Hi there!
This is sm216 calling you from Norway.
It appears that 15++ of former USA FS/AKL ships having served in WW2 are in/have been in use as Menhaden fishing ships in the Atlantic off the US Eastern seaboard.
(Haynie Products Inc./ Zapata Haynie Corporation Inc./ Zapata Protein, Inc., now Omega Protein Inc. )
Now maybe 10+ are active in this area. I am interested in a full fleet list of all these ships(current and past) with present and former call letters and registrations, plus if possible hull numbers.
Omega Protein Inc. provisional fleet list from
http://www.iwr.usace.army.mil/ndc/veslchar/veslcharsearch.htm :
Vessel Name: EARL J. CONRAD, JR.
USCG Doc. No.: 547733
Vessel Service: COMMERCIAL FISHING VESSEL
IMO Number: 6501393
Trade Indicator: Fishery
Call Sign: WYZ9562
Ship Builder: WHEELER SHIPYARD
Year Built: 1944
Hailing Port: REEDVILLE, VA.
Owner: OMEGA PROTEIN INC
5659 ELDER FERRY ROAD
MOSS POINT, MS 39563
Length (ft.): 166.3
Hull Material: STEEL
Hull Number: *
Hull Depth (ft.): 11.8
Hull Breadth (ft.): 32
Gross Tonnage: 535
Net Tonnage: 363
Do***entation Issuance Date: February 21, 2007
Do***entation Expiration Date: March 31, 2008
Previous Vessel Names: No Vessel Name Changes
Previous Vessel Owners: No Vessel Owner Changes
Vessel Name: REEDVILLE
USCG Doc. No.: 569161
Vessel Service: COMMERCIAL FISHING VESSEL
IMO Number: 7641671
Trade Indicator: Fishery
Call Sign: WYQ2585
Ship Builder: WHEELER SHIPBUILDING
Year Built: 1944
Hailing Port: REEDVILLE, VA.
Owner: OMEGA PROTEIN INC
5659 ELDER FERRY ROAD
MOSS POINT, MS 39563
Length (ft.): 166.3
Hull Material: STEEL
Hull Number: *
Hull Depth (ft.): 11.8
Hull Breadth (ft.): 32
Gross Tonnage: 542
Net Tonnage: 368
Do***entation Issuance Date: February 21, 2007
Do***entation Expiration Date: March 31, 2008
Previous Vessel Names: No Vessel Name Changes
Previous Vessel Owners: No Vessel Owner Changes
Note: In 1987(the year of my only ITU call sign list) there was NO ship carrying the above callsign.
Vessel Name: LANCASTER
USCG Doc. No.: 556177
Vessel Service: COMMERCIAL FISHING VESSEL
IMO Number: 8836144
Trade Indicator: Fishery
Call Sign: WYR2327
Ship Builder: HIGGINS INDUSTRIES INC
Year Built: 1944
Hailing Port: REEDVILLE, VA.
Owner: OMEGA PROTEIN INC
5659 ELDER FERRY ROAD
MOSS POINT, MS 39563
Length (ft.): 168.8
Hull Material: STEEL
Hull Number: FS-209
Hull Depth (ft.): 11.7
Hull Breadth (ft.): 32.1
Gross Tonnage: 536
Net Tonnage: 365
Do***entation Issuance Date: March 19, 2007
Do***entation Expiration Date: April 30, 2008
Previous Vessel Names: No Vessel Name Changes
Previous Vessel Owners: No Vessel Owner Changes
Note: In 1987(the year of my only ITU call sign list) there was NO ship carrying the above callsign.
Vessel Name: JOHN S DEMPSTER JR
USCG Doc. No.: 547685
Vessel Service: COMMERCIAL FISHING VESSEL
IMO Number: 7437472
Trade Indicator: Fishery
Call Sign: WYZ9563
Ship Builder: J.K. WELDING CO., INC.
Year Built: 1944
Hailing Port: REEDVILLE, VA.
