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s.v. Desdemona FD127

Additional information courtesy of Christine Simm

Technical
Official Number: 70166
Completed: 1874
Gross tonnage: 36.87
Net tonnage: 36.87
Length: 57.3 ft
Breadth: 16.3 ft
Depth: 8.2 ft
Built: Peter Rawstrone, Freckleton
Rig: Dandy – trawling & drifting

History

21.3.1874: Launched by Peter Rawstrone, Freckleton for Philip Turner, Fleetwood as DESDEMONA.
2.7.1874: Appropriated.
2.7.1874: Registered at Fleetwood (FD127). J. Randles manager.
10.7.1874: SMACK “DESDEMONA” The Owner will not be responsible for any ARTICLE supplied to the above-named smack, without an order can be produced signed by the owner, or his Agent. Mr W. M. ROULBORN, Kent Street, Fleetwood, dated 6th July 1874.
27.8.1875: FLEETWOOD. To Fish Dealers and Others. Fast Sailing Fishing Smack for Sale. MR A. HARRISON will SELL BY AUCTION, at the Crown Hotel, Fleetwood, on SATURDAY, September 4th, 1875, at Three o’clock in the Afternoon the FISHING SMACK “DESDEMONA.” Length, 57 feet and three-tenths; breadth 16 feet and three-tenths; depth of hold 8 feet and two-tenths. Built at Freckleton in 1874, and is one of the fastest sailing smacks belonging to the port of Fleetwood. This vessel is in excellent working condition, with all her gear, sails, ropes, anchor and chains, oyster dredges, trawl nets, beam sails, and punt, and is fitted up with everything for the fishing trade. For further particulars apply to the AUCTIONEER.
4.9.1875: Sold to David Moss, Fleetwood.
26.5.1880; Sailed Glasson Dock for Fleetwood (Sk. Evans).
2.7.1881: At about 1.00 pm, while on their moorings in the river a body was seen floating in the water about a hundred yards from the quay. Sk. William Moss took the punt, picked up the body, brought it to the shore and handed it over to the police.
4.7.1881: At the inquest on the body, which had been in the water some time and the features of which were quite unrecognisable, it was concluded that it was the body of a sailor. In one his pockets was found a black leather purse, in which was 1s 8d in money. A verdict of “Found Drowned “ was returned, some of the jurors expressing a wish that some arrangement should be made for internment of such bodies without the formality of an inquest.
28.7.1882: At Fleetwood, took part in race for Fishing Boats’ Punts (Sk. William Moss). Considered that there was too much sea outside, but the contest was very close.
10.1.1882: Entered Ramsey Harbour and reported that fishing some seven miles off Maughold Head, when hailing the trawl they recovered the body of a youth from fourteen to sixteen years of age. The body had been in the water some time and the face had been eaten away. The Coroner ordered the body not to be interred until yesterday, in order that investigation may be made as to whether the body is that of a youth lost from the Liverpool barque LEBU (726 regd tons/1868) at the lifeboat disaster in Douglas Bay on 20th October 1881. (Returning to Douglas with fourteen men and two women taken off the LEBU, the Douglas No.1 lifeboat Manchester and Salford Sunday Schools, when within 1 mile of the harbour, overtaken by a heavy sea, broached and capsized with the loss of four lifeboatmen, the master and six of the crew of the barque.).
12.1882 : Owned by John Moss, Fleetwood & others.
22.12.1882: Reported fears for the safety of the smack (Sk. John Moss), not seen since 12th December. Later reported seen on the fishing grounds.
16.10.1883: Following on from the storm of the previous day, towards nightfall another storm began to brew culminating in a WSW gale with heavy rain and wind. At high tide in a very confused sea in the channel, had trawl beam broken and damage to stern sustained by pitching against the PRINCE CHARLIE (FD157) while at their moorings.
4.11.1887: In a particularly fierce gale with recorded wind speeds of 70mph, lying alongside Jubilee, had mooring line part and dashed with great violence against the quay, smashing the stern. In swinging again, struck the stern of the Lancaster registered schooner BETTY RUSSELL (146grt/1868) and stove in the bulwarks. Ranging again alongside, the bulwarks and stanchions were damaged.
24.10.1887: Sold to David Moss, Fleetwood & others.
9.5.1902: Fleetwood registry closed.
8.5.1902: Registered at Liverpool (LL353).
10.11.1902: Sold to Jeffrey Wright (64/64), 73 Kemp Street, Fleetwood. Jeffrey Wright designated managing owner.
10.11.1902: Liverpool registry closed.
13.11.1902: Registered at Fleetwood (FD203).
19.3.1903: Sold to Alice Marquis (64/64), 63 New Road, Blackpool.
23.3.1903: John Rimmer, 30 North Street, Fleetwood designated manager.
12.6.1906: Sold to Richard Ashcroft (64/64), London Street, Fleetwood.
20.6.1906: Richard Ashcroft designated managing owner.
28.3.1908: Tonnage altered to 24.86net per Surveyor’s Certificate dated Liverpool 26.3.1903.
9.7.1909: Shares (32/64) sold to John Rimmer, 6 North Church Street, Fleetwood.
21.8.1918: John Rimmer shares (32/64) sold to Richard Ashcroft, Devon House, Blakiston Street East, Fleetwood.
9.9.1918: Shares (32/64) sold to Hezekiel B. Shepherd, ??
11.2.1920: Sold to John Shippen & Thomas William Dixon, Whitehaven.
17.2.1920: At Fleetwood, William Robert Atkinson (20) was charged with stealing a sextant from the smack. In July 1919, the smack was secured alongside in Fleetwood (Sk. Bedford). The accused locked out of his home, went onboard to sleep. On awakening in the cabin he saw a sextant and other articles and took them. Accused offered the sextant for sale to Capt Slavin, 87 Preston Street, Fleetwood. Being suspicious of the origin Capt Slavin asked the accused father if the lad owned the sextant and when this was confirmed he bought it for £5. Slavin then offered the sextant for sale and the origin came to light. Atkinson pleaded guilty and was fined £5, his father making reparation for the wrong.
26.1.1922: Fleetwood registry closed. Registered at Whitehaven (WA2).
1925: Whitehaven registry closed.

