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S.T. Lady Estelle H210

Technical

Official Number: 136218.
Yard Number: 308
Completed: 1914
Gross Tonnage: 323
Net Tonnage: 134
Length: 136.4 ft
Breadth: 23.5 ft
Depth: 12.7 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley

History

24.8.1914: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.308) for Marine Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull as CADET.
19.12.1914: Completed (George Walton, manager).
2.1.1915: Registered at Hull (H210).
29.5.1917: Requisitioned for Fishery Reserve (1-6pdr HA & W/T).
1919: Released.
1926: Sold to Storr’s Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull (John W. Storr, manager). Registered at Hull as SAIPH (H210).
28.3.1929: Sold to Trident Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull (George A. Ledger, manager).
15.5.1929: Registered at Hull as ROSE NESS (H210).
31.12.1938: Sold to Jutland Amalagamated Trawlers Ltd, Hull.
21.4.1939: Registered at Hull as LADY ESTELLE (H210).
2.6.1940: Requisitioned for war service as an auxiliary patrol vessel (Hire rate £86.2.8d/month).
9.1941: Fitted out for minesweeping duties (P.No.FY.176).
1942: Sold to J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood (Geoffrey Edwards Marr, manager).
1.10.1942: Sold to Thornton Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood (J. Marr & Son Ltd, managers).
6.1944: Sold to Parkholme Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood (Harvey Wilfred Wilson, Grimsby, manager).
6.1945: Hull registry closed. Registered at Grimsby (GY52).
9.1945: Sold to Trawlers Grimsby Ltd (C.G. Mastin, manager).
1945: John C. Ross appointed manager.
16.9.1946: Returned.
1947: Sold to NV Vissch. Maats “Pettin”, IJmuiden (L. & J. Schager, managers).
4.1947: Grimsby registry closed. Registered at IJmuiden as SCHOORL (IJM??).
1955: Sold for breaking up.

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S.T. Lady Estelle GY52

S.T. Lady Estelle GY52
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Changelog
09/04/2009: Page published. 2 updates since then.
13/08/2023: Added an image.

S.T. Josephine I FD226

Sold during build, never fished from Fleetwood.

Technical

Official Number: 127570
Yard Number: 127
Completed: 1909
Gross Tonnage: 266
Net Tonnage: 103
Length: 130.1 ft
Breadth: 23.1 ft
Depth: 12.02 ft
Engine: 300ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by Earle’s Co Ltd, Hull

History

22.10.1908: Launched by Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co Ltd, Goole (Yd.No.127) for J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood as JOSEPHINE I.
3.12.1908: Registered at Fleetwood (FD226).
12.1908: Sold to The Admiralty.
7.4.1909: Arrived Sheerness to be taken in hand for conversion to a minesweeper.
4.1909: Commissioned as HMS SPARROW (1-12pdr) (Ad.No.58).
15.4.1909: Fleetwood registry closed “ceased fishing”.
5.1909: Based Sheerness as tender to the Torpedo School.
26.9.1909: Arrived Devonport for conversion to a mine surveyor.
1909: Based at Portland for minesweeping trials.
1914: Based at Portsmouth training fishery reserve crews.
1.1920: Renamed JOSEPHINE I.
4.5.1920: Sold by auction at Milford to Colin L. Mason, Cardiff (managing owner) for £5000.
31.7.1920: Registered at London (LO390).
19.12.1923: At Milford Haven Sessions, Sk.Archie Blockwell was fined £15 for gross negligence in towing across the drift nets of the French drifter, GAULOS, fishing off the Isles of Scilly. The owners were ordered to pay £250 damages for loss of nets.
3.1924: Sold to “Nordstern” Hochseefischerei Aktien Gesellschaft, Wesermünde-G.
7.4.1924: London registry closed.
1924: Re-measured 128.5 x 23.2 x 12.0 feet 278g 108n.
4.1924: Registered at Wesermünde-G as ORION.
1939: Sold for breaking up.

Changelog
06/04/2009: Page published. 2 updates since then.
06/03/2021: Updated history and technical details.

