Wartime visitor
Technical
Official Number: 123378
Yard Number: 427
Completed: 1907
Gross Tonnage: 192.47
Net Tonnage: 52.38
Length: 115.5 ft
Breadth: 21.75
Depth: 13.4 ft
Built: A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen
Engine: T.3-cyl by A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen
History
1907: Launched by A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen (Yd.No.427) for The East Coast Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Aberdeen as HORACE STROUD.
2.1907: Completed.
22.2.1907: Registered at Aberdeen (A122).
7.4.1910: Registered at Aberdeen as EAST COAST (A122) (BoT Minute No.7644 dated 31.3.1910).
3.10.1912: At Fleetwood landed 1,200 line caught halibut, £300 gross.
11.1913: Reportedly sold to Portuguese buyers for £500 in excess of original cost; sale not concluded.
1.1.1914: Tonnage altered to 76.73 net under provision of Merchant Shipping Act 1907.
2.1915: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-12pdr) (Ad.No.1172). Based Stornoway.
29.4.19018: Sold to John Thomas Graham, James Bruce Graham and John Thomas Graham Jnr, all Hartlepool (joint owners (64/64).
29.4.1918: Aberdeen registry closed.
4.1918: Registered at Hartlepool (HL94).
By 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Aberdeen.
1919: Sold to The Friarage Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hartlepool.
11.1919: Sold to Pêcheries des Flandres, Ostend.
1.1920: Hartlepool registry closed.
1.1920: Registered at Ostend (O125). J. de Coninche appointed manager.
16.11.1922: Sold to David Dow Noble and John Duthie, Aberdeen (joint owners (64/64)).
1922: Remeasured 73.54n.
11.1922: Ostend registry closed.
11.1922: Registered at Aberdeen (A935).
21.11.1923: Sold to David Dow Noble (64/64), Aberdeen.
3.1.1931: Sold to David Dow Noble and Mrs Jane Noble (joint owners (64/64)).
16.1.1939: At about 6.30pm. steam trawler CRISABELLE STEPHEN (A374) outward from Aberdeen for fishing grounds (Sk. F. Fraser); nine crew, ran onto rocks at Scaurs of Cruden, south of Peterhead. Stood by and at about 8.00pm. when vessel came afloat under own power, EAST COAST connected and commenced 14 mile tow to Aberdeen. After an hour and a half, Sk. Fraser requested that vessel be beached, but she started to settle and foundered in under three minutes. Men were seen in the water and Wemys, a fireman from the EAST COAST, jumped in to try and save the men but had to be hauled back, one man picked up but died onboard. All nine crew members were lost.
29.8.1940: Sold to David Dow Noble (64/64), Aberdeen.
3.2.1941: Sold to The Don Trawling Co (Milford) Ltd (64/64), Milford Haven.
23.2.1941: First landing at Milford.
14.6.1943: Directed to Fleetwood to land but re-assigned.
22.3.1943: Last landing at Milford before requisition.
3.1944: Requisitioned for war service for miscellaneous naval duties (Hire rate £48.0.0d/month). Assigned to Operation Neptune – Normandy landings. Fitted with portable tanks for employment as a smoke making trawler.
7.6.1944: Sent to Grimsby with defective winch.
12.10.1944: Returned to owner.
25.10.1947: Sailed Milford for Irish grounds (Sk. Sam Larner); ten crew in total.
3.11.1947: Called Cork for additional supplies.
6.1947: On Irish grounds started to take in water aft. Distress call made and attended by Ballycotton lifeboat and trawlers MILFORD VISCOUNT (M196), SLEBECH (M199) and ARTHUR CAVANAGH (M161). SLEBECH connected and delivered Ballycotton and vessel subsequently beached.
1958: Sold to shipbreakers.
16.7.1958: Aberdeen registry closed “Vessel broken up”.
Changelog
08/05/2020: Page published.