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S.T. Orphesia FD119

Technical

Official Number: 124690
Yard Number: 98
Completed: 1907
Gross Tonnage: 273.41
Net Tonnage: 98.34
Length: 130.0 ft
Breadth: 23.1 ft
Depth: 12.0 ft
Built: Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co Ltd, Goole
Engine: 480ihp T.3-cyl by Shields Engineering & Dry Dock Co Ltd, North Shields
Boiler: Robert Stephenson & Co, Hebburn-on-Tyne

History

13.4.1907: Launched by Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co Ltd, Goole (Yd.No.98) for Staretta Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Fleetwood as ORPHESIA.
5.1907: Completed.
5.6.1907: Registered at Fleetwood (FD119).
5.6.1907: John Richard Blezard designated manager.
8.6.1907: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Williams Deacon’s Bank Ltd, London (A).
29.4.1909: George Sutcliffe designated manager.
1.10.1909: John Nixon Ward designated manager.
6.5.1912: Magnus B. J. Wedum designated manager.
23.10.1913: Mortgage (A) discharged.
1.1.1914: Tonnage altered to 105.68net under provision of Merchant Shipping Act 1907.
30.4.1914: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Williams Deacon’s Bank Ltd, London (B).
27.12.1914: Requisitioned for war service (Ad.No.956).
27.12.1914: Commissioned at Fleetwood.
12.1.1915: Arrived Devonport. Fitted with WT (Call sign YFQ), Hotchkiss 6pdr and mine-sweep.
10.2.1915: Allocated Unit 62 – No.2 patrol based Falmouth (Lieut. J. A. Cowle RNR).
30.3.1915: Re-appointed Unit No.62 – Section B based Falmouth (Lieut. J. A. Cowle RNR).
26.11.1915: Sailed for Mediterranean.
1.1.1916: Based Malta with Unit 133 – patrol & escort duties.
22.7.1917: Sailed Alexandria with convoy, struck submerged wreck at 3.50 pm. and foundered at 6.00 pm.
4.10.1917: Fleetwood registry closed “Vessel lost 22nd July 1917 whilst on Admiralty service”.

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03/01/2009: Page published. 4 updates since then.
08/07/2021: Updated history and technical details.

S.T. Octavia H274

Additional information courtesy Dictionary of Shipwrecks off the Isle of Man by Adrian Corkhill c2001 and Bill Blow.

Technical

Official Number 123238
Yard Number: 99
Completed: 1906
Gross Tonnage: 173.15
Net Tonnage: 53
Length: 108.5 ft
Breadth: 21.6 ft
Depth: 11.5 ft
Engine: 270ihp T.3-cyl by Amos & Smith, Hull
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Beverley
Speed: 9.5 knots

History

11.12.1905: Provisionally registered at Hull (H876).
13.2.1906: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Beverley (Yd.No.99) for Hellyer’s Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull as OCTAVIA.
22.3.1906: Completed (Charles Helyer, manager).
29.3.1906: Registered at Hull (H876).
1.1.1914: Tonnage altered to 67.52 net under provision of Merchant Shipping Act 1907.
29.5.1917: Requisitioned for Fishery Reserve.
1919: Released.
9.1.1919: Sold to Charles Dobson (64/64), Grimsby.
9.1.1919: Charles Dobson designated managing owner.
7.2.1919: Hull registry closed.
10.2.1919: Registered at Grimsby (GY102).
10.10.1919: Sold to The Home & Colonial Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Great Yarmouth.
13.10.1919: William Thomas Young appointed manager.
12.12.1919: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to National Provincial & Union Bank of England Ltd, London (A).
23.4.1921: William Charles Pitcher, Gorleston appointed manager.
9.3.1922: Nat Swann, Gorleston appointed manager.
15.2.1924: Mortgagee re-styled National Provincial Bank Ltd, London.
24.8.1925: Mortgage (A) transferred to Eleanor Stewart, Newcastle upon Tyne.
23.9.1925: Sold by mortgagee under mortgage (A) to Fred Parkes, Blackpool (managing owner).
16.10.1925: Fred Parkes appointed manager.
31.12.1925: Sold to Sydney Charles Fox (16/64), William Claudius Farrow (16/64), William Boyd (16/64) and George Altoft (16/64) all Hull.
7.1.1926: Grimsby registry closed.
7.1.1926: William Claudius Farrow designated managing owner.
11.1.1926: Registered at Hull (H274).
1926: Sold to Ocean Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Hull (George Altoft, manager).
6.11.1929: Sold to Holderness Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull (Kenneth Pocklington, managers).
1930: Kenneth Pocklington & James C. Wood appointed joint managers.
8.1.1936: Henry Laverack fell overboard in St. Andrews Dock, recovered and subsequently died from heart failure.
1936: Sold to Robert Hudson, Preston (managing owner) (The Sun Steam Trawling Co Ltd, managing agents).
15.8.1936: First landing at Fleetwood, 55 boxes grossed £85.
13.2.1937: Foundered after collision 12m SE of Maughold Head, Isle of Man with the Fleetwood trawler GEORGE COUSINS (LO66); crew taken onboard GEORGE COUSINS.
14.2.1937: Survivors landed at Fleetwood. Wreck lies at a depth of 23.5 m in an upright position minus funnel.
26.7.1937: Hull registry closed “Total loss 13.2.37”.

