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S.T. Westella (2) FD318

Additional information courtesy of David Slinger and Mike Thompson

Technical

Official Number: 163176
Yard Number: 587
Completed: 1934
Gross Tonnage: 425.54
Net Tonnage: 159.96
Length: 154.6 ft
Breadth: 25.6 ft
Depth: 13.9 ft
Engine: 700ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
Built: Cook Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley
Speed: 11.5 knots

History

18.12.1933: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.587) for Hellyer Bros. Ltd, Hull as DERVISH.
23.1.1934: Registered at Hull (H8).
29.1.1934: Completed (Frank O. Hellyer & Owen S. Hellyer, managers).
31.1.1934: Sailed Hull on first trip to Icelandic grounds (Sk. I. Petersen).
21.2.1934: At Hull landed 1,347 kits grossed £1,684.
27.4.1934: At Hull (Sk. G. Myhre) landed from a Bear Island trip 1,030 kits grossed £1017 but reported Mate, W. Harrison (37), lost overboard on 14.4.1934.
22.8.1934: Reported. Picked up British airman John Grierson attempting to fly from Rochester, England to Ottawa, Canada by the northern route and after leaving Reykjavik, forced to land on deserted coast. Wireless message picked up and rescue effected.
9.1935: As a result of the Abyssinian crisis and failure of British diplomacy, the Government authorised The Admiralty to procure twenty modern trawlers for conversion to minor warships.
9.10.1935: Following successful trials sold to The Admiralty.
8.11.1935: Hull registry closed. Fitted out to a “Gem” class anti-submarine trawler. Renamed HMS PEARL (P.No.T.22).
1940: Adopted by the town of Padiham, Lancashire.
1944: Assigned to Operation Neptune – Normandy landings.
23.5.1944: Convoy escort duties in British waters and across the Channel in support of landings.
3.7.1944: Operation Neptune ended.
1946: Laid up at Milford Haven on Disposal List (SORF, Pembroke Dock).
9.4.1946: Sold to J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood for £14500.
10.5.1946: Geoffrey Edwards Marr designated manager.
12.1946: New boiler fitted.
12.1946: Reclassed at Fleetwood and registered at Hull as WESTELLA (H349). Transferred to Hull.
19.6.1948: Sold to Pegasus Trawling Co Ltd (64/64), St. Anne’s-on-the-Sea for £67000.
23.6.1948: William Stevenson, St. Anne’s-on-the-Sea designated manager.
30.6.1948: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Midland Bank Ltd, London (A).
23.7.1948: Mortgage transferred to Williams Deacon’s Bank Ltd, London (A).
2.1.1951: Leslie Arthur Burnam designated manager.
11.5.1951: Mortgage (A) discharged.
11.5.1951: Sold to Dinas Steam Trawling Co Ltd (64/64), Fleetwood.
11.5.1951: Frank Marr, Cleveleys designated manager.
15.9.1953: Hull registry closed.
9.1953: Registered at Fleetwood (FD318).
1.6.1959: Company taken over by J. Marr & Son Ltd (64/64), Fleetwood.
8.1959: Sold to Van Heyghen Freres S.A., Ghent for breaking up.
14.8.1959: Sailed Fleetwood for Ghent.
18.8.1959: Delivered Ghent. Fleetwood registry closed.

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S.T. Westella FD318
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S.T. Westella FD318
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S.T. Westella H349
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24/04/2017: Removed disputed image and FMHT watermark. Added another image.
25/07/2018: Updated information.
15/02/2020: Updated information.

S.T. Mumby BN174

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Technical

Admiralty Number: 3675
Official Number: 143844
Yard Number: 355
Completed: 1918
As built: 360disp 125.6 x 23.5 x 12.8 feet
Gross Tonnage: 277
Net Tonnage: 122
Length: 125.7 ft
Breadth: 23.4 ft
Depth: 12.8 ft
Built: Bow, McLachlan & Co Ltd, Paisley
Engine: 480ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by Bow, McLachlan & Co Ltd, Paisley

