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S.T. George Hastings FD9

In Dinas and Marr ownership. Did not fish from Fleetwood

Technical

Official Number: 148957
Yard Number: 507
Completed: 1928
Gross Tonnage: 357
Net Tonnage: 154
Length: 140.4 ft
Breadth: 24 ft
Depth: 13.2 ft
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley
Engine: 96nhp T.3-cyl and boiler by Charles D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
Speed: 10.6 knots

History

16.10.1928: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.507) for Loch Line Steam Trawling and Fishing Co Ltd, Aberdeen as LOCH LEVEN.
20.11.1928: Registered at Aberdeen (A379).
4.12.1928: Completed (Harry A. Holmes, manager).
1935: Sold to Caledonian Fishing Co Ltd, Aberdeen (Harry Wight, Hull, manager).
22.5.1935: Aberdeen registry closed.
24.5.1935: Registered at Hull (H186).
25.7.1939: Insured value £12,800.
23.8.1939: Managers became Loch Fishing Co of Hull Ltd.
24.8.1939: Sailed Hull for Iceland (Sk. G. Yates). Ordered to return from sea for requisitioning.
29.8.1939: Arrived Hull, 5 days steaming, no catch.
1939: To requisitioning, at Hull from Iceland (Sks. J. Searby, G. Yates, R. Reid) 215 days 12,618 kits £ 9,989.
31.8.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (P.No.FY.642) (Hire rate £159.3.3d/month).
6.2.1946: Returned to owner.
22.1.1946: Sold to A. & M. Smith Ltd, Hull (Mark Hellyer & Graham Hellyer, managers).
1948: Sold to United Trawlers Ltd, Milford Haven (Henry J. Horwood, manager).
9.7.1948: Registered at Hull as George Hastings (H186).
Pre 10.1953: Laid up at Milford Haven.
1953: United Trawlers Ltd in liquidation.
25.2.1954: Sold to Dinas Steam Trawler Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Alfred J. Marr, manager). Registered at Fleetwood (FD9).
3.3.1954: Sailed Milford for Fleetwood.
4.5.1954: Sold to J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood for £7700.
1.6.1954: Sold to BISCO and allocated to Rees Shipbreaking Co Ltd, Llanelli for breaking up.
6.1954: Sailed Fleetwood for Llanelli.

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HMT Loch Leven

HMT Loch Leven
Picture from the Internet

Changelog
21/12/2008: Page published. 2 updates since then.
18/08/2017: Added an image.
05/11/2020: Updated history.

S.T. Eudocia LT113

Technical

Official Number: 98727
Yard Number: 61
Completed: 1891
Gross Tonnage: 147
Net Tonnage: 56
Length: 101.3 ft
Breadth: 20.3 ft
Depth: 11.0 ft
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Hull
Engine: 45nhp T.3-cyl and boiler by Charles D. Holmes & Co, Hull
Speed: 10 knots

History

10.2.1891: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Hull (Yd.No.61) for Charles Hellyer & Co Ltd, Hull as EUDOCIA.
6.3.1891: Registered at Hull (H130).
3.1891: Completed (Charles Hellyer, manager).
10.12.1893: When some 230 miles NE from Spurn picked up crew of Norwegian brig JANEE Burntisland for Lauvig cargo coals who had taken to their boat before vessel foundered.
15.12.1893: Landed survivors at Hull.
24.8.1897: Transferred to Hellyer’s Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull (Charles Hellyer, manager).
22.12.1908: Sank the steam trawler LYCURGUS (H93) in collision in North Sea.
26.11.1914: Sold to Thomas Lauder, Aberdeen.
26.11.1914: Hull registry closed.
1.12.1914: Registered at Aberdeen (A205).
5.5.1917: Aberdeen registry closed.
10.5.1917: Sold to John W. Smethurst, Grimsby (managing owner).
29.5.1917: Requisitioned for Fishery Reserve.
5.10.1917: Registered at Grimsby (GY1049).
1919: Released.
22.2.1924: Sold to James H. Mein, Grimsby.
28.11.1924: Sold to Consolidated Steam Fishing & Ice Co (Grimsby) Ltd, Grimsby (Sir John D. Marsden, Bart, manager).
6.11.1924: Transferred to Lowestoft and registered at that port (LT113).
29.6.1927: Owners re-styled Consolidated Fisheries Ltd (Sir John D. Marsden, Bart, manager).
3.9.1930: Arrived Lowestoft with crew of sailing trawler REFUGE (LT715) with whom she had been in collision in North Sea; REFUGE foundered.
1940: Directed to Fleetwood under wartime controls.
1941: Sold to Dinas Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Fleetwood.
24.7.1943: Typical landing, Home Waters. 363 kits – hake-304, cod/codling-22, whiting-13, flats-8, ling/coley-8, roker-4, gurnard-1, dogs-3.
1945: Sold to Odafoam Ltd, Liverpool. William Stevenson, St. Anne’s-on-the-Sea designated manager.
1.9.1949: Last landing in Fleetwood, 44 boxes, £158 gross (broken trip).
10.1950: Sold to BISCO and allocated to Thos W. Ward Ltd, Sheffield for breaking up at Preston. Lowestoft registry closed.

