PICTON CASTLE tall ship
Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 9:22 pm
Built as a steel steam trawler under yard No 1031 by Cochrane & Sons Ltd. Selby for Consolidated Fisheries Ltd., Grimsby.
04 August 1928 launched as the PICTON CASTLE named after Picton Castle, Pembrokeshire in Wales, four sisters all named after a castle in the U.K.
Tonnage 307 gross, 116 net, dim. 39.7 (bpp) x 7.3m.
One 3-cyl triple expansion steam engine, manufactured by Amos & Smith Ltd. Hull, 91nhp, speed 12 knots.
October 1928 completed.
After completing fishing from Swansea and Grimsby
August 1939 hired by the Royal Navy and converted in a mine-sweeper, under the name HMS PICTON CASTLE.
Armament 1 -12pdr., 2 – Lewis MG one each bridge wing one, 1 – 50 MG aft, also fitted out with depth charge racks.
Used as a mine-sweeper around the coast of the U.K.
1945 Due to a problem while sweeping mines in the waters off Norway, she sailed to Bergen the nearest port, where the Germans forces just had left, the PICTON CASTLE was the first ship which entered a Norway port under the British flag, and she became famous as the Liberator of Norway for the Norwegian people.
December 1945 returned to owners, fitted out again as a fishing vessel.
1955 Sold to A.S. Einar Hausvik & Co, Norway and renamed in TETYS, and in 1956 converted in a cargo vessel, with a diesel engine, if she then received the 690hp B&W Alpha diesel is not clear.
1960 Sold to Alf Utkilen, Norway and renamed UTSTRAUM she was converted in a refrigated cargo vessel for the transport of frozen fish and fish offal along the coast of Norway and in the Baltic.
1978 Sold to Johan Stangeland, Norway and renamed in STEINFROST.
1973 Renamed by owners in BERGFROST.
1978 Converted in a suction dredger.
1981 Sold to H.Norland and renamed TUNSTEIN.
1984 Sold to A. Sandness, Norway and renamed DOLMAR.
1990 laid up..
1992/93 She was found by Captain Daniel Moreland in a Norwegian Fjord.
Later she sailed across the Atlantic to New York under her old name PICTON CASTLE.
1996 Moved to Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada for a 2 million dollar refit, a clipper bow and three steel masts added.
Rigged as a barque. Sail area 1156 square meters.
Tonnage given as 284 grt, 85 ton net. Dim. 54.40 x 7.30 x 4.30m. (draught).
Crew 14 and 34 trainees.
Owned by Windward Isle Sailing Ship Company, homeport Avatin, Rarotonga, Cook Islands.
After her refit used for long voyages around the world as a sail training vessel, her first voyage was between 1997 and 1999.
1998 During the UNESCO’s “Year of the Oceans” she was used as flagship for the OCEAN98 organization.
2009 Was a participant in the Tall Ship Atlantic Challenge Race from Vigo across the Atlantic and after calling some ports there back to Europe with the last port Belfast in August 2009.
Imo No. 5375010.
Bermuda 2009 70c sg?, scott?
Togo 2017 3300F sgMS?, scott? in margin of MS.
Mozambique 2019 126MT sg?, scott? and MS 300MT sgMS?, scott?
Source: http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz Tall ship fan. Great Sailing Ships of the World by Otmar Schäuffelen. Ships of the Royal Navy by Colledge.
04 August 1928 launched as the PICTON CASTLE named after Picton Castle, Pembrokeshire in Wales, four sisters all named after a castle in the U.K.
Tonnage 307 gross, 116 net, dim. 39.7 (bpp) x 7.3m.
One 3-cyl triple expansion steam engine, manufactured by Amos & Smith Ltd. Hull, 91nhp, speed 12 knots.
October 1928 completed.
After completing fishing from Swansea and Grimsby
August 1939 hired by the Royal Navy and converted in a mine-sweeper, under the name HMS PICTON CASTLE.
Armament 1 -12pdr., 2 – Lewis MG one each bridge wing one, 1 – 50 MG aft, also fitted out with depth charge racks.
Used as a mine-sweeper around the coast of the U.K.
1945 Due to a problem while sweeping mines in the waters off Norway, she sailed to Bergen the nearest port, where the Germans forces just had left, the PICTON CASTLE was the first ship which entered a Norway port under the British flag, and she became famous as the Liberator of Norway for the Norwegian people.
December 1945 returned to owners, fitted out again as a fishing vessel.
1955 Sold to A.S. Einar Hausvik & Co, Norway and renamed in TETYS, and in 1956 converted in a cargo vessel, with a diesel engine, if she then received the 690hp B&W Alpha diesel is not clear.
1960 Sold to Alf Utkilen, Norway and renamed UTSTRAUM she was converted in a refrigated cargo vessel for the transport of frozen fish and fish offal along the coast of Norway and in the Baltic.
1978 Sold to Johan Stangeland, Norway and renamed in STEINFROST.
1973 Renamed by owners in BERGFROST.
1978 Converted in a suction dredger.
1981 Sold to H.Norland and renamed TUNSTEIN.
1984 Sold to A. Sandness, Norway and renamed DOLMAR.
1990 laid up..
1992/93 She was found by Captain Daniel Moreland in a Norwegian Fjord.
Later she sailed across the Atlantic to New York under her old name PICTON CASTLE.
1996 Moved to Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, Canada for a 2 million dollar refit, a clipper bow and three steel masts added.
Rigged as a barque. Sail area 1156 square meters.
Tonnage given as 284 grt, 85 ton net. Dim. 54.40 x 7.30 x 4.30m. (draught).
Crew 14 and 34 trainees.
Owned by Windward Isle Sailing Ship Company, homeport Avatin, Rarotonga, Cook Islands.
After her refit used for long voyages around the world as a sail training vessel, her first voyage was between 1997 and 1999.
1998 During the UNESCO’s “Year of the Oceans” she was used as flagship for the OCEAN98 organization.
2009 Was a participant in the Tall Ship Atlantic Challenge Race from Vigo across the Atlantic and after calling some ports there back to Europe with the last port Belfast in August 2009.
Imo No. 5375010.
Bermuda 2009 70c sg?, scott?
Togo 2017 3300F sgMS?, scott? in margin of MS.
Mozambique 2019 126MT sg?, scott? and MS 300MT sgMS?, scott?
Source: http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz Tall ship fan. Great Sailing Ships of the World by Otmar Schäuffelen. Ships of the Royal Navy by Colledge.