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S.T. Arnold Bennett H259

In Fleetwood ownership. Did not fish from the port

Technical

Official Number: 162185
Yard Number: 1086
Completed: 1930
Gross Tonnage: 353
Net Tonnage: 147
Length: 140.0 ft
Breadth: 24.5 ft
Depth: 13.2 ft
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by C.D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull

History

(In 1935 the Hull trawler LEONIDAS (162186) (H267) was lengthened by Smiths Dock Co. Ltd. The work involved creating an improved hull form with new bow and stern sections. The design was successful, not only providing increased fish room capacity, but also, as was expected, reducing coal consumption and giving a slightly higher free running speed. Other owners stemmed vessels at Middlesbrough for similar work to be undertaken)

31.5.1930: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.1086) for Newington Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull as ARNOLD BENNETT.
22.7.1930: Registered at Hull (H259).
25.7.1930: Completed.
30.5.1939: Completed lengthening by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, Middlesbrough to 156.2 feet (including fitting new bow and stern sections). Re measured 374g 167n.
26.6.1939: Insured value increased from £12,800 to £17,800 following lengthening of vessel.
25.7.1939: Insured value £18,000.
3.6.1940: At Hull last landing before requisitioning. Iceland trip, 17 days – 2,085kits £2,383 gross.
3.6.1940: Requisitioned for war service as an auxiliary patrol vessel (1-12pdr) (P.No.FY1939) (Hire rate £201.10.1d/month).
6.1940: Based Invergordon as auxiliary patrol vessel (Ty/Sk. R. W. Millener RNR).
5.1941: Fitted out as a minesweeper. Based Grimsby with M/S Group 77.
3.7.1945: Returned to owner.
3.7.1945: Sailed Hull for Bear Island (Sk. R. Milliner).
25.7.1945: At Hull landed 2,166 kits grossed £8,226.
30.11.1945: Insured value £34,000; for 1946 proposed £39,000.
2.5.1947: Sold to Partnership (Hull) Ltd, Hull. Kenneth Percival, designated managers.
4.11.1948: Sold to Bay Fisheries Ltd, Fleetwood. Basil Arthur Parkes, designated manager)
23.11.1949: Sold to W.H.D. Dunnett, Bray & Air Cdre A. V. Harvey CBE MP, London. Basil Arthur Parkes designated manager.
11.12.1952: Fishing in the Barents Sea, arrested by Russian gunboat suspected of illegal fishing. At Murmansk court found guilty and fined 500 roubles with gear and catch confiscated.
16.4.1953: Laid up.
23.4.1955: Sold to Saint Andrew’s Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull. Basil Arthur Parkes designated manager.
1955: Sold to BISCO and allocated to Shipbreaking Industries Ltd for breaking up at Charlestown, Fife (Contract No.83D).
22.5.1955: Delivered Charlestown from Hull under own power.
6.1955: Breaking up commenced.
18.11.1955: Hull registry closed.

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S.T. Arnold Bennett H259

S.T. Arnold Bennett H259
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Changelog

11/09/2010: Page published. 4 updates since then.
24/09/2010: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
17/07/2019: Updated information.

S.D/T. Abiding Star LT451

Technical

Official Number: 138872
Yard Number: 37
Completed: 1917
Gross Tonnage: 117
Net Tonnage: 52
Length: 93.8 ft
Breadth: 21.5 ft
Depth: 10.0 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Burrell & Co, Gt Yarmouth
Boiler: Riley Bros (Boilermakers) Ltd, Stockton on Tees
Wooden built drifter/trawler
Built: Colby Brothers Ltd, Oulton Broad, Lowestoft

History

1917: Completed by Colby Brothers Ltd, Oulton Broad, Lowestoft (Yd.No.37) for James Johnson, Scarborough as FLO JOHNSON. Registered at Scarborough (SH325).
7.1917: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeping drifter (1-6pdr) (Ad.No.3052). Based Portland.
1919: Returned to owner at Lowestoft.
7.1919: Scarborough registry closed.
10.7.1919: Registered at Lowestoft (LT451).
17.10.1925: Sold to Florence Johnson, Scarborough (James Johnson, manager).
19.10.1926: Sold to James Johnson, Scarborough.
14.12.1926: Sold to The Star Drift Fishing Co Ltd, Lowestoft (Frederick Ernest Catchpole, manager).
21.3.1927: Registered at Lowestoft as ABIDING STAR (LT451). Seasonal fishing out of Fleetwood.
13.6.1928: Landed 244 boxes of herring.
6.1930: Re engined and boilered by Elliott & Garrood Ltd, Beccles (old engine fitted in KINDRED STAR (LT177).
17.5.1940: Requisitioned for war service on Degaussing Service (P.No.FY.284) (Hire rate £26.0.0d/month).
12.5.1945: Sold to Bay Fisheries Ltd, Fleetwood (B. A. Parkes, Cleveleys, manager).
1946: Returned to owner.
1947: Engine removed and vessel hulked.
4.12.1947: Lowestoft registry closed.

