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S.T. Cyelse FD67

Additional information courtesy of David Slinger

Technical

Official Number: 128762
Yard Number: 523
Completed: 1912
Gross Tonnage: 237
Net Tonnage: 93
Length: 120 ft
Breadth: 21.5 ft
Depth: 11.8 ft
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby
Engine: 58ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by Charles D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull

History

3.4.1912: Launched by Cochrane & Sons, Selby (Yd.No.523) for David Pettit, Hakin as CYELSE.
20.5.1912: Registered at Milford (M138).
6.6.1912: Completed (David Pettit, managing owner).
24.6.1912: Arrived Milford.
1912: Transferred to David Pettit Ltd, Milford Haven (David Pettit, Hakin, manager).
11.12.1912: Leaving Milford at 5.30pm for fishing grounds in thick rain and blowing hard (Sk. Edward Gibbs). When between Thorne Island and Stack Rock Fort, collided with steam liner EAGLE (M64) inbound which sank with the loss of five crewmen.
19.2.1913: At BoT formal investigation at Milford, the Court found Sk. Gibbs guilty of failing to keep a proper look out and suspended his ticket for nine months. The Second Hand, William Blockwell was found guilty of unsatisfactory conduct in attempting to save life and his ticket suspended for three months.
9.2.1915: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-12pdr, 1-7.5” A/S Howitzer & W/T) (Ad.No.975). Fitted as Leader. Based Kirkwall.
By 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Milford Haven.
21.3.1929: Stranded on rocks off Lonehort Point, Bere Island, Co. Cork; making water. Destroyer HMS SCYTHE (P.No.H22) standing by. At 10.00am. refloated under own power and proceeded.
20.8.1931: Stranded on rocks off Irish Coast for six hours but refloated; boat lost.
25.2.1934: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Fred Parkes, Blackpool, manager).
30.2.1934: Sold to Mason Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood (Thomas Cardwell, manager).
30.10.1934: Milford registry closed
11.12.1934: Registered at Fleetwood (FD67) (Richard W. Mason, manager).
1939: R. H. Bagshaw appointed manager.
22.8.1940: Requisitioned for war service and appointed for minesweeping duties.
23.8.1940: Returned to owner.
1943: Forecastle head added.
12.3.1943: Requisitioned for war service and fitted with water tank (33ton tank for boiler feed) (P.No. Y.7.8) (Hire rate £59.5.0d/month).
1944: Employed as a fuelling trawler (for refuelling diesel landing craft) (P.No.Y.7.16).
5.1944: Assigned Operation Neptune-Normandy Landings.
23.5.1944: Assigned as a fuelling trawler to Force G.
3.7.1944: Operation Neptune ended.
1944: Reverted to water tank duties.
19.3.1946: Returned after restoration and re-classification at Belfast.
11.3.1949: On West of Scotland grounds (Sk. J.C.Smith); fourteen crew all told. In response to radio message attended Fleetwood trawler BEN BHEULA (A422) (Sk. W. Cowell) off Barra in heavy weather and hail storms taking in water in boiler room. Connected and towed into Castlebay for shelter.
13.3.1949: Still connected, in hail and sleet, swept by high seas on to reef. All crew abandoned in boat and taken onboard BEN BHEULA, later taken by Barra lifeboat to Castlebay.
15.3.1949: Liverpool & Glasgow Salvage Association attended but wreck declared a total loss.
1949: Fleetwood registry closed.

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S.T. Cyelse FD67

S.T. Cyelse FD67
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S.T. Cyelse FD67 in wartime livery

S.T. Cyelse FD67
Picture courtesy of The David Slinger Collection

S.T. Cyelse FD67

S.T. Cyelse FD67
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S.T. Cyelse FD67

S.T. Cyelse FD67
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Changelog
23/01/2009: Page published. 4 updates since then.
16/01/2017: Image added.
16/02/2020: Updated information.

