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S.T. Bassein FD138

Additional Material courtesy of Mike Thompson

Technical

Official Number: 105912
Yard Number: 506
Completed: 1895
Gross Tonnage: 153
Net Tonnage: 33
Length: 105.8 ft
Breadth: 20.6 ft
Depth: 11.0 ft
Built: Edwards Bros Ltd, North Shields
Engine: T.3-cyl by N. E. Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Sunderland

History

3.10.1895: Launched by Edwards Bros Ltd, North Shields (Yd.No.506) for George Beeching, Fleetwood (managing owner) as BASSEIN.
24.10.1895: Registered at Fleetwood (FD138).
10.1895: Completed.
15.1.1896: At Campbeltown sheltering (Sk. George H. Marks). Boarded by Fishery Officer as “… vessel had no number on funnel or quarter, and the number and letters on bow were painted in black instead of white paint.” Master instructed to paint up before departure.
16.1.1896: Vessel sailed in early morning without complying with request.
1897: Sold to Kelsall Brothers & Beeching Ltd, Manchester (John E. A. Kelsall & George Beeching, Fleetwood, managers).
30.3.1899: Registered at Hull (H68).
12.5.1899: Fleetwood registry closed.
22.12.1900: In River Humber about noon, grounded on the Skitter Sand and later on Holm Sand – no damage. At about 4.50pm ran into Admiralty Pier at Paull doing damage but no damage to vessel. Incidents caused by Sk. H. Belton and 2nd Hand J. Gillard “being incapable of handling her properly due to our being under the influence of drink”.
21.3.1901: At sea. Bosun H Peaman assaulted by deckhand M. Kelly (struck and bitten); fined 5/-.
27.3.1901: Deckhand M. Kelly gross negligence sleeping whilst on watch as look out; fined 5/-.
4.4.1901: Fines paid to Superintendent Mercantile Marine Office, Hull.
7.9.1904: North Sea (Sk. Thomas Edmonds). J. Wilson, trimmer, foot struck by crank of LP cylinder and broken.
26.10.1904: North Sea (Sk. Thomas Edmonds). Returning from boarding cutter HAWK (H238) with fish, boat capsized and Bosun, C. Dawe was drowned.
12.3.1907: In the North Sea (Sk. Arthur Frederick Evans) when some 18 miles off Spurn, in collision with Newcastle steamer TURRETHILL (691grt/1895) causing considerable damage to stem, subsequently beached in Humber. 2nd Hand in charge of deck watch admitted to not being on the bridge at the time. (TURRETHILL was towed into river and part beached on sand spit by No.6 buoy, full of water and badly damaged midships below the waterline.)
27.8.1908: North Sea (Sk. Arthur Frederick Evans). Laid to, struck by steam trawler PIGEON (H155) (Sk. E. Gillard) who did not leave sufficient room to pass our stem. Bulwark plates and stanchions bent and rail broken starboard quarter..
8.9.1911: Registered office transferred to Hull (George Beeching, Hull & John E. A. Kelsall, London, managers).
14.11.1908: North Sea (Sk. Arthur Frederick Evans). In rough weather boat swamped whilst occupants were aboard the cutter SWIFT (H99). Boat and 17 boxes of fish lost.
14.4.1909: North Sea (Sk. Arthur Frederick Evans). J. Harden 3rd Hand crushed thumb when right hand caught between snatch block and casing.
19.2.1910: At sea (Sk.G. H. Crosswaite). J. West fined for drunkeness.
24.2.1910: At sea (Sk. G. H. Crosswaite). J. West refused duty. Fine in the first case and proceedings in the second were remitted.
5.11.1911: In North Sea in a strong gale shipped a heavy sea and taking in water. At about 6.00pm. blew whistle to attract attention and about 6.15pm. steam trawler PIGEON (H155) (Sk. C. G. Wilkins) approached and was asked to standby.
6.11.1911: Situation deteriorated, distress signals shown and skipper requested crew to be taken off. About 2.30am. PIGEON sent over boat and crew of nine taken off. Vessel listing heavily to starboard and hoping for a moderation in weather, PIGEON laid by until the following morning.
7.11.1911: At about 4.30am vessel foundered. (Later Bosun Frederick George Gowen, Hull and 3rd Hand Frank Clayton, Grimsby of PIGEON awarded BoT Sea Gallantry Medal (bronze) for rescue).
1.12.1911: Hull registry closed “Ship foundered in North Sea 7th November1911”.

