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S.T. Valpa FD160

Technical

Official Number: 139202
Yard Number: 413
Completed: 1915
Gross Tonnage: 230
Net Tonnage: 90
Length: 123.3 ft
Breadth: 22.1 ft
Depth: 11.8 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Lidgerwood Ltd, Glasgow
Built: J. Duthie Torry Shipbuilding Co, Aberdeen

History

15.3.1915: Launched by J. Duthie Torry Shipbuilding Co, Aberdeen (Yd.No.413) for The Clifton Steam Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood as VALPA.
24.6.1915: Registered at Fleetwood (FD160).
6.1915: Completed. Requisitioned from the builders and fitted out for armed escort duties (1-12pdr) (Ad.No.1543).
19.3.1916: Mined off Spurn Head.
1.6.1916: Fleetwood registry closed “Lost in Admiralty service”.
(Lost – John Fowler, 2nd Hand; Robert W. Garnham, Ch. Gunner; William F. Skinner, CPO; Samuel Greep, seaman.)

Changelog

08/01/2009: Page published. 4 updates since then.

S.T. Valetta FD183

Additional information courtesy of Geoff Davidson

Technical

Official Number: 99545
Yard Number: 463
Completed: 1891
Gross Tonnage: 144
Net Tonnage: 31
Length: 105.4 ft
Breadth: 20.6 ft
Depth: 110 ft
Built: Hepple & Co Ltd, North Shields
Engine: 360ihp T.3-cyl by T.3-cyl by N.E. Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Sunderland
Boiler: J. T. Eltringham & Co, South Shields

History

26.8.1891: Launched by Hepple & Co Ltd, North Shields (Yd.No.463) for John Kelsall, Manchester as VALETTA.
10.1891: Completed.
6.11.1891: Registered at Hull (H178).
11.1891: Edmund Kelsall, Hull appointed manager. Vessel fishing out of Fleetwood.
1895: Transferred to John Kelsall, Fleetwood. Kelsall & Co appointed managers.
30.5.1897: Sold to Kelsall Brothers & Beeching Ltd, Manchester.
9.1897: Hull registry closed.
4.9.1897: Registered at Fleetwood (FD183). John Edmund Ambrose Kelsall & George Beeching, Fleetwood appointed managers.
13.1.1898: Reported that at Bowmore, Islay, Third Hand, Arthur George Whittleton (18) of Hull, carried away and drowned when anchor fell away while he was passing the chain stopper through the ring of the anchor. Body recovered and brought back to Fleetwood (Whittleton was the son of the skipper of the VALETTA).
24.3.1899: Fleetwood registration closed. Transferred to Hull.
13.4.1899: Registered at Hull (H446). George Beeching, Hull & John E. A. Kelsall, London appointed managers.
14.9.1899: Fishing in North Sea with K&B ’Gamecock’ fleet, James Fenton (50) of Hull lost overboard and drowned.
5.6.1903: Working North Sea grounds (Sk. Luther Hayward) with K&B ’Gamecock’ fleet. Foundered after being involved in a collision.
23.7.1903: Hull registry closed “Vessel sunk by collision in the North Sea on the 5th of July 1903”.

Changelog
08/01/2009: Page published. 4 updates since then.
04/02/2016: Information updated.

S.T. Trygon FD221

Technical

Official Number: 127566
Yard Number: 167
Completed: 1908
Gross Tonnage: 289
Net Tonnage: 112
Length: 130 ft
Breadth: 23 ft
Depth: 12.8 ft
Engine: 88nhp T.3-cyl and boiler by Amos & Smith Ltd, Hull
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley

History

30.6.1908: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.167) for The Mount Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Fleetwood as TRYGON.
7.9.1908: Registered at Fleetwood (FD221).
28.8.1908: Completed (George E. J. Moody, Grimsby, manager).
1911: Top trawler landed 11369 ten-stone boxes.
1912: Top trawler landed 9662 ten-stone boxes.
2.1915: Requisitioned for war service.
18.2.1915: Commissioned.
20.2.1915: Arrived Devonport. Fitted out for auxiliary patrol duties (Ad.No.978). Fitted as Leader.
30.3.1915: Lost in the Clyde after collision with unidentified vessel.
12.4.1915: Fleetwood registry closed.

