STURDEE LT588

 

John Stevenson Collection

Official No:  139345    Port Number and Year:   Lowestoft, 1919 (LT588)                                                                                Aberdeen, 1919 (A219)

Description: Strath Class steel side trawler, steam screw, coal burning. Ketch rigged

Crew:

Built: 1919 by Hall, Russell & Co., Aberdeen.  (Yard no. 657)

Tonnage: 202 grt  88 net

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 115.4  / 22.1  / 12.1

Engine: T.3-cyl; 74 rhp;  by builders

Owners: Renamed: STURDEE LT588 1919: L. C. Cockrell, Lowestoft Manager: H. E. Rees & Co., Docks, Milford.   1926: Vanessa Fishing Co., Lowestoft. Manager: E. D. W. Lawford.   As A219 1932: J. Gore & A. J. Spence, Aberdeen 1933: Gorspen Steam Trawling Co., Aberdeen Manager: A. J. Spence.   1937: T. W. N.  Davidson, Aberdeen 1945: Looker Fishing Co., Aberdeen Manager: A. A. Davidson

Landed at Milford: 1 Mar 1920 - 11 Mar 1930

Skippers: Henry Lang

Notes: 12 Jun 1919: Launched for the Admiralty as MICHAEL BRION but completed as a fishing vessel Nov 1939: Requisitioned by the Admiralty as STURDEE and converted to an auxiliary patrol vessel. Jan 1940: Returned to owners. 19 Oct 1955: Went ashore 150 yards off Aberdeen beach, just north of Beach Ballroom.  [See below.]

Accidents and Incidents

From a document in the Les Jones Archive:

 

Petty Sessions (Ireland Act 1851, 14 & 15 Vict.

Sessions District of Bantry - County of Cork

 

The Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland                                                Henry A Lang

of Upper Merrion Street in the County of the City of Dublin                                                               43, Edward Street.

                                                                                                                                                         Milford Haven, Pembroke,

                                                                                                                                                         South Wales

 

Complainant                                                                                                                                       Defendant

 

Whereas a complaint has been made to me that on the 7th day of May 1925 at the place viz. within or to the landmark of an imaginary straight line from Sheep Head and Three Castle Head in Dunmanus Bay of the sea coast of the County of Cork in said district and County you the Defendant did unlawfully and knowingly use a vessel, To Wit, a steamer named "Sturdee" No. LT.588 of which you the Defandant then was Skipper-in-Charge the method of fishing known as Otter Trawling within the prescribed area in contravention of the Bye-Law made by the Department of Agriculture and Technical  Instruction for Ireland dated the Fifth of April 1897 by virtue of the powers in them vested under the Steam Trawlers Trawling Act (Ireland) 1889 and of every other power enabling them on that behalf.

    This is to command you to appear as a Defandant on the hearing of the said Complaint at the Bantry District Court on said County Cork on Thursday the 27th day of August 1925 at 12.30 p.m. before such Justice as shall be there.

 

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Note in Les Jones archive (original source unknown):

 

    Whilst returning from a fishing voyage of eight days, she went ashore in foggy conditions 150 yards off Aberdeen Beach, just north of the Beach Ballroom.  The Bridge of Don life-saving apparatus crew were soon on the scene, and fired a line over the trawler's deck.  Just then, however, the Aberdeen lifeboat under Coxswain George Flett arrived, and succeeded in taking off all eleven of the crew, in spite of heavy seas which made rescue difficult. 

    The Sturdee's catch of fish was landed next day, but the trawler herself was a total loss, and she was broken up where she lay.

 

 

 

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