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S.D/T. Abiding Star LT451

S.D/T. Abiding Star LT451
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S.D/T. Abiding Star LT451

S.D/T. Abiding Star LT451
Picture courtesy of The Barry Banham Maritime Photo Collection

Changelog

20/08/2010: Picture published. 8 updates since then.
16/09/2018: Removed FMHT watermarks from images.
02/05/2019: Updated the history.

S.T. Alonso H887

Additional information courtesy of Mike Thompson

Technical

Official Number: 123260
Yard Number: 319
Completed: 1906
Gross Tonnage: 172.15
Net Tonnage: 50.53
Length: 108.8 ft
Breadth: 21.5 ft
Depth: 11.2 ft
Built: Mackie & Thomson, Govan
Engine: 280ihp T.3-cyl by W. V. V. Lidgerwood, Coatbridge
Boiler: A. & W. Dalglish, Pollockshaws, Glasgow

History

1906: Launched by Mackie & Thomson, Govan (Yd.No.319) for Hellyer’s Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Hull as ALONSO.
25.6.1906: Registered at Hull (H887).
25.6.1906: Charles Hellyer appointed manager.
6.1906: Completed.
19.7.1906: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to The Union of London & Smith’s Bank Ltd, London (A).
25.3.1910: In collision in North Sea with steam trawler BLANCHE (H928) sustaining damage to shell plating on starboard quarter.
1.1.1914: Tonnage altered to 66.36 net under provision of Merchant Shipping Act 1907
30.11.1915: Mortgage (A) discharged.
1919: Released.
29.5.1917: Requisitioned for Fishery Reserve.
1919: Released.
14.2.1919: Sold to Elijah Headspith (64/64), Hull.
14.2.1919: Elijah Headspith designated managing owner.
22.2.1919: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to The London Joint City & Midland Bank Ltd, London (B).
4.10.1919: Sold to The Mons Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Hull.
4.10.1919: Elijah Headspith appointed manager.
25.11.1919: Mortgage (B) discharged.
28.11.1919: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to The London Joint City & Midland Bank Ltd, London (C).
27.11.1923: Mortgagee restyled Midland Bank Ltd, London.
23.6.1933: On a North Sea trip, John Jackson (45), cook, lost overboard and drowned.
8.2.1934: Mortgage (C) discharged.
8.2.1934: Sold to William Claudius Farrow (32/64), and Stephen Nowell (32/64), both Hull.
9.2.1934: William Claudius Farrow & Stephen Nowell designated joint managing owners.
16.3.1934: Sold to Ocean Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Hull.
16.3.1934: Leonard Hopwood Tutcher appointed manager.
20.4.1934: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Barclays Bank Ltd, London (D).
13.12.1935: Mortgage (D) discharged.
14.9.1935: Sold to Colin Henry Brand, Milford Haven.
27.9.1935: Colin Henry Brand designated managing owner.
2.6.1936: Vessel mortgaged to Barclays Bank Ltd, London (E).
14.12.1937: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Robert Parcell Lewis, Fishguard for the sum of £313 with interest at 5% (F).
4.1938: With GOZO (H545) converted for Spanish pareja trawling method.
4.1938: Newspaper clipping: “ J. F. Gwyther has been favoured with instructions to offer for sale at the Conservative Club, on Friday 15th September, the steam trawlers ALONSO, CAIRO and GOZO.
3.8.1938: Mortgage (E) discharged.
3.12.1938: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Ruth Brand, Johnston and Lillian Gertrude Brand, Burton (joint mortgagees) (G).
3.2.1939: Last landing at Milford. Laid up.
7.7.1939: Colin H. Brand filed for bankruptcy.
7.10.1939: Mortgage (G) discharged.
12.10.1939: Sold by order of the mortgagee under mortgage (F) to The Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd (64/64), Fleetwood.
30.10.1935: Basil Arthur Parkes, Thornton-le-Fylde appointed manager.
8.11.1939: Sold to Fred Parkes and Charles Lucas Wilbraham (64/64 joint owners), both Blackpool.
19.11.1939: Charles Lucas Wilbraham designated managing owner.
25.7.1940: Sold to Wellvale Trawlers Ltd (64/64), Fleetwood.
15.8.1940: Charles Lucas Wilbraham appointed manager.
26.8.1942: Sold to Hull Merchants Amalgamated Trawlers Ltd (64/64), Hull
1.9.1942: Archibald Hudson appointed manager.
10.1.1944: Sailed Hull on a North Sea trip (Sk. George Underhill); thirteen crew all told.
13.1.1944: Last seen approximately 5 miles ENE off No.62F buoy, Hornsea. The joint Arbitration Committee adjudged the loss to be by unknown war causes.
16.6.1944: Hull registry closed. “Ship missing since sailing for North Sea fishing grounds on 10th January 1944.”

