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S.T. Port Jackson FD6

Technical

Official Number: 114303
Yard Number: 250
Completed: 1904
Gross Tonnage: 196.96
Net Tonnage: 49.24
Length: 115.7 ft
Breadth: 21.8 ft
Depth: 11.8 ft
Built: J. Duthie, Sons & Co Ltd, Aberdeen
Engine: 380ihp T.3-cyl by W. V. V. Lidgerwood, Coatbridge
Boiler: James Abernathy & Co, Aberdeen

History

12.3.1904: Launched by J. Duthie, Sons & Co Ltd, Aberdeen (Yd.No.250) for John Millington Jackson, St. Anne’s-on-the-Sea (18/64); John Liver, Fairhaven, Lytham (11/64); Sarah Jane Astley, Blackpool (11/64); Horace Bourne, Adlington, Chorley (8/64); Isaac Miller, Knott End (7/64); Walter Smith, Blackpool (6/64); Samuel Knapman, Fleetwood (20/64) and William Henry Gilmour, Fleetwood (1/64), as PORT JACKSON.
3.1904: Completed.
13.4.1904: Registered at Fleetwood (FD6). Thomas Frederick Kelsall designated manager.
21.2.1905: W. H. Gilmour 1/64 share sold to John M. Jackson, St. Anne’s-on-the-Sea.
6.3.1906: J. M. Jackson 1/64 sold to Walter Henry Dickenson, Fleetwood.
11.11.1907: Horace Bourne residing at Poulton-le-Fylde.
24.2.1908: W. H. Dickenson 1/64 sold to Claude Alexander Smythe, Fleetwood.
15.9.1908: Horace Bourne died.
13.10.1908: Probate. Eleanor Bourne, Poulton-le-Fylde & William Haden Arthur Richardson, Wordsley, Staffs. (joint owners 8/64).
12.12.1908: Eleanor Bourne change of Poulton-le-Flyde address.
23.12.1910: E. Bourne & W. H. A. Richardson 8/64 shares sold to Thomas F. Kelsall, Fleetwood.
1911: Thomas Kelsall designated managing owner.
1.1.1914: Tonnage altered to 76.03 net under provision of Merchant Shipping Act 1907.
2.3.1917: At Fleetwood. Fitted with 6-pdr Hotchkiss H.A. Mk IV gun (No.3111); complement increased by two gunners.
29.5.1917: Requisitioned for Fishery Reserve.
22.12.1917: At Fleetwood. Fitted with Hotchkiss 12pdr gun (No.8683).
1919: Released.
12.2.1927: In dense fog struck quayside at Fleetwood while manoeuvring, causing minor damage.
10.8.1931: Arrested by HMS SPEY for alleged illegal fishing in the Firth of Clyde.
11.8.1931: At Campbeltown Sheriff Court, Sk. Henry Stirzaker Dutton pleaded guilty. A fine of £100 was imposed but Sk. Dutton could not pay and was sent to prison for 60 days; nets in use at the time of arrest were forfeited.
11.1934: Sold to Walker Steam Trawl Fishing Co Ltd, Aberdeen.
17.11.1934: Fleetwood registry closed.
20.11.1934: Registered at Aberdeen (A222). Thomas Walker designated manager.
8.1935: On a four day trip out of Aberdeen on local grounds (Sk. Sam Bavidge Jnr).
23.8.1935: Shifting grounds in the early hours with light SE wind but with a heavy swell, stranded on submerged reef off Scotstown Head, north of Peterhead. In response to flares, Peterhead lifeboat, DUKE OF CONNAUGHT launched at 3.50am and found the trawler in an awkward position and making water rapidly. At the request of Sk. Bavidge five men taken off and landed at Peterhead; insurers informed. Putting out again the lifeboat found the trawler almost submerged and skipper and three men, who had stood off in ship’s boat, picked up. Returned to Peterhead at 8.30am. Declared CTL.
4.9.1935: Aberdeen registry closed “ Total loss 23.8.35”.

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S.T. Port Jackson FD6

S.T. Port Jackson FD6
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S.T. Port Jackson FD6

S.T. Port Jackson FD6
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Changelog
19/01/2009: Page published. 4 revisions since then.
29/10/2014: Picture added.
19/05/2017: Removed FMHT watermark.
07/10/2021: Updated history and technical details.

