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S.T. Irvana FD181

Technical

Admiralty Number: 3510
Official Number: 145114
Yard Number: 671
As built: 360disp 125.6 x 23.5 x 12.8 feet
Gross Tonnage: 276
Net Tonnage: 107
Length: 125.6 ft
Breadth: 23.4 ft
Depth: 12.8 ft
Built: Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, South Bank-on-Tees, Middlesbrough
Engine: 480ihp T.3-cyl by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, South Bank-on-Tees, Middlesbrough

History

16.11.1916: Laid down.
9.3.1917: Launched by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, South Bank-on-Tees, Middlesbrough (Yd.No.671) (“Castle” class) for The Admiralty as ARTHUT LESSIMORE (Ad.No.3510).
25.5.1917: Completed as a minesweeper (1 – 12pdr and W/T).
1920: Registered by The Admiralty at London (Part I) as ARTHURE LESSIMORE (603/1920) O.N.145114. Laid up at Brightlingsea.
10.2.1924: Sold to Kingston Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull (Walter Scott, manager) after inspection at Brightlingsea by Capt. William John Lown & Lawrence Spring (directors). Purchased at asking price £5500 (Others inspected and purchased at £5500 each – ANDREW SACK, JAMES PEAKE, JOHN DORMOND & SAMUEL DRAKE).
13.2.1924: Arrived Hull from Brightlingsea.
2.1924: London registry closed.
21.2.1924: Registered at Hull (H15).
6.3.1924: Registered at Hull as AVANTURINE (H15). Estimated total cost including fit out and classification £8,900.
15.3.1924: Sailed Hull on first trip.
28.3.1924: Landed 442 kits grossed £547.
24.3.1925: William J. Lown designated manager.
22.6.1928: Sold to J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood for £5,750.
25.6.1928: Arrived Fleetwood.
26.6.1928: Hull registry closed.
28.6.1928: Registered at Fleetwood (FD181). Joseph Arthur Marr designated manager.
1.4.1929: Joseph A. Marr retired from Board to run Dinas Company.
1.4.1929: Geoffrey Edward Marr designated manager.
24.5.1929: Registered at Fleetwood as IRVANA (FD181).
1930: Outward for fishing grounds in dense fog, stranded on Knott Spit. Refloated and proceeded to sea.
2.1940: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-12pdr) (P.No.FY.663) (Hire rate £80.10.0d/month).
16.1.1942: Based Gt. Yarmouth (Sk. J.L. Borrett RNR). Sunk by German air attack off Great Yarmouth 270°, 2 cables off Corton Sand Buoy in position 52°31N/01°46E. No casualties. (German aircraft, a JU88, engaged by ship and badly damaged by gunfire, ditched and four crew later picked up).
10.12.1945: Fleetwood registry closed.

(Arthur Lessimore, Quartermaster (prest), age 34, b. Aldborough, Suffolk – VICTORY (SB533))

The following quote is from “Battle of the East Coast” by J P Foynes

Early in 1942 the Luftwaffe bombers made many ferocious attacks, then virtually abandoned East Coast shipping targets for good. On 16 January 1942 the Yarmouth M/S trawler IRVANA was bombed and sunk close to base, followed on the 30 th by the Grimsby trawler LOCH ALSH, near 59 Buoy.

British warships and merchantmen had claimed many Luftwaffe bombers shot down since the middle of 1941, but only the finding of aircraft wreckage, corpses or survivors confirms these. On these grounds we can accept the following:

A Do 17 shot down by Grimsby trawlers near the Humber Light Vessel.
A minelayer by the paddle ship Balmoral in the Thames Estuary, both on 6th July.
An He 111 by the Ipswich patrol trawler NORLAND at 54B Buoy on 4 August.
A bomber by the Grimsby M/S trawler WELLSBACH near Withernsea on 9 August (a PAC was used, and Feldwebel Markert, the pilot, was picked up by the trawler GREY MIST).
A Ju 88 by the Lowestoft trawler EUCLASE at No 5 Buoy, on 15 September, with all four crew captured by the trawler ALFREDIAN.
A Do 217, off Yarmouth on 12 November, by accidentally striking the topmast of the trawler FRANCOLIN while sinking her.
The Ju 88 which sank IRVANA in Yarmouth Roads on 30 January 1942, from that ship’s fire, all four airmen being captured.
Another Ju 88, by the Lowestoft trawler FYLDEA near 54G Buoy, during a snowstorm that same day one body was found and buried at sea.