(Crew: Skipper George Underhill (68); William Abbott (39), Mate; Joseph Marr (52), Third Hand; John H. Chapman (54), Bosun; Harold Coultas (34), Ch Eng; Eric Smitth (30), 2nd Eng; Arthur Albert Stevens (28), deckhand; Robert H. Easter (29), Charles E. Osborne (44) and Arthur E. Smith (36), Spare Hands; Charles W. Gibson, Fireman/trimmer; George E. Croft (43), Trimmer and James F. Coull (71), Cook)

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S.T. Alonso H887

S.T. Alonso H887
Picture courtesy of The Bill Blow collection

S.T. Alonso H887

S.T. Alonso H887
Picture courtesy of The Alan Hirst collection

Changelog
10/08/2010: Page published. 3 updates since then.
04/08/2016: Significant information update.
09/09/2018: Removed FMHT watermarks from images.
23/06/2019: Updated information.

S.T. St. Crispin H86

In Boston (Fleetwood) ownership. Did not fish from the port
Additional information courtesy of Mike Thompson and Maurice Voss

Technical

Official Number: 186688
Yard Number: 767
Completed: 1946
Gross Tonnage: 536
Net Tonnage: 201
Length: 166.9 ft
Breadth: 27.7 ft
Depth: 14.4 ft
Belgian register: 523,30g 188,91n 49,88 x 8,41 x 4,27 metres
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley
Engine: 1000ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
Fitted for burning oil fuel, F.P. above 150° F

History

One of four oil fired steam trawlers to the same design ordered by Basil Arthur Parkes, Fleetwood during 1945 from Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd. Two for Saint Andrew’s Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull, St. JOHN and St. MATHEW (Yd.Nos.763, 764) and two on behalf of N.V. Motorvisscherij, Ostend, BREUGHEL (Yd.No.765) and RUBENS (Yd.No.767).

17.4.1946: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.767) for N.V. Motorvisscherij, Ostend as RUBENS.
6.1946: Registered at Ostend (O297).
21.6.1946: Completed.
1946-1947: Occasional landings at Hull.
10.1955: Sold to Basil Arthur Parkes, North Ferriby en bloc with BREUGHEL (O299).
13.10.1955: Sold to Saint Andrew’s Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull.
13.10.1955: At 4.15 pm. sold to St. Christopher Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Basil A. Parkes, Hull, manager). Insured for £87,000.
13.10.1955: Registered at Hull as St. CRISPIN O.N.186688 (H86) (MoT R558/0598 dated 6.10.1955).
14.10.1955: Sailed Hull on White Sea trip (Sk. Stanley Barwick).
8.11.1955: At Hull landed 2115 kits, 241 shelf, £5,133 gross.
17.11.1955: Ostend registry closed.
12.3.1956: Sailed Hull on an Icelandic trip (Sk. Stanley Barwick); twenty crew.
15.3.1956: Started fishing off south coast of Iceland. Fouled propeller with fishing gear, disabled and in heavy seas driven ashore in the afternoon at high water on beach near Kudhafljot, Medalland, south coast of Iceland. Two men injured *. In answer to calls for assistance located by an Icelandic Coast Guard aircraft and rescue team formed by local farmers directed to the vessel. They found the trawler beached broadside in a heavy swell. Lifeline connected within two hours and breeches-buoy rigged but crew reluctant to leave. At 7.30 pm. five men had been taken off. Eventually all crew brought ashore and taken to Reykjavik, but four remained to organise salvage with Icelandic agent and insurance representative
14.4.1956: After removal of all non-essential gear, refloated and delivered Reykjavik. Temporary repairs for single voyage to Hull.
11.5.1956: With Charles Beal as skipper for passage, sailed Reykjavik for Hull in tow of Hull tug Englishman (762grt/1945) (E. Bonel, master).
18.5.1956: Arrived Hull after difficult tow in severe weather. Laid up for repair.
31.8.1956: Surveyed on completion of repairs and alteration of particulars – 536grt 201net.
1.9.1956: Sailed Hull on an Icelandic trip (Sk.Terence Whitley).
21.9.1956: At Hull landed 1420 kits, 385 shelf, £5.732 gross.
7.10.1964 : Sailed Hull on an Icelandic trip (Sk. Edward Calvert).
28.10.1964: At Hull landed 651 kits, 302 shelf, £3,780 gross. Laid up for disposal.
1965: Sold to Van Heygen Freres, Ghent for breaking up.
12.3.1965: Delivered Ghent.
18.3.1965: Hull registry closed.