S.T. Moulmein H61

S.T. Moulmein FD132

Additional information courtesy of Bill Blow

Technical

Official Number: 104239
Yard Number: 503
Completed: 1895
Gross Tonnage: 151
Net Tonnage: 40
Length: 100.6 ft
Breadth: 20.6 ft
Depth: 11 ft
Engine: 320ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by N.E. Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Sunderland
Built: Edwards Bros, North Shields

History

25.5.1895: Launched by Edwards Bros, North Shields (Yd.No.503) for George Beeching, Fleetwood (managing owner) as MOULMEIN.
6.1895: Completed.
26.6.1895: Registered at Fleetwood (FD132).
1897: Sold to Kelsall Brothers & Beeching Ltd, Manchester (John E. A. Kelsall & George Beeching, Fleetwood, managers).
1899: Transferred to Hull.
30.3.1899: Registered at Hull (H61).
12.5.1899: Fleetwood registry closed.
22.10.1904: The Dogger Bank Incident. Shelled and damaged by Russian Navy Baltic Fleet while fishing on the Dogger Bank. Russians on passage to the Pacific in the darkness opened fire on the trawlers (approx 45 vessels) under the impression that they were about to be attacked.
8.9.1911: Registered office transferred to Hull (George Beeching, Hull & John E. A. Kelsall, London, managers).
21.5.1913: Sold to George Clarkson, Fleetwood.
23.5.1913: George Clarkson appointed managing owner.
23.5.1913: Mortgaged to James Herbert Marr, Fleetwood (A).
7.7.1913: Hull registry closed.
8.7.1913: Registered at Fleetwood (FD187).
6.8.1913: Sold to The Devon Steam Trawling Co, Fleetwood (George Clarkson, manager).
1.1.1914: Tonnage altered to 59.04 net under provision of Merchant Shipping Act 1907.
18.11.1916: Sold to Henry Carl Smethurst (64/64), Grimsby. Henry Carl Smethurst designated managing owner.
13.12.1916: Fleetwood registry closed.
18.12.1916: Registered at Grimsby (GY1007).
23.12.1916: Sold to Henry Carl Smethurst, John Wintringham Smethurst & William Winteringham Smethurst, all Grimsby (64/64 joint owners). John Wintringham Smethurst designated managing owner.
28.3.1917: Stopped by U-boat (UC77) with a shot across the bows whilst fishing 25 miles NE of Longstone Light and scuttled by opening seacocks and scuttles. Vessel position 56.00N 1.13W.
14.5.1917: Grimsby registry closed “Sunk by German submarine”.

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S.T. Moulmein H61

S.T. Moulmein H61
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S.T. Moulmein H61

S.T. Moulmein H61
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S.T. Moulmein FD132

S.T. Moulmein FD132
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Russians open fire

Russians open fire
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S.T. Mino H799

S.T. Mino H799
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Changelog
19/01/2009: Page published. 9 updates since then.
18/09/2017: Removed FMHT watermark from image.

S.T. Lord Minto FD51

Technical

Official Number: 136192
Yard Number: 599
Completed: 1914
Gross Tonnage: 295
Net Tonnage: 123
Length: 136.7 ft
Breadth: 23.2 ft
Depth: 12.3 ft
Engine: 93nhp T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby

History

1.3.1914: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.599) for Yorkshire Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull as LORD MINTO.
28.5.1914: Registered at Hull (H105). John McCann & Edward Cartwright designated managers.
6.6.1914: Completed.
5.1915: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-12pdr) (Ad.No.1516). Based Dover.
Post 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Hull.
17.10.1921: Sold to Pickering & Haldane’s Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull. John McCann & Edward Cartwright designated joint managers.
14.3.1924: Sold to J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood. James A. Robertson designated manager.
12.10.1924: James A. Robertson died.
10.1924: Alan Marr designated manager.
12.1.1925: Sold to The Active Fishing Co Ltd, Fleetwood.
6.6.1925: Hull registry closed.
12.6.1925: Registered at Fleetwood (FD51). Alan Marr designated manager.
1.12.1925: Alan Marr died.
12.1925: Joseph Arthur Marr designated manager.
26.10.1936: In gale force winds and heavy weather off St. Kilda, Bosun, William Wilson Crewdson was washed overboard and drowned.
9.1939: On a trip to St. Kilda ground (Sk. Charles Pennington); eleven crew.
18.9.1939: Trawling 30 miles NW of St. Kilda. 7.00pm. stopped in position 58.09N 09.17W by U-boat (U.35); tried to escape and made radio message. Examined i.a.w. Prisenordnung (Prize Regulations) Art.54. Seized along with ARLITA (FD188) and NANCY HAGUE (FD133). As boats not considered safe for crew*, transferred along with crew of ARLITA to NANCY HAGUE which allowed to return to Fleetwood. Both vessels sunk by gunfire in position 57.51N 09.28W. At 8.47pm. H M destroyers SOMALI (P.No.F33) and MATABELE (P.No.F26) detached to assist.
27.9.1939: Fleetwood registry closed “Vessel sunk by German submarine”.