Note : On Saturday night on the 12th of February 1937, the Hull registered trawler OCTAVIA, H 274, was in collision with the Fleetwood vessel GEORGE COUSINS roughly 12 miles south-east of Maughold Head on the Isle of Man. OCTAVIA was so badly damaged that she sank in a few minutes. The crew managed to scramble aboard GEORGE COUSINS with no loss of life.

Aboard the OCTAVIA, two of the crew, the bosun H. Haslam and a deckhand W.Durbin had a very lucky escape. The two men had turned in and were asleep when water began to rush in through a gaping hole. The forecastle door jammed with the force of the impact and a lamp was upset pouring blazing paraffin all over the deck. For a few moments it was touch and go until they were able to force the door and release the men.

The wreck lies at a depth of 23.5m and is still intact today, although the superstructure has sustained some damage. OCTAVIA stands upright with a slight starboard list although the funnel is detached.

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S.T. Octavia H274

S.T. Octavia H274
Picture courtesy of The Mark Stopper Collection

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03/01/2009: Page published. 5 revisions since then.
20/08/2014: Information updated with latest information.

S.T. Northern Spray LO140

Additional information courtesy of Birgir Þórisson

Technical

Official Number: 165339
Yard Number: 549
Completed: 1936
Gross Tonnage: 620
Net Tonnage: 254
Length: 188.1 ft
Breadth: 28.1 ft
Depth: 15.5 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl & LP turbine with DR gearing & hydraulic coupling by Deutsche Schiffs und Maschinenbau AG Seebeck, Wesermünde.
Built: Deutsche Schiffs und Maschinenbau AG Seebeck, Wesermünde

