M.T. Admiral Hawke – A520

Technical

Yard Number: 893
Gross Tonnage: 225
Net Tonnage: 74
Length: 107.9 ft
Breadth: 24.1 ft
Depth: 12 ft
Engine: 670bhp 5 cyl

History

1961: Completed by Hall Russell & Co Ltd, Aberdeen (Yd. No. 893) for Aberdeen Motor Trawlers Ltd, Aberdeen as ADMIRAL HAWKE. Registered at Aberdeen (A520).
1965: Owned by Mannofield Fishing Co. Ltd, Aberdeen.
1967: In ownership of Aberdeen Motor Trawlers Ltd, Aberdeen.
1977: In ownership of Hewett Fishing Co. Ltd, London.
1983-4: Transferred to Lowestoft and renamed DIANE ELIZABETH. Registered at Lowestoft (LT43).
1984: Owned by Breydon Marine Ltd, Lowestoft and renamed BREYDON EIDER. Converted as to a stand-by safety vessel.
1992: Sold for scrapping.

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M.T. Admiral Hawke A520
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M.T. Admiral Hawke A520
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M.T. Admiral Hawke A520
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M.T. Admiral Hawke A520
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M.T. Admiral Hawke A520
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M.T. Admiral Hawke A520
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mfv Star of Freedom – FD215

Technical

Gross Tonnage: 69
Net Tonnage: 41
Length: 72 ft
Oil Engine: 152bhp 4 stroke 6-cyl by Gardner Engines Ltd, Patricroft, Manchester

History

3.1959: Launched by George Thompson & Son Ltd, Buckie for Frank Pitts, Kirkella & others as STAR OF FREEDOM.
1959: Completed. Registered at Hull (H131).
By 1964: Owned by John Davies & Clifford Davies, Fleetwood. Hull registry closed Registered at Fleetwood (FD215).
08.1967: On a trip to the Southern Minches (Sk. Harold Harrison). Landed 500 st. fish and anchored for a few hours rest. 06:40 restarted fishing and crew were on deck shooting when they smelled smoke. Flames coming from cabin. Automatic extinguishers were switched on in the engine room but these did not cover the cabin. Engineer Woodward Millington attempted to get to the cabin but was unable to do so. Crew abandoned and fuel tanks exploded. It was the second occasion that a cabin fire had occurred on the vessel. Castlebay lifeboat rescued the crew.

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mfv Star of Freedom FD215
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M.T. Andrew Wilson – M73

Technical

Official Number: 300164
Yard Number: 444
Completed: 1959
Gross Tonnage: 181
Net Tonnage: 64
Length: 106′ 4″
Breadth: 23′ 3″
Depth: 9′ 7″
Built by: Richards Iron Works, Lowestoft
Owners: James Wilson, Fleetwood & G. Antoniazzi, Haverfordwest.

History

17.01.1959: Built for Pettit & Youds, Docks, Milford as VIRTUE PETTIT. Registered at Milford (M73).
15.08.1967: Owners registered as James Wilson, 62 Larkholme Lane, Fleetwood & G. Antoniazzi, 75 New Rd., Hook, Haverfordwest.
1968: Renamed ANDREW WILSON (M73).
1979: Owner, Bruno Linke, Mastlebridge, Neyland.
1979: Owner, G. Antoniazzi.
1984: Vessel broken up.

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M.T. Virtue Pettit M73
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M.T. Andrew Wilson M73
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M.T. Andrew Wilson M73
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M.T. Andrew Wilson M73
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M.T. Andrew Wilson M73
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09/08/2020: Added an image.
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iv Wild Cherry – FD429

