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S.T. Norse FD72

Additional information courtesy of Christine Simm and David Slinger

Technical

Official Number: 136901
Yard Number: 409
Completed: 1915
Gross Tonnage: 297
Net Tonnage: 125
Length: 135.9 ft
Breadth: 23.1 ft
Depth: 12.4 ft
Built: J. Duthie Torry Shipbuilding Co, Aberdeen
Engine: T.3-cyl by Lidgerwood Ltd, Glasgow

History

1914: Launched by J. Duthie Torry Shipbuilding Co, Aberdeen (Yd.No.409) for The Mersey Steam Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood as NORSE.
23.1.1915: Registered at Fleetwood (FD72). Ernest Taylor, Thornton-le-Fylde designated manager
1.1915: Completed.
2.3.1915: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-12pdr, 1-7.5” A/S Howitzer) (Ad.No.1352). Fitted as Sub-divisional Leader. Based Holyhead.
By 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Fleetwood.
17.9.1920: Sailed Fleetwood for northern fishing grounds (Sk. Robert Wright). At 4.00pm in good weather conditions stranded on Patterson’s Rock between Sanda and Mull of Kintyre. A motor boat from shore took the crew off landing them safely at Southend.
24.9.1920: Reported vessel is in the hands of the insurance company and salvage operations are proceeding.
27.9.1920: Storm interrupted salvage attempt.
3.10.1920: Vessel had broken up and disappeared below surface.
13.10.1920: Fleetwood registry closed.

Note: To the south and east of Kintyre, just off Southend, lies tiny Sanda Island. To the east of Sanda, on the run in to the Kilbrannan Sound, is Paterson’s Rock. Completely submerged at high water the rock has trapped three vessels, one of which was the trawler NORSE, On passage between Glasgow and Northern Ireland, she ran onto the rock in the evening. A local motor boat took the crew off and landed them at Southend. The following day the NORSE was sitting high and dry on the rock at low water but was badly damaged. A tug arrived and, over the next few days, attempted to salvage the vessel. On the 27th, however, the area lived up to its fearsome reputation by brewing a vicious storm which worked the stranded trawler so badly that she began to settle in the water. By the 3rd October she had broken up and disappeared under the surface.

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S.T. Norse FD72

S.T. Norse FD72
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S.T. Norse FD72

S.T. Norse FD72
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Changelog
01/01/2009: Page published. 5 updates since then.
15/11/2016: Picture added.
09/09/2018: Removed FMHT watermark and incorrect image.
18/04/2019: Added an image.
04/06/2021: Updated information.

S.T. Merse FD62

Additional information courtesy of Ian Wilson

Technical

Official Number: 136899
Yard Number: 408
Completed: 1914
Gross Tonnage: 296
Net Tonnage: 124
Length: 135.8 ft
Breadth: 23.1 ft
Depth: 12.3 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Lidgerwood Ltd, Glasgow
Built: J. Duthie Torry Shipbuilding Co, Aberdeen

History

1914: Launched by J. Duthie Torry Shipbuilding Co, Aberdeen (Yd.No.408) for Mersey Steam Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood as MERSE.
17.12.1914: Registered at Fleetwood (FD62).
12.1914: Completed (Joseph A. Taylor, manager).
20.2.1915: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-12pdr) (Ad.No.980). Fitted as Leader.
22.5.1917: Sailed Clyde as escort for HMS RAMILLIES under tow for the Mersey with stern casting, rudder and shell plate damage aft sustained at launch and subsequent groundings in the Clyde. At 2.30 pm. when passing through the Cumbraes, mined off Garroch Head, Bute (Mine laid by U-boat (UC65) on 30.4.1917).
26.7.1917: Fleetwood registry closed “Lost on Admiralty service”.

(Lost – Ty/Lieut. Robert E.A. Fox RNR; Ty/Sk. Frederick R. Becket RNR; Alexander Flett, 2nd Hand; Cuthbert Price & David Ross, Enginemen; Alexander Mackay. Ldg Seaman; Edgar Dennis, AB; Edward M. Hulan, seaman (Newfoundland RNR); Thomas W. Owens, telegraphist; John C. Curl, O/telegraphist; William Corlett, John Higgins, John Jones, John Roberts, deckhands; Richard Roberts, George Stanton, trimmers; William A. Shoebottom, trimmer/cook.)

Changelog
27/12/2008: Page published. 4 updates since then.

