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S.T. India (2) GY570

In Parkes (Fleetwood) ownership. Did not fish from the port.
Additional material courtesy of Dave Todd

Technical

Official Number: 99720
Yard Number: 98
Completed: 1894
Gross Tonnage: 171
Net Tonnage: 77
Length: 105.9 ft
Breadth: 21.0 ft
Depth: 11.5 ft
Built: Cochrane & Cooper, Beverley
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull

History

23.1.1894: Launched as a liner by Cochrane & Cooper, Beverley (Yd.No.98) for The International Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Grimsby as INDIA.
10.2.1894: Registered at Grimsby (GY570). Completed (George Doughty, Waltham Hall, manager).
21.3.1894: Mortgaged to The Hull Banking Co Ltd, Kingston upon Hull (A).
1.1.1895: Mortgage (A) transferred to The York City & County Banking Co Ltd, York.
27.5.1895: Mortgaged to The York City & County Banking Co Ltd, York (B).
30.5.1895: Mortgage (A) discharged.
31.12.1895: Mortgaged to The Law Guarantee & Trust Society Ltd, London (C).
8.1.1896: Mortgaged to The York City & County Banking Co Ltd, York (D).
8.1.1896: Mortgage (B) discharged.
30.6.1898: Sold to The North Eastern Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby (George Doughty, manager).
30.6.1898: Mortgaged to The Law Guarantee & Trust Society Ltd, London @ 4% (E).
5.7.1898: Mortgages (C) & (D) discharged.
4.1899: On an Icelandic lining trip. Captured by gunboat for alleged illegal fishing in Icelandic waters. Skipper fined £20.
1900: Lengthened to 115.6 ft – re measured 190g 93n.
31.12.1908: Mortgage (E) discharged.
31.12.1908: Mortgaged to The Law Guarantee Trust & Accident Society Ltd, London.
1.1914: The Law Guarantee Trust & Accident Society Ltd, London in liquidation.
26.1.1914: Mortgage (E) discharged.
11.1919: The North Eastern Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby (Henry Morris, manager) in voluntary liquidation.
29.11.1919: Sold to Thomas W. Baskcomb, Grimsby (managing owner).
1.12.1919: Mortgaged to Barclays Bank Ltd, London (F).
30.1.1935: Mortgaged (F) discharged.
22.10.1935: Fleet of Thomas W. Baskcomb sold to Fred Parkes, Fleetwood. Registered owner remained Thomas W. Baskcomb.
1937: Sold for breaking up.
18.3.1937: Grimsby registry closed. “Sold for breaking up”.

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S.T. India GY570

S.T. India GY570
Berthed outboard of S.T. Cuckoo
Picture courtesy The George Westwood Collection

Changelog

14/04/2011: Page published. 7 updates since then.
22/11/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
23/01/2021: Updated history.

S.T. King Charles LT157

Technical

Official Number: 110880
Yard Number: 1
Completed: 1899
Gross Tonnage: 159
Net Tonnage: 70
Length: 105.7 ft
Breadth: 21.1 ft
Depth: 10.7 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Muir & Houston Ltd
Built: Schofield, Hagerup & Doughty Ltd, Grimsby

History

1899: Launched by Schofield, Hagerup & Doughty Ltd, Grimsby (Yd.No.1) for Monarch Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby as KING ARTHUR.
3.5.1899: Registered at Grimsby (GY11).
5.1899: Completed (Frederick E. Hagerup, manager).
4.1906: Transferred to Consolidated Steam Fishing & Ice Co (Grimsby) Ltd, Grimsby (John D. Marsden, manager) on the formation of the company.
6.1915: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-3pdr) (Ad.No.3354). Based Aegean Sea.
By 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Grimsby.
1.1925: Transferred to Lowestoft.
8.1.1925: Grimsby registry closed.
9.1.1915: Registered at Lowestoft (LT157).
29.6.1927: Owners re-styled Consolidated Fisheries Ltd, Grimsby (Sir John D. Marsden, Bart, manager).
6.10.1927: Registered at Lowestoft as KING CHARLES (LT157).
1941: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Basil A. Parkes, Cleveleys, manager).
1943: Sold to Partnership (Hull) Ltd, Hull (Kenneth Percival, manager).
1944: Sold to Ocean Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull (J. W. Rose, manager).
1944: Sold to Partnership (Hull) Ltd, Hull (Kenneth Percival, manager).
1945: Sold to Mostyn & Willey Ltd, Watford (Hyman Mostyn, manager).
1946: Sold to Alan Percival, Blackpool.
1947: Sold to Partnership (Hull) Ltd, Hull (Kenneth Percival, manager).
1950: Sold for breaking up in Belgium. Lowestoft registry closed.