*Crew (all Fleetwood unless stated) – Sk. Charles Pennington; Arthur Dutton, Mate; J. R. Rogers, Bosun; T. Hudson Ch.Eng; R. Neill, 2nd Eng; G. Halliday; Bertram Lee; W. Sharples; J. Beadle, Liverpool, deckhands; W. Kneale, Knott End, fireman; Robert Pooley, cook; Herbert Coplin, wireless operator.

Note: U-boat (U35) was sunk 29.11.1939 in North Sea, in position 60.53N, 02.47E, by depth charges from HMShips KASHMIR (P.No.F12), KINGSTON (P.No.F64) and ICARUS (P.No.D03). All submariners survived.

Note: U-boat (U35) was sunk 29.11.1939 in North Sea, in position 60.53N, 02.47E, by depth charges from HMShips KASHMIR (P.No.F12), KINGSTON (P.No.F64) and ICARUS (P.No.D03). All submariners survived.

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S.T. Lord Minto FD51

S.T. Lord Minto FD51
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S.T. Lord Minto FD51

S.T. Lord Minto FD51
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Changelog
19/01/2009: Page published. 4 updates since then.
04/06/2017: Removed FMHT watermarks from images.
-1/05/2021: Updated history.

S.T. Goth FD52

Positional information courtesy of Captain Hilmar Snorrason
Goth crew information courtesy of the late Fred Hobbs

Technical

Official Number: 148478
Yard Number: 468
Completed: 1925
Gross Tonnage: 394.48
Net Tonnage: 173.79
Length: 147.5 ft
Breadth: 25.5 ft
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley
Engine: 700ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by Amos & Smith, Hull
Speed: 10.5 knots