Information courtesy of Paul Evans

Technical

Net Tonnage: 9.90 tons
Length: 33′ 10″
Breadth: 10′ 6″
Depth: 3′ 9″

History

01/1904: Completed at Robert Lathom & Co., of Crossens, Southport as WILD CHERRY for John Jones, Dee View Road, Connah’s Quay.
20/03/1906: Registered by owner at Chester (CH7).
25/01/1910: Sold to new owner and re-registered at Ramsey IOM as (RY24).
30/12/1918: Sold to Arthur Walker, Oaklea, Whitehaven and worked by Thomas Tubman.
08/11/1921: Reported as fitted with an engine.
21/02/1922: Sold to Herbert Wilson Walker, Lingmell, Seascale and registered at Whitehaven (WA22).
28/11/1923: Sold to Charles Schofield, 72 Adelaide Street, Fleetwood and registered at Fleetwood (FD429).
03/12/1924: Suffered engine damage.
23/10/1926: Re-engined.
05/01/1940: Sold to William Schofield, Crown Hotel Fleetwood.
13/08/1940: Sold to Robert Anderson Blackledge, Hatfield Avenue, Fleetwood.
25/04/1945: Sold to Vernon Cowpe, 81 Bold Street, Fleetwood and worked by Fred Price.
13/11/1946: Sold to Herbert Rawcliffe, 39 Poulton Road, Fleetwood.
19/5/1954: Sold to Ernest Wilson, 43 Poulton Road, Fleetwood.
14/6/1955: Sold to Willie Wilkinson, Lytham St Annes who laid her up in Allanson’s boatyard, Freckleton.
19/05/1959: Sold to for £90 to John Coulton, Long Lane, Banks, Southport and re-registered at Preston (PN34).
1959-60: Rebuilt including new decks, new wheelhouse, new upper stem, and rewiring at Crossens Sluice plus a Fowler diesel 1:1 gearbox fitted. On completion the boat was moored at Southport and Hesketh Bank and fished with Peter Rimmer of Marshside.
08/08/1962: Sold to FW Coward, Fernyhalgh Lane, Fulwood, Preston for £500.
09/07/1969: Sold to Arthur Mervyn Filton, Burnley, worked in 1971 by FW Groden, of Fleetwood.
24/06/1971: Received assistance from the Lytham St Annes Lifeboat SARAH TOWNSEND PORRITT.
01/11/1973: Sold to Tom Gorew and Preston fishing registry closed.
27/07/1981: Returned to fishing under ownership of Michael Stephens of Rochdale.
27/07/1986: sold to K Lyne, Ashton under Lyne.
17/11/1988: Fishing registration removed under Merchant Shipping Act 1988.
1994: Rebuilt at Liverpool Marina by Jim Weir who sold her to new owners in Fiddlers Ferry.
12/1998: Parted moorings off Rock Ferry in the River Mersey and struck Rock Ferry Pier losing her lower stem, breaking the keel and capsizing.
01/1999: Aground, upside down and derelict alongside Tranmere Oil Terminal, eventually destroyed by wind and tide. Nothing remained by 2001.

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iv Wild Cherry FD429

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M.T. Atlantic A – FD75

Technical

RSS Number: A16710
Yard Number: 1439
Gross Tonnage: 274
Length: 41m
Breadth: 7.64m
Depth: 3.56m
Built: 1958, Holland
Engine: WERKSPOOR 2,00hp/1497kw
Owner / Manager: Atlantic Ocean Fishing Co Ltd, Wallasey, Merseyside

History

1958: Built as HUIBERTJE. Registered at Scheveringen (SCH 242).
1970: Renamed ORA et LABORA (GO5).
1980: Renamed DEO VOLENTE (GO51).
1981: Renamed ORA et LABORA (IJM15).
1982: Renamed DEO JUVANTE (UK367).
1983: Renamed ATLANTIC (UK375).
1987: Renamed ATLANTIC A (FD75).

2003: Sold to Charter company “Wind Is Our Friend”. Work began on stripping down the hull so she could be rebuilt as a Brig.
2005: Completed, renamed MERCEDES. Her working life now consists of the following.

“MERCEDES sails the whole Mediterranean along the Atlantic coast up into the North Sea and the full Baltic Sea. She is present at nearly all big maritime festivals in Europe, and available for charter in international waters.”

