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S.D/T. Patria LT178 (Seasonal)

Technical

Official Number: 149235
Yard Number: 1033
Completed: 1916
Gross Tonnage: 140.33
Net Tonnage: 66.09
Length: 102.2 ft (31.15m)
Breadth: 20.7 ft (6.31m)
Depth: 9.7 ft (2.95m)
Built by Gebr. Boot, Leiderdorp, The Netherlands
Engine T.3-cyl and boiler by Burgerhout’s Maschfb., Rotterdam

History

1916: Completed by Gebr. Boot Scheepsbouwwerf “De Hoop”, Leiderdorp (Yd.No.1033) for N.V. Visscherij Exploitatie Maats “Witte Star”, IJmuiden as ATLANTIC (IJM256).
1919: Sold to Union des Pêcheries Maritimes S. A., Brussels & Ostend. R. Pelteir designated manager. Renamed IRMA. Registered at Fécamp, France.
1928: Sold to W. Loendersloot, IJmuiden. Renamed PATRIA (IJM19).
6.1930: Sold to John C. Hayward (21/64), Alexander D. Penman (21/64) & George F. Spashett (22/64), Lowestoft.
6.1930: IJmuiden registry closed.
1930: Re-measured 102.3 x 20.4 x 9.5 feet.
4.6.1930: Registered at Lowestoft (Part I & IV) as PATRIA O.N.149235 (LT178).
1932: Transferred to fish out of Fleetwood (Alex Keay, managing agent).
09.04.1932: Broken main steam pipe at Fleetwood.
14.11.1933: Broken propeller Fleetwood.
25.03.1935: Damaged in collision with Belgian motor boat at sea during a gale.
02.12.1937: Damaged in collision with steam drifter PRIMEVERE (LT345).
24.12.1937: Damaged H.P. cylinder at Milford Haven.
15.01.1938: Returned to Milford Haven with damage from heavy seas.
30.11.1939: Damaged in collision with steam drifter KIDDAW (LT361).
9.3.1939: Sold to Kittiwake Ltd, Lowestoft. John Victor Breach designated manager. Fishing out of Fleetwood during WW2.
19.01.1941: Broken propeller.
15.2.1941: Suffered boiler damage, steam trawler CONNI (SH107) connected and delivered Fleetwood.
05.06.1942: Broken tail shaft off Fleetwood.
7.5.1943: Typical wartime landing. 104 kits – cod/codling-13, plaice-31, flats-1, roker-50, gurnard-4, sole & prime-5.
19.11.1943: Towed the disabled trawler WARREN (GY1096) into Fleetwood.
03.11.1944: Damaged in collision with hopper at Fleetwood.
15.12.1944: Broken mainmast off Peel, I.O.M.
9.4.1945: R. H. Self designated manager.
28.2.1946: Sold to Jack Breach Ltd, Lowestoft. Charles W. Dance designated manager.
6.1946: Company taken over by Small & Co Ltd, Lowestoft.
26.6.1946: Owners re-styled The Shoals Fishing Co Ltd, Lowestoft. Charles W. Dance designated manager.
18.10.1947: At Lowestoft (Sk. H. G. Meen) landed 253 crans from Dowsing ground. Prunier Trophy winner.
26.10.1947: Stood by steam drifter MARGARET HIDE (LT 746) damaged by heavy weather.
1.12.1947: Broken propeller.
24.5.1948: Damaged stem and bow plating after striking quay at Aberdeen.
16.12.1949: Sprung mizzen mast in heavy weather.
4.10.1952: When entering Lowestoft in collision with steam trawler WITHAM (GY283).
8.11.1952: Put into Lowestoft with 77 of her complement of 91 nets damaged.
30.1.1954: Sold to Colne Fishing Co Ltd, Lowestoft for breaking up under White Fish Authority “scrap & build” programme. Dennis Arthur Stephens, manager. 8.8.1954: Sailed Lowestoft for Antwerp towing steam drifter BUCKLER (LT756) also sold for breaking up.
9.8.1954: Lowestoft registry closed.

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S.T Patria LT178

S.T Patria LT178
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S.D/T. Patria LT178

S.D/T. Patria LT178
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S.D/T. Patria LT178

S.D/T. Patria LT178
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Changelog
03/01/2009: Page published. 8 updates since then.
18/08/2017: Added an image and removed FMHT watermark.
10/07/2021: Updated history and technical details.