Owner: OMEGA PROTEIN INC
5659 ELDER FERRY ROAD
MOSS POINT, MS 39563
Length (ft.): 166.3
Hull Material: STEEL
Hull Number: *
Hull Depth (ft.): 11.8
Hull Breadth (ft.): 32
Gross Tonnage: 542
Net Tonnage: 368
Do***entation Issuance Date: February 21, 2007
Do***entation Expiration Date: March 31, 2008
Previous Vessel Names: No Vessel Name Changes
Previous Vessel Owners: No Vessel Owner Changes
Note: In 1987(the year of my only ITU call sign list) there was NO ship carrying the above callsign.
Vessel Name: GREAT WICOMICO
USCG Doc. No.: 572545
Vessel Service: COMMERCIAL FISHING VESSEL
IMO Number: 6605230
Trade Indicator: Fishery
Call Sign: WYQ4353
Ship Builder: HIGGINS INDUSTRIES INC
Year Built: 1945
Hailing Port: REEDVILLE, VA.
Owner: OMEGA PROTEIN INC
5659 ELDER FERRY ROAD
MOSS POINT, MS 39563
Length (ft.): 168.8
Hull Material: STEEL
Hull Number: FS-227
Hull Depth (ft.):11.7
Hull Breadth (ft.): 32.1
Gross Tonnage: 550
Net Tonnage: 402
Do***entation Issuance Date: February 21, 2007
Do***entation Expiration Date: March 31, 2008
Previous Vessel Names: No Vessel Name Changes
Previous Vessel Owners: No Vessel Owner Changes
Vessel Name: SMITH ISLAND
USCG Doc. No.: 563942
Vessel Service: COMMERCIAL FISHING VESSEL
IMO Number: 7534672
Trade Indicator: Fishery
Call Sign: WYR2927
Ship Builder: HIGGINS INDUSTRIES INC
Year Built: 1944
Hailing Port: REEDVILLE, VA.
Owner: OMEGA PROTEIN INC
5659 ELDER FERRY ROAD
MOSS POINT, MS 39563
Length (ft.): 168.8
Hull Material: STEEL
Hull Number: FS-216
Hull Depth (ft.): 11.7
Hull Breadth (ft.): 32.1
Gross Tonnage: 541
Net Tonnage: 367
Do***entation Issuance Date: February 21, 2007
Do***entation Expiration Date: March 31, 2008
Previous Vessel Names: No Vessel Name Changes
Previous Vessel Owners: No Vessel Owner Changes
Vessel Name: TANGIER ISLAND
USCG Doc. No.: 565268
Vessel Service: COMMERCIAL FISHING VESSEL
IMO Number: 6408993
Trade Indicator: Fishery
Call Sign: WYR2928
Ship Builder: UNITED CONCRETE AND PIPE
Year Built: 1944
Hailing Port: REEDVILLE, VA.
Owner: OMEGA PROTEIN INC
5659 ELDER FERRY ROAD
MOSS POINT, MS 39563
Length (ft.): 166.3
Hull Depth (ft.): 11.8
Hull Material: STEEL
Hull Number: *
Hull Breadth (ft.): 32
Gross Tonnage: 538
Net Tonnage: 365
Do***entation Issuance Date: February 21, 2007
Do***entation Expiration Date: March 31, 2008
Previous Vessel Names: No Vessel Name Changes
Previous Vessel Owners: No Vessel Owner Changes
Vessel Name: SHEARWATER
USCG Doc. No.: 624092
Vessel Service: COMMERCIAL FISHING VESSEL
IMO Number: 8037487
Trade Indicator: Fishery
Call Sign: *
Ship Builder: HICKENBOTHAN BROS
Year Built: 1944
Hailing Port: REEDVILLE, VA.