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S.T. Trygon FD221

S.T. Trygon FD221
Picture courtesy of The David Slinger Collection

Changelog
08/01/2009: 4 updates since then.
06/09/2023: Added an image.

S.D/L. Trustful PD366

Information courtesy of Barry Banham

Technical

Official Number: 123626
Completed: 1906
Gross Tonnage: 87
Net Tonnage: 31
Length: 84 ft
Breadth: 18.9 ft
Depth: 9.6 ft
Engine: C.2-cyl by A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen
Built: Carnegie & Matthews, Peterhead

History

1906: Completed by Carnegie & Matthews, Peterhead (Yd.No.) for Alexander & George Mair Snr, Portknockie (George Mair Snr managing owner), as TRUSTFUL (BF369).
1915: Requisitioned for war service as a boom tender (Ad.No.2441). Based Longhope. Renamed TRUSTFUL II.
Post 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Buckie (George Mair, Portknockie). Reverted to TRUSTFUL (BF369).
1920: Sold to Richard Irvin & Sons Ltd, North Shields (Sir John H. Irvin, Aberdeen, manager). Banff registry closed. Registered at Peterhead (PD366).
1921: Fishing from Fleetwood as a liner (Alex Keay, managing agent).
1922: Sold to William H. Moorhouse, Thornton-le-Fylde (Harry Dingle, Thornton-le-Fylde, manager).
1923: Peterhead registry closed. Registered at Douglas (DO27).
29.12.1924: Fishing off Bray Head, Co. Wicklow, SW gale sprang up and vessel shipped heavy seas. Engine room flooded. About 5.00 pm anchored and let off flares. No response, took to boat and laid off as vessel started to settle, boiler exploded and vessel foundered. After several hours, picked up by Kingstown pilot boat, landed and taken to Dublin.
2.1.1925: Crew returned to Fleetwood. Douglas registry closed.

Changelog
08/01/2009: Page published. 4 updates since then.

S.T. Trinity N.B. FD324

Technical

Official Number: 131830
Yard Number: 555
Completed: 1914
Gross Tonnage: 203
Net Tonnage: 87
Length: 115.5 ft
Breadth: 22.1 ft
Depth: 12.2 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Hall, Russell & Co Ltd, Aberdeen
Built: Hall, Russell & Co Ltd, Aberdeen

History

27.8.1914: Launched by Hall, Russell & Co Ltd, Aberdeen (Yd.No.555) for David Dow & W. Carnie, Newhaven, Edinburgh as TRINITY N.B.
9.1914: Completed (Thomas Y. Carnie, Leith, manager).
17.9.1914: Registered at Granton (GN24).
12.1914: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-12pdr, 1-6pdr HA) (Ad.No.470). Based Granton.
1918: Sold to Ernest Taylor, Fleetwood (Joseph A. Taylor, manager).
1918: Returned to owner at Fleetwood.
7.1919: Sold to Ernest Taylor & Noah Ashworth, Fleetwood (Joseph A. Taylor, manager).
15.7.1919: Granton registry closed.
18.7.1919: Registered at Fleetwood (FD324).
1919: Sold to Edward Ferry, Granton (managing owner).
1923: Sold to Archibald G. Brown, Granton.
1.3.1923: Fleetwood registry closed.
2.3.1923: Registered at Granton (GN95).
17.12.1939: Outward from Granton for Orkney fishing grounds (Sk. Daniel Young).
18.12.1939: When 17 miles NE of Rattray Head bombed and damaged by German air attack. Subsequently foundered; two crew lost, rest of crew picked up by Danish schooner START (131grt/1918) but one man died of exposure. Survivors landed in Egersund, Norway.
(Casualties. David Addison, Chief Engineer and William S. Murray, drowned. Robert Wright, cook, died of exposure.)

Changelog
08/12/2009: Page published. 3 updates since then.