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S.D/T. Ocean Dawn YH47 (Seasonal)


Copyright 2010 Barry Banham

Technical

Official Number: 137608
Yard Number: 562
Completed: 1919
Gross Tonnage: 96
Net Tonnage: 41
Length: 86.2 ft
Breadth: 18.5 ft
Depth: 9.3 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen
Boiler: James Neilson & Son Ltd, Glasgow
Built: A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen

History

1919: Launched by A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen (Yd.No.562) ( “Admiralty drifter”) for The Admiralty as WAVELET (Ad.No.4121).
5.2.1919: Forms for tender to purchase received by the Admiralty.
21.2.1919: Completed as a fishing vessel.
4.1919: Sold to George W. Green Ltd, Gt Yarmouth (James Bloomfield, manager).
15.4.1919: Registered at Yarmouth as OCEAN DAWN (YH47). (First Admiralty standard steam drifter registered at Yarmouth). Trawling from Yarmouth.
22.12.1922: Neil Mackay, Gt Yarmouth appointed manager.
30.7.1925: Sold to Bloomfields Ltd, Gt Yarmouth.
1928 season: At Yarmouth best landing 283 cran of herring.
1941: Transferred to Bloomfield’s Ltd, Fleetwood management. Trawling from Fleetwood during WW2.
28.9.1941: When some 9 miles SWbyS from Morecambe Bay Light Vessel, took off crew and connected to steam drifter MURIELLE (LT269) which had suffered an explosion from mine hauled in trawl. Commenced tow to Fleetwood, but started to settle and foundered 3 miles W by N of Blackpool Tower. All crew landed at Fleetwood.
17.7.1943: Typical wartime landing. 164 kits – hake-51, cod/codling-43, whiting-29, flats-7, roker-29, gurnard-2, dogs-3.
1946: Transferred to Bloomfield’s Ltd, Gt Yarmouth.
19.11.1945: At Yarmouth landed 170 crans.
22.3.1946: In heavy weather some 36 miles off Yarmouth (Sk. Charles Johnson). In the morning sighted a small motor-cruiser in difficulties. Closed boat and found four youths in distress and took them onboard, but weather prevented taking the boat in tow. On arrival Yarmouth, boys transferred to hospital. (Boat had been stolen from Broadstairs by the boys who had been without food and water for four or five days).
4.11.1946: At Yarmouth landed 210 crans.
1950s: Seasonal white fish trawling from Fleetwood.
5.10.1952: At Yarmouth landed 160 crans.
5.11.1953: At Yarmouth landed 160 crans.
14.11.1955: At Yarmouth landed 140 crans.
12.1955: Sold to Belgian shipbreakers for breaking up.
19.12.1955: Yarmouth registry closed.

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S.T. Ocean Dawn YH47

S.T. Ocean Dawn YH47
Picture courtesy of The Barry Banham Maritime Photo Collection

S.D/T. Ocean Dawn YH47

S.D/T. Ocean Dawn YH47
Picture courtesy of The Peter Green Collection

Changelog
01/01/2009: Page published. 5 updates since then.
13/06/2016: Information updated.
07/04/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.
02/07/2021: Updated history.

S.D/S. Ocean Crest YH876

Wooden built drifter/seiner

Technical

Official Number: 132346
Completed: 1911
Gross Tonnage: 88
Net Tonnage: 38
Length: 84.6 ft
Breadth: 19.4 ft
Depth: 9.6 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by Elliott & Garrood Ltd, Beccles
Built: John Chambers, Oulton Broad, Lowestoft