Owner: OMEGA PROTEIN INC
5659 ELDER FERRY ROAD
MOSS POINT, MS 39563
Length (ft.): 166.2
Hull Material: STEEL
Hull Number: FS-411
Hull Breadth (ft.): 32.1
Hull Depth (ft.): 11.7
Gross Tonnage: 607
Net Tonnage: 446
Do***entation Issuance Date: February 21, 2007
Do***entation Expiration Date: March 31, 2008
Previous Vessel Names: No Vessel Name Changes
Previous Vessel Owners: No Vessel Owner Changes
Vessel Name: SMUGGLER'S POINT
USCG Doc. No.: 651567
Vessel Service: COMMERCIAL FISHING VESSEL
IMO Number: 8942759
Trade Indicator: Fishery
Call Sign: HQUI3
Ship Builder: INGALLS SHIP YARD
Year Built: 1943
Hailing Port: REEDVILLE VA
Owner: OMEGA PROTEIN INC
5659 ELDER FERRY ROAD
MOSS POINT, MS 39563
Length (ft.): 166.9
Hull Material: STEEL
Hull Number: 103746
Hull Depth (ft.): 15.4
Hull Breadth (ft.): 32
Gross Tonnage: 598
Net Tonnage: 179
Do***entation Issuance Date: November 21, 2006
Do***entation Expiration Date: November 30, 2007
Previous Vessel Names:
CROYANCE
EARL BULL SHEPARD
Previous Vessel Owners: OMEGA PROTEIN INC
SEAFARERS HARRY LUNDEBERG SCHOOL
Here is what happened to the MANCE LASSITER :
http://www.cosfc.com/Ennis Reef.htm
http://www.lbara.com/history.htm
http://www.ncfisheries.net/reefs/ar465a.htm
Here is what happened to the PAULINE MARIE :
http://njscuba.net/reefs/site_nj06gn_pauline_marie.html
NORTHUMBERLAND?? WYR2328
Presently 10 ships in the Atlantic. Or 11?
magogman has some great pics of some of these on shipspotting.com:
http://www.shipspotting.com/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=425795
http://www.shipspotting.com/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=436820
http://www.shipspotting.com/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=436818
http://www.shipspotting.com/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=436812
http://www.shipspotting.com/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=423821
http://www.shipspotting.com/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=436734
http://www.shipspotting.com/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=436738
http://www.shipspotting.com/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=423823
http://www.shipspotting.com/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=423828
http://www.shipspotting.com/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=423829
Also PHOTOSHIPS has one on the same site:
http://www.shipspotting.com/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=468256
Does any of you have other pictures of any ships, past and present?
Lloyds links the Earl J Conrad, jr to an offshore radio operation in the mid-60s, but the ship today certainly looks very different from the Olga Patricia/Laissez Faire.
www.northernstar.no/chapter10.htm
best regards
sm216
This is sm216 calling you from Norway.
It appears that 15++ of former USA FS/AKL ships having served in WW2 are in/have been in use as Menhaden fishing ships in the Atlantic off the US Eastern seaboard.
(Haynie Products Inc./ Zapata Haynie Corporation Inc./ Zapata Protein, Inc., now Omega Protein Inc. )
Now maybe 10+ are active in this area. I am interested in a full fleet list of all these ships(current and past) with present and former call letters and registrations, plus if possible hull numbers.
Omega Protein Inc. provisional fleet list from
http://www.iwr.usace.army.mil/ndc/veslchar/veslcharsearch.htm :
Vessel Name: EARL J. CONRAD, JR.
USCG Doc. No.: 547733
Vessel Service: COMMERCIAL FISHING VESSEL
IMO Number: 6501393
Trade Indicator: Fishery
Call Sign: WYZ9562
Ship Builder: WHEELER SHIPYARD
Year Built: 1944
Hailing Port: REEDVILLE, VA.
Owner: OMEGA PROTEIN INC
5659 ELDER FERRY ROAD
MOSS POINT, MS 39563
Length (ft.): 166.3
Hull Material: STEEL
Hull Number: *
Hull Depth (ft.): 11.8
Hull Breadth (ft.): 32
Gross Tonnage: 535
Net Tonnage: 363
Do***entation Issuance Date: February 21, 2007
Do***entation Expiration Date: March 31, 2008
Previous Vessel Names: No Vessel Name Changes
Previous Vessel Owners: No Vessel Owner Changes
Vessel Name: REEDVILLE
USCG Doc. No.: 569161
Vessel Service: COMMERCIAL FISHING VESSEL
IMO Number: 7641671
Trade Indicator: Fishery
Call Sign: WYQ2585
Ship Builder: WHEELER SHIPBUILDING
Year Built: 1944
Hailing Port: REEDVILLE, VA.
