Additional information courtesy of Bill Blow

Technical

Official Number: 160993
Yard Number: 547
Completed: 1930
Gross Tonnage: 406
Net Tonnage: 161
Length: 142.7 ft
Breadth: 25.1 ft
Depth: 14.1 ft
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley
Engine: 650ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by Amos & Smith Ltd, Hull
Speed: 10.9 knots

History

12.6.1930: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.547) for Edward Little (32/64) & Einar Olgeirsson (32/64), Grimsby as VINUR.
12.7.1930: Registered at Grimsby (GY249). Edward Little appointed manager.
16.7.1930: Completed.
7.8.1930: Sold to The Vinur Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
8.8.1930: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Barclays Bank Ltd, London (A).
9.8.1930: Edward Little appointed manager.
1.4.1936: Registered at Grimsby as BRITISH (GY249) (BoT Minute R.G.1114/1936 dated 18.3.1936).
2.3.1937: Edwin John Johnson, Cleethorpes appointed manager.
27.8.1939: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (P.No.FY.506) (Hire rate £201.6.2d/month).
1.1941: Based Grimsby with M/S Group 21 (Sk. T. Smith RNR).
30.1.1942: Based Lowestoft (Lieut. I. Evans RNR). Returning from ‘sweeping off Norfolk coast with six other minesweeping trawlers engaged German aircraft which subsequently crashed into the sea.
7.8.1942: Mortgage (A) discharged.
14.8.1942: Sold to Northern Trawlers Ltd (64/64), London.
18.8.1942: William Alfred Bennett, Sanderstead appointed manager.
10.1.1946: Returned to owner.
Pre1959: John Bennett appointed manager.
31.8.1953: Sailed Grimsby for Icelandic grounds (Sk.Albert W. Meech).
8.9.1953: Arrested off Glettinganes Cape, Iceland for alleged illegal fishing and escorted to Seydisfjordur.
10.9.1953: At police court in Seydisfjordur, Sk. Meech was fined £1620 with catch and gear confiscated.
31.7.1954: Sold to Wyre Trawlers Ltd (64/64), Fleetwood.
11.8.1954: First landing at Fleetwood, 857 boxes 60 baskets grossed £2977.
25.8.1954: Grimsby registry closed.
25.8.1954: Leslie Wheildon appointed managers.
30.8.1954: Registered at Fleetwood (FD24).
10.1954: Registered at Fleetwood as WYRE BRITISH (FD24).
1954: Wyre Trawlers Ltd transferred to Associated Fisheries Group on purchase of Merchants (Fleetwood) Ltd.
10.1957: Sold to Van Heygen Freres S.A., Ghent for breaking up.
19.10.1957: Delivered Ghent from Fleetwood under own power.

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S.T. British GY249
Picture courtesy of The JJ Collection

S.T. British GY249
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S.T. Wyre British FD24 (as British)
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Changelog
09/03/2009: Page published. 8 updates since then.
10/10/2019: Updated information.

Additional information courtesy of David Slinger

Technical

Official Number: 164934
Yard Number: 1158
Completed: 1936
Gross Tonnage: 486
Net Number: 201
Length: 161.3 ft
Breadth: 26.6 ft
Depth: 14.1 ft
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull

