather, shooting the trawl, warps tangled rudder and propeller. After discussion with owners, steam trawler PETER CAREY (LO126) was dispatched to assist, connected and towed to Innishtrahull where warps were freed. Sailed again for grounds off Co. Galway but had boiler stay collapse, steam and boiling water flooding into the stokehold and engineroom. 2nd engineer, C. W. Ollsen, Blackpool was on watch and although scalded shouted to the fireman who was in the bunkers to escape which he did through the open bunker lid. Ollsen managed to get a pump running and filled the boiler with cold water. Drifted for 24 hours until taken in tow by PETER CAREY for the 300 mile trip to Fleetwood.
27.6.1930: Arrived Fleetwood.
27.8.1939: Requisitioned for war service on examination service and as a minesweeper (1-12pdr)(P.No.FY.531) (Hire rate £87.10.0d/month).
21.12.1939: S. Daniel Smith RNR appointed CO. Based Kirkwall with M/S Group 45.
18.12.1940: Ty/Lieut A. Flaaten RNR appointed Co. Based Scapa Flow with M/S Group 44.
25.7.1941: Ty/Act/Lieut. N. Fitzsimmons RNVR appointed CO.
12.1941: Sk. Peter Buchan DSC RNR appointed CO.
2.1942: Ty/Sk. Edward Westhead RNR appointed CO.
21.10.1942: Sk. J. Ferguson RNR apponted CO.
31.3.1943: Ty/Sk. Arthur John Thomas RNR appointed CO.
7.1943: Ty/Sk. J.S. Cobby RNR appointed CO.
16.9.1944: Sk. Murdo Macleod RNR appointed CO.
23.1.1945: At Le Havre.
7.2.1945: At St. Vess.
26.2.1945: At Cherbourg.
27.3.1945: At Falmouth.
29.3.1945: At Milford Haven.
1.5.1945: Paid off.
30.5.1945: Sailed Milford Haven for Greenock.
31.5.1945: Arrived Greenoock.
2.6.1945: Moved to Port Glasgow.
9.1945: Surveyed and restored at Port Glasgow.
5.10.1945: Returned.
4.1946: Sold to Haven Trawlers Ltd, Milford Haven (Robert P. Lewis, manager). Fishing from Fleetwood.
13.8.1948: Sold to J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood for £13698. Registered at Fleetwood (FD280).
27.11.1952: Sank whilst berthed at North-end staging, Fleetwood; the steam ejector valve had been removed and after storing and priming boiler on staging, outlet was below waterline.
12.1952: Refloated by Liverpool & Glasgow Salvage Assoc’s salvage steamer Ranger (409grt/1880), towed back to Wyre Dock but following survey declared beyond economical repair.
12.1952: Sold to BISCO and allocated to Thos. W. Ward Ltd, Sheffield for breaking up.
13.12.1952: Delivered Preston.

(Daniel Clowden, AB, age 24, b. London – ROYAL SOVEREIGN (SB250))

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S.T. Daniel Clowden FD355

S.T. Daniel Clowden FD355
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S.T. Daniel Clowden FD355

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S.T. Daniel Clowden FD355

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S.T. Daniel Clowden FD355

S.T. Daniel Clowden FD280
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27/02/2015: Picture added.
01/08/2016: Information updated.
21/07/2017: Removed disputed image and FMHT watermarks.
25/03/2020: Updated information.

S.T. Wellvale FD140

Additional information courtesy of Tony Rodaway

Technical

Official Number: 148227
Yard Number: ??
Completed: 1918
Gross Tonnage: 271
Net Tonnage: 124
Length: 125.7 ft
Breadth: 23.5
Depth: 12.7
Built: Canadian Vickers Ltd, Montreal, Canada
Engine: 480ihp T.3-cyl by Canadian Vickers Ltd, Montreal, Canada

