Columba GN 43
Built | 1893 Hawthorns & Co Ltd, Leith Edinburgh (Steel) |
Yard No | 48 |
Owner at New | Thomas L. Devlin, Granton Edinburgh (owner/manager) |
ID no | 99903 |
Launch Date | 15.06.1893 |
Completed | 07.1893 |
Gross Tons | 126 |
Nett Tons | 22 |
Engine | 48 hp T.3-cyl by Hawthorns & Co Ltd, Leith Edinburgh |
Length | 99ft |
Breadth | 20.1ft |
Depth | 10ft |
Owners | |
07.1893 | Registered at Granton GN 43. |
20.11.1894 | Burst cylinder top 20 miles east of the May Island Firth of Forth, towed into Granton. |
24.11.1902 | Engine failure 35 miles east of May Island Firth of Forth, towed to Granton in heavy weather by S.T. "Companion" GN 23. |
22.01.1909 | Collided with S.T. "King Fisher" GN 4 abreast of Leith. Continued to fishing grounds |
10.06.1915 | Skipper John Sutherland at Dundee Sheriff Court fined £50 or 60 days imprisonment for fishing inside the legal limit near Carnoustie coastguard station on 10th/11th April 1915. |
05.1916 | Requisitioned and converted to Boom Defence Vessel |
10.03.1918 | Sank after striking mine 1.5 miles SSW of May Island Firth of Forth. She was under tow from Dundee for Rosyth to take up duties as a gate vessel, when at 14.12 pm she detonated a mine and sank. The mine had been laid by the submarine UC 40. The wreck has been found, located in position 56.09.30N, 02.33.30W. Five crewmen were lost. |