S.T. North Ness H11

Technical

Admiralty Number: 3523
Official Number: 143863
Yard Number: 702
Completed 1917
Gross Tonnage: 275
Net Tonnage: 107
Length: 125.5 ft
Breadth: 23.4 ft
Depth: 12.8 ft
Engine: 480ihp T.3-cyl by Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Built: Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, South Bank-on-Tees, Middlesbrough

History

19.3.1917: Laid down by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, South Bank, Middlesbrough (Yd.No.702) (“Castle” class) for The Admiralty.
5.7.1917: Launched as ANDREW SACK (Ad.No.3523).
3.8.1917: Completed as a minesweeper (1-12pdr and W/T).
28.01.1920: Registered by The Admiralty at London (Part I & IV) as ANDREW SACK O.N.143863 (LO257).
By 18.06.1920: Allocated to Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries, London and engaged in commercial trawling.
1920: Allocated to the National Fishery Scheme for the setting up of the Minesweepers’ Cooperative Trawling Society Ltd, London.
3.08.1920: Minesweepers’ Cooperative Trawling Society Ltd, London registered.
11.1920: At HM Dockyard, Chatham fitted out for fishing under Special Survey of Lloyd’s Register and classed 100A1 Stm Trawler at London.
04.1921: Paid off at The Nore. Laid up at Brightlingsea.
01.1922: Scheme abandoned, the necessary working capital of £100,000 having not been subscribed.
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 – ARTHUR LESSIMORE, JAMES PEAKE, JOHN DORMUND & SAMUEL DRAKE).
9.2.1924: London registry closed.
12.2.1924: Registered at Hull (H11).
13.2.1924: Arrived Hull from Brightlingsea.
6.3.1924: Registered at Hull as ALEXANDRITE (H11). Estimated total cost including fit out and classification £8900.
8.3.1924: Sailed on first trip.
24.3.1924: Landed (no details).
24.3.1925: William John Lown appointed manager.
26.11.1932: At anchor off Victoria Dock, Hull. Propeller fouled by anchor chain from LADY BERYL (H283), both drifted and grounded on hulkings. Refloated next tide, slipped, repaired and returned to service.
22.7.1933: Sold to Trident Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull (George Arthur Ledger, manager).
4.9.1933: Registered at Hull as NORTH NESS (H11).
25.7.1939: Insured value £5,300.
Pre 4.1940: Employed on Fishery Protection (Nore/Humber/Hull) (1-12pdr).
11.6.1940: Requisitioned for war service as an auxiliary patrol vessel (P.No.4.100).
12.6.1940: Hire rate £80.4.2d/month.
1.1942: At Hartlepool in C&M pending reallocation.
25.10.1944: Sold to J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood (Geoffrey Edwards Marr, manager) for £10550.
8.1945: Paid off.
7.1946: Returned after survey and restoration at Londonderry.
22.6.1949: Sold to Harold Barber Ingram, Fleetwood for £13000.
1955: Sold for breaking up.
21.5.1955: Hull registry closed “Vessel broken up”.

(Andrew Sack, Yeoman of the Sheets (Midshipman), age 35, b. Geneva, Switzerland – VICTORY
(SB651) killed in action 21 Oct 1805 at Trafalgar)

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S.T. North Ness H11

S.T. North Ness H11
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S.T. Alexandrite H11

S.T. Alexandrite & Lady Beryl
Picture courtesy of Grimsby Reference Library

S.T. Alexandrite H11

S.T. Alexandrite H11
Picture courtesy The Mike Thompson Collection

S.T. North Ness H11

S.T. North Ness H11
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Changelog
03/03/2009: Page published. 4 updates since then.
13/09/2016: Information updated.

S.T. James Lay FD189

Technical

Admiralty Number: 4222
Official Number: 143834
Yard Number: 5
Completed: 1918
As built: 360disp 125.6 x 23.5 x 12.8 feet
Gross Tonnage: 278
Net Tonnage: 121
Length: 125.0 ft
Breadth: 23.5 ft
Depth: 12.7 ft
Built: Fletcher, Son & Fearnall Ltd, Limehouse, London
Engine: 480ihp T.3-cyl by Fraser & Chalmers Ltd, Erith

