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S.D/T. George Baker LT1253 (Seasonal)

Technical

Admiralty Number: 4131
Official Number: 137616
Yard Number: 572
Completed: 1919
Gross Tonnage: 96
Net Tonnage: 41
Length: 86.2 ft
Breadth: 18.7 ft
Depth: 9.3 ft
Built: A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen
Engine: T.3-cyl by A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen

History

1919: Launched by A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen (Yd.No.572) ) (“Admiralty drifter”) for The Admiralty as WATERMEET (Ad.No.4131).
16.9.1919: Completed as a fishing vessel.
11.1919: Sold to Edward A. Baker, Gt. Yarmouth (managing owner).
10.11.1919: Registered at Yarmouth as GEORGE BAKER O.N.137616 (YH210).
10.1922: Sold to Robert W. Sillett, Lowestoft (managing owner).
11.10.1922: Yarmouth registry closed.
14.10.1922: Registered at Lowestoft (LT1253).
1927: Sold to John Mitchell, Lowestoft (managing owner).
1930s: Seasonal white fish trawling from Padstow and Fleetwood (William Head, managing agent).
27.8.1939: Requisitioned for war service on port duties (Hire rate £32.16.0d/month). Renamed SKIRMISHER.
1940: Registered at Lowestoft as GEORGE BAKER (LT1253).
2.1944: Employed on miscellaneous Naval duties.
1943: Sold to Saint Andrew’s Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull (Basil A. Parkes, manager).
23.10.1945: Returned to owner.
1947: Sold to Carry On Fishing Co Ltd, Lowestoft (Maj. A. W. Suddaby MBE, Gorleston, manager).
10.1955: Sold to Jacques Bakker en Zonen, Bruges for breaking up.
14.10.1955: Delivered Bruges.
1955: Lowestoft registry closed.

Changelog

21/12/2010: Page published. 2 updates since then.
03/11/2020: Updated history.

S.D/T. Golden Miller LT750

In Boston (Fleetwood) ownership. Did not fish from Fleetwood

Technical

Official Number: 129983
Yard Number: 465
Completed: 1910
Gross Tonnage: 83
Net Tonnage: 35
Length: 83.3 ft
Breadth: 18.2 ft
Depth: 8.9 ft
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby
Engine: T.3-cyl by Crabtree & Co, Gt. Yarmouth
Boiler: Riley Brothers (Boilermakers) Ltd, Stockton on Tees

History

11.5.1910: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.465) for Samuel Thacker, Kessingland as SUPERNAL.
7.1910: Completed.
8.7.1910: Registered at Lowestoft (LT750). Samuel Thacker designated managing owner.
1915 Requisitioned for war service as an A/S net drifter (Ad.No.3244). Based Aegean Sea.
Post 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Lowestoft (S. Thacker, Kessingland).
13.1.1920: Sold to Samuel Urban Thacker (32/64) & William Israel Thacker 32/54), Kessingland.
22.3.1920: Sold to Samuel Thacker (64/64), Kessingland. Fishing on a permanent basis out of Scarborough with full Scarborough crew, exact dates not known.
29.2.1936: Sold to Alan William Utting (32/64), Lowestoft & Alfred William Muttit (32/64), Kessingland. John Utting designated manager.
31.3.1936: Registered at Lowestoft as GOLDEN MILLER (LT750).
29.11.1939: Requisitioned for war service and employed on contraband control (Hire rate £25.0.0d/month).
12.9.1945: Returned.
23.3.1952: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood. Basil Arthur Parkes, North Ferriby designated manager. Continued to fish from Lowestoft.
30.11.1955: Transferred to Boston Deep Sea Fisheries Ltd, Fleetwood.
1.1956: Sold to BISCO and allocated to Shipbreaking Industries Ltd for breaking up at Charlestown, Fife (Contract No.93D).
12.1.1956: Sailed Lowestoft for River Forth.
28.1.1956: Delivered Charlestown.
2.1956: Breaking up commenced.
12.6.1957: Lowestoft registry closed.

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HMD Golden Miller

HMD Golden Miller
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Changelog

18/12/2010: Page published. 3 updates since then.
04/11/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
03/12/2020: Updated history.