History

1936: Ordered by Leverhulme Ltd, London to absorb frozen credits in Germany.
1936: Launched by Deutsche Schiff und Maschinenbau AG Weser, Bremen.
8.1936: Completed by Deutsche Schiffs und Maschinenbau AG Seebeck, Wesermünde (Yd.No.549) for MacLine Ltd, London (Leverhulme Ltd) as NORTHERN SPRAY.
26.8.1936: Registered at London (LO140). Operating out of Fleetwood (Edward D. W. Lawford, manager).
26.8.1936: Arrived Fleetwood from Germany.
14.9.1936: First landing at Fleetwood from Iceland, 800 kits, 40 baskets – 726 boxes £500 gross.
8.11.1936: On West of Iceland grounds preparing to shoot the trawl, deckhand Harold Daniels caught his foot in fore-quarter rope and dragged overboard. Deckhand Ernest Hill, jumped overboard in full kit and swam to Daniels supporting him and by means of the head rope both were pulled back onboard with great difficulty after 20 minutes in the water. Ernest Hill awarded the Stanhope Gold Medal for bravest deed of the year and a silver medal from the Royal Humane Society.
4.10.1937: Last landing at Fleetwood, 830 boxes £726 gross
9.10.1937: Sold to Northern Trawlers Ltd, London (William A. Bennett, manager). Transferred to Grimsby.
4.11.1937: In position 63.30N 4.15E 30 miles offshore stood by Swedish steamer TRITON (1869grt/1908), Manchester for Fincidet, disabled with propeller trouble and driving inshore before SW gale.
9.1939: Sold to The Admiralty (£33,213) and fitted out as an anti-submarine trawler (1-4”, 2×1-LG, 2-20mm (1×2))(P.No.FY.129).
11.3.1940: London registry closed.
4/5.1940: Norwegian Campaign. Also NORTHERN DAWN (P.No.FY.146), NORTHERN GEM (P.No.FY.194) and NORTHERN WAVE (FY.153).
8.1942: Russian convoys.
1943: Iceland & Atlantic convoys.
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.
20.10.1945: A Control Committee was formed to manage Hull and Grimsby trawlers which had been bought by the Admiralty pre war and were being offered for sale back to their original owners. The owners who bought back these vessels and wanted to take part in the scheme agreed to register the trawlers under the Hull Ice Co. Ltd and profits were shared. Management of the trawlers was given to the companies which had bought them.
2.1946: Sold to Hull Ice Co Ltd, Hull (Northern Trawlers Ltd, London, manager). Registered at Grimsby (GY190).
2.1946: Remeasured 620g 254n.
16.11.1946: Sold to Northern Trawlers Ltd, London (H. Markham Cooke, manager) for £1.
8.1947: On a Bear Island/Spitsbergen trip (Sk. Martin Peterson).
10.8.1947: Picked up from lifeboats twenty crew and two Norwegian gutters, crew of Fleetwood trawler RED GAUNTLET (LO33) (Sk.William Henry Hicks) stranded on a reef off Sorkapp, Spitsbergen. Survivors landed at Grimsby.
2.1950: Converted for burning oil fuel, F.P. above 150° F.
2.1950: Remeasured 620g 239n.
9.12.1950: On an Icelandic trip (Sk. Sveri Ebenezersson) seeking shelter in a fierce storm in Isafjördur town outer harbour, dragged anchors and grounded at 3.00pm but came afloat about 6.30 pm. only to drift ashore again off the township of Isafjördur; crew taken off.
10-12.12.1950: Crew returned but attempt to refloat with the aid of DERBY COUNTY (GY514) and FROBISHER (H502) and Icelandic gunboat ÆGIR (507grt/1929) unsuccessful due to falling tide. 750 kits of fish transferred to another trawler and 60 tons of oil pumped ashore. 25.12.1950: Refloated by Icelandic gunboat ÆGIR and taken to Reykjavik where survey revealed extensive bottom damage. Temporary repairs carried for single voyage to Grimsby for repair and return to fishing.
1953: Made seven trips to Greenland fishery.
Pre 1959: John Bennett appointed manager.
Pre 1963: John A. Butt appointed manager.
16.5.1956: In collision alongside the pier in Neskaupstadur harbour with Icelandic Government motor vessel HERDUBREID (366grt/1947); the coaster suffered damage to stern.
23.10.1963: Fishing off west coast of Iceland (Sk. Peter S. Fenty). In storm conditions ran for shelter in Isafjördur but stranded at Graenahlid 3 miles inside the tip of Ritur Huk; crew saved by Icelandic gunboat ODINN (882grt/1960).
24.10.1963: Attempts to refloat with ODINN connected failed when cables parted. Abandoned after three attempts.
25.10.1963: ODINN landed the crew at Isafjördur.
11.8.1964: Declared a total loss. Grimsby registry closed.

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S.T. Northern Spray GY190 in Grimsby registration

S.T. Northern Spray GY190
Picture courtesy of the JJ collection

S.T. Northern Spray LO140

S.T. Northern Spray LO140 ashore at Isafjördur Picture courtesy of The JJ Collection

S.T. Northern Spray LO140

S.T. Northern Spray LO140 Ashore at Isafjördur
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S.T. Northern Spray LO140

S.T. Northern Spray GY190
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S.T. Northern Spray LO140

S.T. Northern Spray LO140
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S.T. Northern Spray LO140

S.T. Northern Spray LO140
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S.T. Northern Spray LO140

S.T. Northern Spray LO140
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Changelog
01/10/2009: Page published. 10 updates since then.
14/11/2017: Removed FMHT watermark from images.
01/07/2021: Updated history.
07/03/2022: Added images.