History

1911: Launched by John Chambers Ltd, Oulton Broad, Lowestoft (Yd.No.) for Bloomfields Ltd, Gt. Yarmouth(43/64) & William E. Shreeve, Caister on Sea (21/64) as OCEAN CREST.
8.7.1911: Ran trials.
8.7.1911: Registered at Yarmouth (YH876).
14.7.1911: Completed (James Bloomfield, manager).
21.10.1911: Landed 300 crans for freshers and 50 crans for salters at Yarmouth – £300 gross.
20.2.1914: Sold to W. E. Shreeve Ltd, Gt Yarmouth (William E. Shreeve, Caister on Sea, manager).
1914: Requisitioned for war service and employed as an escort and auxiliary patrol vessel (Ad.No.231). Based Ramsgate.
1919: James Bloomfield appointed manager.
By 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Gt Yarmouth (Bloomfields Ltd, Gt Yarmouth).
22.12.1922: Neil Mackay appointed manager.
20.9.1939: Requisitioned for war service and employed on port duties (Hire rate £21.10.0d/month).
9.1939: Returned to owner.
10.1940: Requisitioned for war service and employed on port duties.
10.1940: Returned to owner.
1940: Transferred to Bloomfield’s Ltd, Fleetwood management. Landing at Fleetwood and occasionally at Ullapool.
1943. Transferred to Bloomfield’s Ltd, Gt Yarmouth.
1951: Sold for breaking up.
17.11.1954: Yarmouth registry closed.

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S.D/S. Ocean Crest YH876

S.D/S. Ocean Crest YH876
Picture from the Internet

Changelog
01/01/2009: Page published. 3 updates since then.
19/07/2016: Image added.
07/04/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from image.

S.T. Kincorth A263

Additional information courtesy of Andy Hall

Technical

Official Number: 127165
Yard Number: 332
Completed: April 10 1909
Gross Tonnage: 148.09
Net Tonnage: 56.54
Length: 100.6 ft
Breadth: 20.4 ft
Depth: 10.8 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by J. Abernethy & Co, Aberdeen
Built: J. Duthie, Sons & Co, Aberdeen, Aberdeen, 1909

History

10.4.1909: Launched as a great liner by J. Duthie, Sons & Co, Aberdeen, Aberdeen (Yd.No.332) for George Leiper, William Leiper & Joseph Leiper (joint owners 64/64), Aberdeen as KINCORTH.
15.5.1909: Registered at Aberdeen (A263).
5.1909: Completed. John Hannel Irvin designated manager.
17.2.1917: Requisitioned for war service and fitted out for special service and mine duties. Based Longhope.
Post 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Aberdeen (George Leiper, Torry, Aberdeen).
15.1.1925: Sold to James Leiper, George Gray & Alexander Main, Aberdeen and Richard Irvin & Sons Ltd, North Shields. Sir John Hannel Irvin KBE, Aberdeen designated manager.
21.4.1925: Sold to George Gray, Andrew Craig, Aberdeen and Richard Irvin & Sons Ltd, North Shields. Sir John Hannel Irvin KBE, Aberdeen designated manager.
24.2.1930: Sold to Richard Irvin & Sons Ltd (64/64), North Shields. Sir John Hannel Irvin KBE, Aberdeen designated manager.
8.5.1935: Picked up disabled on fishing grounds with trawl warps round propeller by steam trawler GENERAL JOFFRE (SN123) and delivered North Shields.
31.3.1939: At Tynemouth Borough Police Court, George Johnson (52), Sydney Styles (30) and Andrew Wears (38), all of North Shields were charged with stealing 15 codling valued at 13s 6d, the property of Richard Irvin & Sons Ltd. All three pleaded not guilty but the case was proven and they were fined, Johnson 20s, Styles & Wears 30s.
1939: Directed to Fleetwood under wartime control. J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood local agents.
1940: Sold to James W. Tomlinson (64/64), North Shields. J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood local agents.
10.12.1941: Mined 7 miles ENE from Point Lynas, North Wales; Sk. W. C. Bowles and crew of ten lost*.
15.1.1942: Aberdeen registry closed.

*Lost – Sk. William Charles Bowles (49); Walter Charles Rix (51), Mate; Horace Frederick Palmer (42), Bosun; Arthur William Jeffries (60), Ch Eng; Harold Douglas (51), 2nd Eng; George William Blowers (39) and Albert Rowland Wynn Kay (18), Deckhands; John Condron (18) and Leonard Cross (18), Boys; George Douglas (18), Fireman; George Charles Snow (44), Cook.

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S.T. Kincorth A263

S.T. Kincorth A263
Picture courtesy of Grimsby Reference Library

Changelog
24/12/2008: Page published.
25/05/14: Name added to crew list.
29/11/2017: Information updated and removed FMHT watermark from image.
13/04/2021: Updated history.