As "Normanby" FD 31 |
© Reproduced with acknowledgement to The Bosuns Watch website |
Astros GN 48/GN 31
Built | 1917 Smith's Dock Co Ltd, Middlesbrough, as "William Spencer" (Steel) |
Yard No | 700 |
Owner at New | Admiralty (Ad.No3521) |
ID no | 143903 |
Launch Date | 19 .06.1917 |
Completed | 25.07.1917 |
Gross Tons | 275 |
Nett Tons | 107 |
Engine | 87 hp T.3-cyl by Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle |
Length | 125.5ft |
Breadth | 23.4ft |
Depth | 12.8ft |
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Owners | |
24.01.1921 | Registered at London LO 498 |
1924 | Sold to the Mercantile |
14.11.1924 | London registry closed |
1924 | Owned by Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Boston Lincs (Fred Parkes manager) |
21.11.1924 | Renamed "NORMANBY" |
21.11.1924 | Registered at Fleetwood FD 31. |
1926 | Owned by Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Fred Parkes manager). |
19.09.1935 | Chartered for a month-long search off the Azores for the missing yacht "Altair" ( Azores to Plymouth). The search was unsuccessful. |
01.1936 | Owned by Liston Carnie, William Carnie Jnr & Thomas Young Carnie (Carnie & Gibb), Newhaven Edinburgh (William Carnie Jnr Glasgow manager) |
31.01.1936 | Fleetwood registry closed. |
02.1936 | Renamed "ASTROS" |
02.1936 | Registered at Granton GN 48 |
18.12.1939 | Attacked and damaged by enemy aircraft 115 miles E x N from May Island Firth of Forth. Crew took to the small boat but returned later. Skippers cabin caught fire but soon extinguished by crew with hose. |
28.12.1939 | Requisitioned and converted to Barrage Balloon Vessel (P No Z.130) (Hire rate £80.4.0d/month) |
03.12.1943 | Owned by Ministry of War Transport, London |
03.12.1943 | Granton registry closed |
1945 | Based at Portsmouth (Fraser & White Ltd, Portsmouth, agents). |
03.1946 | Sold to the Mercantile |
03.1946 | Owned by Joseph Croan, Newhaven Edinburgh (owner/manager) |
01.1947 | Registered at Granton GN 31 |
17.10.1952 | Skipper Robert Horne, at Edinburgh Sheriff Court fined £15 for landing 73 boxes of undersized Haddocks on 5th Sept. |
03.1960 | Sold as scrap to BISCO (British Iron & Steel Co) for £2800. |
15.03.1960 | Arrived at Charlestown Fife |
23.12.1960 | Scrapped by Shipbreaking Industries Ltd at Charlestown, Fife |