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S.T. Irvana FD181

S.T. Irvana FD181
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S.T. Clevela FD94

Additional material courtesy of Mike Thompson

Technical

Official Number 162061
Yard Number: 1073
Completed: 1930
Gross Tonnage: 355
Net Tonnage: 140
Length: 140.0 ft
Breadth: 25 ft
Depth: 13.4 ft
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby
Engine: 97hp T.3-cyl by Amos & Smith Ltd, Hull

History

Notes (In 1935 the Hull trawler LEONIDAS (162186) (H267) was lengthened by Smiths Dock Co. Ltd. The work involved creating an improved hull form with new bow and stern sections. The design was successful, not only providing increased fish room capacity, but also, as was expected, reducing coal consumption and giving a slightly higher free running speed. Other owners stemmed vessels at Middlesbrough for similar work to be undertaken)
T.3-cyl and boiler by Amos & Smith Ltd, Hull

15.2.1930: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd. No.1073) for J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood as CLEVELA.
10.3.1930: Completed.
7.4.1930: Registered at Fleetwood (FD94). Geoffrey Edwards Marr designated manager.
1.1937: Transferred to fish out of Hull. Crewed and operated by The City Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull.
1937: Insured value £13,000.
1.1.1938: Insured value 13,000.
13.1.1938: At Hull last landing before lengthening (Sk. R. Turner), 13 days 645 kits £801 gross.
17.11.1938: Completed lengthening by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, Middlesbrough to 155.5 feet (including fitting new bow and stern sections). Re measured 387g 151n.
17.11.1938: First trip after lengthening, sailed Hull for Bear Island (Sk.J. Bywater).
5.12.11938: At Hull landed 1,274 kits 933 gross.
25.7.1939: Insured value £18,000.
9.8.1939: Sailed Hull for White Sea grounds (Sk. William Drever).
1.9.1939: At Hull landed 1,767 kits grossed £1,552.
1939: To requisitioning, at Hull landed from Bear Island/Iceland/Norway coast (Sks. J. Bywaters, William Dreever, G. Barker, T. Welch), 227 days 15,249 kits £11,399 gross.
2.9.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-12pdr) (P.No.FY.678) (Hire rate £202.12.11d/month).
1940: Based Grimsby with M/S Group 19.
1945: Based Grimsby with M/S Group 134.
2.1946: Sold to Trident Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull.
2.1946: Fleetwood registry closed.
7.2.1946: Registered at Hull (H201). Geoffrey Edwards Marr designated manager.
13.5.1946: Returned after survey and restoration at Liverpool.
15.5.1946: Sailed Hull on first trip to Icelandic grounds (Sk. C. Johansen).
5.6.1946: At Hull landed 1,661 kits £1,819 gross (depressed market).
11.10.1946: Sold to Dinas Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Fleetwood. David Marr designated manager.
2.11.1946: Last landing at Hull, from White Sea grounds (Sk. C. Johansen), 1,507 kits grossed £4,490.
11.12.1947: Sold to Iago Steam Trawler Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Percy Lincoln Campbell, manager).
17.6.1948: Hull registry closed.
6.1948: Registered at London as RED PLUME (LO419). Transferred to Fleetwood. (A/Capt) Cdr. Edward Douglas Wyndham Lawford DSO designated manager.
10.8.1955: Sold to Thos. Hamling & Co Ltd, Hull for £17,000 plus £2,269.7.1d for gear and £250 for radar.
8.1954: London registry closed.
19.8.1955: Registered at Hull (H83). Harold Watson Hall designated manager.
13.8.1955 – 24.11.1955: Made three trips to Icelandic grounds (Sk. G. Barker); total 65 days, 2,417 kits £9,225.12.0d gross.
24.11.1955: Laid up.
1956: Sold to BISCO (£6,000) and allocated to J. J. King & Co Ltd, Gateshead for breaking up (value of gear landed prior to sale £984.14.5d).
26.3.1956: Delivered Tyne under tow (Towage cost £323.13.7d).
15.11.1956: Hull registry closed.