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.28.
30.5.1918: Completed (1-12pdr) and commissioned in Royal Canadian Navy.
31.1.1919: Paid off and laid up.
1920: Accepted offer of Rose Street Foundry & Engineering Co Ltd, Inverness (Captain D. J. Munro 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 for lay-up.
1.1926: Still laid up.
2.1926: Rejected offer for all remaining trawlers of £2,000 each (B. Allenby, Aberdeen letter dated 10 Feb 1926).
8.1926: Sold “as is” to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Grimsby (Fred. Parkes, Blackpool, manager).
22.9.1926: Registered at Fleetwood as WELLVALE (FD140).
20.5.1927: Sold to Arthur S. Bowlby, Harlow (Edward D. W. Lawford c/o Iago Steam Trawlers Ltd, Milford Haven, manager). Continued to fish from Fleetwood.
1932: Laid up at Fleetwood.
8.11.1932: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Basil A. Parkes, Cleveleys, manager).
5/6/7.1933: Chartered for by Italian Government to provide support for a trans Atlantic flight involving 20 to 30 aeroplanes.
6.4.1935: Arrived Fleetwood on evening tide in tow of AUTHORPE (FD91) having sustained crank shaft damage on the fishing grounds.
12.9.1939: Missing since this date. “Presumed sunk by enemy action”.
16.9.1939: Believed lost off the Hebrides by U-boat action, but not recorded (U.35 was in the area); Sk. F. W. Slapp and twelve crew lost.
17.1.1940: Fleetwood registry closed “Missing since 12/9/1939. Sunk by enemy action”.

(Lost – Sk. F. W. Slapp, R. Barcock, J. W. Eastham, M. J. Gordon, T. W. Grayson, George Grimley (31), 2nd Eng. b. Co.Armagh, R. R. Gunn, H. Parker, P. Speariett, G. R. Townsend, I. P. Turner, W. Wright)

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S.T. Wellvale FD140

S.T. Wellvale FD140
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Changelog
26/01/2009: Page published.
27/04/14: Information updated.
29/03/2019: Information updated.

S.T. Marsona FD21

Technical

Admiralty Number: 3715
Official Number: 143827
Yard Number: 306
Completed: 1918
As built: 360disp 125.6 x 23.5 x 12.8 feet
Gross Tonnage: 276
Net Tonnage: 106
Length: 125.6 ft
Breadth: 23.5 ft
Depth: 13.5 ft
Built: J. P. Rennoldson & Sons Ltd, South Shields
Engine: 480ihp T.3-cyl by Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle upon Tyne

History

14.1.1918: Launched by J. P. Rennoldson & Sons Ltd, South Shields (Yd.No.306) (“Castle” class) for The Admiralty as JAMES CHRISTOPHER (Ad.No.3715).
27.3.1918: Completed (1 – 12pdr, hydrophone and W/T).
28.3.1918: Commissioned.
14.11.1919: Registered by The Admiralty at London (Part I) as JAMES CHRISTOPHER O.N.143827.
30.12.1919: Registered by The Admiralty at London (Part IV) (LO248).
1920: Sold to Skomer Steam Shipping Co Ltd, Cardiff (Lewis Bull, manager).
31.3.1920: In collision with NILE (M186) while manoeuvring in dock.
16.11.1923: Sold to Brand & Curzon Ltd, Milford Haven (Edward Brand & Charles Curzon, managers).
2.1929: Sold to J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood Geoffry Edwards Marr, manager).
22.2.1929: London registry closed.
26.2.1929: Registered at Fleetwood (FD21).
28.5.1929: Renamed MARSONA (FD21).
19.10.1933: Returned to Fleetwood from fishing grounds with badly damaged stem and bow plating reportedly due to striking submerged object.
30.8.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (P.No.FY.714) (Hire rate £82.16.0d/month).
6.1940: Based Invergordon with M/S Group 43 (Ch Sk. A . W. Ellis RNR).
4.8.1940: Off Cromarty tasked to sweep approach channel to Firth. At 0650 off Sutor Buoy, Cromarty Forth, received sweep wire for ‘M’ sweep from GEORGE COUSINS (LO66) (P.No. FY.627) (Ch Sk. E. J. Marshall RNR) and steaming ahead started to deploy magnets. At 0724 1/2 mile SSE of Whistle Buoy detonated a mine underneath and a second in the sweep; blew up. HM Drifter INDUSTRY (PD378) (P.No.FY.938 (Sub Lieut E. A. F. Weller RNR) proceeded to scene but found no survivors; five bodies recovered*, seven crew members MPK**.
14.12.1945: Fleetwood registry closed.