S.T. Northern Rover LO164

Technical

Official Number: 165344
Yard Number: 553
Completed: 1936
Gross Tonnage: 655
Net Tonnage: 254
Length: 188.1 ft
Breadth: 28.1 ft
Depth: 15.5 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl & LP turbine with DR gearing & hydraulic coupling by Deutsche Schiffs und Maschinenbau AG Seebeck, Wesermünde.
Built: Deutsche Schiffs und Maschinenbau AG Seebeck, Wesermünde

History

1936: Ordered by Leverhulme Ltd, London to absorb frozen credits in Germany.
6.1936: Completed by Deutsche Schiff und Maschinenbau AG Seebeck, Wesermünde (Yd.No.553) for MacLine Ltd, London (Leverhulme Ltd) as NORTHERN ROVER.
2.11.1936: Registered at London (LO164). Operating out of Fleetwood (Edward D. W. Lawford, manager).
25.11.1936: First landing at Fleetwood, 1800 boxes grossed £572.
15.9.1957: Last landing at Fleetwood, 750 boxes grossed £422.
9.10.1937: Sold to Northern Trawlers Ltd, London (William A. Bennett, manager). Transferred to Grimsby (H. Markham Cook, manager).
27.8.1939: Requisitioned for war service and fitted out for patrol duties (P.No.4.58) (Hire rate £425.15.0d/month).
30.10.1939: Patrolling in the Fair Isle Channel (Lieut. M. H. Macpherson RN), twenty-six crew. At 23.35 when some 100 miles W of Sumburgh Head torpedoed by U-boat (U59) and foundered with loss of all crew *.
5.11.1939: The Admiralty announced that the vessel was overdue and must be presumed lost; next of kin informed.
2.2.1940: London registry closed.

(* MPK: Lieut Martin H. Macpherson RN; Actg Sub Lieut George B. Grey RNR; Temp Sub Lieut Geoffrey A. R. Darlow RNVR; Temp Lieut Albert E. White RNVR; Arthur F. Ethell, Ch. Eng; Robert Mackenzie, 1st Assist Eng; Joseph Wood, 2nd Assist Eng; Robert McDowell, Ch Steward; John Storr, P.O. Seaman; John W. Barnes, Ldg Seaman; Archibald J. Cairns, John G. F. Cargill, Thomas K. Cook, Harry Dodd, Percy Moore, Angus Paterson, George H. Pavey, William C. Penton, Kenneth Reddin, and Reginald H. Reynolds, Seamen; Leonard H. Stone, Signalman; Roger E. Thacker Telegraphist; Harold W. Baker, James H. Barton, Walter R. McDougall and Edward Wright, Firemen; John McLennan, Officers’ Steward.)

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S.T. Northern Rover LO164

S.T. Northern Rover LO164
Picture courtesy of The JJ Collection

Changelog
01/01/2009: Page published. 8 updates since then.
14/06/2016: Minor information update.
26/10/2017: Removed FMHT watermark.

S.T. Northern Reward LO168

Northern Reward and U-47

Technical

Official Number: 165357
Yard Number: 555
Completed: June 1936
Gross Tonnage: 655
Net Tonnage: 243
Length: 188.1 ft
Breadth: 28.1 ft
Depth: 15.5 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl & LP turbine with DR gearing & hydraulic coupling by Deutsche Schiffs und Maschinenbau AG Seebeck, Wesermünde.
Built: Deutsche Schiffs und Maschinenbau AG Seebeck, Wesermünde