S.T. Lysander II FD352

Technical

Official Number: 118794
Yard Number: 38
Completed: 1903
Gross Tonnage: 264
Net Tonnage: 96
Length: 130 ft
Breadth: 22 ft
Depth: 12.1 ft
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Beverley
Engine: 78nhp T.3-cyl by Amos & Smith Ltd, Hull

History

10.10.1903: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Beverley (Yd.No.38) for Hellyer’s Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull as LYSANDER.
21.12.1903: Registered at Hull (H800). Charles Hellyer designated manager.
12.1903: Completed.
8.1914: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (2-6pdrs) (Ad.No.255).
2.1915: Renamed LYSANDER II.
17.4.1915: Registered at Hull as LYSANDER II (H800).
9.11.1917: Sold to The Mersey Steam Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood. Ernest Taylor designated manager. Based Granton.
Post 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Fleetwood.
3.11.1919: Hull registry closed.
4.11.1919: Registered at Fleetwood (FD352).
1922: Joseph A. Taylor & Harold Taylor designated managers.
1924: Walter J. Morley designated manager.
22.4.1925: Company in voluntary Liquidation. William Ignatius Swarbrick, Chartered Accountant, Preston appointed Liquidator.
7.7.1925: Sold by the liquidator to Magnolia Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Arthur M. Goldsmith, Manchester). Rowland Morrice designated manager.
16.7.1925: The Mersey Steam Trawlers Ltd wound-up.
25.5.1926: Registered at Fleetwood as SYDNELSIE (FD352).
1927: Sold to Reginald L. Hancock, Milford Haven. Reginald L. Hancock designated managing owner.
25.6.1935: Fishing off SW Ireland (Sk. Joe Watts). Struck rocks off the Blasket Islands, Co.Kerry.
28.6.1935: Came off rocks and sank; crew abandoned in boat and picked up by a Dingle trawler.
3.7.1935: Fleetwood registry closed “Total loss”.
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S.T. Lysander H800

S.T. Lysander H800
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Changelog
26/12/2008: Page published. 4 revisions since them.
04/09/2014: Picture added.
17/05/2021: Updated history.

S.T. Hibernia FD354

Additional information courtesy of Mike Thompson, Andy Hall and
Milford Trawlers

Technical

Official Number: 123803
Yard Number: 801
Completed: 1907
Gross Tonnage: 216.49
Net Tonnage: 82
Length: 117.5 ft
Breadth: 21.5 ft
Depth: 11.5 ft
Built: Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, North Shields
Engine: T.3-cyl by MacColl & Pollock Ltd, Sunderland

History

1.2.1907: Launched by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, North Shields (Yd.No.801) for Welsh Trawling Co (64/64), Milford Haven as HIBERNIA.
3.1907: Completed.
14.3.1907: Registered at London (LO266). George H. D. Birt designated manager.
By 1912: Sold to George H. D. Birt (64/64), Milford Haven. George H. D. Birt designated managing owner.
20.5.1912: Alongside at Milford. Thomas John, Herbrandston, working onboard, in passing winch which was in motion, jacket caught in barrel. William Hancock who was nearby quickly responded and stopped winch before John was wound round. John was unconscious and suffered a wound over his left eye and other injuries.
4.1913: Along with BRITANNIA (LO271) inspected by Dutch principals with a view to purchase. In the event only BRITANNIA was sold.
1.1.1914: Tonnage altered to 82.29 net under provision of Merchant Shipping Act 1907.
8.1914: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-6pdr HA) (Ad.No.141).
1914: Based Portsmouth.
5.1915: Renamed HIBERNIA II.
30.7.1917: Sold to The Mersey Steam Trawlers Ltd (64/64), Fleetwood. Ernest Taylor designated manager. Based Portsmouth.
Post 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Fleetwood and reverted to HIBERNIA (LO266).
3.11.1919: London registry closed.
6.11.1919: Registered at Fleetwood (FD354).
1922: Joseph A. Taylor & Harold Taylor designated managers.
1924: Walter Morley designated manager.
22.4.1925: Company in voluntary Liquidation. William Ignatius Swarbrick, Chartered Accountant, Preston appointed Liquidator.
7.7.1925: Sold by the liquidator to Walter Henry Utley Morley (64/64), Fleetwood. Walter Morley, designated manager.
16.7.1925: The Mersey Steam Trawlers Ltd wound-up.
03.12.1926: While fishing off the Isle of Man in a strong NE gale responded to distress rocket and found steam trawler EMPORER (H741) disabled with engine trouble and drifting. Owing to the darkness and the sea state it was not possible to approach to communicate and stood by until daylight when, with a moderation in the weather, closed and connected.
4.12.1926: Delivered Fleetwood.
13.11.1929: Sold to Mrs Cicely Blanche Morley & Arthur Sharp, both Fleetwood (64/64 joint owners). Walter H. U. Morley designated manager.
25.7.1930: Sold to Oceanic Trading Corporation (Fleetwood) Ltd, Fleetwood. Walter H. U. Morley designated manager.
11.10.1930: Put into Douglas, IoM with damage to starboard bow having been in collision in Ramsey Bay with Fleetwood steam trawler ERNESTA (FD193). Temporary repairs carried out.
30.10.1934: Sold to Mrs Cicely Blanche Morley (64/64), Fleetwood. Walter H. U. Morley designated manager.
12.3.1935: Sold to William Walkington (64/64), Fleetwood. William Walkington designated managing owner.
28.5.1935: Sold to The Hewett Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), London. Robert S. Hewett designated manager.
2.6.1937: Fleetwood registry closed. Sold to Germany for breaking up.
1938: Breaking up completed.