(James (aka John) Christopher, AB, age 24, b. Waterford, Co. Waterford – VICTORY (SB898))

*Killed: Ch Sk. Alfred W. Ellis; Arthur Lewis, A/Ldg Seaman; William J. Dean & Thomas Dell, seamen; Thomas L. Thompson, O/S.
**MPK – Sub Lieut. Ian S. L. Trehearne; William Mair, 2nd Hand; Frederick Malliband, Ch. Engineman; Thomas B. Cordiner, Engineman; John F. Ritchie, seaman; Bernard Sharpin, seaman/steward; Ernest M. Newby, stoker.

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S.T. Marsona FD21

S.T. Marsona FD21
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S.T. Marsona FD21

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18/09/2014: Added second picture.
31/03/2018: Removed FMHT watermarks from images.
13/02/2021: Updated history and technical details.

S.T. Irvana FD181

Technical

Admiralty Number: 3510
Official Number: 145114
Yard Number: 671
As built: 360disp 125.6 x 23.5 x 12.8 feet
Gross Tonnage: 276
Net Tonnage: 107
Length: 125.6 ft
Breadth: 23.4 ft
Depth: 12.8 ft
Built: Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, South Bank-on-Tees, Middlesbrough
Engine: 480ihp T.3-cyl by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, South Bank-on-Tees, Middlesbrough

History

16.11.1916: Laid down.
9.3.1917: Launched by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, South Bank-on-Tees, Middlesbrough (Yd.No.671) (“Castle” class) for The Admiralty as ARTHUT LESSIMORE (Ad.No.3510).
25.5.1917: Completed as a minesweeper (1 – 12pdr and W/T).
1920: Registered by The Admiralty at London (Part I) as ARTHURE LESSIMORE (603/1920) O.N.145114. Laid up at Brightlingsea.
10.2.1924: Sold to Kingston Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull (Walter Scott, manager) after inspection at Brightlingsea by Capt. William John Lown & Lawrence Spring (directors). Purchased at asking price £5500 (Others inspected and purchased at £5500 each – ANDREW SACK, JAMES PEAKE, JOHN DORMOND & SAMUEL DRAKE).
13.2.1924: Arrived Hull from Brightlingsea.
2.1924: London registry closed.
21.2.1924: Registered at Hull (H15).
6.3.1924: Registered at Hull as AVANTURINE (H15). Estimated total cost including fit out and classification £8,900.
15.3.1924: Sailed Hull on first trip.
28.3.1924: Landed 442 kits grossed £547.
24.3.1925: William J. Lown designated manager.
22.6.1928: Sold to J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood for £5,750.
25.6.1928: Arrived Fleetwood.
26.6.1928: Hull registry closed.
28.6.1928: Registered at Fleetwood (FD181). Joseph Arthur Marr designated manager.
1.4.1929: Joseph A. Marr retired from Board to run Dinas Company.
1.4.1929: Geoffrey Edward Marr designated manager.
24.5.1929: Registered at Fleetwood as IRVANA (FD181).
1930: Outward for fishing grounds in dense fog, stranded on Knott Spit. Refloated and proceeded to sea.
2.1940: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-12pdr) (P.No.FY.663) (Hire rate £80.10.0d/month).
16.1.1942: Based Gt. Yarmouth (Sk. J.L. Borrett RNR). Sunk by German air attack off Great Yarmouth 270°, 2 cables off Corton Sand Buoy in position 52°31N/01°46E. No casualties. (German aircraft, a JU88, engaged by ship and badly damaged by gunfire, ditched and four crew later picked up).
10.12.1945: Fleetwood registry closed.

(Arthur Lessimore, Quartermaster (prest), age 34, b. Aldborough, Suffolk – VICTORY (SB533))

The following quote is from “Battle of the East Coast” by J P Foynes

Early in 1942 the Luftwaffe bombers made many ferocious attacks, then virtually abandoned East Coast shipping targets for good. On 16 January 1942 the Yarmouth M/S trawler IRVANA was bombed and sunk close to base, followed on the 30 th by the Grimsby trawler LOCH ALSH, near 59 Buoy.