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M.T. Atlantic A FD75

M.T. Atlantic A FD75
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M.T. Maythorn – P57

Technical

Official Number: 182741
Yard Number: 653
Completed: 1940
Gross Tonnage: 452
Net Tonnage: 144
Length: 158′ 3″
Breadth: 27′ 3″
Depth: 14 ft
Built: Cook Welton & Gemmell, Beverley
Engine: 850ihp T.3-cyl by CD Holmes Ltd, Hull
Speed: 12 kts

History

29 Nov 1939: Launched as HMS BLACKTHORN for the Admiralty.
07/04/1940: Completed as a Tree Class minesweeper (P.No. T.100). 1 x 12 pdr; 2 x 0.5″ AA; 4 x LG (2 x twin).
1947: Sold to Vospers Ltd, Portsmouth. Renamed MAYTHORN. Registered at Portsmouth (P57).
1947: Re-engined – 16 cyl, 850ihp Werkspoor N.V., Amsterdam.
1949: Milford Steam Trawlers, Docks, Milford.
1955: Sold to A/S Bergens Fiskenselskap, Per Chr. Rahrs, Bergen. Renamed KLAN.
1963: Sold to Olav Østervold P/R Lepsøy, reg. Bergen. Renamed JAN OVE
1971: Broken up in Norway.

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iv Short Blue FD143

Technical

Net Tonnage: 10.87

History

1939: Built by John Crossfield & Co., of Conwy as CAPELLA for J Wright of Fleetwood.
1939: Completed.
19/01/1940: Fleetwood lifeboat landed the body of one of the two crewmen drowned off Blackpool whilst delivering the boat. The boat was subsequently salvaged and renamed SHORT BLUE.
30/10/1941: Registered at Fleetwood (FD143) by Robert Scott Hewett of London skippered by William Randles.
11/06/1946: Sold to George William Dodd of Fleetwood and Hartlepool.
06/04/1962: Sold to William Bradshaw Wilson of 5 Lincoln Avenue, Fleetwood.
17/04/1968: Sold to John Ferns of 21 Toxteth Grove, Dingle, Liverpool, being moored in Birkenhead.
22/12/1970: Fishing registration cancelled.

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iv Short Blue FD143
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iv Short Blue FD143
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iv Short Blue FD143
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07/04/2022: Added images.

M.T. Cotsmuir (2) – FD277

Technical

Official Number: 378030
RSS No.A16730
Licence No: 10425
Completed: 1963
Gross Tonnage: 85.63
Net Tonnage: 27.35
L.O.A: 26.72 m
Length: 24.39 m
Breadth: 6.25 m
Depth: 2.71 m
Engine: 186kW/250hp oil engine by Bolnes B.V., Krimpen aan de Lek, Rotterdam

History

1963: Launched by Scheepswerf De Rietpol, Spaarndam.
1963: Completed by H. Zwart, IJmuiden for Leopold & Theodoor Neyts, Zeebruges as MERCURIUS. Registered at Zeebruges (Z527).
11.1972: Sold to Germany.
6.12.1972: Zeebruges registry closed. Registered at Bremerhaven as SANDRA (BX751).
1973: Re-engined with 224kW/300hp oil engine by Bolnes B.V., Krimpen aan de Lek, Rotterdam.
1981: Sold to David Atkinson, Fleetwood. Bremerhaven registry closed. Registered at Fleetwood as COTSMUIR (FD277).
1988: Sold to A. Williams & J. E. Heron, Kilkeel, Co. Down. Fishing out of Fleetwood.
08.04.1990: Sailed Fleetwood for the Morecambe Bay fishing grounds.
09.04.1990: Trawl fouled the propeller and rudder taken in tow by the RESOLUTE and towed to Amlwch Harbour Angelsy. Trawl cleared by divers, but as the tide ebbed the vessel fell onto her side, and was flooded on the next incoming tide.
13.04.1990: Raised by the Holyhead Towing Company, which took almost 12 hours to pump out the vessel. Vessel repaired and put back into service.
By 1993: Sold to Sean M. Ryan, Fishguard, Pembrokeshire, (later Hermon, Glogue,Pembrokeshire).
199?: Converted for beam trawling. Fishing from Milford/Fishguard.
199?: On completion of rebuild as a beam trawler, remeasured 99gt.
10.03.1994: Registered at Fleetwood as MERCURIUS (FD277).
16.02.2009: At Milford to land and to sail the following day. One crewman, David Robert England (38), Morriston, Swansea stayed on board.
17.02.2009: Sailing postponed and later the Holyhead beam scalloper STEPHANIE (BCK152) arrived and secured alongside.. During the afternoon, England went ashore to the local pub. Late in the evening he returned on board and at 2330 was seen standing on the deck by the mate of STEPHANIE who spoke to him and ascertained he was all right. The mate then went ashore and spent a few hours in the nearby pub
before returning to his boat at 0230. As he crossed MERCURIUS, he found England asleep on the deck, next to the starboard accommodation door. He tried to rouse him, but England did not want to move so he decided to head for his own bunk.
18.02.2009: In the morning the body of a man was recovered from the dock.
20.02.2009: Pembrokeshire Coroner released the name of the man who had been identified as England.
2012: Fleetwood registry closed. Registered at Milford (M277).
11.2016: Still fishing and landing at Milford; member of the South Western Fish Producers Organisation Ltd, Ivybridge, Devon.