Owner: OMEGA PROTEIN INC
5659 ELDER FERRY ROAD
MOSS POINT, MS 39563
Length (ft.): 166.3
Hull Material: STEEL
Hull Number: *
Hull Depth (ft.): 11.8
Hull Breadth (ft.): 32
Gross Tonnage: 542
Net Tonnage: 368
Do***entation Issuance Date: February 21, 2007
Do***entation Expiration Date: March 31, 2008
Previous Vessel Names: No Vessel Name Changes
Previous Vessel Owners: No Vessel Owner Changes
Note: In 1987(the year of my only ITU call sign list) there was NO ship carrying the above callsign.
Vessel Name: LANCASTER
USCG Doc. No.: 556177
Vessel Service: COMMERCIAL FISHING VESSEL
IMO Number: 8836144
Trade Indicator: Fishery
Call Sign: WYR2327
Ship Builder: HIGGINS INDUSTRIES INC
Year Built: 1944
Hailing Port: REEDVILLE, VA.
Owner: OMEGA PROTEIN INC
5659 ELDER FERRY ROAD
MOSS POINT, MS 39563
Length (ft.): 168.8
Hull Material: STEEL
Hull Number: FS-209
Hull Depth (ft.): 11.7
Hull Breadth (ft.): 32.1
Gross Tonnage: 536
Net Tonnage: 365
Do***entation Issuance Date: March 19, 2007
Do***entation Expiration Date: April 30, 2008
Previous Vessel Names: No Vessel Name Changes
Previous Vessel Owners: No Vessel Owner Changes
Note: In 1987(the year of my only ITU call sign list) there was NO ship carrying the above callsign.
Vessel Name: JOHN S DEMPSTER JR
USCG Doc. No.: 547685
Vessel Service: COMMERCIAL FISHING VESSEL
IMO Number: 7437472
Trade Indicator: Fishery
Call Sign: WYZ9563
Ship Builder: J.K. WELDING CO., INC.
Year Built: 1944
Hailing Port: REEDVILLE, VA.
Owner: OMEGA PROTEIN INC
5659 ELDER FERRY ROAD
MOSS POINT, MS 39563
Length (ft.): 166.3
Hull Material: STEEL
Hull Number: *
Hull Depth (ft.): 11.8
Hull Breadth (ft.): 32
Gross Tonnage: 542
Net Tonnage: 368
Do***entation Issuance Date: February 21, 2007
Do***entation Expiration Date: March 31, 2008
Previous Vessel Names: No Vessel Name Changes
Previous Vessel Owners: No Vessel Owner Changes
Note: In 1987(the year of my only ITU call sign list) there was NO ship carrying the above callsign.
Vessel Name: GREAT WICOMICO
USCG Doc. No.: 572545
Vessel Service: COMMERCIAL FISHING VESSEL
IMO Number: 6605230
Trade Indicator: Fishery
Call Sign: WYQ4353
Ship Builder: HIGGINS INDUSTRIES INC
Year Built: 1945
Hailing Port: REEDVILLE, VA.
Owner: OMEGA PROTEIN INC
5659 ELDER FERRY ROAD
MOSS POINT, MS 39563
Length (ft.): 168.8
Hull Material: STEEL
Hull Number: FS-227
Hull Depth (ft.):11.7
Hull Breadth (ft.): 32.1
Gross Tonnage: 550
Net Tonnage: 402
Do***entation Issuance Date: February 21, 2007
Do***entation Expiration Date: March 31, 2008
Previous Vessel Names: No Vessel Name Changes
Previous Vessel Owners: No Vessel Owner Changes
Vessel Name: SMITH ISLAND
USCG Doc. No.: 563942
Vessel Service: COMMERCIAL FISHING VESSEL
IMO Number: 7534672
Trade Indicator: Fishery
Call Sign: WYR2927
Ship Builder: HIGGINS INDUSTRIES INC
Year Built: 1944
Hailing Port: REEDVILLE, VA.
