Additional material courtesy of Mike Thompson

Technical

Official Number: 98735
Yard Number: 25
Completed: 1891
Gross Tonnage: 149
Net Tonnage: 48
Length: 100.5 ft
Breadth: 20.5 ft
Depth: 10.7 ft
Engine: 45hp C.2-cyl and boiler by Muir & Houston Ltd, Glasgow
Built: Mackie & Thomson, Govan, Glasgow, 1891

History

22.3.1891: Launched by Mackie & Thomson, Govan, Glasgow (Yd. No.25) for William Lawson Robins, Hull & others (Robins family) as RATTLER.
5.1891: Completed at a cost of £1750 (William L. Robins, manager).
29.5.1891: Registered at Hull (H138).
1.4.1897: Alfred Robbins appointed manager.
7.12.1900: Sold to James Herbert Marr (64/64), Hull (managing owner) for £750. Transferred to Fleetwood.
7.12.1900: 48 shares mortgaged to John Craig & George H. Wood (Williams Deacon’s & Manchester & Salford Bank Ltd, Manchester), joint mortgagees (A).
21.12.1900: Running for shelter in Ramsey Bay in severe weather along with thirty other vessels, came into collision with Londonderry schooner MEDITERRANEAN (90tons/1867) which received severe damage.
28.12.1900: Hull registry closed.
29.12.1900: Registered at Fleetwood (FD199).
29.12.1900: Sixteen shares (J. H. Marr) sold to Ernest Tomlinson, Fleetwood (Fishing skipper).
1.1.1901: Sixteen shares (E. Tomlinson) mortgaged to James H. Marr, Fleetwood at 5% interest (B).
4.7.1902: James Herbert Marr appointed manager.
29.5.1902: Sold to J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood on formation of company (James H. Marr appointed manager).
1.1.1914: Tonnage altered to 55.16 net under provision of Merchant Shipping Act 1907.
29.5.1917: Requisitioned for Fishery Reserve.
1919: Released (James A. Robertson, manager).
13.9.1929: Sold to John Wilcock Robinson & Frederick Richardson, Fleetwood for £750.
12.12.1930: Sold to Rattler Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Fleetwood (John W. Robinson, manager).
1932: Sold to Thos. W. Ward Ltd, Sheffield for breaking up at Preston.
27.1.1933: Fleetwood registry closed “Ship broken up and registry closed”.

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S.T. Rattler FD199
Picture courtesy of Alan Hirst

S.T. Rattler FD199
Picture courtesy of The Greenday Collection

Changelog
22/01/2009: Page published. 7 revisions since then.
02/12/2014: Information updated.
14/05/2017: Removed FMHT watermarks from images.