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S.T. Clevela FD94

S.T. Clevela FD94
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HMT Clevela

HMT Clevela
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S.T. Red Plume LO419

S.T. Red Plume LO419
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S.T. Imelda FD13

Technical

Official Number: 136894
Yard Number: 265
Completed: 1914
Gross Tonnage: 251
Net Tonnage: 97
Length: 126.8 ft
Breadth: 23 ft
Depth: 12.1 ft
Built: Dundee Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Dundee
Engine: T.3-cyl by Lidgerwood Ltd, Coatbridge

History

25.6.1914: Launched by Dundee Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Dundee (Yd.No.265) for The Lancashire Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Fleetwood as IMELDA.
7.1914: Completed.
7.8.1914: Registered at Fleetwood (FD13). James Herbert Marr designated manager.
4.9.1914: Requisitioned for war service (Ad.No.519). Commissioned at Fleetwood.
10.9.1914: Arrived Devonport from Fleetwood. Fitted with WT, Hotchkiss 6pdr HA and mine-sweep. Ty/Sk. James Alfred Springall appointed CO.
Based St. Mary’s.
4.11.1916: Joseph Herbert Marr died. James Alexander Robertson designated manager.
1.10.1918: At Isles of Scilly for General Patrol and Escort work (Lieut. RNR).
12.1918: Returned to owner at Fleetwood.
12.10.1924: James A. Robertson died. Edward Towne, Blackpool, appointed manager.
1930: Sold to J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood (Geoffrey Edwards Marr, manager)
12.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a boom defence vessel (P.No. Z.136) (Hire rate £66.18.8d/month).
23.11.1943: Compulsorily acquired by M.O.W.T.
1944: Based at Fort William (D. MacBrayne Ltd, Glasgow, agents).
3.-8.1946: Laid up C&M at Inverness.
24.1.1947: Sold to J. N. Connel, Coatbridge for breaking up.

ANNEX A

10.9.1914: Arrived Devonport from Fleetwood. Fitted with WT and Hotchkiss 6pdr HA and fitted out for minesweeping duties (Ad.No.519).
By 1.10.1918: At St. Mary’s (General Patrol and Escort work) (Lieut. RNR).

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S.T. Imelda FD13

S.T. Imelda FD13

S.T. Imelda FD13
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S.T. Imelda FD13
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S.T. Imelda FD13
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S.T. Imelda FD13

S.T. Imelda FD13
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Jim Springall

Jim Springall holding a gannet
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S.T. Hiddenite FD180

Additional information courtesy of Geoff Davidson, David Slinger, Andy Hall and Gary Hicks

Technical

Admiralty Number: 4211
Official Number: 144432
Yard Number: 310
Completed: 1918
Gross Tonnage: 276
Net Tonnage: 123
Length: 125 ft
Breadth: 23.4 ft
Depth: 12.6 ft
Engine 480ihp T.3-cyl by J. P. Rennoldson & Sons Ltd, South Shields
Boiler: Palmers Shipbuilding & Iron Co Ltd Hebburn-on-Tyne
Built: J. P. Rennoldson & Sons Ltd, South Shields