History

6.1936: Completed by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.1158) for Pickering & Haldane’s Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull as LORD ESSENDON.
22.6.1936: Registered at Hull (H312).
25.6.1936: Completed. Albert Turgoose & James Car designated joint managers. Cost to build £20,100.
30.6.1936: Sailed Hull on first trip to Greenland (Sk. C. Hansen).
6.1936: When in transit in Pentland Firth in thick fog stranded on east side of Stroma. Refloated without assistance and proceeded to Aberdeen (four days).
29.7.1936: At Hull landed 2,143 kits grossed £1,386.
25.7.1939: Insured value £23,200.
12.8.1939: Sailed Hull for Bear Island (Sk. E. Clarke).
30.8.1939: At Hull landed 1,104 kits £871 gross having been recalled for war service; fishing gear removed.
1939: To requisitioning, at Hull landed from Iceland/Bear Island (Sk. E. Clarke) 224 days 19,515 kits 14,560 gross.
9.1939: Requisitioned for war service as an anti-submarine trawler (P.No.FY.218) (Hire rate £301.12.0d/month).
1.1940: Based Ardrossan with 29th A/S Group (Senior Officer, Pby/Ty/Sub Lieut. M. R. Thwaites RNVR).
1942: Based Plymouth with 20th A/S Group.
1944: Assigned to Operation Neptune – Normandy landings.
23.5.1944: Convoy escort duties in British waters and across the Channel in support of landings.
3.7.1944: Operation Neptune ended.
20.6.1945: Sold to Lord Line Ltd, Hull for £21,100.
9.10.1945: Returned after survey and restoration at Hartlepool. Thomas W. Boyd designated manager.
30.11.1945: Insured value £42,500; for 1946 proposed £50,000.
7.1947: Converted by St. Andrew’s Engineering Co Ltd, Hull for burning oil fuel, F.P. above 150° F. Cost £7,000.
17.4.1950: Lord Line Ltd in liquidation. Sold to Associated Fisheries Trawling Co Ltd, Hull for £21,000. Thomas W. Boyd designated manager.
22.7.1953: Sold to Lord Line Ltd, Hull (Thomas W. Boyd, manager).
4.3.1957: David Clater (17) deckie learner lost overboard and drowned.
12.10.1962: Sailed Hull for Iceland, last trip from port (Sk. Kenneth Rose).
30.10.1962: At Hull landed 1,133 kits grossed £5,299.
17.12.1962: Transferred to Fleetwood.
1.1.1963: Sold to Wyre Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood for £28,653.
6.1.1964: Hull registry closed.
1.1964: Registered at Fleetwood (FD75).
03.1966: Laid up.
23.4.1966: Sold to James A. White & Co Ltd, St. Davids, Fife for breaking up.
06.07.1966: Sailed for breakers.
9.7.1966: Delivered St. Davids. Fleetwood registry closed.

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S.T. Lord Essendon H312
Picture courtesy of the JJ Collection

S.T. Lord Essendon H312
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S.T. Lord Essendon FD75
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S.T. Lord Essendon FD75
Picture courtesy of the David Slinger Collection

S.T. Lord Essendon FD75
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S.T. Lord Essendon FD75
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S.T. Lord Essendon FD75
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Changelog
28/01/2009: Page published. 6 updates since then.
26/03/2015: Picture added.
28/03/2015: Added 2 pictures.
04/02/2017: Removed disputed image.
18/10/2019: Updated information.
23/11/2019: Added an image.
10/07/2020: Updated information and added an image.
19/05/2022: Updated information.

Additional information courtesy of Mike Thompson

Technical

Official Number: 181349
Yard Number: 210
Completed: 1948
Gross Tonnage: 604
Net Tonnage: 222
Length: 170.4 ft
Breadth: 29.2 ft
Depth: 14.3 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by J. Lewis & Sons Ltd, Aberdeen (No.283)
Boiler: Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Dundee.
Fitted for burning oil fuel, F.P. above 150° F
Built: J. Lewis & Sons Ltd, Aberdeen