S.T. Daily Herald FD101

Additional information courtesy of David Slinger and Granton Trawlers

Technical

Admiralty Number: 3745
Official Number: 143943
Yard Number: 645
Completed: 1918
As built: 360disp 125.6 x 23.5 x 12.8 feet
Gross Tonnage: 276
Net Tonnage: 106
Length: 125.6 ft
Breadth: 23.4 ft
Depth: 12.6 ft
Built: Hepple & Co Ltd, South Shields
Engine: 480ihp T.3-cyl by Bellis & Morcom Ltd, Birmingham
Boiler: R.W. Hawthorn Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle

History

17.10.1917: Launched by Hepple & Co Ltd, South Shields (Yd.No.645) (“Castle” class) for The Admiralty as MATTHEW FLYNN (Ad.No.3745).
23.2.1918: Completed (Commissioned) (1-12pdr).
10.12.1919: Registered by The Admiralty at London (Part I) as MATTHEW FLYNN O.N.143943).
1919: Allocated to Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries 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.
28.08.1920: Registered by The Admiralty at London (Part IV) (LO435).
10.1920: At HM Dockyard, Devonport completed fitting out for fishing under Special Survey of Lloyd’s Register and classed 100A1 Stm Trawler at Plymouth.
01.1922: Scheme abandoned, the necessary working capital of £100,000 having not been subscribed. Laid up.
1922: Sold M. Francois, Boulogne.
8.2.1922: London registry closed.
2.1922: Registered at Boulogne as AMIRAL MARQUER. Altazin Frères, later Victor Fourny designated manager.
4.1930: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood.
5.1930: Boulogne registry closed.
17.5.1930: Registered at Fleetwood as DAILY HERALD (FD101) (BoT Minute M/R.G.1069/1930 dated 10.2.1930). Fred Parkes, Blackpool designated manager.
30.9.1932: Homeward from fishing grounds in mountainous seas (Sk. Robert Wright. Struck the Bragar Rocks, Isle of Lewis. Slid off but carried back on the rocks and pounding coming afloat again and backed away. Boat made ready. Wireless operator made contact with steam trawler DAILY TELEGRAPH (GY367) which stood by whilst checks carried out and found to be making a little water. Proceeded in company for Fleetwood.
2.10.1932: Arrived Fleetwood.
1935: Sold to Thomas L. Devlin & Sons, Granton.
5.10.1935: Fleetwood registry closed.
10.1935: Registered at Granton as COMMILES (GN34). Thomas L. Devlin designated manager.
31.8.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (P.No.FY.636) (Hire rate £82.16.0d/month).
1942: Transferred to Thomas L. Devlin & Sons Ltd, Granton. Thomas L. Devlin remained manager.
1942: Sold to Mrs Elizabeth D. Breen, Edinburgh.
10.1945: Re-classed at Fleetwood and returned to owner.
10.1945: Sold to Shire Trawlers Ltd (64/64), London. William Alfred Bennett, Sanderstead designated manager.
22.12.1945: Stranded at Dyra Fjord, Iceland. Refloated and returned to service.
11.1946: Granton registry closed.
26.11.1946: Registered at Grimsby (GY390).
16.12.1947: Sold to J. Marr & Son Ltd (64/64), Fleetwood for £12500.
23.12.1947: Geoffrey Edwards Marr, Cleveleys designated manager.
3.11.1948: Grimsby registry closed.
11.1948: Registered at Fleetwood (FD285).
12.1948: In blizzard conditions driven ashore at Kyle of Lochalsh. Two men brought ashore by breeches buoy, remaining crew taken off by launch from HMS FLAMBOROUGH HEAD.
12.1948: Refloated and returned to service.
8.6.1949: Sold to Anglo-Australian Fisheries (Pty) Ltd & Anglo-Australian Trawlers (Pty) Ltd, Perth, WA for £15000. Ian L. C. McNicol designated manager. 16.7.1949: Sailed Fleetwood for Fremantle, WA (Sk. Alfred Britton MBE(49)/Capt G. Thexton, Grasmere); fourteen crew all volunteers to settle in Australia and sailed under Western Australian Government immigration scheme; families to follow.
16.9.1949: Arrived Fremantle, WA. To fish out of Albany.
1953: Sold to Royal Australian Navy and after use as a target sunk off Rottnest Island W of Fremantle, WA as a dive site and fish haven.
(Matthew Flynn (or Flinn), Landsman (Volunteer), age 22, b. Dublin – VICTORY (SB160)

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S.T. Daily Herald FD101

S.T. Daily Herald FD101
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S.T. Commiles FD285

S.T. Commiles FD285
Picture (in Australia) from the Internet

Changelog
23/01/2009: Page published. 5 updates since then.
13/01/2017: Information updated.
15/07/2017: Removed FMHT watermark.
02/03/2020: Updated information and added an image.