(* Injured – Mate, H. S. Ford (26) and Bosun, M. Matson (48))
ENGLISHMAN of United Towing Co Ltd, Hull was chartered by the Hull Steam Trawlers Mutual Insurance & Protecting Co Ltd, through Icelandic agent Geir Zoega, Reykjavik.

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S.T. Rubens O297

S.T. Rubens O297
Picture courtesy of The James Cullen Collection

S.T. Rubens O297

S.T. Rubens O297
Picture courtesy of Maurice Voss

S.T. Rubens O297

S.T. Rubens O297
Picture courtesy of The James Cullen Collection

S.T. Rubens O297

S.T. Rubens O297
Picture courtesy of Maurice Voss

S.T. St. Crispin H86

S.T. St. Crispin H86
Picture courtesy of The JJ Collection

S.T. St. Crispin H86

S.T. St. Crispin H86
Picture courtesy of Allan McKernan

S.T. St. Crispin H86

S.T. St. Crispin H86
Picture courtesy of The Mike Thompson Collection

S.T. St. Crispin H86

S.T. St. Crispin H86
Picture courtesy of The JJ Collection

S.T. St. Crispin H86

S.T. St. Crispin H86
Picture courtesy of The JJ Collection

Changelog
03/04/2014: 2 pictures added.
18/05/2015: Updated information.
26/06/2015: 2 pictures added and information added.
18/03/2018: Removed FMHT watermarks from images.
05/07/2018: Added an image.

S.T. Loch Rannoch A475

In Boston ownership. Did not fish from Fleetwood

Technical

Official Number: 115551
Yard Number: 354
Completed: 1901
Gross Tonnage: 178
Net Tonnage: 45
Length: 106.2 ft
Breadth: 21.2 ft
Depth: 11.6 ft
Built: Hall, Russell & Co Ltd, Aberdeen
Engine: T.3-cyl by Hall, Russell & Co Ltd, Aberdeen

History

26.10.1901: Launched by Hall, Russell & Co Ltd, Aberdeen (Yd.No.354) for The Bon Accord Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Aberdeen as LOCH RANNOCH.
7.11.1901: Registered at Aberdeen (A475).
11.1901: Completed (H. A. Holmes, manager).
4.1912: Sold to Joseph Main, William Brebner, George Walker & Alex Walker, Aberdeen (joint owners) (Joseph Main managing owner).
1913: Sold to Joseph Main, William Brebner, George Walker & Thomas Davidson, Aberdeen (joint owners) (Thomas Davidson managing owner.
1.1.1914: Tonnage altered to 68.32net under provision of Merchant Shipping Act 1907.
9.1916: Requisitioned for war service on boom defence duties. Based Lerwick.
Post 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Aberdeen.
1933: Sold to William Brebner Jnr, Aberdeen (managing owner).
26.1.1940: Requisitioned for war service as a patrol vessel (Hire rate £44.10.0d/month). Based Port Edgar with M/S Group 62 (Sk. C.C. Findlay RNR/ Ty/Sk. H.E. Ward RNR).
5.1942: Fitted out as a minesweeper (P.No.FY.779).
25.11.1942: Sold to Alexander Arthur Davidson, Aberdeen.
24.1.1944: Returned to owner.
15.9.1945: Sold to A. J. Tilbrook Ltd, Milford Haven.
11.12.1950: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Basil A. Parkes, manager).
1952: Sold to BISCO and allocated to Thos. W. Ward Ltd, Sheffield for breaking up.
30.5.1952: Arrived Grays, Essex.
26.11.1952: Aberdeen registry closed “Vessel broken up”.

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S.T. Loch Rannoch A475

S.T. Loch Rannoch A475
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S.T. Loch Rannoch A475

S.T. Loch Rannoch A475
Picture courtesy of The John Stevenson Collection

Changelog

19/07/2010: Page published. 4 updates since then.
05/09/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from images.
13/04/2021: Updated history and technical details.