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S.T. Cormorant GY345

Technical

Official Number: 108474
Yard Number: 181
Completed: 1897
Gross Tonnage: 162
Net Tonnage: 69
Length: 100.0 ft
Breadth: 20.5 ft
Depth: 11.0 ft
Built: Cochrane & Cooper, Beverley
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co, Hull

History

14.4.1897: Launched by Cochrane & Cooper, Beverley (Yd.No.181) for Thomas Baskcomb (22/64); Henry Lewis Taylor (21/64) & Thomas William Baskcomb (21/64), Grimsby as CORMORANT.
4.6.1897: Completed (Thomas Baskcomb, managing owner).
5.6.1897: Registered at Grimsby (GY345).
5.6.1897: All shares mortgaged to The York City & County Bank Co Ltd, York (A).
21.4.1898: Mortgaged (A) transferred to William Nainby, Grimsby (B).
11.2.1907: Mortgage (B) transferred to Thomas Baskcomb (64/64), Grimsby.
25.2.1908: Sold to Thomas William Baskcomb (64/64), Grimsby (managing owner).
19.3.1908: Mortgage to The City of York & County Banking Co Ltd, York (C).
14.9.1910: Sold to Alick Black (60/64) & Rowland Hill (4/64), Grimsby.
15.9.1910: Mortgage (C) discharged.
19.9.1910: Alick Black appointed managing owner.
7.11.1910: Shares (12/64) sold by Alick Black (48/64) to Rowland Hill (16/64).
25.1.1911: Alick Black (48/64) shares mortgaged to London City & Midland Bank Ltd, London (D).
1913: Fishing from Fleetwood.
27.5.1914: Mortgage (D) discharged.
28.5.1914: Sold to The Savoy Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby (Henry Croft Baker, manager).
30.6.1914: Mortgaged to London City & Midland Bank Ltd, London (E).
11.1914: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-6pdr HA)(Ad.No.831).
12.1915: Registered at Grimsby as Cormorant IV (GY345)
1917: Fitted out as a “Q” ship (1-6pdr). Renamed NADINE. Based Larne.
1.10.1918: Mortgagee re-styld London Joint City & Midland Bank Ltd, London.
By 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Grimsby.
27.2.1920: Mortgage (E) discharged. 28.2.1920: Sold to Roulette Steam Drifter, Trawler & Fishing Co Ltd, North Shields (John Cook Patterson, manager).
3.3.1920: Grimsby registry closed.
4.3.1920: Registered at North Shields (SN376).
9.1922: Sold to William J. Allen, Grimsby & William Lambert, Cleethorpes (Harold A. Jeffries, manager).
14.9.1922: North Shields registry closed.
12.10.1922: Registered at Grimsby (GY126).
13.11.1922: Registered at Grimsby as ADRIAN (GY126).
11.1924: Sold to Consolidated Steam Fishing & Ice Co (Grimsby) Ltd, Grimsby (Sir John D. Marsden, Bart, manager).
9.12.1924: Transferred to Lowestoft.
30.12.1924: Grimsby registry closed.
31.12.1924: Registered at Lowestoft (LT114).
29.6.1927: Owners re-styled Consolidated Fisheries Ltd, Grimsby (Sir John D. Marsden, Bart, manager).
1953: Sold to BISCO and allocated to J. J. King & Co Ltd, Gateshead for breaking up.
30.4.1953: Sailed Lowestoft for the Tyne towing steam trawler OSTRICH (LT107) also for breaking up.
5.1953: Lowestoft registry closed.

Changelog
20/05/2012: Page published. 4 updates since then.
03/02/2020: Information updated.