Note At one time Fleetwood trawlers had a less than enviable reputation amongst the Scottish Islands. Poaching and the prosecutions that followed were commonplace and the trawlers would paint out their names and PLN to try to prevent identification.
The following letters, kindly provided by Douglas Paterson, illustrate the problem. (Opens with Adobe Reader)

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Changelog
18/05/2012: Page published. 8 updates since then.
11/08/2019: Information updated.

S.T. Almeria FD117

Additional information courtesy of David Slinger

Technical

Official Number: 148220
Yard Number: TR19
Completed: 1918
Gross Tonnage: 271.22
Net Tonnage: 120.96
Length: 125.7 ft
Breadth: 23.5 ft
Depth: 12.7 ft
Built: Kingston Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Kingston, Ontario
Engine: 480ihp T.3-cyl by National S.B. Co Ltd, Goderich, Ontario

History

1.1917: Ordered.
1918: Launched by Kingston Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Kingston, Ontario (Yd.No. – ) (Canadian “Castle” – “T.R.” class) for the The Admiralty (paid for and built under direction of RCN) as TR.19.
25.8.1918: Completed by Collingwood Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Collingwood, Ontario (Yd. No.-) and commissioned in the Royal Canadian Navy (1-12pdr).
7.1.1919: Paid off and laid up.
1920: Accepted offer of Rose Street Foundry & Engineering Co Ltd, Inverness (Captain Donald John Munro CMG RN as agent) to bring drifters with trawlers as escorts to UK for lay-up in Muirtown Basin, Caledonian Canal, Inverness prior to sale and possible refit for classification as steam trawlers (The Rose Street Foundry & Engineering Co Ltd letter dated 12 April 1920).
1921: Brought over at The Admiralty’s expense.
1.1926: Still laid up.
2.1926: Rejected offer for all remaining trawlers at £2,000 each (B. Allenby, Aberdeen letter dated 10 Feb 1926).
8.1926: Sold “as is” to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Basil A. Parkes, manager).
16.9.1926: Registered at Fleetwood as ALMERIA (FD117).
1928: Sold to Red Funnel Fisheries Ltd, Sydney, NSW.
3.9.1928: Registered at Fleetwood as GOOLGWAI (FD117) (MRG 1362/1928).
15.9.1928: Sailed Fleetwood for Sydney in company with DURRAWEEN (FD135).
12.1928: Arrived Sydney, NSW after 92 day passage, which included assisting DURRAWEEN stranded when calling at the Cocos Islands, Indian Ocean.
29.12.1928: Fleetwood registry closed.
12.1928: Registered at Sydney, NSW.
1933: Owners re-styled Red Funnel Trawlers Ltd, Sydney, NSW.
1937-1939: Landed 521,114 kg of fish.
3.9.1939: Requisitioned for war service by Royal Australian Navy as a minesweeper (1-12pdr, 1-20mm Oerlikon, 1-0.303 Vickers MG, 4-DC launchers).
6.10.1939: Commissioned into RAN (P.No. FY.94).
1940: Based Sydney, NSW with M/S Group 50, working NSW coast and later moved to Queensland – Cape York/Thursday Island.
8.1944: Joined TU 70.5.2 Surveying Torres Strait.
29.10.1945: Paid off and laid up pending return to owners.
17.6.1947: Returned to owner.
1951-1955: Landed 410,235kg of fish.
18.5.1955: Sailed Sydney for the Far South Coast of New South Wales grounds (Sk. Mullarkey); eleven crew all told.
29.5.1955: Approaching Sydney in heavy seas with 400 boxes onboard ran into thick fog and about 7.00 am. stranded on rocks at Boora Point, 10 miles south of Sydney Head, NSW.
6.6.1955: Ship broke up and washed westward. Possibly some wreckage amongst rocks in position 33.58S 151.15E. All crew rescued but the following were injured, John Munro, fireman, broken kneecap, Albert Tahtinen, cut head; ship’s cat survived but the dog ‘Sluggo’ drowned.