History

9.4.1918: Launched by Bow, McLachlan & Co Ltd, Paisley (Yd.No.355) (“Castle” class) for The Admiralty as EDWARD COLLINGWOOD (Ad.No.3675).
26.4.1918: Completed as a minesweeper (1-12pdr, hydrophone and W/T).
19.11.1919: Registered by the Admiralty at London (Part I) as EDWARD COLLINGWOOD O.N.143844. Engaged in commercial trawling.
19.02.1920: Registered by The Admiralty at London (Part IV) as EDWARD COLLINGWOOD (LO330).
03.1920: At HM Dockyard, Pembroke completed fitting out for fishing under Special Survey of Lloyd’s Register and classed 100 A1 Stm Trawler at Milford.
By 18.06.1920: Allocated to Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries, London 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.
By 18.12.1920: Returned to The Admiralty.
01.1922: Scheme abandoned, the necessary working capital of £100,000 having not been subscribed.
16.02.1922: Advertised for sale.
1922: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Boston.
7.7.1922: London registry closed.
7.1922: Registered at Boston as MUMBY (BN174). Fred Parkes, Wyburton, Boston appointed manager.
1923: Transferred to Fleetwood.
1924: Sold to René Maubaillarcq & Cie, La Rochelle.
1924: Re measured 296g 89n.
1924: Boston registry closed. Registered at La Rochelle as TAVANNES.
9.1933: Sold to Hudson Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull.
9.1933: La Rochelle registry closed.
10.1933: New boiler fitted.
1933: Re measured 279g 109n.
26.9.1933: Registered at Hull as T. R. FERENS (H510). Archibald Hudson appointed manager.
1938: Sold to Iago Steam Trawler Co
Ltd, London & Fleetwood.
29.3.1938: Hull registry closed.
30.3.1938: Registered at London (LO210). Edward D. W. Lawford appointed manager.
29.8.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (P.No.FY.532) (Hire rate £83.14.0d/month).
4.1945: Returned to owner.
6.1945: Sold to Messrs Yolland & Llewellin, Milford Haven. Fishing from Fleetwood.
1.1.1946: Messrs Yolland & Llewellin partnership dissolved.
9.1.1946: Sold to J. C. Llewellin (Trawlers) Ltd, Milford Haven. John Charles Llewellin appointed manager. Continued fishing from Fleetwood.
29.9.1948: Sold to J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood for £13,861.
10.1948: London registry closed.
10.1948: Registered at Fleetwood (FD282).
10.1948: Geoffrey Edwards Marr appointed manager.
20.3.1953: Sailed Fleetwood for St. Kilda ground (Sk. William Lloyd), thirteen crew all told.
26.3.1953: When hauling in a heavy swell, mate Redvers William Edwards (57) lost his footing and fell overboard. Skipper threw three lifebuoys but mate failed to grasp one. Deckhand Owen Johnston (19) threw off seaboots and oilskins and jumped in alongside Edwards but swell carried the mate away. Johnston recovered and trip aborted.
27.3.1953: Returned to Fleetwood.
7.1953: Sold for breaking up.
14.7.1953: Last landing at Fleetwood.
16.7.1953: Sailed Fleetwood for ??.

(Francis Edward Collingwood, AB, age 23, b. Milford, Wales – VICTORY (SB?))

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S.T. T. R. Ferens LO210
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Changelog
22/01/2009: Page published. 4 updates since then.
17/03/2015: Information updated.
20/09/2016: Information updated.
18/06/2021: Updated history and technical details.

S.T. Red Sabre LO71

Additional information courtesy of Bill Blow and Mike Thompson

Technical

Official Number: 181287
Yard Number: 685
Completed: 1942
Gross Tonnage: 504.57
Net Tonnage: 186.39
Length: 167.7 ft
Breadth: 28.1 ft
Depth: 14.1 ft
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley
Engine: 970ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull

