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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