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Sailing Trawler Desdemona

Sailing Trawler Desdemona
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sv Desdemona FD203

sv Desdemona FD203
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05/01/2009: Page published. 3 updates since then.
12/06/2016: Picture added.
21/12/2017: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
25/11/2018: Updated information.
25/08/2022: Significant update to history.
18/09/2023: Added an image.

s.v. Carlisle FD66

Technical

Official Number: 74714
Completed: 1876
Net Tonnage: 55
Length: 65.8 ft
Breadth: 18.8 ft
Depth: 9.3 ft
Rig: Dandy – trawling
Built: Mills & Blake, Southtown,Gt Yarmouth

History

1876: Completed by Mills & Blake, Southtown, Gt. Yarmouth for Thomas Lindsey, Lowestoft as Carlisle.
1876: Registered at Gt. Yarmouth (YH680).
1878: Sold to Thomas Knights, Clarence Road, Gt. Yarmouth.
1883: Sold to Robert Nicholls, Gt. Yarmouth.
1884: Sold to W. Burdett-Couts, Gt. Yarmouth.
1886: Transferred to North Sea Trawling Co Ltd, 13 Fish Street Hill, City of London. 1.1.1888: Same.
1888: Sold to F.S. Leleu, Gt. Yarmouth.
Pre 1891: Sold to Richard C. Ward, 12 Alfred Terrace, Fleetwood & another (Richard C. Ward managing owner).
2.9.1891: Registered at Fleetwood (FD66).
3.3.1897: Sold to John N. Ward, 31 St. Peter’s Place, Fleetwood.
3.7.1903: Sold to William Preston, Bold St, Fleetwood and Richard Ashcroft, Fleetwood.
1912: Sold for demolition.
10.1.1912: Fleetwood registry closed “Broken up”.

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05/01/2009: Page published. 2 updates since then.

Sailing Trawler Burgh Castle FD92

Technical

Official Number: 84585
Completed: 1883
Net Tonnage: 48
Rig: Dandy – trawling
Built: Henry Fellows, South Town, Gt. Yarmouth

History

1883: Completed by Henry Fellows, South Town, Gt. Yarmouth for J. H. Fellows, Gt. Yarmouth as BURGH CASTLE. Registered at Gt. Yarmouth (YH874).
1884: Sold to W. Burdett-Couts, Gt. Yarmouth.
1887: Sold to North Sea Trawling Co Ltd, 12 Fish street Hill, City of London.
1890: Sold to William Louis Gilliland, Londonderry.
1890: Yarmouth registry closed.
2.4.1890: Registered at Londonderry.
1892: Londonderry registry closed.
19.2.1892: Registered at Fleetwood (FD92).
4.1902: Sold by Ernest Thexton, 4 Alderly Rd, Hoylake (Mrs Emily M. Thexton, manager).
4.1902: Fleetwood registry closed.
19.4.1902: Registered at Liverpool (LL352).
1912: Sold to Ernest S. Armitage, 12 Wood Street, Hoylake.
23.12.1918: Sold to Thomas H. Perry, 11 Carr Road, Fleetwood.
16.6.1919: Sold to Horace A. Blyth, 172 Poulton Road, Fleetwood.
Pre 1924: Sold to Mrs Jessie Farrell, 346 Prescot Road, Stanley, Liverpool (Herbert Pritchard, 88 Gidlow Road (South), Liverpool, manager).
Pre 1929: Sold to Andrew Burke, 25 Falconer Square, Liverpool (managing owner).
18.9.1929: Liverpool registry closed “No longer used for fishing”. Restricted to use in River Mersey.