History

18.1.1941: Ordered.
7.5.1941: Laid down.
24.9.1941: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.685) (“Hills” class) for The Admiralty as PORTSDOWN (P.No.T.221).
6.3.1942: Completed (1- HA/LA, 4-MG, 1-20mm, ASDIC, DC).
1942: Home Fleet.
1942: To Freetown, 2nd A/S Group.
1945: Armament increased (2-20mm).
1946: Laid up at Rosyth on Disposal List (SORF, Rosyth).
10.4.1946: Sold to Hull Merchants Amalgamated Trawlers Ltd (64/64), Hull for the sum of £27.500, estimated cost to convert for fishing, £32,000.
12.1946: Converted to a fishing vessel at Birkenhead. 524.19grt 195.00net.
12.1946: Engine re-rated 1050ihp
24.12.1946: Registered at Hull as SOLLUM O.N.181284 (H369).
21.1.1949: Sold to Grimsby Motor Trawlers Ltd (64/64), Grimsby for the sum of £102,500. Harvey Wilfred Wilson designated manager.
2.1949: Hull registry closed.
2.2.1949: Registered at Grimsby (GY8).
24.2.1949: Registered at Grimsby as HARGOOD (GY8) (MoT Minute R.G.No.1037/1949 dated 12.2.1919).
12.1949: Converted for burning oil fuel, F.P. above 150° F.
1951: Grimsby Motor Trawlers Ltd, Grimsby in liquidation.
28.3.1951: Sold to Derwent Trawlers Ltd (64/64), Grimsby for the sum of £90,000 (T. Ross Ltd to advance £34,000; Ross Group Ltd to advance £8,000 and Bank to advance £48,000).
28.3.1951: Alteration to tonnage and other particulars. Certificate of Survey at Grimsby dated 18.12.1950. 504.57grt 186.39net.
29.3.1951: Harvey Wilfred Wilson designated manager.
14.4.1951: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to National Provincial Bank Ltd, London (A).
29.8.1952: Mortgage (A) discharged.
9.2.1955: John Carl Ross designated manager.
21.6.1955: Sold to Iago Steam Trawler Co Ltd, Fleetwood.
30.6.1955: William John Meazey designated manager.
30.6.1955: Grimsby registry closed.
6.1955: Registered at London as RED SABRE (LO71).
2.1956: Made record trip to Icelandic grounds. 7 days 15 hrs (Sk. Jim McKernan). At Fleetwood landed 700 kits, £4,800 gross.
4.2.1957: Outward for Icelandic grounds (Sk. Tom McKernan) in very rough weather, answered distress call from steam trawler ALCMARIA (LT48) disabled of Maugould Head, IoM with boiler trouble.
5.2.1957: At 3.00 am. after several attempts with rocket and barrel connected but line parted and fouled propeller. Anchored to await tug from Heysham. Steam tug FISHERHILL (292grt/1946) connected and at 11.59 pm. delivered Fleetwood.
13.12.1959: Homeward from Icelandic grounds (Sk. Tom McKernan). Spoke to RED FALCON (LO4) (Sk.Alex Harvey), 50 miles astern, and was informed that due to adverse weather his speed was 4 to 5 knots.
14.12.1959: At 0700 called RED FALCON and gave position abeam of Rathlin Island after a very rough passage between Skerryvore and the island in WSW storm conditions gusting 90mph and very confused sea. Past the Mull of Galloway called RED FALCON several times but received no reply. (RED FALCON presumed foundered, between Stanton Bank and Skerryvore and probably to the SW of Skerryvore Light, Inner Hebrides, overwhelmed due to stress of weather; all nineteen crew lost).
7.1963: Company taken over by Boston Deep Sea Fisheries Ltd, Fleetwood.
17.1.1964: Iago Steam Trawler Co Ltd office closed.
1964: Sold to Haulbowline Industries Ltd, Passage West, Cork for breaking up.
21.12.1964: Delivered Passage West from Fleetwood under own power.
12.1964: London registry closed.

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S.T. Hargood GY8
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S.T. Red Sabre LO71
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S.T. Red Sabre LO71
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S.T. Red Sabre LO71
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S.T. Red Sabre LO71
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S.T. Red Sabre LO71
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S.T. Red Sabre LO71
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20/01/2009: Page published. 6 updates since then.
25/03/2015: Picture added.
13/03/2017: Images added.
07/10/2020: Image added and updated history.

S.T. Red Archer LO430

Technical

Official Number: 160799
Yard Number: 1016
Completed: 1928
Gross Tonnage: 333
Net Tonnage: 134
Length: 138.8 ft
Breadth: 23.8 ft
Depth: 13.3 ft
Engine: 96hp T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby

History

22.5.1928: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.1016) for West Dock Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull as DEEPDALE WYKE.
17.8.1928: Registered at Hull (H459).
22.8.1928: Completed (Ernest W. Robins, manager).
1939: Sold to The Admiralty.
28.6.1939: Hull registry closed. Fitted out as a boom defence vessel. Renamed RENNET (P.No.Z.99).
1940: At Rosyth.
1941: Mediterranean Command.
1944: Based Aden.
1946: Sold to Iago Steam Trawler Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Cdr. E. D. W. Lawford DSO, manager) to replace war losses.
10.1946: Rebuilt and reclassed at Barrow.
10.1946: Converted at Barrow-in-Furness for burning oil fuel, F.P. above 150°F. First Fleetwood trawler converted to burn oil fuel.
1.1947: Registered at London as RED ARCHER (LO430).
7.1958: Sold to BISCO and allocated to Thos. W. Ward Ltd, Sheffield for breaking up.
17.7.1958: Delivered Barrow-in-Furness from Fleetwood under own power.