History

1936: Ordered by Leverhulme Ltd, London to absorb frozen credits in Germany.
6.1936: Completed by Deutsche Schiff und Maschinenbau AG Seebeck, Wesermünde (Yd.No.555) for MacLine Ltd, London (Leverhulme Ltd) as NORTHERN REWARD. 19.11.1936: Registered at London (LO168). Operating out of Fleetwood. Edward D. W. Lawford designated manager.
19.11.1936: Arrived Fleetwood from Germany.
11.12.1936: First landing at Fleetwood, 550 boxes £820 gross.
6.3.1937: On an Iceland trip, fishing some 12 miles WNW off Utskalar (Sk.George D. Barker). At about 10.30 pm. picked up distress call from Grimsby steam trawler FAVORITA (GY1039) (Sk. Thomas William Norris) aground on Utskalar Reef (Skagi Reef) off Reykjavik. Hauled gear and steamed to towards given position. At about midnight, reached a position about 11/2 miles from FAVORITA and requested to lower a lifeboat as their own boat was damaged. In a nasty swell launched boat to go to her assistance. After the boat, with six crew, was in the water a crew member James Alfred Robinson (40), Grimsby was noticed foul of the after davit arm and the guardrail, he was released and taken to the after cabin but found to be dead.
7.3.1937: Eight survivors taken off by ship’s boat and remainder transferred by an Icelandic motor boat to ship. At 3.29 am. Informed Wick Radio “Re FAVORITA: all hands safe aboard NORTHERN REWARD. FAVORITA still ashore.” At 9.00am. landed survivors at Reykjavik.
14.9.1937: Last landing at Fleetwood, 400 boxes £617 gross.
10.1937: Sold to Northern Trawlers Ltd, London. H. Markham Cook, Grimsby designated manager.
1.9.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a patrol vessel (1-4”) (P.No.4.85) (Hire rate £425.15.0d/month).
5.9.1939: Lt Cdr. David Tod RN (rtd) appointed C.O.
23.3.1940: On contraband control between UK and Iceland spotted U-boat (U.38) on surface, engaged with 4” and gave chase but outrun by the submarine.
19.6.1940: Lt Cdr. Eric Arthur Divers RNR appointed C.O.
1940: Fitted out for anti-submarine duties (DC, ASDIC).
1.10.1940: Lieut. Charles Napier Stewart RNR appointed C.O. 1941: Operating in Northern Patrol Group based at Kirkwall.
7.3.1941: Returning from patrol in bad weather engaged submarine north of Rockall with depth charges; U-boat (U.47) was later reported missing in this position.
6.3.1942: Ty Act Lt Cdr. John Dobson RNR appointed C.O.
3.1942: Transferred on loan to US Navy.
21.8.1942: Ty/Lieut. The Hon George Charles Spencer RNVR appointed C.O.
15.9.1942: Ty/Lieut. Bryan Humfrey Craig Rogers RNVR appointed Co.
10.1942: Returned to Royal Navy.
28.12.1942: Lieut. John Dodworth Weaver RNVR appointed C.O. Ty/Liet. James Mackenzie RNR appointed C.0.
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.
2.9.1944: Ty/Lieut. Albert J. Woods RNVR appointed C.O.
10.11.1944: Escorting convoy UR-142 (New York, – Loch Ewe – Reykjavik) At 1207 when off Utskalar (Skagi), SW Iceland, attacked by U-boat (U.300 – Fritz Hein) and London registered steam tanker SHIRVAN (6017grt/1925) (Capt. Edward Fermor Pattenden) torpedoed and sunk – 18 dead 27 survivors. The Icelandic steamer GODAFOSS (1542grt/1921)(Capt. Sigurður Gíslason) against orders, stopped and picked up nineteen survivors. At 1459 GODAFOSS was sunk by torpedoes from U.300 – 25 dead 19 survivors. Survivors picked up by NORTHERN REWARD * and HMNoS HONNINGSVAAG (P.No.4.277) and landed at Reykjavik.
1945: Employed as ocean escort.
28.3.1945: Ty/Lieut. John E. Purvess RNR appointed C.O.
1945: Employed as ocean escort.
28.1.1946: Returned to owner.
12.1946: London registry closed.
12.1946: Registered at Grimsby (GY431).
3.1947: Remeasured 625g 251n.
3.1947: Sold to H/F Vördur, Vatneyri, Iceland.
3.1947: Grimsby registry closed.
3.1947: Registered at Vatneyri as VÖRDUR II. (BA142).
1947: Registered at Vatneyri as VÖRDUR (BA142).
29.1.1950: Bound for England to land her catch, foundered 170 miles off the south coast of Iceland. Five crew lost and remainder picked up by a homeward bound Icelandic trawler.

Note * – Ldg Sea. D. Ledgerwood was awarded the BEM for his part in the rescue of the GODAFOSS survivors.

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S.T.Northern Reward LO168

S.T.Northern Reward LO168
Picture courtesy of The John Blant Collection

S.T. Northern Reward LO168

S.T. Northern Reward LO168
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S.T. Northern Reward LO168

Northern Reward LO168
Skipper George D Barker
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JamesRobinson

JamesRobinson
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Changelog
01/01/2009: Page published. 4 revisions since then.
05/07/2014: Information updated.
23/07/2015: Picture added.
25/11/2017: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
30/12/2020: Added image and updated history.
05/01/2021: Updated history.
22/02/2022: Added an image.