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S.T. Hibernia FD354

S.T. Hibernia FD354
Picture courtesy of The Fred Baker Collection

Changelog
22/12/2008: Page published. 3 updates since then.
27/05/2017: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
03/10/2018: Information updated.
07/01/2021: Updated history.

S.T. Hermia FD92

Additional material courtesy of Bill Blow and Jan Harteveld

Technical

Official Number: 110950
Yard Number: 38
Completed: 1900
Gross Tonnage: 216.40
Net Tonnage: 61.26
Length: 120.0 ft
Breadth: 21.7 ft
Depth: 11.0 ft
Built: Menzies & Co Ltd, Inverkeithing
Engine: 400ihp T.3-cyl by Shanks, Anderson & Co, Glasgow
Boiler: James Neilson & Son Ltd, Glasgow

History

4.1900: Completed by Menzies & Co Ltd, Inverkeithing (Yd.No.38) as a liner for The Rushworth Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby as HERNIA.
27.4.1900: Registered at Grimsby (GY1153).
30.4.1900: John Edward Rushworth designated manager.
5.5.1900: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to The Lincoln & Lindsey Banking Co Ltd, Lincoln (A).
24.11.1905: When about 200 miles NNW from Hoy Head, Orkney (Sk. G. H. Turner), shipped a heavy sea and Samuel Robbins (36), AB, Grimsby was washed
overboard and drowned.
11.3.1909: Mortgage (A) transferred to Stamford, Spalding & Boston Banking Co Ltd, Grimsby.
21.8.1912: Mortgage (A) transferred to Barclay & Co Ltd, London.
1914: New boiler fitted made by Riley Bros (Boilermakers) Ltd, Stockton-on-Tees.
5.5.1915: Alteration of tonnage to 210.18g 82.60n. Certificate of Survey dated Grimsby 3.5.1915.
6.1915: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-6pdr HA) (Ad.No.855). Based Humber as patrol & escort vessel.
7.2.1917: Mortagee re-styled Barclays Bank Ltd, London.
27.10.1917: Mortgage (A) discharged.
27.10.1917: Sold to The Mersey Steam Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood.
29.10.1917: Ernest Taylor designated manager.
31.10.1917: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to The Manchester & Liverpool District Banking Co Ltd, Manchester (B).
11.12.1918: Left Immingham for return to owner.
11.3.1919: Grimsby registry closed.
12.3.1919: Registered at Fleetwood (FD92).
1922: Joseph A. & H. Taylor designated managers.
1924: Walter J. Morley designated manager.
1925: Sold by order of the mortgagee under mortgage (B) to Walter Henry Utley Morley, Fleetwood. Walter Morley designated manager.
22.4.1925: The Mersey Steam Trawlers Ltd in voluntary Liquidation. William Ignatius Swarbrick, Chartered Accountant, Preston appointed Liquidator.
16.7.1925: The Mersey Steam Trawlers Ltd wound-up.
1929: Sold to N.V. Visscherij Maatschappij “De Daad”, IJmuiden.
5.3.1929: Fleetwood registry closed.
3.1929: Registered at IJmuiden as PROTINUS (IJM85).
1933: Reederij Fa. Erenst & Weimar designated managers.
1937: F. J. F. Erenst designated manager.
20.3.1940: On a trip in North Sea (Sk.Klaas Wijker); eleven crew. When fishing westward of the Danish/Norwegian coast, bombed by German Heinkel He111 aircraft, skipper and deckhand lost their lives. Crew with two seriously wounded took to boat and stood off as trawler foundered possibly in or near position 57.14N 4.11E.
25.3.1940: Sighted and picked up by HMS/M UNITY having drifted for five days during which the two seriously ill men died. On landing, possibly at Blyth, two other crewmen who had suffered severe frostbite had legs amputated. IJmuuiden registry closed – lost by enemy action.

Note. At the time of this incident The Netherlands had yet to join in the war.

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S.T. Protinus IJM85

S.T. Protinus IJM85
Picture courtesy of George Westwood

Changelog
22/12/2008: Page published. 4 updates since then.
08/10/2020: Updated history.