History

8.6.1925: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.468) for Hellyer Brothers Ltd (64/64), Hull as GOTH.
12.8.1925: Registered at Hull (H211). Frank O. Hellyer & Owen S. Hellyer designated managers.
20.8.1925: Completed.
9.1925: Sailed for Greenland coast on an exploratory trip in an attempt to find new fishing grounds.
9.10.1925: At Hull landed 260kits mostly cod and codling and trip deemed successful.
1929: Fish carrier for halibut fishery in the Davis Strait, Greenland.
3.1.1930: Off Norway coast, stranded near Narvik, came afloat with engine but leaking and put into Lødingen. Divers plugged leaks.
15.2.1930: In collision Saltend with steam trawler MARCONI (H488). Both vessels taken in tow for Hull.
16.4.1931: Arrested in Icelandic water by Icelandic Coastguard ship AEGIR along with Hull trawlers CAPE DELGARDO (H47) and CAPE TRAFALGAR (H918) and escorted to Reykjavik. Each fined 10kroner for having fishing gear incorrectly stowed. Later fines rescinded and all three skippers admonished.
12.10.1933: On a Barents Sea trip (Sk. Herbert Brown). Fishing in company with steam trawlers KINGSTON PEARL (H296) (Sk. William Hornby) and LARWOOD (GY49) (Sk. S. Cantwell) at about 3.00pm. responded to distress message from Norwegian steamer HAUGLAND (3153grt/1896) disabled off the Murman coast with broken propeller shaft and drifting on a lee shore in a NE gale following loss of anchors. At about 6.30pm KINGSTON PEARL using DF was the first to reach casualty. In heavy sleet and and ground swell it was not until 10.00pm. that an attempt was made to connect via Schermuly rocket but line repeatedly parted. Closed vessel and managed to get a heaving line aboard and trawl warp made fast with difficulty as windlass damaged when anchors lost.
13.10.1933: Twice warps parted and it was not until 5.00am. that GOTH arrived on the scene and was able to connect by Schermuly rocket and between them hold the vessel off the shore. Again after about an hour the warps parted and by this time LARWOOD had arrived and succeeded in getting a line onboard and held the vessel for a further two hours. Shortly after 12.00 noon an attempt was made to tow the vessel away from the coast but the casualty was unmanageable, KINGSTON PEARL managed to get another line connected but shortly after both warps parted. KINFSTON PEARL and GOTH connected again but warps parted and GOTH was temporarily disabled with the wire round her propeller. With weather freshening and the vessel close to the shore the master requested that the crew be taken off. The trawlers closed the casualty, pumped oil on the water and GOTH managed to pick up all twenty-nine crew and later landed them at Vardø, Norway. HAUGLAND was subsequently refloated, repaired and returned to service.
25.7.1939: Insured value £13,700.
5.8.1939: Sailed Hull for White Sea last trip before requisition (Sk. J. W. Ellis).
29.8.1939: At Hull landed 1,461 kits grossed £1,664.
29.8.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (P.No.FY.649) (Hire rate £152.13.6d/month).
25.2.1941: Re-registered to Hellyer Bros Ltd ((64/64), Hull.
3-6.1945: Restored, special survey and inclined at North Shields.
1.8.1945: Sold to The Ocean Steam Trawling Co Ltd (64/64), Hull. Leslie Barkworth designated manager.
30.11.1945: Insured value £30,000; for 1946 proposed £33,000.
14.12.1946: Sold to The ‘Wyre’ Steam Trawling Co Ltd (64/64), Fleetwood.
14.12.1946: Hull registry closed.
12.1946: Registered at Fleetwood (FD52). Merchants (Fleetwood) Ltd designated managers.
4.12.1948: Sailed Fleetwood for Icelandic grounds (Sk. Wilfred Elliott); twenty one crew all told.
10.12.1948: Trawling NW of Straumnaes, north west coast of Iceland in company with steam trawler St. MELANTE (GY80).
11.12.1948: Storm, hauled and ran for shelter to Adalvik Bay.
13.12.1948: Reliable evidence that vessel was communicating by radio with other trawlers.
Post 13.12.1948: Presume foundered NNW of Halo, 43 miles to NW of Straumnes, Iceland in position 66.59.8N 24.28.9W; all twenty-one crew lost*.
23.2.1949: Posted missing. Fleetwood registry closed.
14.4.1950: At BOT Formal Investigation (No. S.416), the Court found that the casualty was probably caused by heavy weather, but other possibilities, mine explosion, boiler explosion, bunker explosion, could not be excluded.
15.11.1997: Icelandic trawler HELGA (RE49) (Sk. Vidar Benediktsson) fishing on NW Iceland grounds, trawled up a funnel which was identified in Reykjavik as belonging to the GOTH. Returned to Fleetwood.
12.2006: After repainting sited as a memorial to the lost trawlermen beside the Asda store at the corner of Dock Street and Station Road.

Note. Vessel was to have been renamed WYRE GALLANT (FD52) on her return.

Download the BOT Inquiry Report here.

* Lost (all Fleetwood unless stated):
Skipper: Wilfred (Wink) Elliot aged 36, Warbreck Hill Rd, Blackpool
Mate: A. E. Plummer, aged 47, Preston
Bosun: John Edwards, aged 35, Hathaway Place, Fleetwood
Chief Engineer: G. H. Knight, aged 52, Garfield Rd Fleetwood
2nd Engineer: Alfred Patterson, aged 24, Dock St Fleetwood
Wireless Operator: Stanley Bowles, aged 19, Newton-le-Willows
Fireman: Thomas Dagger, aged 25, Springfield Terrace, Fleetwood
Fireman: Harvey Ramsden, aged 24, Layton Blackpool
Fireman: J. Beattie, aged 24, Liverpool
Cook: H. P. Blyth, aged 51, Bolton
Assistant Cook: Albert Silcock, aged 20, Preston
Deckhand: Ernest Parker (DSM) aged 28, Heathfield Rd Fleetwood
Deckhand: John Tandy, aged 27, Victoria St. Fleetwood
Deckhand: Harry Buckley, aged 24, Carr Rd Fleetwood
Deckhand: William Durbin, aged 26, Shakespeare Rd Fleetwood
Deckhand: Norman Grisenthwaite, aged 24, Heathfield Rd Fleetwood
Deckhand: Harry Smith, aged 23, Heathfield Rd Fleetwood
Deckhand: Richard Snasdell, aged 23, Oak St Fleetwood
Deckhand: Benjamin Redman, aged 27, Blackiston St Fleetwood
Deckhand: J. Davies, aged 60, Gordon Rd Fleetwood
Brassie: Robert Rhimes, aged 16, Broomfield Rd Fleetwood