Changelog
31/03/2011: Page published. 3 updates since then.
19/03/2021: Updated history and technical details.

S.D/T. Lord Barham LT211 (Seasonal)

Additional material courtesy of Barry Banham

Technical

Official Number: 145818
Yard Number: 955
Completed: 1925
Gross Tonnage: 92
Net Tonnage: 42
Length: 85.0 ft
Breadth: 18.5 ft
Depth: 9 ft
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby
Engine: T.3-cyl by Crabtree & Co Ltd, Gt. Yarmouth
Boiler: Riley Brothers (Boilermakers) Ltd, Stockton on Tees

History

25.2.1925: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.955) for Lowestoft Steam Herring Drifters Co Ltd, Lowestoft as LORD BARHAM.
11.5.1925: Completed (Harold B. Jackson, manager).
12.5.1925: Registered at Lowestoft (LT211).
1930s: Seasonal trawling from Padstow, Milford and Fleetwood (Lowestoft Fish Selling Co Ltd, Lowestoft, managing agents).
15.11.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeping drifter (P.No.FY.929) (Hire rate £40.9.7d/month). Based Gt. Yarmouth.
30.5.1940: Sailed Gt. Yarmouth with twelve other drifters for Ramsgate.
26.5.1940: At 6.57pm. ‘Operation Dynamo’ (Dunkirk evacuation) put into effect.
31.5.1940: Sailed Ramsgate for Dunkirk.
1.7.1940: Arrived Ramsgate with 186 troops.
2.7.1940: Arrived Ramsgate with 188 troops.
4.6.1940: ‘Operation Dynamo’ terminated.
1942: Based Aberdeen as LL drifter.
21.9.1943: Sold to Saint Andrew’s Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull (Basil A. Parkes, Cleveleys, manager) when Basil Parkes bought most of Lowestoft Steam Herring Drifters Co Ltd better vessels.
12.1944: Employed on miscellaneous Naval duties.
10.1945: Returned to owner (Maj. A. W. Suddaby MBE, Gorleston, manager).
1946: Sold under U.N.R.&R. Scheme and loaned to Poland (“Dalmor” Przedsiebiorstwo Polowow Dalekomorskich Sp.z.ogr.odp, Gdynia).
27.12.1946: Lowestoft registry closed.
1.1947: Registered at Gdynia as ARRADIUSZ (GDY110). Trawling from Gt. Yarmouth with local skippers.
30.5.1949: Sold to Arthur W. Eastoe, Ronald C. Cook & Richard H. Gouldby, Lowestoft and John Odde, East Molesey (Edward George Catchpole, manager). Gdynia registry closed.
5.1949: Registered at Lowestoft as LORD BARHAM (LT55).
23.8.1955: Sold to Arthur W. Eastoe & Ronald C. Cook, Lowestoft (Edward George Catchpole, manager).
1960: Sold to H. P. Heuvelmen NV, Krimpen aan den IJssel for breaking up.
13.6.1960: Lowestoft registry closed.
2.7.1960: Arrived Krimpen aan den IJssel.

Changelog
18/03/2011: Page published. 2 updates since then.
22/04/2021: Updated information.

S.D/T. Blue Haze LT564 (Seasonal)

Additional information courtesy of Barry Banham

Technical

Admiralty Number: 4144
Official Number: 139988
Yard Number: 8
Completed: 1919
Gross Tonnage: 97
Net Tonnage: 41
Length: 86.2 ft
Breadth: 18.5 ft
Depth: 9.3 ft
Built: J. W. Brooke & Co Ltd, Oulton Broad, Lowestoft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Urquhart, Lindsay & Robertson, Orchar Ltd, Dundee
Boiler: Great Central Co-operative Engineering & Ship Repairing Co Ltd, Grimsby