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M.T. Cotsmuir FD277
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M.T. Cotsmuir FD277
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M.T. Mercurius FD277
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M.T. Mercurius FD277
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M.T. Mercurius M277
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M.T. Sandra BX751
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Changelog
27/10/2016: Page re-published due to site problems.
09/12/2016: Picture added and text amended.
11/12/2016: Added information.
20/03/2017: Added picture and removed FMHT watermark from others.
31/03/2020: Added an image.
28/08/2024: Edited history.
28/08/2024: Added an image.

M.T. Bervie Braes – FD23

Technical

Official Number: A16679
Yard Number: B518
Gross Tonnage: 51
Net Tonnage: 21
Length: 22.43 m
Breadth: 5.97 m
Depth: 2.53 m
Engine: Lister Blackstone EVSM4, 264hp

History

29.03.1960: Launched by the Fairmile Construction Co. Ltd. Berwick-upon-Tweed for W. J. Fishing Co. Ltd, Aberdeen.
1960: Completed.
1976: Registered as BERVIE BRAES (PZ253), owner Anthony Stevens, Newlyn & Others.
1989: In Fleetwood registration. Owner J. Newsham, Fleetwood. Registered as BERVIE BRAES FD23
15.12.1997: Decommissioned & Scrapped.

Known Alterations
Whaleback added.
330hp Caterpillar Engine.

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M.T. Bervie Braes FD23
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M.T. Bervie Braes FD23
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M.T. Bervie Braes FD23
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M.T. Bervie Braes FD23
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Changelog
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28/02/2017: Added image.
24/06/2022: Added an image.

M.T. Argo of Pembroke – M74

Technical

Official Number: 301710
Completed: 1962
Gross Tonnage: 302
Net Tonnage: 93
Length: 121.4 ft
Breadth: 26.9 ft
Depth: 14.6 ft
Built: James & Stone, Brightlingsea
Engine: 2 diesel electrics by Electrical Engineering Co. 540 bhp 11.5 kts

History

1962 : Launched by James & Stone, Brightlingsea for Pembroke Fishing Co, Docks, Milford (Fred Ingram, Cairo Fishing Co., Manager) as Argo of Pembroke (M74)
May 02 1962:Registered at Milford (M74).
January 1964: Fishing from Fleetwood with a Milford skipper (Sk James Jobson) & crew.
1966: Sold to Craig & Son Ltd, Aberdeen
September 1966: Sailing from Aberdeen.
1974: Sold to P. K. Stovlbaek Partrederi, Denmark. Renamed SILLERSLEV.Later owned by Kaj R. Jensen Partrederi, and registered at Thyboron, Denmark.
1981 :Sold to Sisimut Trawl ApS, and renamed SARFAQ, and registered at Holsteinsborg/Sisimut, Greenland (Danish flag).
1988: Refitted with new engines
1993: Arrived in New Zealand
1994: she was shrimping outside the 200-mile exclusive economic zone, in joint ventures with independent companies, but was then laid up for nearly a year at Lyttelton.
1995: Her owners were listed as Island Fisheries Ltd. The shrimping gear was replaced with hoki trawling gear.
1996: Listed as owned by New Zeafish Ltd.
August 28th 2001 She was towed thirty-seven miles from Wellington by the tug KUPE and was scuttled in the early evening in 41048’S.,175000’E., about fifteen miles S.S.W. from Cape Palliser in 1,700 metres of water.

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