S.T. Luneda (1) FD230

Additional information courtesy of Birgir Þórisson

Technical

Official Number: 132412
Yard Number: 539
Completed: 1912
Gross Tonnage: 288
Net Tonnage: 116
Length: 130 ft
Breadth: 23 ft
Depth: 12.7 ft
Engine: 65hp T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby

History

14.9.1912: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.539) for The Lancashire Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Fleetwood as LUNEDA.
7.11.1914: Completed.
8.11.1912: Registered at Fleetwood (FD230). James A. Robertson designated manager.
12.11.1912: Sailed Hull for fishing grounds and delivery Fleetwood.
11.1914: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-12pdr, 1-7.5” A/S Howitzer) (Ad.No.926). Based Berehaven, Co. Cork.
1917: Icelandic trawler-owners sold 10 trawlers to the French navy. Export licence was contingent upon replacing the ships as soon as possible after the war.
1919: Icelandic trawler-owners ordered 11 new trawlers from Britain and 5 from Germany.
Post 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Fleetwood.
1920: Delivery of new Icelandic trawlers delayed, in case of England by strikes. Fearing to lose the main salting season (March-June), several owners resorted to leasing trawlers from Fleetwood.
3.1920: Hired by Icelandic owners for the salting season and based Reykjavik.
12.10.1924: James A. Robertson died.
10.1924: Alan Marr designated manager.
1.12.1925: Alan Marr died.
12.1925: Edward Towne, Blackpool designated manager.
17.1.1929: Sailed Fleetwood with surveyor onboard for Sound of Eriskay where Fleetwood steam trawler ROSA MARIS (FD43) was fast on the Red Rocks. 18.1.1929: Late evening arrived Eriskay.
4.1929: Geoffrey Edwards Marr designated manager.
10.1.1935 – 13.2.1935: Made three landings into Hull from Faroe grounds.
4.12.1935: Arrived Fleetwood from Faroe grounds with considerable damage to stem.
2.6.1936: Sold to J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood. Geoffrey Edwards Marr designated manager.
1936: Ran aground at Faroe Isles but refloated.
8.2.1937: Sailed Fleetwood for West of Scotland grounds (Sk. Richard Snape); twelve crew.
9.2.1937: In the morning approaching Islay in heavy snowstorm, zero visibility and strong swell, struck rocks off Ardbeg, offshore of Carmichael’s Rock. Tried to refloat with engines but came fast with forepeak flooded and listed. Crew took to boat but lost their direction and with ebb drifted away from shore. As the snow storm passed the puffer PIBROCH (96grt/1923) (George C. Thomson, Master) on passage Glasgow-Port Ellen sighted the wreck and discovered her abandoned, a search to seaward in the poor visibility found the boat and the crew were landed at Ardbeg.
24.2.1937: Fleetwood registry closed “Total loss”.

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S.T. Luneda FD230

S.T. Luneda FD230
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S.T. Luneda FD230

S.T. Luneda FD230
Picture courtesy of The JJ Collection

S.T. Luneda FD230

S.T. Luneda FD230
Passing the ferry Bourne-May. Picture courtesy of The Peter Hearn Collection

Changelog
22/01/2009: Page published. 2 updates since then.
19/07/2015: Picture added.
23/03/2018: Removed FMHT watermarks from images.
31/05/2019: Updated the history.
18/02/2021: Updated history.