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S.T. Goth FD52

S.T. Goth FD52
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S.T. Goth H211

S.T. Goth H211
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S.T. Goth FD52

S.T. Goth FD52
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S.T. Goth FD52

Goth memorial and funnel
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Changelog
19/09/2009: Page published. 4 updates since then.
24/10/2015: Added BOT Inquiry report.
25/04/2016: Updated information.
25/01/2017: Removed disputed image.
12/12/2020: Updated history.
03/10/2021: Minor update.

S.T. Wasp FD169

Additional material courtesy of Holger Munchaus Petersen

Technical

Official Number: 98707
Yard Number: 13
Completed: 1890
Gross Tonnage: 149
Net Tonnage: 49
Length: 100.5 ft
Breadth: 20.5 ft
Depth: 10.7 ft
Built: Mackie & Thomson, Govan
Engine: T.3-cyl by Muir & Houston Ltd, Glasgow

History

14.10.1890: Launched by Mackie & Thomson, Govan (Yd.No.13) for British Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull as WASP.
1890: Completed (William L. Robins, manager).
1.12.1890: Registered at Hull (H112).
1891: New boiler.
8.11.1912: Sold to James Alexander Robertson, Fleetwood (managing owner).
15.11.1912: Hull registry closed.
16.11.1912: Registered at Fleetwood (FD169).
1912: Sold to J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood (James A. Robertson, manager).
1914: Re-measured 160g.
1.1.1914: Tonnage altered to 55.16 net under provision of Merchant Shipping Act 1907.
6.1914: Sold to Fiskeri-A/B Salen, Gothenburg for £1350.
28.6.1914: Fleetwood registry closed.
6.1914: Registered at Gothenburg.
1917: A. Th. Amundsen manager. Registered at Gothenburg as GUNNER.
1919: Owned by C. S. Plantén, Gothenburg.
1919: Burnt.
1920: Owned by Sven P. Larsson, Malmö. Gothenburg registry closed. Registered at Malmö.
1927: Laid up owners not recorded.
1928: Sold to Robert Schou, Frederikshavn, Denmark.
1929: Sold to Petersen & Albeck, Copenhagen probably intended for breaking up. Cut down to a lighter. Registered at Copenhagen as P.& A.4.
1930s-1941: Unrecorded sales but latterly owned by Skandinavisk Union Handelshus, Copenhagen.
12.1941: Sold to ??.
8.1943: Sold to Frederik Vilhelm Christian Hall, Charlottenlund (managing owner). Converted to a cargo motorship.
1944: Engined with a Alpha-Diesel 2 stroke 4-cyl oil engine by A/S Fredrikshavns Maskfbk, Fredrikshavn (Engine built 1943).
1943-1944: Converted to cargo.
1944: Registered at Copenhagen as TAJO.
3.1944: Returned to service.
8.1944: Sold to I/S Kähler & Braum, Køsor.
6.1946: Sold to Sandvad & Co, Copenhagen. Registered as a combined cargo/fishing vessel at Copenhagen as ABBA (K.126).
16.1.1953: Sailed Kopervik, Karmøy for Ålesund in ballast.
18.1.1953: A lifeboat marked ABBA and various pieces of wreckage found off Rugsund, Bremanger and in following days oil noted coming to surface south of Marøy, Norway. Vessel presumed foundered in heavy weather in the Frøysjøen fjord near Halenes Lighthouse. Eight crew lost.

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S.T. Wasp H112

S.T. Wasp H112
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Jonathan Grobler Collection

Changelog
18/01/2008: Page published. 6 updates since then.
01/06/2017: Removed FMHT watermark from image.