ORONTES GY411

 

Courtesy of Fleetwood Maritime Heritage Trust and The Bosun's Watch

Official No:  105040   Port and Year:  Hull, 1895 (H282)

                                                                 Fleetwood, 1906 (FD54)

                                                                 Vancouver, BC, 1912.

                                                                 Grimsby, 1919 (GY411)

Description: Iron side trawler, steam, coal fired, single screw.  Ketch rigged.

Crew: 11 men (1895). 9 men (1919).

Built: 1895, by Cochrane & Cooper, Beverley (Yard no.125)

Tonnage:  178 grt  76 net.

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 111.4  / 21.0 / 11.0

Engine: T.3-Cyl; 60 rhp, 10 kts.; by Charles D. Holmes & Co., Hull. (1909: New boiler fitted.)

Owners:

 

As H282

3 May 1895: Thomas Hamling & Co., Hull.

Managing owner.

 

28 Nov 1905: James A. Robertson, Custom House Buildings, Fleetwood.

Managing owner.

 

30 Dec 1905: The Lancashire Steam Fishing Co. Ltd., Fleetwood, Lancs.

9 Jan 1906: As FD54.

 

1912:  Wallace Fisheries, Vancouver, BC.

17 Feb 1912: Fleetwood registry closed.  Registered at Vancouver.

 

9 Jul 1919: Northwold Steam Fishing Co., Fish Docks, Grimsby

Manager: M. W. Jennison (21 Jun 1919).

                T. Sowerby. (3 Sep 1919). [Same address.]

                Robert Daniel Roberts (31 Jan 1924).

9 Jul 1919: As GY411. Vancouver registry closed.

 

31 Jan 1924: Robert D. Roberts, Fish Docks, Grimsby. (Managing owner.)

                         H. P. Capron, Cleethorpes.

 

Sep 1926: Orontes Steam Fishing Co., Grimsby.

                 Charles Knott (13/64); John Burgess (13/64); Henry Peregrine Capron (19/64); Robert Daniel Roberts (19/64).

Manager: William Hollingsworth Johnston.

 

2 Jan 1933:  Alexander McKay, Hakin, Milford.

Manager: Reginald Llewllyn  Hancock

 

8 Nov 1935:  R. L. Hancock, "Beachways", Hakin, Milford.

Managing owner.

 

Landed at Milford: 17 Jan 1920 - 28 Apr 1927; 10 Jan 1933 - 4 Apr 1937.

Skippers:

Notes:

Orontes is the form of an Iranian masculine name meaning "of greatness, mighty". (Wikipedia.)

Sep 1937: Broken up in the Netherlands.

8 Sep 1937: Grimsby Register closed.

[Lofthouse T., Mayes G., Newton D., & Thompson M. (2012): Cochrane Shipbuilders Vol.1: 1884 - 1914.]

 

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