S.T. Commander Holbrook H223

Technical

Official Number: 136225
Yard Number: 168
Completed: 1915
Gross Tonnage: 227
Net Tonnage: 93
Length: 112.2 ft
Breadth: 22.6 ft
Depth: 12.5 ft
Built: Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co Ltd, Goole
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by Amos & Smith Ltd, Hull

History

1.1915: Completed by Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co Ltd, Goole (Yd.No.168) for Eastern Fishing Co Ltd, Hull as COMMANDER HOLBROOK.
18.1.1915: Registered at Hull (H223). Hugh G. Chapman designated manager.
29.5.1917: Requisitioned for Fishery Reserve.
By 11.8.1917: Fitted 1-6pdr LA.
1919: Released (Hugh G. Chapman, manager).
1923: Owners restyled Eastern Fishing Co (1923) Ltd, Hull. Hugh G. Chapman designated manager.
25.7.1939: Insured value £2,900.
25.8.1939: Insured value increased to £3,900.
11.6.1940: At Hull last landing before requisitioning. Iceland trip, 18 days – 922kits £1,884 gross.
11.6.1940: Requisitioned for war service as an auxiliary patrol vessel .
12.6.1940: Hire rate £62.8.6d/month.
12.6.1940 – 4.1941: Based Ramsgate – Dover Patrol.
2.12.1940: Ty.Sk. W. H. Thundercliffe RNR appointed CO.
3.1941: At London repairs.
5.1941: Based Dover – Patrol.
6.1941 – 7.1941: Based Lowestoft – Patrol.
7.1941: Repairs Lowestoft.
8.1941 – 11.1941: Based Lowestoft with M/S7.
1.8.1941: Chief Sk. Albert Stanley Victor Jones RNR appointed CO.
12.11.1941: On patrol off the Norfolk coast (Chief Sk. A. S. V. Jones RNR) in company with HMT FRANCOLIN (Sk. Lieut. J. L. Dinwoodie RNR). When some two miles off Happisburgh Lighthouse attacked by Dornier 217 E-2, engaged when running in to attack and damaged aircraft which released bomb and then struck mast of FRANCOLIN crashing into sea; no survivors. FRANCOLIN struck by bomb and foundered with loss of one crew member.
12.1941 – 6.1942: At Hull fitted out as a minesweeper (P.No.FY.111).
8.5.1942: Sk. G. H. Smith RNR appointed CO.
7.1942 – 6.1943: Based Dover (Ungrouped) as a minesweeper.
7.1942: At Port Edgar.
7.1943 – 3.1944: Based Belfast (LL sweeps).
7.1.1944: Sk. J. Ball appointed CO.
4.1944 – 4.1945: Based London (LL sweeps).
21.8.1944: Sk. S. S. Young RNR appointed CO.
1945: Reclassed at South Shields.
11.1945: Returned to owner at Hull.
30.11.1945: Insured value £16,000; for 1946 same.
By 31 8.1946: Sold to Argosy Trawling Co Ltd, Fleetwood. William Stevenson, St. Anne’s-on-the-Sea designated manager.
1946: Transferred to fish out of Fleetwood.
By 31.8.1948: Sold to Odafoam Ltd, Liverpool. William Stevenson, St. Anne’s-on-the-Sea designated manager.
27.9.1949: One of five trawlers that went aground in the Wyre Channel in thick fog when outward for the fishing grounds. Refloated next tide and proceeded.
14.10.1949: Landed 137 kits, £438 gross.
3.1950: Sold to Alexander Hay, Grampian Fishing Co Ltd & Port? Small? Fishing Co Ltd, Aberdeen.
6.1950: Hull registry closed.
6.6.1950: Registered at Aberdeen (A659).
1.7.1950: Registered at Aberdeen as EPHRATAH (A659) (MoT Minute RG No.1154/50 dated 10.6.1950).
1960: Sold to BISCO (£2610) and allocated to Shipbreaking Industries Ltd for breaking up at Charlestown, Fife (Contract No.90E).
22.11.1960: Delivered Charlestown from Aberdeen under own power.
28.3.1962: Breaking up commenced.
16.5.1962: Aberdeen registry closed “Vessel broken up”.

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HMT Commander Holbrook

HMT Commander Holbrook
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S.T. Commander Holbrook H223

S.T. Commander Holbrook H223
Picture courtesy of The Osta Collection

Changelog
20/05/2012: Page published. 7 updates since then.
31/08/2019: Updated information and added an image.
19/01/2021: Updated ownership details.