S.D/T. Overfall – LT76

Technical

Official Number: 145241
Yard Number: 94
Completed: 1918
Gross Tonnage: 97
Net Tonnage: 43
Length: 86.2 ft
Breadth: 18.5 ft
Depth: 9.3 ft
Built: Colby Brothers Ltd, Lowestoft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Pollit & Wigzell Ltd, Sowerby Bridge

History

1918: Launched by Colby Brothers Ltd, Lowestoft (Yd.No.94) (“Admiralty drifter”) for The Admiralty as OVERFALL (Ad.No.3990).
29.10.1918: Completed as a minesweeper.
4.11.1918: Arrived Devonport.
8.11.1918: Sailed Devonport for Mediterranean.
27.5.1921: Transferred to Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries, London and placed on sales list.
1921: Sold to John Mair, Portsoy (managing owner).
3.12.1921: Registered at Banff (BF590).
28.11.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (P.No.FY.984) (Hire rate £32.0.0d/month).
30.5.1940: Sailed Yarmouth with twelve other drifters for Ramsgate (Sk. Donald Miller).
31.5.1940: Sailed Ramsgate for Dunkirk (Operation Dynamo). Assisted in evacuation.
1.1942: At Lowestoft as LL drifter.
10.1943: Employed on harbour defence patrol.
1.1.1944: Sold to Yolland & Llewellin, Milford Haven (John C. Llewellin, manager) for £3250.
3.1944: Employed on miscellaneous naval duties & balloon barrage.
7.1945: Sold to J. S. Yolland & Co Ltd, Milford Haven.
7.1945 Banff registry closed.
16.7.1945: Registered at Lowestoft (LT76).
10.1945: Returned to owner. Fishing from Lowestoft.
1.1.1946: Messrs Yolland & Llewellin partnership dissolved.
1.1946: Sold to Yolland Bros Ltd, Milford Haven (John Yolland Jnr, manager).
1946: Sold to Cairo Fishing Co Ltd, Milford Haven (John Yolland, manager).
24.7.1947: Fishing out of Milford.
1954: Sold to Yolland Brothers Ltd, Milford Haven.
1954: Sold to George A. Leech, Fleetwood (managing owner) (Ora Trawlers Ltd) for £2225.
3.6.1954: Last landing at Milford.
26.6.1954: First landing at Fleetwood, 37 boxes 10 baskets grossed £243.
10.1955: Sold to BISCO and allocated to Thos. W. Ward Ltd, Sheffield for breaking up.
2.11.1955: Arrived Barrow.
1958(1960?): Lowestoft registry closed on discharge of mortgage.

(Note. In Fleetwood Fishing Vessel Owners’ Association Ltd lists for 1953,1954 and 1955 (deleted 11.1955); manager/agent Ora Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood)

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HMD Overfall

HMD Overfall

S.T. Overfall BF590

S.T. Overfall BF590
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Changelog
03/01/2009: Page published. 4 updates since then.
09/07/2016: Picture added.
09/04/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.

S.T. Ocean Favourite YH239 (Seasonal)

Wartime visitor

Technical

Official Number: 135046
Completed: 1913
Gross Tonnage: 99
Net Tonnage: 34
Length: 88.7 ft
Breadth: 19.7 ft
Depth: 9.9 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Crabtree & Co Ltd, Gt Yarmouth
Boiler: Riley Bros (Boilermakers) Ltd, Stockton on Tees
Built: Beeching Bros Ltd, Gt Yarmouth, 1913
Owner: Bloomfield’s Ltd, Fleetwood

History

1913: Launched by Beeching Bros Ltd, Gt Yarmouth (Yd.No.) for Bloomfields Ltd, Gt Yarmouth as OCEAN FAVOURITE.
5.5.1913: Registered at Yarmouth (YH239).
5.1913: Completed at a cost of £3147 (James Bloomfield, manager).
9.1914: Requisitioned for war service and employed on patrol duties (Ad.No.245). Based Liverpool.
By 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Gt. Yarmouth (Bloomfields Ltd, Gy. Yarmouth).
18.12.1923: Seining off Dogger Bank (Sk. Hewitt) struck by heavy seas sustaining considerable damage. Returned Yarmouth a day overdue.
13.10.1924: Landed estimated 300 crans at Yarmouth.
12.8.1937: In dense fog at mouth of River Tyne took onboard from Montrose steamer BELFORD (366grt/1920) crew of steam drifter WELCOME BOYS (LT11) which had been in collision with BELFORD and foundered. Landed survivors at North Shields.
1942: Transferred to Bloomfield’s Ltd, Fleetwood management. Landing at Fleetwood and occasionally at Ullapool.
1943. Transferred to Bloomfield’s Ltd, Gt Yarmouth.
1949: Sold for breaking up.
26.10.1949: Yarmouth registry closed. (Engine removed and fitted in HARRY EASTICK (YH278)).

Changelog
01/01/2009: Page published. 4 updates since then.

