Bass Rock LH 296
Built | 1907 John Cran & Co Ltd, Leith Edinburgh (Steel) |
Yard No | 61 |
Owner at New | Leith Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Edinburgh (Thomas Harrison Scales manager) |
ID no | 125476 |
Launch Date | 13.08.1907 |
Completed | 09.1907 |
Gross Tons | 169 |
Nett Tons | 67 |
Engine | 54 hp T.3-cyl by John Cran & Co Ltd, Leith Edinburgh |
Length | 112.3ft |
Breadth | 21.6ft |
Depth | 10.9ft |
Owners | |
21.09.1907 | Registered at Leith LH 296 |
29.11.1911 | Ran ashore at Newburgh, Aberdeenshire. Refloated later |
09.1914 | Requisitioned and converted to minesweeper (Ad.No.513) based at Granton |
1919 | Returned to Owners |
30.04.1919 | Owned by Abraham Moore, Scarborough (owner/manager). |
04.1919 | Leith registry closed. |
30.04.1919 | Registered at Scarborough SH 69 |
22.08.1919 | Owned by Stepney Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Scarborough (Abraham Moore manager) . |
11.10.1919 | Owned by Frederick Spashett, Lowestoft |
11.10.1919 | Scarborough registry closed. |
14.10.1919 | Registered at Lowestoft LT 646. |
1919 | Owned by Vectis Fishing Co Ltd, Lowestoft (Walter H. Smith manager). |
10.1921 | Owned by Thomas Stephen, Aberdeen (owner/manager) |
29.10.1921 | Lowestoft registry closed. |
04.11.1921 | Registered at Aberdeen A .759 |
07.02.1922 | Owned by Thomas Stephen & John Nicol Stephen, Aberdeen (Thomas Stephen manager) |
04.11.1922 | Owned by Thomas Stephen, Aberdeen (owner/manager) |
21.07.1925 | Ran aground 1000yds NNW of Peterhead Coastguard station. Damaged her propeller, all crew saved. |
23.07.1925 | Refloated and proceeded south with one blade on propeller. |
22.02.1928 | Owned by Stephen Fishing Co Ltd, Aberdeen (Thomas Stephen manager) |
29.05.1930 | Owned by William H. East, Milford Haven (owner/manager) |
14.02.1935 | Towed into Milford Haven after losing rudder off the Smalls lighthouse by S.T. "Gozo" H 545. |
24.09.1940 | Bombed and sunk by enemy aircraft of Old Head of Kinsale Ireland. Four crewmen lost including skipper, four others (Chief Engineer Rees, 2nd Engineer Mason, Bosun George Collier and cook Fred Foster) picked up by S.T. “Goosander” LL 118 and one (Cecil Mantripp, mate) by S.T. “Celtia” LL 28. |
30.09.1940 | Aberdeen registry closed. |
Those lost: - Skipper George Skewis; Third Hand John W. Tobutt; John Hext, deckhand, H. W. E. Mills, fireman. | |