History

9.4.1948: Launched by J. Lewis & Sons Ltd, Aberdeen (Yd.No.210) for J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood as THORNELLA. Contract price £84,220.
9.1948: Registered at Hull (H582).
21.9.1948: Geoffrey Edwards Marr, Cleveleys designated manager.
25.9.1948: Trials.
29.9.1948: Completed and delivered insured for £113,000.
30.9.1948: Sailed Hull for Bear Island (Sk. Charles Henry Taylor); first trip.
22.10.1948: At Hull landed 2864 kits (2846 headless, 1.603 haddock), £10,948 gross.
16.8.1949: Geoffrey Edwards Marr, Brough designated manager.
1949: Landings – 336 days at sea, 42,210 kits, £103,033 gross.
20.9.1952: Sailed Hull for Greenland (Sk. Charles William O’Neil).
4.10.1952: Responded to distress from steam trawler NORMAN (H289) stranded on an uncharted reef off the Greenland coast. Recovered eight bodies in the sea and landed them at Scrabster.
11.11.1952: Landed at Hull.
24.12.1952: Landed at Hull from Bear Island.
1952/53: Made two trips to Greenland fishery.
26.12.1952: Sailed Hull for Greenland (Sk.Charles William O’Neil).
9.1.1953: In company with LOCH MOIDART (H481) ran into a full NE gale whilst heading through broken ice, compelling the pair to to turn and dodge into wind. When coming into open water a large wave fell onboard, crushing the wheelhouse port side forward and flooding the radio room. With steering gear damaged and only half a wheel, the skipper managed to navigate with a boat compass and radio operator, James Cunningham, dried out the radio equipment in the stokehold and made contact with the owners to say they were safe.
17.1.1953: Arrived Hull landed 2,838 kits £6,198 gross.
19.1.1953: Surveyed and taken in hand for repair.
24.2.1953: Following repairs sailed for Norway Coast.
13.9.1954: Sold to to Northern Fishing Co (Hull) Ltd, Hull. Mark Hellyer designated manager.
6.10.1954: Registered at Hull as BANQUO (H582) (MoT&CA minute R558/1/0269 dated 4.10.1954).
17.3.1957: Vessel mortgaged to National Provincial Bank Ltd, London (A).
10.1957: Arrested by Icelandic gunboat THOR for alleged illegal fishing of Langanes peninsula, NE coast of Iceland (Sk. Joseph Jennings).
16.10.1957: At Reykjavik, Sk. Jennings was fined £1800.
12.1961: Hellyer Bros merged with Associated Fisheries Ltd.
26.3.1965: Mortgage (A) discharged.
24.5.1965: Sold to Hellyer Bros. Ltd, Hull (Associated Group re-organisation).
26.5.1966: Laurence Hall Swaine designated manager.
25.4.1967: Sailed Hull for Icelandic grounds (Sk. William John Stockton).
15.5.1967: At Hull, last landing 839 kits (240 shelf) £3,141 gross, £926 net. Within Associated Fisheries Group transferred to Fleetwood.
18.5.1967: Sailed Hull with Fleetwood crew on Icelandic trip (Sk. Thomas James Watson).
19.5.1967: Sold to Wyre Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood.
7.6.1967: At Fleetwood landed 900 kits (914 boxes), £4,331 gross.
7.6.1967: Hull registry closed.
8.6.1967: Registered at Fleetwood (FD99). Leslie Wheildon designated manager. Repainted in Wyre Trawlers livery.
9.1967: Sailed for Icelandic grounds (Sk. Thomas James Watson). On return landed and laid up.
9.1967: Sold to Van Heyghen Freres S.A., Ghent for breaking up.
27.9.1967: Fleetwood registry closed.
6.10.1967: Delivered to shipbreaker at Ghent.

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S.T. Thornella H582
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S.T. Banquo FD99
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S.T. Thornella H582
Picture courtesy of The JanH Collection

S.T. Thornella H582
Picture courtesy of The David Slinger Collection

S.T. Thornella H582
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S.T. Thornella H582
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S.T. Thornella H582
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S.T. Banquo FD99
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Banquo Settling Sheet
Courtesy of The Mike Thompson Collection

S.T. Banquo H582
Picture courtesy of The JJ Collection

Changelog
26/01/2009: Page published. 6 revisions since then.
30/08/2014: Added 10th picture.
15/01/2017: Picture removed.
30/03/2017: Removed FMHT watermark from images.
19/01/2019: Updated information.
28/01/2019: Updated information.
07/08/2019: Updated information.
06/10/2020: Added an image.