More information at Michael McFadyen’s Scuba Site

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S.T. Almeria FD117

S.T. Almeria FD117
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S.T. Almeria FD117

S.T. Almeria FD117
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HMAS Durraween

HMAS Durraween
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S.T. Almeria FD117

S.T. Almeria FD117
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S.T. Almeria FD117

S.T. Almeria FD117
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S.T. Almeria FD117

S.T. Almeria FD117
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S.T. Almeria FD117

S.T. Almeria FD117
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Changelog
22/04/2014: Information updated.
25/06/2017: Removed FMHT watermarks, amended wreck location, repaired broken image link.
22/06/2019: Updated information and added an image.

S.T. Britannic FD184

Additional information courtesy of Andy Hall, Lynne Elvin and Hull Trawlers

Technical

Official Number: 99548
Yard Number: 466
Completed: 1891
Gross Tonnage: 144.32
Net Tonnage: 30.55
Length: 105.4 ft
Breadth: 20.6 ft
Depth: 11.0 ft
Built: Hepple & Co, North Shields
Engine: 360ihp T.3-cyl by Hepple & Co, North Shields
Boiler: J. T. Eltringham & Co, South Shields

History

23.9.1891: Launched by Hepple & Co, North Shields (Yd.No.466) for John Kelsall (64/64), Prestwich, Manchester as BRITANNIC.
12.12.1891: Registered at Hull (H181).
12.1891: Completed. John Kelsall designated managing owner.
1895: Transferred to fish out of Fleetwood.
30.5.1896: At Fleetwood Police Court four men charged with a breach of the Merchant Shipping Act in assaulting the skipper and combining to disobey orders were found guilty and sentenced to seven days hard labour.
30.5.1897: Sold to Kelsall Brothers & Beeching Ltd (64/64), Manchester. John Edmund Ambrose Kelsall & George Beeching, Fleetwood designated managers.
9.1897: Hull registry closed.
4.9.1897: Registered at Fleetwood (FD184).
9.1.1899: Reported having lost a crewman (Grant) believed washed overboard and drowned.
24.3.1899: Fleetwood registry closed. Transferred to fish out of Hull.
13.4.1899: Registered at Hull (H447).
25.4.1905: Lengthened to 119.0 ft draught 10.8 ft – 168g 63n( 46n?).
25.4.1905: Hull registry closed on lengthening and vessel registered anew (H447).
8.9.1911: Registered office transferred to Hull. George Beeching, Hull & John E. A. Kelsall, London designated managers.
29.12.1912: In the North Sea off the Dogger Bank with the boxing fleet (Sk. Herbert Hugh Henery); nine crew all told. At about 8.00 am. having hauled the trawl and finished stowing the fish, struck amidships by Hull steam trawler BUZZARD (H971). Ch Eng H. Wise stopped the engine and came on deck to warn that she was rapidly filling. The crew put on their lifejackets and attempted to launch the boat but it foundered and they literally swam off the deck as the ship foundered. The skipper was seen putting on his lifejacket but he and the bosun, Smith went down with the ship. The bosun surfaced but there was no sign of the skipper and a search by other vessels in the fleet failed to find him. Other trawlers on the scene, VICEROY (GY786) picked up five men, KITE (H773) two and TANAGER (H134), one; all transferred to BUZZARD which had suffered only minor damage to her fore end.
31.12.1912: Survivors landed at Hull.
9.1.1913: Hull registry closed “Total loss”.

Crew saved – Albert Love, Mate; Smith, Bosun; W. Crickmore, Third hand; A. Dixey, Deckhand; H. Wise, Ch. Eng; L. Alders 2nd Eng; W. Sellers, Trimmer and J. Courtney, Cook.

Lost – Herbert Hugh Henery, Skipper.

Changelog
18/05/2012: Page published. 6 revisions since then.
29/11/2014: Information updated.
07/06/2017: Information update.
16/07/2016: Updated information.
07/10/2019: Updated information.