British warships and merchantmen had claimed many Luftwaffe bombers shot down since the middle of 1941, but only the finding of aircraft wreckage, corpses or survivors confirms these. On these grounds we can accept the following:

A Do 17 shot down by Grimsby trawlers near the Humber Light Vessel.
A minelayer by the paddle ship Balmoral in the Thames Estuary, both on 6th July.
An He 111 by the Ipswich patrol trawler NORLAND at 54B Buoy on 4 August.
A bomber by the Grimsby M/S trawler WELLSBACH near Withernsea on 9 August (a PAC was used, and Feldwebel Markert, the pilot, was picked up by the trawler GREY MIST).
A Ju 88 by the Lowestoft trawler EUCLASE at No 5 Buoy, on 15 September, with all four crew captured by the trawler ALFREDIAN.
A Do 217, off Yarmouth on 12 November, by accidentally striking the topmast of the trawler FRANCOLIN while sinking her.
The Ju 88 which sank IRVANA in Yarmouth Roads on 30 January 1942, from that ship’s fire, all four airmen being captured.
Another Ju 88, by the Lowestoft trawler FYLDEA near 54G Buoy, during a snowstorm that same day one body was found and buried at sea.

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S.T. Irvana FD181

S.T. Irvana FD181
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18/04/2017: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
27/07/2019: Updated information.

S.T. Hagnaby (1) BN179

Additional information courtesy of Bill Blow, Milford Trawlers and Granton Trawlers

Technical

Admiralty Number: 3587
Official Number: 143809
Yard Number: 382
Completed: 1918
As built: 360disp 125.6 x 23.5 x 12.8 feet
Gross Tonnage: 281
Net Tonnage: 109
Length: 125.5 ft
Breadth: 23.5 ft
Depth: 12.6 ft
Engine: 480ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by Amos & Smith Ltd, Hull
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Beverley
Speed: 10.5 knots