History

1918: Launched by Fletcher, Son & Fearnall Ltd, Limehouse (Yd.No.5) (“Castle” class) for The Admiralty as JAMES LAY (Ad.No.4222).
4.11.1918: Completed (1-12pdr).
15.11.1919: Registered by The Admiralty at London (Part I) as JAMES LAY O.N.143834.
19.2.1920: Registered by The Admiralty at London (Part IV) (LO333).
1920: Sold to Sir William Beardmore, Bart, Glasgow (Charles Curzon, Milford Haven, manager).
1.1921: Sir William Beardmore, Bart was raised to the peerage in the New Year’s Honours List and became Lord Invernairn of Strathnairn (Charles Curzon, Milford Haven, manager).
24.9.1925: While fishing 50 miles W by S1/2 S from St. Ann’s Head and working round a dahn, struck by THOMAS HANKINS (LO372) on the port side, sustaining damage to after gallows and shell plates.
3.1930: After landing from a Rockall trip, coaled and iced, while laying outside Wyre Dock and prepared for sea, sprang a leak, towed to sandbank and beached. Repaired and returned to service.
1931: Transferred to Hull.
12.1.1932: In thick fog stranded on Filey High Brig. Kedge anchors laid out but attempt to refloat at 7.30 pm failed. Later a southerly gale sprang up and crew evacuated over bow and rocks to safety.
13.1.1932: Two crew and locals returned onboard. At 7.00 am. came afloat without assistance, initially men taken off by lifeboat but crew returned and anchored Filey Bay to check round before proceeding to Hull.
1935: Insured value £5,000.
9.4.1936: Lord Invernairn died. Ownership transferred to his Executors – Alexander B. MacDuff, & Alexander M. Mitchell, Glasgow and Lady Invernairn, Flichity, Inverness.
1938: Sold to Mills Steam Ship Co Ltd, London.
25.7.1939: Insured value £5,000.
9.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (P.No.FY.667) (Hire rate £83.8.0d/month).
19.5.1940: Sailed Harwich (Sk. W. H. Makings RNR) escorted by HM Destroyer JAGUAR (Lt Cdr. J. F. Hine RN)(P.No.F34) and HM Patrol Sloop PUFFIN (Lt Cdr. Earl Beatty RN)(P.No.L52) accompanied by HM M/S Trawlers, CAPE MELVILLE (Ty/Sk. J.E. C. Wright RNR)(P.No.FY651) (H150), GRAMPIAN (Ch. Sk. A. Robb RNR)(P.No.FY546) (H502), MILFORD QUEEN (Ty/Sk. F. Burgess RNR) (P.No.FY615) (M225), MILFORD PRINCESS (Ty/Sk. J. W. Cook RNR)(P.No.FY616) (M228) and PELTON (Sk. J. A. Sutherland DSC RNR)(H288), engaged in Operation Quixote (to creep and cut telephone cables between Lowestoft, Bacton, Mundesley and Borkum and Nordeney, Germany).
28.5.1940: Operation completed.
15.1.1942: Sold to J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood (Geoffrey Edwards Marr, manager) for £8625.
1944: Fitted out for dan laying and assigned to Operation Neptune – Normandy landings.
23.5.1944: Attached to the 15th Minesweeping Flotilla as a dan layer.
3.7.1944: Operation Neptune ended.
10.1944: Returned to owner.
3.1945: Reclassed at Hull.
30.11.1945: Insured value £18,500; for 1946 proposed same.
11.3.1946: Sold to Dinas Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Fleetwood for £19,000. Registered at Fleetwood (FD189).
23.4.1954: Last landing at Fleetwood. 338 boxes 40 baskets, £1382 gross.
5.1954: Sold to Haven Trawlers Ltd, Milford Haven (Robert Lewis, manager).
13.12.1959: Last landing at Milford. Laid up.
1960: Sold to BISCO and allocated to Thos W. Ward Ltd, Sheffield for breaking up.
16.3.1960: Delivered to Briton Ferry under own power from Milford Haven.

(James Lay, Landsman, age 24, b. Peckham, London – VICTORY (SB312))

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S.T. James Lay LO333

S.T. James Lay LO333
Picture courtesy of The James Cullen Collection

S.T. James Lay FD189

S.T. James Lay FD189
Picture courtesy of the JJ Collection

S.T. James Lay LO333

S.T. James Lay LO333
Picture courtesy of The Bill Blow Collection

S.T. James Lay LO333

S.T. James Lay LO333
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S.T. James Lay FD189

S.T. James Lay FD189
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Changelog
29/01/2009: Page published. 6 updates since then.
21/07/2015: Information updated.
25/08/2017: Removed disputed image and FMHT watermarks.
15/02/2021: Updated history and technical details.

S.T. Achroite H81

Technical

Official Number: 163935
Yard Number: 596
Completed: 1934
Gross Tonnage: 314
Net Tonnage: 138
Length: 133.2 ft
Breadth: 24.5 ft
Depth: 12.9 ft
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley
Engine: 154nhp T.3-cyl and boiler by Charles D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
Speed : 11.4 knots

History

Note: Last Fleetwood coal fired trawler to land at the port

23.4.1934: The Board of Kingston Steam Trawling Co Ltd decided to exercise their option with Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd to build two more middle water trawlers to the same design as the Avanturine (Yd.No.542) but with amendments in respect of hull dimensions. Contracts were signed with the shipyard and with Charles D. Holmes & Co Ltd to make the engines and boilers. The price agreed was £13,854 each vessel. The names chosen were Aragonite and Achroite (The last of nine trawlers built to this design and also the last middle water trawler to be built for Kingston).
Total cost for Achroite, with amendments, fishing gear and other equipment £14,808.2.0d.

