As "Chiltern" H 660 |
© Reproduced with acknowledgement to The Bosuns Watch website |
Chiltern GN 25
Built | 1917 Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby as "John Cormack" (Steel) |
Yard No | 822 |
Owner at New | Admiralty (Ad No 3562) |
ID no | 143867 |
Launch Date | 04.09.1917 |
Completed | 05.12.1917 |
Gross Tons | 324 |
Nett Tons | 130 |
Engine | 87 hp T.3-cyl by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull |
Length | 138.5ft |
Breadth | 23.7ft |
Depth | 12.8ft |
Owners |
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28.01.1920 | Registered at London LO 263 |
1922 | Sold to the Mercantile |
1922 | Owned by Pickering & Haldanes Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull (John McCann & Edward Cartwright managers) |
28.07.1922 | London registry closed |
04.08.1922 | Renamed "LORD PIRRIE" |
04.08.1922 | Registered at Hull H 660 |
1929 | Owned by Eton Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull |
28.06.1929 | Renamed "CHILTERN" |
1930 | Owned by W. R. Willey & Sons, Hull (W. B. Wiley Jnr manager) |
1936 | Fishing from Fleetwood, Deckhand George Cook fell overboard and drowned at Rockall fishing grounds |
1938 | Owned by H. Elliot & Sons, Fleetwood (H. Elliott & Sons Trawlers Ltd managers ). |
1940 | Owned by Boston Deep Sea Fishing Co & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Basil Arthur Parkes manager) |
04.06.1940 | Requisitioned as Auxiliary Patrol Trawler (P.No. 4.125). ) (Hire rate £94.10s.0d/month). (Went to St. Nazaire in northern France, where she rescued women and children from the invading Nazis. "Chiltern" was the last British ship to leave the French port.) |
30.05.1941 | Shot down a twin-engined German bomber into the sea off the West Country. |
09.1941 | Converted to minesweeper |
1945 | Returned to Owners |
1945 | Owned by Planet Fishing Co Ltd, Granton Edinburgh (Edwin Walker & Sons managers) |
28.10.1945 | Laid up at Granton had engine-room filled with water owing to leakage. |
1945 | Hull registry closed. |
1945 | Registered at Granton GN 25 |
26.01.1950 | Picked up crew of S.T. "Kuvera" GN 39 which had sprung a leak and foundered 110miles NE of Buchan Ness |
1952 | Owned by Medway Yacht Basin Ltd, Borstal Rochester ( R. W. Pearson manager ) |
1954 | Sold as scrap |