S.D/T. Ocean Dawn YH47 (Seasonal)


Copyright 2010 Barry Banham

Technical

Official Number: 137608
Yard Number: 562
Completed: 1919
Gross Tonnage: 96
Net Tonnage: 41
Length: 86.2 ft
Breadth: 18.5 ft
Depth: 9.3 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen
Boiler: James Neilson & Son Ltd, Glasgow
Built: A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen

History

1919: Launched by A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen (Yd.No.562) ( “Admiralty drifter”) for The Admiralty as WAVELET (Ad.No.4121).
5.2.1919: Forms for tender to purchase received by the Admiralty.
21.2.1919: Completed as a fishing vessel.
4.1919: Sold to George W. Green Ltd, Gt Yarmouth (James Bloomfield, manager).
15.4.1919: Registered at Yarmouth as OCEAN DAWN (YH47). (First Admiralty standard steam drifter registered at Yarmouth). Trawling from Yarmouth.
22.12.1922: Neil Mackay, Gt Yarmouth appointed manager.
30.7.1925: Sold to Bloomfields Ltd, Gt Yarmouth.
1928 season: At Yarmouth best landing 283 cran of herring.
1941: Transferred to Bloomfield’s Ltd, Fleetwood management. Trawling from Fleetwood during WW2.
28.9.1941: When some 9 miles SWbyS from Morecambe Bay Light Vessel, took off crew and connected to steam drifter MURIELLE (LT269) which had suffered an explosion from mine hauled in trawl. Commenced tow to Fleetwood, but started to settle and foundered 3 miles W by N of Blackpool Tower. All crew landed at Fleetwood.
17.7.1943: Typical wartime landing. 164 kits – hake-51, cod/codling-43, whiting-29, flats-7, roker-29, gurnard-2, dogs-3.
1946: Transferred to Bloomfield’s Ltd, Gt Yarmouth.
19.11.1945: At Yarmouth landed 170 crans.
22.3.1946: In heavy weather some 36 miles off Yarmouth (Sk. Charles Johnson). In the morning sighted a small motor-cruiser in difficulties. Closed boat and found four youths in distress and took them onboard, but weather prevented taking the boat in tow. On arrival Yarmouth, boys transferred to hospital. (Boat had been stolen from Broadstairs by the boys who had been without food and water for four or five days).
4.11.1946: At Yarmouth landed 210 crans.
1950s: Seasonal white fish trawling from Fleetwood.
5.10.1952: At Yarmouth landed 160 crans.
5.11.1953: At Yarmouth landed 160 crans.
14.11.1955: At Yarmouth landed 140 crans.
12.1955: Sold to Belgian shipbreakers for breaking up.
19.12.1955: Yarmouth registry closed.

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S.T. Ocean Dawn YH47

S.T. Ocean Dawn YH47
Picture courtesy of The Barry Banham Maritime Photo Collection

S.D/T. Ocean Dawn YH47

S.D/T. Ocean Dawn YH47
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Changelog
01/01/2009: Page published. 5 updates since then.
13/06/2016: Information updated.
07/04/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
02/07/2021: Updated history.

S.D/S. Ocean Crest YH876

Wooden built drifter/seiner

Technical

Official Number: 132346
Completed: 1911
Gross Tonnage: 88
Net Tonnage: 38
Length: 84.6 ft
Breadth: 19.4 ft
Depth: 9.6 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by Elliott & Garrood Ltd, Beccles
Built: John Chambers, Oulton Broad, Lowestoft

History

1911: Launched by John Chambers Ltd, Oulton Broad, Lowestoft (Yd.No.) for Bloomfields Ltd, Gt. Yarmouth(43/64) & William E. Shreeve, Caister on Sea (21/64) as OCEAN CREST.
8.7.1911: Ran trials.
8.7.1911: Registered at Yarmouth (YH876).
14.7.1911: Completed (James Bloomfield, manager).
21.10.1911: Landed 300 crans for freshers and 50 crans for salters at Yarmouth – £300 gross.
20.2.1914: Sold to W. E. Shreeve Ltd, Gt Yarmouth (William E. Shreeve, Caister on Sea, manager).
1914: Requisitioned for war service and employed as an escort and auxiliary patrol vessel (Ad.No.231). Based Ramsgate.
1919: James Bloomfield appointed manager.
By 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Gt Yarmouth (Bloomfields Ltd, Gt Yarmouth).
22.12.1922: Neil Mackay appointed manager.
20.9.1939: Requisitioned for war service and employed on port duties (Hire rate £21.10.0d/month).
9.1939: Returned to owner.
10.1940: Requisitioned for war service and employed on port duties.
10.1940: Returned to owner.
1940: Transferred to Bloomfield’s Ltd, Fleetwood management. Landing at Fleetwood and occasionally at Ullapool.
1943. Transferred to Bloomfield’s Ltd, Gt Yarmouth.
1951: Sold for breaking up.
17.11.1954: Yarmouth registry closed.

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S.D/S. Ocean Crest YH876

S.D/S. Ocean Crest YH876
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Changelog
01/01/2009: Page published. 3 updates since then.
19/07/2016: Image added.
07/04/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.