S.T. Albatross (1) GY279

Additional information courtesy of Bill Blow

Technical

Official Number: 108460
Yard Number: 177
Completed: 1897
Gross Tonnage: 158
Net Tonnage: 66
Length: 100.0 ft
Breadth: 20.5 ft
Depth: 11.2 ft
Engine: 280ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co, Hull
Built: Cochrane & Cooper, Beverley

History

6.3.1897: Launched by Cochrane & Cooper, Beverley (Yd.No.177) for Thomas Baskcomb (22/64), Henry Lewis Taylor (21/64) & Thomas William Baskcomb (21/64), Grimsby as ALBATROSS.
4.1897: Completed.
6.4.1897: Registered at Grimsby (GY279).
6.4.1897: Thomas Baskcomb designated managing owner.
6.4.1897: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to George Jeffs, Grimsby for the sum of £2500 with interest at 51/2% (A).
6.4.1897: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to The York City & County Banking Co Ltd, York (B).
8.4.1898: Mortgage (B) discharged.
5.2.1899: While sheltering in Fuzleford Harbour, Faroe Islands, arrested by Danish gunboat for being in harbour with trawls not stowed. Fined £10. On leaving harbour had machinery defect and returned to harbour. Fined a further £34 with nets and gear confiscated.
3.4.1907; Mortgage (A) transferred to Thomas Baskcomb (64/64), Grimsby.
24.2.1908: Mortgage (A) discharged.
24.4.1908: Thomas Baskcomb shares (22/64) and Henry Lewis Taylor shares (21/64) sold to Thomas William Baskcomb (64/64), Grimsby.
25.2.1908: Thomas William Baskcomb designated managing owner.
17.3.1908: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to The York City & County Banking Co Ltd, York (C).
14.9.1910: Sold to Alick Black (60/64) and Rowland Hill (4/64), Grimsby.
15.9.1910: Alick Black designated managing owner.
15.9.1910: Mortgage (C) discharged.
5.11.1910: Rowland Hill shares (4/64) sold to Alick Black (64/64), Grimsby.
25.1.1911: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to London City & Midland Bank Ltd, London (D).
Pre 1913: Fishing from Fleetwood.
1.1.1914: Tonnage altered to 66.76 net under provision of Merchant Shipping Act 1907.
5.6.1914: Henry Croft Baker appointed manager.
27.5.1914: Mortgage (D) discharged.
28.5.1914: Sold to The Savoy Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
30.6.1914: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to London City & Midland Bank Ltd, London (E).
8.11.1915: Mortgage (E) discharged.
9.11.1915: Sold to John Lawrence Green (64/64), Grimsby.
10.11.1915: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to National Provincial Bank of England Ltd, London (F).
11.11.1915: John Lawrence Green designated managing owner.
24.9.1916: Stopped by U-boat (U57) approx 20 miles E of Flamborough Head and sunk by gunfire.
20.10.1916: Grimsby registry closed “ Vessel sunk in North Sea by German submarine on the 24.9.1916”.

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S.T. Albatross GY229

S.T. Albatross GY279
Picture courtesy of The James Cullen Collection

Changelog
20/05/2012: Page published. 7 updates since then.
01/02/2015: Picture added.
30/06/2017: Removed FMHT watermarks from image.
14/06/2019: Minor update.

S.T. Admiral GY1168

Additional information courtesy of Bill Blow And Granton Trawlers

Technical

Yard Number: 209
Completed: 1897
Gross Tonnage: 188.15
Net Tonnage: 66
Length: 112.7 ft
Breadth: 21.0 ft
Depth: 11.6 ft
Built: Cochrane & Cooper, Beverley
Engine: 320ihp T.3-cyl by Bailey & Leetham, Hull