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S.T. Red Archer LO430
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Changelog
19/01/2009: Page published. 3 updates since then.
20/02/2018: Removed FMHT watermarks from images.
29/05/2018: Added an image.

S.T. Red Knight LO445

Additional information courtesy of David Slinger

Technical

Official Number: 163173
Yard Number: 586
Completed: 1934
Gross Tonnage: 394
Net Tonnage: 152
Length: 151.9 ft
Breadth: 25.6 ft
Depth: 13.6 ft
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley
Engine: 102nhp T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull

History

4.12.1933: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.586) for Jutland Amalgamated Trawlers Ltd, Hull as LADY ADELAIDE.
3.1.1934: Registered at Hull (H4).
10.1.1934: Completed (Edward Cargill, manager).
15.1.1934: Sailed Hull on first trip to White Sea grounds (Sk.W. Lewis).
12.2.1934: At Hull landed 499 kits grossed £935.
2.1939: Sold to The Admiralty (£18,333).
27.2.1939: Hull registry closed. Fitted out as a “Gem” class anti-submarine trawler. Renamed HMS BERYL (1-4”,
AA weapons, DC) (P.No.T.34). To Malta in Reserve Fleet.
28.11.1939: Commissioned. Mid. Harold W. du Boisson RNR appointed CO. To Alexandria with A/S Group 4.
4.1940: A/Comm Bosun Henry E. Sellwood RN appointed CO.
6.5.1940: Arrived Malta with A/S Group 4.
6.1940: Mid. Harold W. du Boisson RNR appointed CO.
7.10.1940: Act Cdr James Collis Bird DSC RN (rtd) appointed CO.
7.1941: Mid. Harold W. du Boisson RNR appointed CO.
11.11.1941: Snr Comm Bosun Victor P. Rhind RN appointed CO.
17.12.1941: A/Sub Lieut. Harold W. Boisson RNR appointed CO. To Port Said with A/S Group 4.
12.1942: Ty/Sub Lieut. Harold Olsberg RNR appointed CO.
10.7.1943 – 3.9.1943: At Sicily landings.
9.1944: Ty/Sk. Joseph William Richmond RNR appointed CO.
1946: Laid up at Milford Haven on Disposal List (SORF, Pembroke Dock).
4.1946: Sold to Iago Steam Trawler Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Capt. E. D. W. Lawford DSO, manager).
1946-47: Restored at Barrow.
2.1947: Converted at Barrow-in-Furness for burning oil fuel, F.P. above 150° F.
2.1947: Registered at London as RED KNIGHT (LO445).
26.4.1954: At Reykjavik Sk. Nicholas Wright was fined £1700 with catch and gear confiscated on a charge of fishing inside Icelandic territorial waters.
14.12.1959: Homeward from Icelandic grounds (Sk. John Mecklenburgh) in very heavy weather off Western Isles. Between 0710 and 0715 spoke to RED FALCON (LO4) (Sk. Alex Harvey) about 150 miles ahead and agreed to make for lee of Irish coast. Presumed Sk. Harvey later set course for Inishtrahull. At 1830, Sk. Mecklenburgh called RED FALCON on the radiotelephone but received no reply.
15.12.1959: On arrival at Fleetwood on midday tide Sk. Mecklenburgh expressed concern for the RED FALCON.
16.12.1959: At 1220 Formby Coastguard informed Northern Rescue Co-ordination Centre, Pitreavie that vessel was 24 hrs overdue. Search by Shackleton aircraft over area.
18.12.1959: Search called off. RED FALCON presumed foundered, between Stanton Bank and Skerryvore and probably to the SW of Skerryvore Light, Inner Hebrides, overwhelmed due to stress of weather; all nineteen crew lost.
1.1961: Dodging in heavy seas and gale force wind off Iceland assisted trawler LORD MONTGOMERY (FD130) who had lost the mate, Ralph Connelly, presumed washed overboard, to search the area. The mate was not found.
1962: Sold to to Thos. W. Ward Ltd, Sheffield for breaking up.
27.11.1962: Delivered Barrow-in-Furness from Fleetwood under own power.
12.1962: London registry closed.

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Changelog
18/01/2009: Page published. 5 updates since then.
03/02/2016: Information updated.
14/08/2016: Picture added.
11/06/2019: Information updated.
09/09/2023: Added an image.

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S.T. Westella (2) FD318

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