S.T. Maud FD40

Technical

Official Number: 122932
Yard Number: 80
Completed: 1905
Gross Tonnage: 223
Net Tonnage: 79
Length: 125 ft
Breadth: 22 ft
Depth: 12.1 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by Earle’s Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Hull
Built: Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co Ltd, Goole

History

2.9.1905: Launched by Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co Ltd, Goole (Yd.No.80) for J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood as MAUD.
30.9.1905: James Herbert Marr, appointed as manager.
6.10.1905: Registered at Fleetwood (FD40).
10.1905: Completed.
21.11.1907: Sold to Eliza Cockcroft, Hebden Bridge (16/64); John Sutcliffe, Hebden Bridge (16/64); William Henry Sutcliffe, Blackpool (20/64) & Thomas Craston White, Fleetwood (12/64) for £6150.
23.11.1907: William Henry Sutcliffe appointed manager.
22.12.1907: Sixteen shares (E. Cockcroft) and sixteen shares (J. Sutcliffe) mortgaged to Williams Deacon’s Bank Ltd, London (A) & (B).
23.12.1907: Twenty shares (W. H. Sutcliffe) and twelve shares (T. C. White) mortgaged to Williams Deacon’s Bank Ltd,London ((C) & (D).
26.9.1908: John Sutcliffe, Hebden Bridge died.
12.10.1908: Shares (16/64) left to John William Cockcroft, Shuttleworth and Wilfred Ogden, Hebden Bridge.
3.7.1909: John Potter (Rockcliffe Steam Fishing Co Ltd) appointed manager.
10.11.1910: Sold to The Lancashire Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Fleetwood (James A. Robertson, manager).
19.1.1912: Outward for North Channel grounds missed the Bahama lightship ran ashore at Cornaah, Isle of Man severing submarine cable between Port Cornaah – St Bees Head with her propeller. Crew rescued with assistance of local farmers.
25.1.1912: Cable repaired by MONARCH.
10.2.1912: Off Cornish coast in tow for Hull. In heavy weather shipped several seas and became waterlogged. Crew of nine left in boat and were picked up by London tug CHALLENGE and landed at Falmouth.
11.2.1912: Vessel foundered and washed into Kynance Cove, near Lizard Point.
2.3.1912: Fleetwood registry closed.

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S.T. Maud FD40

S.T. Maud FD40
Picture courtesy of The Fred Baker Collection

S.T.Maud FD40 wrecked at Kynance Cove

S.T. Maud FD40 wrecked at Kynance Cove

Changelog
22/01/2009: Page published. 4 updates since then.
31/05/2017: Removed FMHT watermarks from images.

S.T. Marinda FD155

Technical

Official Number: 180329
Yard Number: 189
Completed: 1945
Gross Tonnage: 342
Net Tonnage: 124
Length: 136 ft
Breadth: 24.6 ft
Depth: 13.7 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by J. Lewis & Sons Ltd, Aberdeen (E.No.263)
Boiler: Barclay, Curle & Co Ltd, Glasgow

History

6.10.1945: Launched by J. Lewis & Sons Ltd, Aberdeen (Yd.No.189) for J. Marr & Sons Ltd, Fleetwood as MARINDA.
1.1946: Registered at Fleetwood (FD155).
14.1.1946: Completed.
3.2.1947: Sold to Seddon Steam Fishing Co Ltd, London & Fleetwood (B. Kilaczycki, London, manager) for £54000.
2.8.1949: Sold to J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood for £35000.
26.10.1950: Sold to National Trawling & Fishing Co Ltd, Cape Town for £40000. Registered at Cape Town (CTA43).
Pre 1966: Company sold to Irvin & Johnson Ltd, Cape Town, who became managers.
1968: Sold to South African Navy. Stripped of all useable parts and non-ferrous metals and sunk as a target.

A short video of Marinda rounding North End.

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S.T. Marinda FD155

S.T. Marinda FD155
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Marinda FD155 at Cape Town

Marinda FD155 at Cape Town
Picture courtesy of Janet Hannah

S.T. Marinda CTA43

S.T. Marinda CTA43
Picture courtesy of the South African Ship

S.T. Marinda CTA43

S.T. Marinda CTA43
Picture courtesy of the South African Ship Society

Changelog
22/07/2009: Page published. 7 updates since then.
12/06/2017: Removed FMHT watermarks from images.
17/01/2021: Video clip added.