30.6.1934: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.596) for the Kingston Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull as ACHROITE. (Named by Mrs A. Bird wife of a director of Kingston).
4.8.1934: Registered at Hull (H81).
9.8.1934: Completed trials and accepted, John William Lown, manager.
11.8.1934: Sailed on first trip (Sk. John Stephenson); ten crew.
26.8.1934: Landed (no details).
1938: In Princess Dock, Hull. Boiler fitted with superheater by Charles D. Holmes & Co Ltd at a cost of £1,474.18.5d.
1939: On St. Andrew’s dock slip fitted with bronze propeller and additional lifesaving appliances (carley floats). Cost £274.19.0d.
25.7.1939: Insured value £17,200.
15.8.1939: Sailed for Faroes grounds (Sk. W. Swain).
29.8.1939: Landed 940 kits grossed £764.
30.8.1939: Admiralty telegram advising that ACHROITE would be requisitioned (This left Kingston with only two trawlers AVANTURINE (H197) and EUCLASE (H384) fishing from Hull in armed convoys).
31.8.1939: Requisitioned for war service (Hire rate £188.8.0d/month).
2.9.1939: Sailed Hull for Govan with an RN crew. Fitted out as a minesweeper by Alexander Stephen & Sons Ltd (1-12pdr) (P.No.FY.914).
3.10.1939: Inspected at Troon after reportedly touching bottom in Sound of Islay; no damage found.
1940: Based Peterhead with M/S Group 19 (Sk. G. W. H. Mortlock RNR).
1.1941: Based Grimsby.
1942: Remained at Grimsby (Actg Sk. Lieut J. Stewart RNR).
1942: Mediterranean.
15.1.1945: Arrived West Hartlepool for restoration by F. O. Kindberg (6 months due to shortage of materials and labour).
12.8.1945: Arrived Hull slipped for various work and Special.
20.8.1945: Returned to owner.
21.8.1945: Sailed for North Sea grounds (Sk.W. Swain).
3.9.1945: Landed 791 kits grossed £2,722.
30.11.1945: Insured value £30,000; for 1946 proposed £35,000.
11.8.1949: Sold to J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood (Leslie James Marr, manager) for £35,000 en bloc with IOLITE (H372) for £37,500, total £72500. Fishing from Hull (Geoffrey Edwards Marr, Brough, manager).
29.1.1953: Transferred to Fleetwood.
1956: Geoffrey Alan Marr appointed manager.
11.5.1960: Sold to The Cevic Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Richard Neave, Thornton, manager).
1963: Sold to Haulbowline Industries Ltd, Passage West, Co.Cork.
4.2.1963: On passage Fleetwood-Cork had engine trouble(?) off Coninbeg Light-vessel and put in to Rosslare, Co. Wexford.
6.2.1963: Broke adrift and driven ashore on the Rosslare Strand, 5 miles north-east of Rosslare Light. Eight crew taken off.
10-11.2.1963: In a full storm driven further ashore ending up on beach 2 miles north of Rosslare.
28.3.1963: Hull registry closed “Vessel total loss”.
1963: Wreck sold to P. Roche, Killinick, Co Wexford, stripped of non-ferrous and other usable materials and abandoned.
1986/87: Dispersed by explosives but still visible when sands move.

(Note. Building installment costings:
Shipbuilder
1.6.1934: 1st payment – £3,463.10.0d
11.6.1934: 2nd payment – £3,463.10.0d
6.7.1934: 3rd payment – £3,463.10.0d
19.8.1934: Final – £3,463.10.0d Total – £13,854.0.0d
BOT Fees – £4.15.6d

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S.T. Achroite H81

S.T. Achroite H81
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S.T. Achroite H81

S.T. Achroite H81
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S.T. Achroite H81

S.T. Achroite H81
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S.T. Achroite H81

S.T. Achroite H81
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S.T. Achroite H81

S.T. Achroite H81
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S.T. Achroite H81

S.T. Achroite H81
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Changelog
28/01/2009: Page published. 7 updates since then.
15/01/2017: Removed disputed images.
24/09/201: Removed FMHT watermark from image. Added an image.
15/04/2019: Added a picture.