KATHLEEN FD195

Official No:  109672   Port Number and Year:   Fleetwood, 1900 (FD195)

Description: Steel side trawler; coal burning, single screw.

Crew: 11

Built: 1900; Earle's Shipbuilding & Engineering Co. Hull. (Yard no. 469)

Tonnage: 198 grt  71 net 

1 Jan 1914: Tonnage altered to 77.93 net under provision of Merchant Shipping Act 1907

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 110.4  / 21.1 / 11.2

Engine: T.3-Cyl; 52 rhp, by builders.

Owners:

 

6 March 1900: The Fleetwood Steam Fishing Co., Fleetwood

Manager: George E. J. Moody, Grimsby (1900-03)

                G. H. D. Birt, Docks, Milford (1903-4)

 

11 Mar 1915:  George Forbes Innes Philip Taylor, David Taylor & William Still, Aberdeen.

Manager: G.F.I.P. Taylor.

 

Landed at Milford: 26 Jul 1903 - 5 Sep 1904

Skippers: Gardner; Jones; Nightingale.

Notes: 3 Jun 1915:  Run down by the armed merchant cruiser HMS ALCANTARA,  80 miles SE by S from Wester Horne, Iceland. Subsequently foundered.

12 Jun 1915: Crew landed at Aberdeen.

[Information from the Fleetwood Maritime Trust and Bosun's Watch website.]

 

Accidents and Incidents

From The Pembrokeshire Herald and General Advertiser of Friday 13th November 1903:

 

SALE OF STEAM TRAWLERS.- Yesterday, at the Lord Nelson Hotel, an important sale took place, the auctioneer being Mr. J. Ll. Davies.  A large number of people had assembled, and some spirited bidding was witnessed.  The first lot comprised 4 trawlers, viz. 'Ethel', 'Julia', 'Elsie' and 'Kathleen'.  The bidding started at £9000 and eventually reached the sum of £12,820, the purchaser's name not being revealed.  Lot 2 was the S.S. 'Florence' which started at £1000 and was knocked down to the same purchaser at £4,510.  It is rumoured that a Hull firm were the purchasers of the vessels.

 

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