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S.T. Adam FD65

Technical

Admiralty Number: 4247
Official Number: 139360
Yard Number: 890
Completed: 1919
Gross Tonnage: 324
Net Tonnage: 148
Length: 138.3 ft
Breadth: 23.7 ft
Depth: 12.7 ft
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby
Engine: 600ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by Charles D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull

History

14.6.1919: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.890) (“Mersey” Class) for The Admiralty as THOMAS MALONEY (Ad.No.4247).
23.9.1919: Completed.
10.1919: Sold to Thomas Hamling & Co Ltd, Hull.
10.1919: Electrical installation by Humber Electrical Co Ltd. Hull (£405 plus cost of drilling).
11.1919: Completed as a fishing trawler (Harold Hall, manager). Total cost with electric lights – £18,500 (payment made 23.10.1919).
15.11.1919: Registered at Hull as St NEOTS (H112).
18.11.1927: Sold to Henry Croft Baker, Grimsby.
26.5.1928: Sold to H. Croft Baker & Sons Ltd, Grimsby (H. Croft Baker, manager).
26.4.1930: Sold to The Strand Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby (Sydney Croft Baker, manager).
1.5.1930: In dense fog 20 miles SE of Girdleness in collision with Aberdeen trawler BEN LAWERS (A311) which foundered in three minutes. All nine crew taken aboard and landed at Aberdeen.
2.12.1931: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to National Provincial Bank Ltd, London (A).
9.11.1932: Skipper fined 3,000 kroner (£166) with confiscation dues of 5,000 kroner and forfeiture of gear and catch for fishing in Norwegian territorial waters.
19.4.1934: Mortgage (A) discharged.
6.4.1934: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Basil A. Parkes, manager).
27.4.1934: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Midland Bank Ltd, London (B).
7.2.1936: Mortgage (B) discharged.
14.1.1937: Whilst fishing at Rockall, Arthur Londesborough (20) was lost overboard and drowned.
6.1937: Sold to Towarzystwo Dalekomorskich Polowow “Pomorze” Sp.z.o.o., Gdynia.
29.7.1937: Hull registry closed “Sold Polish for trading”.
1937: Registered at Gdynia as ADAM (GDY94).
9.1939: Sold to Adam Steam Fishing Co Ltd, London (Basil A. Parkes, Cleveleys, manager). Gdynia registry closed.
3.11.1939: Registered at Fleetwood (FD65).
16.11.1939: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood for the sum of £512 with interest (C).
19.11.1939: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to John Odde, East Molesey for the sum of £6,000 with interest (D).
12.1939: On a trip to the Faroe Island grounds, bombed and machine gunned by German seaplanes. No damage; crew of twelve from Hull.
12.2.1940: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (P.No.FY.1618) (Hire rate £101.5.0d/month). Based Dover with M/S Group 61.
16.4.1943: Mortgage (C) discharged.
31.5.1943: Mortgage (D) discharged.
31.5.1943: Sold to Mrs Wincenty Bartosiak, Gdynia, Poland.
1.6.1943: Fleetwood registry closed. Renamed PODLAISE.
4.- 6.1944: Minesweeping in Dover Straits (A/Lt.Cdr. Charles Delphin-Abbott, awarded DSC for skill and daring in successful minesweeping operations).
14.7.1944: Returned to owner after restoration at Fleetwood. Registered at Gdynia (GDY154).
4.8.1944: First landing at Fleetwood (Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, managers).
3.1946: Repairs at Ghent. Then fishing from IJmuiden with Dutch crews until end of year.
12.1946: Returned to Poland.
5.1948: Sold to “Lawica” Rybolowstwo Dalekomorskiie i Zegluga Sp.z.o.o., Gdynia (“Lawica” Deep-Sea Fishing & Shipping Ltd)(Kazimierza Orthweina, Wincenty Bartosiak & others). Re-registered at Gdynia (GDY124).
16.12.1949: By Order of the Ministry of Navigation the holding company and assets to be placed under control of the Polish People’s Republic. Zbigniew Kollesinskiego appointed manager.
1950: Company and assets transferred to “Dalmor” Przedsiobiorstwo Polowow Dalekomorskich Sp.z.ogr.odp, Gdynia (Polish Government).
1951: Sold to “Lawica” Rybolowstwo Dalekom S.A., Gdynia.
7.1951: Re classed and registered at Gdynia (GDY213).
4.1962: Sold for breaking up at Gdansk.

