May, 2018, edited for brevity
I found your site very interesting, as a useful index to records. I was a little confused by the listings, which showed lots of different vessels under the one number, but then I noticed that none of the dates, under an individual number, overlapped, so I must assume that registration numbers were re-used. Such re-using surprised me as I would have thought that such numbers should be unique to a vessel, over time, like most car registration numbers, but I was obviously wrong.
Anyway, you asked users to write to you if they found a relevant ship.
I have recently learnt that one of my ancestral cousins (Elizabeth Kate Mitchell), who was born and brought up in Newyln/Penzance, in Cornwall, married, in 1907, a young man (James Peck) from Henstead, in Suffolk. I found this a little strange as widespread travel was not yet a common thing in those days. I have though been given a possible insight into how they met as I have discovered, through the 1911 census, that the young man was a seaman on the ship WELCOME BOYS {LT11}, which seems to have traded between Lowestoft, Suffolk and Newlyn, Cornwall; the ship had a crew of 9, including the master, in 1911.
Elizabeth Kate Mitchell was one of my maternal grandmother's second cousins, though neither would have known each other, as there was no contact between the Australian branch of the family, and the Cornish, after my Mitchell Great-Grandfather, Thomas Mitchell (1842-1922), emigrated to Australia, in 1865, just a few weeks after he married for a second time (his first wife had died quite young).
Through other online research, particularly the online forum Sea The Ships (www.seatheships.org.uk), I have learnt that WELCOME BOYS was a fishing vessel built at Oulton Broad, by H. Reynolds, in 1908, a small steamer of 88.5 ft owned or managed by Albert Beamish of Lowestoft. I understand that the vessel was a 'steam drifter', which was a numerous type engaged mainly in the seasonal herring fishery (the herring shoals moved down the east coast from Scotland to SE England). The calls, by James, at Newlyn, would doubtless be in connection with some other types of fishing trip. I learnt, from your website, that the vessel was, eventually, to be lost in a collison, in 1937. As the marriage, between James and Elizabeth, occurred in 1907, he must have been serving on another vessel, which engaged in similar trade to that undertaken by OLYMPIC BOYS, when he met Elizabeth.
Best regards
Philip Hunt
Bendigo, Victoria
Australia