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S.T. Eudocia LT113

S.T. Eudocia LT113
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Changelog
19/12/2008: Page published. 2 updates since then.
13/06/2016: Picture added.
24/07/2020: Updated information.

S.T. Dinas (1) – FD63

Additional Information courtesy of Barry Banham and Ian Wilson

Technical

Official Number: 128747
Yard number: 399
Completed: 1909
Gross Tonnage: 219
Net Tonnage: 85
Length: 117.4 ft
Breadth: 21.6 ft
Depth: 11.8 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Shields Engineering Co Ltd, North Shields
Built: Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, North Shields
Boiler: Robert Stephenson & Co Ltd, Hebburn

History

7.1.1909: Launched by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, North Shields (Yd.No.399) for Thomas G. Hancock (32/64), Hakin & John D. Harries (32/64), Milford Haven as DINAS.
2.1909: Completed (Thomas G. Hancock managing owner).
23.2.1909: Registered at Milford (M19).
14.10.1910: Arrested for illegal trawling in Bantry Bay.
15.11.1910: At Bantry Petty Sessions, Sk Thomas Salter fined £75 with 5gns costs.
20.8.1911: Stranded on Shingles Bank, refloated without damage and proceeded to Portsmouth.
12.5.1914: Sold to George H. D. Birt, Milford Haven (managing owner).
8.1914: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-6pdr HA) (Ad.No.155).
18.2.1916: Attached to Unit 117 of Dover Patrol. Recovering kite when band of derrick carried away striking PO Arthur Garden (P.120675) on the head. Removed to Military Hospital, Dover.
26.2.1916: PO Garden died.
26.5.1917: Sold to Joseph A. Taylor & Ernest Tomlinson, Fleetwood.
7.7.1917: Sold to Jonathan Uttley, Fleetwood (Joseph A. Taylor, manager).
By 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Fleetwood.
7.3.1919: Milford registry closed.
8.3.1919: Registered at Fleetwood (FD63).
1920: Sold to Mrs Alice A. Uttley, Blackpool & F. A. Wadsworth, Fleetwood (Joseph A. Taylor, manager).
1921: Sold to Joseph Arthur Marr, Fleetwood (managing owner).
1922: Sold to Dinas Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Joseph A. Marr, manager).
23.2.1936: In collision in Wyre Channel with steam grab dredger ROSSALL (239grt/120) and steam trawler HERO (FD227).
3.10.1936: Mortgaged to William Deacons Bank Ltd, London.
4.12.1936: Stranded at Dunfanaghy, Co. Donegal without loss of life.
14.9.1937: Fleetwood registry closed “Stranded 4/12/36 & became total loss”.
2012: Wreck still visible at some low water springs.

(Note: 23.9.1937: Wreck was being stripped by men working from the steam drifter HONORA EVELYN (FD165) which in the course of operations that day stranded on rocks inside Dunfanaghy Bar and also became a total loss).

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S.T. Dinas FD63

S.T. Dinas FD63
Picture courtesy of Jim Moore

Changelog
19/12/2008: Page published. 7 updates since then.
22/04/2020: Updated information.