History

2.11.1917: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.382) (“Castle” class) for The Admiralty as RICHARD BACON (Ad.No.3587).
12.3.1918: Completed as an armed trawler (Commissioned) (1-12pdr, hydrophone and W/T).
8.11.1919: Registered by The Admiralty at London (Part I) as RICHARD BACON O.N.143809.
1919: Allocated to Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries 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.
24.08.1920: Registered by The Admiralty at London (Part IV) (LO438).
11.1920: At HM Dockyard, Pembroke completed fitting out for fishing under Special Survey of Lloyd’s Register and classed 100 A1 Stm Trawler at Milford.
01.1922: Scheme abandoned, the necessary working capital of £100,000 having not been subscribed.
1922: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Boston.
7.7.1922: London registry closed.
7.1922: Registered at Boston as HAGNABY (BN179). Fred Parkes, Wyberton designated manager.
1923: Occasional landings at Fleetwood.
2.1925: Sold to Victor Fourny, Boulogne sur Mer.
2.1925: London registry closed.
2.1925: Remeasured 282Bgrt 54Bnet.
2.1925: Registered at Boulogne as PROFESSEUR BERGONIÉ.
10.06.1925: Arrived Plymouth with the Boulogne steam trawler IMPRÉVU (B789) picked up disabled with damaged propeller.
1930: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood.
3.1930: Boulogne registry closed.
3.1930: Tonnages reverted to 280.82g 108.82n.
4.3.1930: Registered at Fleetwood as DAILY CHRONICLE (FD69). Fred Parkes, Blackpool designated manager.
18.07.1930: Christopher Anderson, Bosun, (20) Fleetwood was washed overboard and drowned. His father William Anderson, was also drowned from a trawler five years ago.
5/6/7.1933: Chartered by Italian Government to provide support for a trans Atlantic flight involving 20 to 30 aeroplanes (Sk. Arthur Lewis).
12.8.1934: On St. Kilda ground in collision with steam trawler JACINTA (FD235) which sustained damage to starboard side. No damage.
11.1934: Sold to Thomas L. Devlin & Sons, Granton.
5.11.1934: Fleetwood registry closed.
28.11.1934: Registered at Granton as COMMODATOR (GN6) (BoT Minute M/R.G. No.1449/1934 dated 26.11.1934). Thomas L. Devlin Jnr designated manager. 3.12.1936: Homeward from fishing grounds, struck by heavy seas and with slack bunkers took on a dangerous list to port carrying away all moveable deck fittings, some fishing gear and railings. Cut away remainder of fishing gear and crew went below to trim bunkers. On completion set course for Aberdeen to land and effect repairs.
24.07.1939: Arrived at Wick Caithness to land John Fegan, fireman, of Lochend Road, Edinburgh, who sustained injuries to his back while the vessel was at the fishing grounds the previous night. Fegan was taken by ambulance to Pignold Hospital Wick.
29.8.1939: Requisitioned for war service and fitted out as a minesweeper (P.No. FY.634) (Hire rate £84.6.0d/month).
01.01.1940: Skipper William Limb, R.N.R awarded the Distinguished Service Cross (DSC). 1942: Sold to Thomas L. Devlin & Sons Ltd, Granton. Thomas L. Devlin Jnr designated manager.
1943: Sold to Mrs E. D. Breen, Edinburgh.
6.1945: Sold to Grimsby Merchants Amalgamated Trawling Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
6.1945: Granton registry closed.
18.6.1945: Registered at Grimsby (GY57). Harvey Wilfred Wilson designated manager.
4.10.1945: Re-classed at Glasgow and returned to owner.
15.2.1946: Sold to Richard Gordon Parsley (64/64), Milford Haven.
21.2.1946: Richard Gordon Parsley designated managing owner.
28.2.1946: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Midland Bank Ltd, London (A).
24.4.1946: Put in to Berehaven, Co. Cork after 140 tons of bunker coal shifted in 85mph gale force conditions some 70 miles off the SW coast of Ireland and put her on her beam ends. Crew spent five and a half hours trimming bunkers to restore her to an even keel.
26.7.1948: Registered at Grimsby as LYNANDI (GY57) (MoT Minute R.G.No.1224/1948 dated 31.5.1948).
14.1.1954: Fishing off Old Head of Kinsale (Sk. W. G. King) experienced boiler problems, blew down and lost power. INVERFORTH (GN52) (Sk. Ambrose Setterfield) connected and commenced tow to Milford.
16.1.1954: In the early hours in very heavy weather tow parted and vessel in danger of drifting on to St. Ann’s Head. At 12.15 a.m. Angle lifeboat (Cox Alfred Watkins) launched and shortly afterwards tug EMPIRE ROSA (292grt/1946) left Pembroke Dock to assist. Both were unable to reach the trawler with wave heights of 40ft and returned to Milford. Also standing by with the INVERFORTH was the trawler THOMAS BOOTH (M274) (Sk. E. Robins) and as the weather moderated the Angle lifeboat and the EMPIRE ROSA returned to the scene, the latter connecting at 11.00 a.m. and despite parting the line on one occasion, the vessel with INVERFORTH and Angle lifeboat in company was delivered to Milford, anchoring at 4.15 p.m.
1954: Sold to BISCO and allocated to Thos. W. Ward Ltd, Sheffield for breaking up.
29.7.1954: Delivered Castle Pill for breaking up.
19.10.1954: Grimsby registry closed “except so far as relates to mortgage (A)”. “Vessel broken up”.
8.11.1954: “Registry finally closed on discharge of mortgage (A)”. Receipt produced dated 30.7.1954.

(Richard Bacon, AB (volunteer), age 47, b. Salisbury, Wiltshire – VICTORY (SB645))

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S.T. Daily Chronicle FD69

S.T. Daily Chronicle FD69
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S.T. Daily Chronicle FD69

S.T. Daily Chronicle FD69
Wellvale inboard.
Picture courtesy of The David Buckley Collection.

S.T. Daily Chronicle FD69

S.T. Daily Chronicle FD69
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Changelog
25/01/2009: Page published. 5 updates since then.
13/01/2017: Information updated.
24/03/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
22/04/2019: Added an image.
22/12/2020: Updated information.
05/01/2022: Added an image.