History

10.10.1918: Completed by J. P. Rennoldson & Sons Ltd, South Shields (Yd.No.310) (“Castle” class) for The Admiralty as WILLIAM LEEK (Ad.No.4211). 8.10.1918: Commissioned.
10.10.1918: Completed as an escort (1-12pdr).
10.3.1920: Registered by The Admiralty at London (Part I) as WILLIAM LEEK O.N.144432. Laid up at Milford.
11.5.1920: Sold by auction at London (Baltic Exchange) to F. & T. Ross Ltd, Hull. Resold to The East Riding Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Hull. Fitted out at Hull as a fishing vessel.
8.1920: London registry closed.
14.8.1920: Registered at Hull (H226).
14.8.1920: Charles Hudson, Hessle designated manager.
20.9.1920: Registered at Hull as CAVENDISH (H226)(BoT M. 12280/20 dated 28.7.1920).
6.11.1923: Sold Kingston Steam Trawling Co Ltd (64/64), Hull for £7,250.
7.11.1923: Walter Scott designated manager.
8.11.1923: Sailed on first trip for Kingston.
23.11.1923: Registered at Hull as HIDDENITE (H226) (BoT M.RG 1048/1923 dated 2.11.1923).
24.3.1925: John William Lown designated manager.
2.6.1928: Sold to J. Marr & Son Ltd (64/64), Fleetwood for £5,750.
6.6.1928: Joseph Arthur Marr designated manager.
19.6.1928: First landing at Fleetwood, 120 boxes. First box of fish was secured by Mr Harry Chapman who paid 94s for a 10-stone box of hake and in accordance with the usual practice received a new hat from the owners.
26.6.1928: Hull registry closed.
28.6.1928: Registered at Fleetwood (FD180).
15.7.1928: Homeward from West of Scotland grounds (Sk. Charles Robinson). On entering Sound of Islay ran into dense fog and rain and at 4.00am stranded on rocks close to Port Askaig, and heeled to starboard at low water. Launched boat as a precaution, checked, sound and not making water but in a very bad position with lee rail underwater at high tide. Several of the crew did not want to go back onboard and pulled over to Port Askaig for onward passage to Fleetwood. Steam trawler DEAN SWIFT (D335) responded to distress and at high tide connected and attempted to refloat but unsuccessful.
16.7.1928: DEAN SWIFT again attempted to refloat without success and on arrival of a Glasgow tug left the scene for home.
17.7.1928: With tides making, Glasgow tug was successful in refloating at 6.00am on the second attempt. Checked and proceeded to Fleetwood.
11.10.1920: At Fleetwood landed 300 boxes.
10.2.1929: Arrested by Scottish Fishery Board’s cruiser VIGILANT whilst fishing seven miles inside the prohibited area in the Firth of Clyde. Taken to Campbeltown.
11.2.1929: At Campbeltown Sheriff Court Sk. John Arthur Mewse pleaded guilty to trawling in a prohibited area and in view of his five previous convictions for trawling in prohibited areas he was fined £100 and gear forfeited.
1.4.1929: Geoffrey Edwards Marr designated manager.
21.5.1929: Registered at Fleetwood as HILDINA (FD180) (M/RG1148/29).
25.4.1930: Christopher Blair (23), fireman was brought in from sea with severe injuries to his left side having fallen into the coal bunker. Transferred to hospital.
28.2.1933: At Fleetwood, Sk. Clarence Taylor was fined £1 and costs by Magistrates for excessive use of the steam whistle in the Wyre Channel to the annoyance of the public.
7.1.1937: Hauling up on the slipway, heeled over and two painters scrubbing down were thrown from their raft into the Fish Dock.
16.12.1938: Stranded in Islay Sound. Forefoot damaged and twisted. Steam trawler TEROMA (FD17) some fifteen miles away responded to her distress and on arrival stood by. Refloated by tug and and then escorted to Oban. Subsequently repaired and returned to service.
27.8.1939: Requisitioned for war service on examination service and as a minesweeper (P.No.FY.541) (Hire rate £82.16.0d/month). Based Granton with M/S Group 32 (Sk W. T. E. Page DSC RNR).
23.4.1946: Returned to owner after refit and re-classification at Glasgow.
24.6.1946: Sold to The Brixham Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood (Dugdall & Son, managers) for £19850. Registered at Fleetwood as AIGRET (FD180).
23.5.1947: Called Oban to land three crew members of the MYRA from Murrisk, Co Mayo. The men were picked up off Barra Head having been adrift since 3 May. 30.1.1953: In strong winds and rough sea, hauled gear and dodging W1/2S of Dubh Artacht Light in the hope of an improvement in the weather. At 8.30 pm. sighted Fleetwood trawler MICHAEL GRIFFITH (FD249). A short time after an adverse weather forecast was received and the skipper decided to seek shelter and set a course to the E of Skerryvore. Passing close the MICHAEL GRIFFITH continued northwards and his stern light was visible until about 11.10pm. This was the last sighting of the MICHAEL GRIFFITH. which was lost with all thirteen crew the following day.
1956: Sold to Belgian principals for breaking up.
17.3.1956: Arrived Boom.
24.3.1956: Fleetwood registry closed.

Note: William Leek (Luck), AB (volunteer), age 41, b. Canterbury, Kent – VICTORY (SB142)

Note:
25.10.1937:
Gallantry at sea over four years ago was recognised at Fleetwood yesterday when a wireless set was presented to Thomas Harrison, deckhand of Lingfield Road who plunged to rescue boatswain Phillip Kay of the trawler HILDINA when he was washed overboard off West Scotland.

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S.T. Hiddenite FD180

S.T. Hiddenite FD180
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S.T. Hildina FD180

S.T. Hildina FD180
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HMT Hildina

HMT Hildina
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S.T. Hildina FD180

S.T. Hildina FD180
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S.T. Aigret FD180

S.T. Aigret FD180
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S.T. Aigret FD180

S.T. Aigret FD180
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24/01/2009: Page published. 5 revisions since then.
20/10/2014: Picture added.
14/12/2015: Page updated.
05/06/2017: Added an image and removed FMHT watermarks.
25/01/2019: Updated information and added an image.
08/01/2021: Updated history.

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
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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.