(Thomas Maloney, Landsman (volunteer), age 25, b. Connaught, Ireland – VICTORY (SB139))

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S.T. Podlasie GDY154

S.T. Podlasie GDY154
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14/05/2012: Page published. 4 updates since then.
11/08/2017: Picture added.
09/06/2019: Information updated.

S.T. Boston Typhoon FD272

Technical

Official Number: 180335
Yard Number: 376
Completed: 1948
Gross Tonnage: 329
Net Tonnage: 128
Length: 137.5 ft
Breadth: 25.6 ft
Depth: 12.3 ft
Built: Richards Ironworks Ltd, Lowestoft
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by Amos & Smith Ltd, Hull (engine built 1945). Fitted for burning oil fuel, F.P. above 150 ° F

History

25.5.1948: Launched by Richards Ironworks Ltd, Lowestoft (Yd.No.376) for Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood as BOSTON TYPHOON.
9.1948: Completed. Registered at Fleetwood (FD272). Basil A. Parkes designated manager.
9.1948: Sailed Lowestoft for fishing grounds (Sk. Robert Wright); seventeen crew all told, to land at Fleetwood.
2.5.1953: Last landing at Fleetwood.
5.1953: Sold to Ytre Rollöya Fiskersamvirke, Hamnvik, Norway (Ove Bergvoll, Harstad, manager). Fleetwood registry closed. Registered at Hamnvik as ROLLANES.
1971: Sold for breaking up.

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S.T. Boston Typhoon FD272

S.T. Boston Typhoon FD272
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S.T. Boston Typhoon FD272

S.T. Boston Typhoon FD272
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SS.T. Boston Typhoon FD272

S.T. Boston Typhoon FD272
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Changelog
14/05/2012: Page published. 7 updates since then.
16/09/2019: Information updated.
14/10/2019: Added an image.

S.T. Daily Mail FD100

Technical

Official Number: 162062
Yard Number: 915
Completed: 1930
Gross Tonnage: 386
Net Tonnage: 165
Length: 141.7 ft
Breadth: 25.5 ft
Depth: 13.6 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, Middlesbrough
Built: Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, South Bank-on-Tees, Middlesbrough

History

28.4.1930: Launched by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, South Bank-on-Tees, Middlesbrough (Yd.No.915) for Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood as the DAILY MAIL.
2.6.1930: Registered at Fleetwood (FD100).
6.1930: Completed (Fred. Parkes, Blackpool, manager).
1931: Basil A. Parkes, Blackpool appointed manager.
10.5.1931: Homeward from St. Kilda grounds (Sk. Albert Heywood), in thick fog stranded on rocks off Crammag Head, The Rinns of Galloway, splitting shell plating on port side.
11.5.1931: Came afloat, with TRANQUIL (FD425) and Portpatrick lifeboat standing by, but grounded again on the north side of Portencorkie Bay, crew picked up by TRANQUIL.
8.1931: After efforts to salve failed, boiler removed to barge, but foundered in deep water. Some further dismantling carried out and declared a total loss.
9.12.1931: Fleetwood registry closed “Total loss 10/5/31”.

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S.T. Daily Mail FD100

S.T. Daily Mail FD100
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14/05/2012: Page published. 10 updates since then.

S.T. Daily Mirror FD71

Technical

Admiralty Number: 4294
Official Number: 143471
Yard Number: 410
As built: 360disp 125.6 x 23.5 x 12.8 feet
Completed: 1919
Gross Tonnage: 286
Net Tonnage: 109
Length: 125.5 ft
Breadth: 23.5 ft
Depth: 12.7 ft
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley
Engine: 480ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by Amos & Smith
Speed: 10.5 knots