S.D/T. Glow LT668

Additional material courtesy of Barry Banham

Technical

Admiralty Number: 3980
Official Number: 146042
Yard Number: 557
Completed: 1918
Gross Tonnage: 96
Net Tonnage: 41
Length: 86.2 ft
Breadth: 18.7 ft
Depth: 9.3 ft
Built: A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen
Engine: T.3-cyl by A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen

History

1918: Launched by A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen (Yd.No.557) (“Admiralty drifter”) for The Admiralty as GLOW.
21.11.1918: Completed as a minesweeper (Ad.No.3980).
13.11.1919: Transferred to Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries, London.
5.2.1920: Registered at Lowestoft (Part IV) as Glow (LT668) and engaged in commercial fishing.
2.9.1920: Assisted into Lowestoft Boulogne steam trawler LILLOIS (B??) disabled after boiler explosion at sea in which two men were killed and two injured.
6.7.1921: Lowestoft registry closed at request of The Admiralty.
30.7.1921: Registered by The Admiralty at London (Part I) as GLOW (No.399 of 1921) O.N.146042.
8.1921: Sold to William Robbens & Sons Ltd, Lowestoft (William Robbens, manager).
8.1921: London registry closed.
26.8.1921: Lowestoft registry re-opened (LT668).
1.12.1925: In moderate weather off Southwold connected to steam drifter CLACH Na CUDEN (YH361) disabled with machinery problem and delivered Lowestoft.
7.3.1934: Sold to George Hitchim Catchpole, Lowestoft.
2.12.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeping drifter (P.No.FY.964) (Hire rate £32.0.0d/month). Fitted with LL sweep, based at Dundee.
6.1940: At Jarrow (Sk. C. Chamberlain RNR).
5.1943: Employed on miscellaneous Naval duties.
25.11.1943: Sold to North Shore Fishing Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Basil A. Parkes, Cleveleys, manager).
16.11.1945: Returned to owner.
1946: Sold to Norway.
7.10.1946: Lowestoft registry closed.
12.10.1946: Sailed Lowestoft for Norway.

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HMD Glow

HMD Glow
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S.D/T. Glow LT668

S.D/T. Glow LT668
Picture courtesy of The John Baxter Collection

Changelog
13/12/2010: Page published. 3 revisions since then.
12/09/2014: Picture added.
02/11/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from images.
20/11/2020: Updated history.

S.D/T. Comrades LT403 (Seasonal)

Additional material courtesy of Barry Banham

Technical

Official Number: 149213
Yard Number: 1025
Completed: 1928
Gross Tonnage: 114
Net Tonnage: 51
Length: 92.0 ft
Breadth: 19.6 ft
Depth: 9.5 ft
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby
Engine: T.3-cyl by W. Burrell & Co, Gt Yarmouth
Boiler: Riley Bros (Boilermakers) Ltd, Stockton on Tees