History

29.9.1897: Launched by Cochrane & Cooper, Beverley (Yd.No.209) for East Coast Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull as as ADMIRAL.
19.10.1897: Registered at Hull (H376). Robert Blades designated manager.
21.10.1897: Completed.
23.5.1899: Arrested by Danish gunboat GRÖNSUND for alleged fishing in Danish territorial waters off Nyminde Gab and escorted into Esbjerg.
4.1900: Sold to West Riding Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby. George William Stennet designated manager.
21.4.1900: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Stamford, Spalding and Boston Banking Co Ltd, Stamford (A).
26.4.1900: Hull registry closed.
27.4.1900: Registered at Grimsby (GY1168).
8.6.1900: Arrested by Danish fishery cruiser HEIMDAL fishing in Icelandic waters and taken into Eskifjordur. In court, Sk. Henry Harris was fined 1,000 kroner and catch and gear confiscated.
1907: Fishing from Fleetwood (Harpley C. Rowe, Fleetwood, manager).
26.9.1906: Mortgage (A) discharged.
26.9.1906: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to The London City & Midland Bank Ltd, London (B).
5.12.1908: At Fleetwood to land but with depressed market ordered back to sea to fish Morecambe Bay and land on 7.1908. Bosun, Oscar Pluskett, given advance to buy tobacco but then declined rejoin and sail. After ship had sailed, Pluskett, who was drunk, went to the office and demanded his “trip” money and when this was declined, threw a ledger through the office window.
8.12.1908: At a special court held at Fleetwood, Oscar Pluskett was charged with disobeying orders. Pluskett stated that he had intended rejoining but whilst in the Fleetwood Arms he had injured his arm and was unfit for work. He was fined 10/- and costs to include the advocate’s fee.
18.1.1909: H. Charles Lowe, Fleetwood designated manager.
19.1.1910: Mortgage (A) discharged.
20.1.1910: Sold to Richard Watson Lewis (64/64), Aberdeen.
22.6.1910: Grimsby registry closed.
22.6.1910: Richard Watson Lewis designated managing owner.
23.6.1910: Registered at Aberdeen (A315).
1911: Sold to Kobe Sanbashi Kabushiki Kaisha, Kobe, Japan (Kobe Pier Co Ltd).
19.10.1911: Aberdeen registry closed “Sold to Foreigners”. Registered at Nishinomiya as DAIGO MARU.
1920: Sold to Hara Shin-ichi, Nishinomiya, Japan.
27.11 (7?).1924: Foundered following collision.

Changelog
20/05/2012: Page published. 5 updates since then.
01/09/2015: Information updated.
16/07/2016: Information updated.
18/03/2017: Added further information.
09/06/2019: Updated information.

S.T. Cyrano GY80

Technical

Official Number: 122699
Yard Number: 347
Completed: 1905
Gross Tonnage: 214
Net Tonnage: 77
Length: 117.0 ft
Breadth: 21.5 ft
Depth: 11.7 ft
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby
Engine: T.3-cyl by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull

History

19.6.1905: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.347) for Alick Black (64/64), Grimsby (managing owner) as Cyrano.
4.8.1905: Registered at Grimsby (GY80).
20.8.1905: Completed. Fishing from Fleetwood.
30.11.1910: Off Lune Buoy at 7.0am. run down by steamer SHAMROCK and badly damaged on starboard quarter; three men injured. Steam trawler MARGARET (FD92) connected and delivered Fleetwood.
4.1914: Sold to The Strand Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby (Henry C. Baker, manager).
6.1915: Requisitioned for war service (Ad.No.1528).
6.1915: Fitted with Hotchkiss 12pdr and mine-sweep.
10.1916: Allocated Unit No.150 ‘Trawler Sweepers‘ based Falmouth to replace Unit No.87 transferred to Havre.
1.10.1918: At Penzance for General Patrol and Escort work.
Post 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Grimsby.
13.8.1919: On a North Sea trip from Grimsby. Missing since this date.
4.10.1919: Grimsby registry closed “Missing”.

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S.T. Cyrano GY80

S.T. Cyrano GY80
Picture courtesy of Bill Blow

Changelog
19/05/2012: Page published. 7 updates since then.
17/02/2020: Updated information.
22/02/2020: Image added.