History

18.3.1919: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.410) (“Castle” class) for The Admiralty as Egilias Akerman (Ad.No.4294).
13.11.1919: Completed as a fishing vessel.
1.1920: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Boston. Renamed KESTEVEN (BN146). Fred Parkes designated manager.
1923: Sold to Victor Fourney, Boulogne.
1923: Boston registry closed.
1923: Registered at Boulogne as IMPRÉVU (B789).
10.06.1925: Towed into Plymouth by the French steam trawler PROFESSEUR BERGONIÉ after damaging her propeller on a sunken wreck.
1930: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood.
3.1930: Boulogne registry closed.
17.3.1930: Registered at Fleetwood as DAILY MIRROR (FD71). Fred Parkes, Blackpool designated manager.
21.11.1932: Landed at Fleetwood, 600 boxes of herring for only 15 hrs fishing.
1934: Sold to Thomas L. Devlin & Sons, Granton (Thomas L. Devlin, manager).
26.5.1934: Fleetwood registry closed.
5.1934: Registered at Granton as COMPUTATOR (GN42).
22.11.1936: Ran ashore at the back of the west pier Granton while returning from the fishing grounds in dense fog. Refloated without assistance and undamaged but will by dry-docked in Leith as a precaution.
27.3.1937: Stowing gear for trip home in heavy weather 100 miles ENE of Buchan Ness (Sk. David R. Liston), three crew washed overboard and drowned*.
03.05.1937: Homeward from the fishing grounds in dense fog, stranded four miles north of Buchan Ness, refloated on next tide. Later dry-docked at Leith for examination.
06.10.1937: Landed 660 eight stone boxes of iced trawled herrings at North Shields which made 6s down to 4s per box.
30.8.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (P.No.FY.635) (Hire rate £89.7.6d/month).
6.1941: Based Portland with M/S Group 49 (Ch Sk. C. W. H. Shearing RNR). 1942: Transferred to Thomas L. Devlin & Sons Ltd, Granton (T. L. Devlin, manager).
21.1.1945: Foundered after collision with HMS VANOC (P.No.H33) in Seine Bay, Normandy.

(Egilias Akerman, AB, age 26, b. Brussels, Belgium – ROYAL SOVEREIGN (SB163))

(* Thomas Wood (40), 2nd Fisherman; James Rennie (22), deckhand, Newhaven and E. I. Peebles (21), trimmer, Leith)

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S.T. Daily Mirror FD71

S.T. Daily Mirror FD71
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Changelog
14/05/2012: Page published. 7 Updates since then.
05/10/2015: Picture added.
24/12/2017: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
04/03/2020: Information updated.

S.T. Cobbers FD3

Technical

Admiralty Number: 4208
Official Number: 137614
Yard Number: 450
Completed: 1919
As built: 360disp 125.6 x 23.5 x 12.8 feet
Gross Tonnage: 275
Net Tonnage: 107
Length: 125.4 ft
Breadth : 23.4 ft
Depth : 12.6 ft
Built: J Duthie Torrey Shipbuilding Co, Aberdeen
Engine: 480ihp T.3-cyl by Fawcett, Preston & Co, Liverpool
Armament : 1 x 12 pdr

History

4.1919: Launched by J. Duthie Torry Shipbuilding Co, Aberdeen (Yd.No.450) (“Castle” class) for The Admiralty as WILLIAM KNIGHT (Ad.No.4208).
5.2.1919: Forms for tender to purchase received by the Admiralty.
3.1919: Sold to East Hull Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull.
19.6.1919: Completed as a fishing vessel.
1919: Sold to Henry Sutton, Great Yarmouth (Benjamin Knowles, Hull, manager).
30.6.1919: Registered at Yarmouth as HENRICUS (YH104).
29.8.1921: Sold to Pêcheries de Havre, Le Havre.
1.9.1921: Yarmouth registry closed.
9.1921: Registered at Le Havre as LE PERREY.
8.1923: Sold to Soc. Anon “Armement Ostendais”, Ostend. Le Havre registry closed. Registered at Ostend as ALFRED DEFUISSEAUX (O146).
1.1939: Sold to Saint Andrew’s Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull (Basil A. Parkes, Cleveleys, manager).
1.1939: Ostend registry closed.
30.3.1939: Registered at Fleetwood as COBBERS (FD3).
Pre 4.1940: Employed on Fishery Protection (WA/Fort William/Fleetwood).
30.5.1940: Requisitioned for war service as an auxiliary patrol vessel (Hire rate £86.5.0d/month).
3.3.1941: Sunk by German aircraft in the North Sea (Ty. Sk. Lawrence Turner RNR). Eleven lost including Skipper *.

Lost* – Ty. Sk. Lawrence Turner RNR; Leonard H. Bean, 2nd Hand; Joseph W. Whitehead, Engineman; John E. Comer, John S. B. Shears, Albert Stranex, Seamen; John Cammish, Robert H. Cowe, Albert E. Lorne, O/S; Herbert J. L. Carter & George Crawford, Stokers 1/c.

(William Knight, Private, Marine, age 26, b. Whitchurch, Hampshire – VICTORY (ML116))

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S.T. Alfred Defuisseaux O145

S.T. Alfred Defuisseaux O145
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Sk.Turner

Sk.Turner. Clipping courtesy of The Phil Rogers Collection

Changelog
14/05/2012: Page published. 7 updates since then.
02/02/2021: Added clipping.
29/08/2021: Updated history and technical details.
17/05/2022: Added an image.