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S.T. Princess Juliana FD357

Additional information courtesy of Jan Harteveld and Göran Ollson

Technical

Official Number: 121065
Yard Number: 507
Completed: 1905
Gross Tonnage: 266
Net Tonnage: 102
Length: 129.3 ft
Breadth: 22.1 ft
Depth: 11.8 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by Earle’s Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Hull
Built: Earle’s Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Hull

History

1.8.1905: Launched by Earle’s Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Hull (Yd.No.507) for Pickering & Haldane’s Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull as LORD CURZON.
25.8.1905: Registered at Hull (H824).
8.1905: Completed (John McCann & Edward Cartwright, joint managers).
1906: Sold to Yorkshire Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull (John McCann, manager).
1913: Sold to Armitage’s Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull (George T. Armitage, manager).
3.4.1913: Registered at Hull as PRINCESS JULIANA (H824) (BoT Minute M9754/13).
11.1914: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-6pdr) (Ad.No.199).
1918: Sold to The Croston Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Ernest Taylor, manager). Based Humber.
By 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Fleetwood.
28.11.1919: Hull registry closed.
29.11.1919: Registered at Fleetwood (FD357).
1924: William W. Brierley appointed manager.
20.12.1924: Sold to Hampshire, Birrell & Co (Fish Exports) Ltd, Liverpool (John A. Miller, Leith, manager).
1926: Sold to A.B. Capto, Gothenburg (A. J. Edvards, manager).
1926: Re measured (Swedish Rules) 254g 95n.
11.6.1926: Fleetwood registry closed.
6.1926: Registered at Gothenburg as CAPTO (GG54).
1929: Sold to F. Erenst, IJmuiden. Registered at IJmuiden.
1930: Sold to N.V. Visscherij Maatschappij “Protinus”, IJmuiden (Erenst & Weimar, manager). Registered at IJmuiden as ADELANTE (IJM19).
1930: Re measured (Dutch Rules) 256g 118n.
1937: F. J. F. Erenst appointed manager.
1952: Sold for breaking up. IJmuiden registry closed.

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S.T. Princess Juliana FD357

S.T. Princess Juliana FD357
Picture courtesy of Fred Baker

Changelog
03/01/2009: Page published. 6 updates since then.
01/07/2017: Removed FMHT watermark from image.

S.T. Marion (2) LO235

Technical

Official Number: 120683
Yard Number: 788
Completed: 1906
Gross Tonnage: 255
Net Tonnage: 98
Length: 125.7 ft
Breadth: 22.1 ft
Depth: 12 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Shields Engineering Co Ltd, North Shields
Built: Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, North Shields

History

25.1.1906: Launched by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, North Shields (Yd.No.788) for Mrs Marion L. Ryde, Godalming as MARION.
3.1906: Completed (Crawford Heron, Swansea, manager).
3.1906: Registered at London (LO235).
30.11.1912: Sold to George H. D. Birt, Milford Haven (managing owner).
8.1914: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-3pdr) (Ad.No.20).
6.1915: At Sheerness.
14.8.1915: Sailed for Mediterranean.
30.7.1917: Sold to The Croston Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Ernest Taylor, manager).
23.2.1918: Mined off Malta. ‘ During minesweeping operations struck mine about midday and sank in approximate position 35.45N 14.24E. Six lives lost.’
23.2.1918: ‘Ceased to be on Admiralty charter’.
10.3.1919: London registry closed “ Vessel lost on Admiralty Charter”. (Minefield was laid on 30/1/1918 by U.boat (UC25), beginning at 35°44.9’N, 14°24.6’E and running north with mines at 75 metre intervals. 18 mines total).

(Lost – Lieut Cdr. Joseph King; Henry Tarbitton, 2nd Hand; James Fisk & William E. Warman, deckhands; Robert Tetley, signalman; Samuel D. Tonkin, trimmer.)

Changelog
27/12/2008: Page published. 5 updates since then.

S.T. Kodama FD36

Technical

Official Number: 132853
Yard Number: 476
Completed: 1911
Gross Tonnage: 257
Net Tonnage: 103
Length: 125.5 ft
Breadth: 23 ft
Depth: 12.3 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Shields Engineering Co Ltd, North Shields
Built: Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, South Bank-on-Tees, Middlesbrough

History

1911: Launched by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, South Bank-on-Tees, Middlesbrough (Yd.No.476) for Neale & West Ltd, Cardiff as KODAMA (CF34).
7.1911: Completed (Morley H. Neale, Joshua S. Neale & Wilfred Neale, managers).
5.1915: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-12pdr) (Ad.No.2668).
12.6.1918: Transferred from Northern Patrol to Devonport.
1.7.1918: Sailed Devonport for Falmouth.
6.7.1918: Sailed Falmouth escorting Convoy O.F.42 to Mediterranean. Subsequently based Gibraltar.
By 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Cardiff.
1925: Sold to The Croston Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Fleetwood (William W. Brierley, manager).
2.1925: Cardiff registry closed.
10.2.1925: Registered at Fleetwood (FD36).
3.8.1932: Returned from West of Scotland grounds and reported recovering a body believed to be that of Lt Dennis J. Margetts RN who had been lost two months previously when his aircraft of 466 Fleet Torpedo Bomber Flight, HMS FURIOUS had ditched off the Isle of Skye. Body was committed to the sea.
3.12.1936: In storm force conditions off Argyll coast.
4.12.1936: Foundered off the Western Isles, believed due to shift of bunkers and ice; twelve crew lost.
23.12.1936: Fleetwood registry closed.

(Lost: Hugh McMillan, Robert Victor Dingle, Edward Balfour Croft, John William Johnson, Thomas Leadbetter, George Rogerson, Ernest Stirzaker, Perry Bird, Robert Frew Parnell, James Neill, Herbert Joseph Reynolds & Robert Kelly)

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S.T. Kodama FD36

S.T. Kodama FD36
Picture courtesy of The Fred Baker Collection

Changelog
24/12/2008: Page published. 3 updates since then.
13/11/2017: Removed FMHT watermark from image.