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05/01/2009: Page published. 3 updates since then.

s.v. Livonia FD65

Additional information courtesy of Christine Simm

Technical

Official Number: 67441
Completed: 1873
Tonnage: 53.27n.r.t
Gross Tonnage: 53.27
Net Tonnage: 33.32
Length: 68.7 ft
Breadth: 18.8 ft
Depth: 8.95 ft
Rig: Dandy – trawling & lining
Built: Smith & Sons, Great Yarmouth

History

16.10.1873: Launched by Smith & Sons, Cobholm Island, Great Yarmouth, for their own account as LIVONIA, “the finest smack ever built in Yarmouth and intended for carrying and trawling.”
31.10.1873: Registered at Gt. Yarmouth (YH576) in the ownership of Smith & Sons, Gt. Yarmouth. Samuel Smith designated managing owner.
1.2.1875: Arrived Billingsgate and landed 500 packages of trawl fish, this being the first consignment by water this season. The fish was in good conditioning and made a good market.
30.12.1876: PORT OF GREAT YARMOUTH. N. SUFFLING is favoured with instructions from Messrs Smith & Sons (who are retiring from the fishing business) to sell by auction, at the Star Hotel. Quay, Great Yarmouth. On TUESDAY, Jan 9th 1877, at 6 for 7 o’clock in the evening, all the under mentioned first class oak built and copper fastened fleet of CARRYING CUTTERS and TRAWLING SMACKS, of the respective registered dimensions as below stated, together with all their abundance and well-found Sails, Stores, Material and Fishing Gear. Lot 1. – The carrying CUTTER LIVONIA, Carvel built in 1873; length 68.7 feet, breadth 18.75 feet, Depth 8.95 feet, 53.27 tons. The above vessel is nearly, in every respect, as good as new, she has about 34 tons of pig iron and Kentledge’s ballast, and can carry about 800 packages of fish…. The vessels are lying at the Fishwharf, Great Yarmouth, where they may be inspected. An inventory of each vessel’s stores will be duly published. And further information may be obtained upon application to Messrs Smith and Son, St. Peter’s Road or the Auctioneer,38 South Quay, Great Yarmouth.
13.1.1876: Reported that LIVONIA was sold for £1,175 to Mr A. D. Stone, Gt. Yarmouth (On behalf of The Great Yarmouth Steam Trawling & Carrying Co Ltd, 60 South Quay, Gt. Yarmouth).
28.3.1877: Placed on the slip at Gt. Yarmouth.
2.4.1877: Unslipped.
20.5.1882: FOR SALE IN ONE LOT, BY PRIVATE TREATY. The following first-class Yarmouth-built and well found TRAWLING SMACKS, viz:- PIONEER 81tons; FLAME 70 tons; FLASH 58 tons; SPARK 63 tons; LIVONIA 53 tons; BRITISH LION 50 tons; BRILLIANT 50 tons; DIAMOND 48 tons. All are now fully employed as Fish Carriers attending upon a fleet of smacks in the North Sea. No expense has been spared in maintaining these vessels in a very high state of efficiency. This is a splendid opportunity for any person wishing to continue this business. Apply to Mr. H. F. Brooks, South Quay, Great Yarmouth.
8.7.1882: Notice to Smack owners and others. Owners of Trawling Smacks and Tradesmen are hereby informed that I have purchased the Cutters PIONEER, FLAME, FLASH, SPARK, LIVONIA, BRITISH LION, BRILLIANT, and DIAMOND recently the property of the Great Yarmouth Steam Trawling and Carrying Company Limited, and it is my intention to continue the business lately carried out by the said company, under direct personal management of Mr. ISAAC BRIDGE of Great Yarmouth, and having regard to the present state of the Trade, I have determined to reduce the price for the carriage of Trunks of Prime or Offal fish, by my cutters from the Fleet to Yarmouth, to 1/3 per Trunk; to London direct 2/6 per Trunk. The price for the carriage of Boxes of Prime and Offal will remain1/6 into Yarmouth, or 3/- to London direct as hitherto. Any steam or carting at Yarmouth will be charges in addition to these rates as usual. The reduced rates will take effect on Saturday 8th inst., and remain in force until further notice. I have given special instructions that may Cutters shall always be plentifully supplied with Ice, and nothing shall be left undone by me which may be conducive to the interest of those favouring my Fleet with patronage. … FRANK LELEU, Sole Proprietor. 112 Lower Thames Street, London, E.C. 6th July 1882.
1884: Converted to dandy rig.
1888: Owners became F. & J Leleu Ltd, 55 Eastcheap Buildings, City, London. Fraser Robinson, South Denes Road, Yarmouth designated manager. Working with the fleet of North Sea Trawling Co Ltd, 13 Fish Hill, City., London. William Burdett-Coutts designated manager.