Owner: OMEGA PROTEIN INC
5659 ELDER FERRY ROAD
MOSS POINT, MS 39563
Length (ft.): 168.8
Hull Material: STEEL
Hull Number: FS-216
Hull Depth (ft.): 11.7
Hull Breadth (ft.): 32.1
Gross Tonnage: 541
Net Tonnage: 367
Do***entation Issuance Date: February 21, 2007
Do***entation Expiration Date: March 31, 2008
Previous Vessel Names: No Vessel Name Changes
Previous Vessel Owners: No Vessel Owner Changes
Vessel Name: TANGIER ISLAND
USCG Doc. No.: 565268
Vessel Service: COMMERCIAL FISHING VESSEL
IMO Number: 6408993
Trade Indicator: Fishery
Call Sign: WYR2928
Ship Builder: UNITED CONCRETE AND PIPE
Year Built: 1944
Hailing Port: REEDVILLE, VA.
Owner: OMEGA PROTEIN INC
5659 ELDER FERRY ROAD
MOSS POINT, MS 39563
Length (ft.): 166.3
Hull Depth (ft.): 11.8
Hull Material: STEEL
Hull Number: *
Hull Breadth (ft.): 32
Gross Tonnage: 538
Net Tonnage: 365
Do***entation Issuance Date: February 21, 2007
Do***entation Expiration Date: March 31, 2008
Previous Vessel Names: No Vessel Name Changes
Previous Vessel Owners: No Vessel Owner Changes
Vessel Name: SHEARWATER
USCG Doc. No.: 624092
Vessel Service: COMMERCIAL FISHING VESSEL
IMO Number: 8037487
Trade Indicator: Fishery
Call Sign: *
Ship Builder: HICKENBOTHAN BROS
Year Built: 1944
Hailing Port: REEDVILLE, VA.
Owner: OMEGA PROTEIN INC
5659 ELDER FERRY ROAD
MOSS POINT, MS 39563
Length (ft.): 166.2
Hull Material: STEEL
Hull Number: FS-411
Hull Breadth (ft.): 32.1
Hull Depth (ft.): 11.7
Gross Tonnage: 607
Net Tonnage: 446
Do***entation Issuance Date: February 21, 2007
Do***entation Expiration Date: March 31, 2008
Previous Vessel Names: No Vessel Name Changes
Previous Vessel Owners: No Vessel Owner Changes
Vessel Name: SMUGGLER'S POINT
USCG Doc. No.: 651567
Vessel Service: COMMERCIAL FISHING VESSEL
IMO Number: 8942759
Trade Indicator: Fishery
Call Sign: HQUI3
Ship Builder: INGALLS SHIP YARD
Year Built: 1943
Hailing Port: REEDVILLE VA
Owner: OMEGA PROTEIN INC
5659 ELDER FERRY ROAD
MOSS POINT, MS 39563
Length (ft.): 166.9
Hull Material: STEEL
Hull Number: 103746
Hull Depth (ft.): 15.4
Hull Breadth (ft.): 32
Gross Tonnage: 598
Net Tonnage: 179
Do***entation Issuance Date: November 21, 2006
Do***entation Expiration Date: November 30, 2007
Previous Vessel Names:
CROYANCE
EARL BULL SHEPARD
Previous Vessel Owners: OMEGA PROTEIN INC
SEAFARERS HARRY LUNDEBERG SCHOOL
Here is what happened to the MANCE LASSITER :
http://www.cosfc.com/Ennis Reef.htm
http://www.lbara.com/history.htm
http://www.ncfisheries.net/reefs/ar465a.htm
Here is what happened to the PAULINE MARIE :
http://njscuba.net/reefs/site_nj06gn_pauline_marie.html
NORTHUMBERLAND?? WYR2328
Presently 10 ships in the Atlantic. Or 11?
magogman has some great pics of some of these on shipspotting.com:
http://www.shipspotting.com/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=425795
http://www.shipspotting.com/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=436820
http://www.shipspotting.com/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=436818
http://www.shipspotting.com/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=436812
http://www.shipspotting.com/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=423821
http://www.shipspotting.com/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=436734
http://www.shipspotting.com/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=436738
http://www.shipspotting.com/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=423823
http://www.shipspotting.com/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=423828
http://www.shipspotting.com/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=423829
Also PHOTOSHIPS has one on the same site:
http://www.shipspotting.com/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=468256
Does any of you have other pictures of any ships, past and present?
Lloyds links the Earl J Conrad, jr to an offshore radio operation in the mid-60s, but the ship today certainly looks very different from the Olga Patricia/Laissez Faire.
www.northernstar.no/chapter10.htm
best regards
sm216