History

1919: Launched by J. W. Brooke & Co Ltd, Oulton Broad, Lowestoft (Yd.No.8) (“Admiralty drifter”) for The Admiralty as BLUE HAZE (Ad.No.4144).
5.2.1919: Forms for tender to purchase received by the Admiralty.
6.6.1919: Completed as a fishing vessel.
14.7.1919: Sold to Bertha Agusta Richards & Charles Aleyn Jordan, Lowestoft.
10.9.1919: Registered at Lowestoft (Part I & VI) as BLUE HAZE O.N.139988 (LT564).
4.10.1919: Off Dungeness in fog, in collision with Cardiff steamer MANIN II.
13.12.1919: Sold to Viking Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Lowestoft. James Pye designated manager.
20.8.1924: Sold to James Pye & Robert J. Read, Lowestoft (joint owners).
19.2.1925: Sold to Seven Ltd, Lowestoft. James Pye designated manager.
1930s: Seasonal trawling from Fleetwood (Lowestoft Fish Selling Co Ltd, Lowestoft, managing agents).
1940: Re-possessed by bank and laid up at Lowestoft.
5.1940: Hire negotiated with The Admiralty by Basil Parkes, Fleetwood.
18.5.1940: Requisitioned for war service on miscellaneous Naval duties (P.No.FY.1757) (Hire rate £32.0.0d/month).
22.5.1940: Sold to Fred Parkes, Blackpool.
1.7.1940: Sold to North Shore Fishing Co Ltd, Fleetwood. Basil Arthur Parkes, Cleveleys designated manager.
11.1940: Based Anstruther as a TRV.
4.2.1946: Laid up.
8.2.1946: Returned to owner. Laid up.
7.2.1949: Sold to Bisset Buchan Coull, Peterhead.
2.9.1949: Registered at Peterhead as LILIUM (PD67).
5.9.1949: Lowestoft registry closed.
1953: Sold to Sophia McL. Coull, Peterhead.
1955: Sold to John Cameron, Peterhead for breaking up. John Cameron designated managing owner.
12.1956: Still listed in MNL ie. Certificates not returned and cancelled.
Changelog

06/01/2011: Page published. 2 updates since then.
07/09/2019: Updated information.

S.D/T. Lord Suffolk LT44 (Seasonal)

Additional information courtesy of Milford Trawlers

Technical

Official Number: 149219
Yard Number: 577
Completed: 1929
Gross Tonnage: 115
Net Tonnage: 48
Length: 92.0 ft
Breadth: 20.1 ft
Depth: 8.0 ft
Built: John Chambers & Co Ltd, Lowestoft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Wm. Burrell & Co, Gt. Yarmouth

History

1929: Launched by John Chambers & Co Ltd, Lowestoft (Yd.No.577) for Lowestoft Steam Herring Drifters Co Ltd, Lowestoft as LORD SUFFOLK.
6.1929: Completed (Harold B. Jackson, manager).
21.6.1929: Registered at Lowestoft (LT44).
6.12.1929: In North Sea, with steam drifter BOY ALAN (LT331), stood by disabled Spanish steamer until tugs arrived from Hull.
1930s: Seasonal trawling from Padstow, Milford and Fleetwood (Lowestoft Fish Selling Co Ltd, Lowestoft, managing agents).
9.8.1938: Off Milford Haven disabled, steam drifter LORD St. VINCENT (LT79) connected and delivered Milford.
18.11.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeping drifter (P.No.FY.1600) (Hire rate £61.13.4d/month). Renamed BANSHEE.
21.9.1943: Sold to Saint Andrew’s Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull (B. A. Parkes, Cleveleys, manager) when Basil Parkes bought most of Lowestoft Steam Herring Drifters Ltd better vessels.
25.1.1946: Returned to owner (Maj. A. W. Suddaby MBE, Gorleston, manager). Reverted to LORD SUFFOLK (LT44).
1946: Sold to J. C. Llewellin (Trawlers) Ltd, Milford Haven.
1947: Sold to Norrard Trawlers Ltd, Milford Haven (Frederick W. Ingram, manager).
1959: Converted to motor and fitted with 4 stroke 5-cyl 335bhp oil engine by Mirrlees, Bickerton & Day Ltd, Stockport.
1959: Re measured 120g.
21.4.1966: Off Tuscar Rock (S. Arthur James) took onboard three crew of leaking 50ft yacht, REINDEER on delivery voyage, South Coast – Glasgow. Connected and commenced tow for Rosslare, Co. Wexford but yacht foundered. Survivors landed at Rosslare.
1969: Laid up at Milford.
1970: Sold to Kilvey Trawling Co Ltd, Swansea. Fishing out of Milford.
30.3.1971: Fishing 25 miles off Wicklow Head (Sk. K. Jenkins), disabled with wire round propeller. Towed into Wicklow harbour, Co. Wicklow.
16.3.1972: Inward in Milford Haven in the early hours with very thick fog (Sk. Jack Clarke) ran into partially built Amoco jetty and became jammed on rising tide. Conservancy Board alerted and vessel freed by Wimpey tug SKOMER. Berthed at Milford with extensive damage to fore end, deck, guardrails, main and mizzen masts.
1976: Sold for breaking up.

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S.D/T. Lord Suffolk LT44

S.D/T. Lord Suffolk LT44
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S.D/T. Lord Suffolk LT44

S.D/T. Lord Suffolk LT44
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Changelog
25/10/2010: Page published. 3 updates since then.
31/01/2017: Image added.
06/11/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
03/05/2021: Updated history.