18.12.1888: Sale of Fishing Smacks.- the sale of the seventy-five fishing smacks, belonging to Messrs. F. and J. Leleu (Limited), commenced on Wednesday afternoon, at Lloyd’s Captains Rooms, Royal Exchange, London, and continued on Thursday afternoon. There was a good attendance of smack owners and others. …. On Thursday 19th, a further twenty-three vessels were sold, including CARLISLE £150, EVANGELINE £240, LIVONIA £200 and M.A.G. £170, bought by Richard C. Ward, 12 Alfred Terrace & Robert Westby, Fleetwood. Richard C. Ward designated managing owner. The EVANGELINE was sold on to James Hastings, 29 Olive Road, Southtown, Yarmouth. The CARLISLE to fish out of Milford to use up her tackle after which she will also come to Fleetwood.
12.2.1890: About 2.00pm entered harbour and preparing to berth at Jubilee Quay. Sk. Richard Johnson, threw a line over one of the timber heads of the smack ELIZABETH (FD2), but in stepping back put his foot in the coil of rope. As the boat was moving forward the rope coiled round Johnson’s leg between the ankle and the knee, injuring it badly. The skipper was taken home and attended by Dr. Penman who found that the limb was broken and badly bruised.
15.3.1890: Sk. Richard Johnson (51), died at home having contracted erysipelas. He left a widow and twelve children.
18.3.1890: At the inquest held at Fleetwood Police station a verdict of accidental death was recorded.
27.10.1890: Taking advantage of a favourable breeze some thirty smacks left for the fishing grounds. In collision with WILLIAM and JOHN (FD162) whilst tacking, injuring Jeffrey Wright the skipper of the WILLIAM and JOHN who was standing almost underneath the mainsail with his arm on the pump when hit by the falling main boom, severely damaging his arm. He was conveyed to Preston Infirmary for attention.
31.1.1891/1.2.1891: Very few of the trawlers that returned home came back without some loss or damage. With very bad weather in the Irish Channel the fleet had attempted to reach the Irish coast but the weather on 26th January was so severe that they remained at anchor until the following day. Only a few boats made the Irish Coast and many put into Peel and Ramsey for shelter. In the midst of the heavy gale which lasted for six hours the Fleetwood boats that were still at sea suffered damage. Returned with beam broken and sails blown away. Landed 47 baskets of fish, chiefly hake, whiting, rock cod, haddock and ray which realised £12.
2.2.1891: Nearly all the boats alongside were undergoing repairs, some had landed fair catches which made around £12 gross.
8.1891: Gt. Yarmouth registry closed.
2.9.1891: Registered at Fleetwood (FD65).
30.9.1892: In boisterous weather took part in Fleetwood Regatta on a 45 mile course, finishing first on time handicap.
14.10.1892: During a gale which sprang up in the morning, the prawners COCKLE GIRL (owner Mr John Roskill) and MOSS ROSE (owner Mr J. Moss) were in considerable danger. COCKLE GIRL picked up and eventually both boats brought safely into Fleetwood.
21/22.12.1894: A whole fleet of trawlers and cargoes were lost during the great storm over Europe.
22.12.1894: Returned to Fleetwood (Sk. Nuttall) with gear lost and split mainsail.
2/3.9.1902: The majority of the Fleetwood fishing smacks, were at sea when the gale sprang up but managed to reach shelter without loss of life. Most had a very rough time of it resulting in sails torn or blown away, spars broken and otherwise damaged. Being on the north side of Morecambe Bay and with only minor damage, put into Peel for shelter.
2.6.1904: Sold to William Preston, Adelaide St, Fleetwood. William Preston designated managing owner.
7.10.1913: Tonnage altered to 24.46net as per Surveyor’s Certificate dated Liverpool 6.10.191.
21.11.1916: Sold to Ernest Tomlinson, Manor Road, Fleetwood. Ernest Taylor, London Street, Fleetwood designated manager.
4.4.1923: Sold to James E. Sellers, 56 Carr Road, Fleetwood, later 49 Poulton Road, Fleetwood. Last skipper Samuel Colley, 37 Flag Street, Fleetwood.
1930: Sold for breaking up.
17.10.1930: Fleetwood registry closed “Broken up”.
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26/12/2008: Page published.
12/12/2014: Information updated.
23/11/2023: Information updated.