S.T. Adventure FD154

Technical

Official Number: 109728
Yard Number: 398
Completed: 1906
Gross Tonnage: 184
Net Tonnage: 49
Length: 110.2 ft
Breadth: 21.6 ft
Depth: 11.4 ft
Built: Brooklyn Steam Fishing Co Ltd
Engine: T.3-cyl by Hall, Russell & Co Ltd, Aberdeen

History

12.3.1906: Launched by Hall, Russell & Co Ltd, Aberdeen (Yd.No.398) for Henry A. Tweddell, Hartlepool as ADVENTURE.
4.1906: Completed.
14.4.1906: Registered at Hartlepool (HL19 ).
1909: Fishing out of Fleetwood (Sk. G. Aket).
1912: Sold to Richard Watson Mason & John Wright, Fleetwood. Richard W. Mason designated managing owner.
9.1912: Hartlepool registry closed.
14.9.1912: Registered at Fleetwood (FD154).
1.1.1914: Tonnage altered to 71.05net under provision of Merchant Shipping Act 1907.
13.3.1915: Twelve miles off Black Head, Rhins of Galloway. Picked up body from damaged lifeboat ex auxiliary merchant cruiser BAYANO (5948grt/1913) torpedoed 3 miles west of Corsewall Point, Rhins of Galloway (55.03N 5.26W) by U-boat (U27).
11.3.1915. Put in to Ramsey to land body later identified as CPO H. B. Williams.
6.1915: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-6pdr HA). Renamed ADVENTURE II (Ad.No.2771).
6.6.1916: Sold to Brooklyn Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Richard W. Mason, manager).
26.3.1917: Sold to Margaret Fawns, Granton.
4.10.1917: Sold to Archibald Glen Brown, Granton.
14.10.1917: Reverted to ADVENTURE (FD154).
1919: Returned to owner.
1.1920: Sold to John Mitchell, Peterhead. Robert S. Mitchell designated manager.
25.2.1920: Fleetwood registry closed.
26.2.1920: Registered at Peterhead (PD239).
1921: Sold to Imperial Cold Storage & Supply Co Ltd. Aberdeen.
6.1.1922: Trawling off Buchan Ness (Sk. William Cowe); ten crew in total. On hauling 10 miles SSE of Buchan Ness, mine in trawl exploded causing hull damage on the starboard side in way of the fishroom. Pumps could not cope with ingress of water and abandoned before foundering. All crew saved by another trawler.
13.1.1922: Peterhead registry closed “Totally lost”. Wreck lies upright in 71metres in position 57.24N 01.37W facing south-east.
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S.T. Adventure HL19

S.T. Adventure HL19
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Note Adventure’s Bell salvaged by Buchan Shipwrecks. Wreck found & dived 24 August 2007 at 57 24.097N 01 37.318W 7 miles east of Cruden Bay.

Adventure's Bell

Adventure’s Bell
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Changelog
18/05/2012: Page published. 8 updates since then.
27/07/2015: Information updated.
02/09/2017: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
11/06/2019: Minor information update.

S.T. Ava FD145

Technical

Official Number: 105916
Yard Number: 514
Completed: 1896
Gross Tonnage: 162
Net Tonnage: 52
Length: 107.0 ft
Breadth: 20.6 ft
Depth: 11.0 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by N. E. Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Sunderland
Built: Edwards Bros Ltd, North Shields

History

1.2.1896: Launched by Edwards Bros Ltd, North Shields (Yd.No.514) for George Beeching, Fleetwood as AVA.
17.2.1896: Registered at Fleetwood (FD145).
2.1896: Completed. George Beeching designated managing owner.
1897: Sold to Kelsall Brothers & Beeching Ltd, Manchester. John E. A. Kelsall, Fleetwood appointed manager.
1899: Transferred to Hull.
1.4.1899: Registered at Hull (H78).
12.5.1899: Fleetwood registry closed.
24.2.1910: Foundered in North Sea.
24.3.1910: Hull registry closed “ Vessel foundered in North Sea 24th February 1910”.

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S.T. Ava FD145

Scanned from an Icelandic publication by Birgir Þórisson
S.T. Ava FD145

Changelog
17/05/2012: Page published. 6 updates since then.
22/08/2017: Removed FMHT watermark.