History

5.7.1928: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.1025) for Gilbert & Co Ltd, Lowestoft as COMRADES.
8.8.1928: Completed (Arthur George Gilbert, manager).
24.9.1928: Registered at Lowestoft (LT403).
29.9.1928: Trials at Lowestoft. First Skipper H. J. Bryant.
1929 – 1930s: Seasonal white fish trawling from Padstow and Fleetwood (Lowestoft Fish Selling Co Ltd, Lowestoft, managing agents).
15.3.1929: Off Trevose Head lost propeller.
1930: Company in liquidation.
18.3.1930: Sold by liquidator to reconstituted Gilbert & Co Ltd, Lowestoft (Arthur George Gilbert, manager).
13.12.1933: Struck bank at entrance to Lowestoft harbour causing bottom damage.
28.3.1935: Seasonal trawling out of Fleetwood lost propeller.
18.4.1937: Seasonal trawling out of Fleetwood lost propeller.
3.9.1939: Requisitioned for war service on contraband control (1-3pdr) (Hire rate £58.0.0d/month).
1.1941: Based at Weymouth as armed patrol drifter (Ty/Sk. D. T. Buck PNR).
1944: Employed on miscellaneous Naval and port duties.
19.9.1946: Returned to owner.
1950s: Seasonal white fish trawling from Fleetwood.
1955: Re measured after conversion – 118g 49n.
26.7.1955: Completed trials after conversion to motor.
30.7.1955: Converted to motor by L.B.S. Engineering Co Ltd, Lowestoft, fitted with 300bhp 3-cyl A.K.Diesel Ltd, Lowestoft installed by W. H. Podd Ltd, Lowestoft.
30.7.1955: Sailed Lowestoft.
18.8.1955: Re registered at Lowestoft as a motor drifter/trawler (LT403).
7.10.1955: Mortgaged to The White Fish Authority, London (A).
9.5.1961: Mortgage (A) discharged.
4.1964: Company and assets bought by Basil A. Parkes, Hull.
16.4.1964: Frederick Ernest Catchpole appointed manager.
22.3.1967: Sold to Richard Curnow, Helston (32/64) & Capt Silas Victor Oates, Penzance (32/64) (Silas Victor Oates, manager). Used as a platform to carry out unauthorised dives on wreck of Liberian steam tanker Torrey Canyon (61263grt/1959) (Stranded 18.3.1967 on Pollard’s Rock, Seven Stones, dispersed wreck in 30 metres at 50.2,50N 6.7,73W).
18.9.1967: Silas Victor Oates 32 shares sold to Lewis Ernest Adams, Oakhampton (32/64).
8.12.1967: Lewis Ernest Adams 32 shares mortgaged to Smith & Godwin Ltd, London to secure the sum of £10,000 with interest (B).
31.12.1967: Richard Curnow 32 shares mortgaged to Gilbert & Co Ltd, Hull to secure the sum of £1,350 with interest (C).
8.1968: Arrested at Poole following writ issued on behalf of Gilbert & Co Ltd, Hull for non payment of monies outstanding.
15.1.1969: Mortgage (B) transferred to Allcredits Ltd, London.
1970: Broken up at Poole.
1.8.1976: Lowestoft registry closed. (Not removed from Lloyd’s Register until 1992-1993 edition. “Vessel’s continued existence in doubt”.

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S.D/T. Comrades LT403

S.D/T. Comrades LT403
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S.D/T. Comrades LT403

S.D/T. Comrades LT403
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S.D/T. Comrades LT403

S.D/T. Comrades LT403
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S.D/T. Comrades LT403

S.D/T. Comrades LT403
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M.D/T. Comrades LT403

M.D/T. Comrades LT403
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Changelog
10/12/2010: Page published. 12 updates since then.
21/06/2016: Information updated.
01/11/2018: Removed FMHT watermarks from images.
03/08/2019: Updated information and added an image.

S.T. Angel de la Paz

In Parkes ownership. Did not sail from Fleetwood

Technical

Official Number: 227975
Yard Number: 8
Completed: 1919
Deadweight: 684
Gross Tonnage: 362
Net Tonnage: 108
Length: 140.8 ft
Breadth: 25.2 ft
Depth: 13.6 ft
T.3-cyl by Goldie & McCulloch Co Ltd, Galt, Ontario
Built: Foundation Co, Savannah, Ga

History

1919: Launched by Foundation Co, Savannah, Ga (Yd.No.8) for Government of France, Paris as MAGENTA.
8.1919: Completed as a minesweeper for the Marine Francaise.
1920: Sold to Pêcheries de L’Ouest S.A., Fécamp. Registered at Fécamp.
1925: Re-possessed by bank and laid up at Fécamp.
1925: Sold to Fred Parkes, Blackpool (en bloc with BOIS des BUTTES and BOIS des CAURES for c£5,000).
1926: Sold to Ciriza & Parayuelo, San Sebastian for £3,500. Fécamp registry closed. Registered at San Sebastian as ANGEL De La PAZ.
1927: Re measured 392g 116n 150.0 x 25.0 x 14.7 feet.
1929: Sold to Fred Parkes, Blackpool (as part of a deal involving the building by Parkes of two pareja trawlers, ANGEL C (127g/1929) and ROSARIO (113g/1929) at a cost of c£7,500 each).
1930: Re measured 404g 241n 139.4 x 25.2 x 10.7 feet.
1930: Sold to Bay State Fishing Co, East Boston, Mass for c£27,00. San Sebastian registry closed. Registered at Boston, Mass as GALE (US. O.N.227975)
1937: All usable parts removed and scuttled.

Changelog

30/11/2010: Page published. 3 updates since then.