As "Aurea" FD 300 |
© Reproduced with acknowledgement to FMHT & Bosuns Watch websites |
Compagnus GN 2
Built | 1917 Dundee Shipbuilding Co Ltd , Dundee as "Aurea" (Steel) |
Yard No | 279 |
Owner at New | Brooklyn Fishing Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Thomas Cardwell manager) |
ID no | 141946 |
Launch Date | 1917 |
Completed | 09.1917 |
Gross Tons | 270 |
Nett Tons | 105 |
Engine | 89 hp T.3-cyl by W. Beardmore & Co Ltd, Glasgow |
Length | 128.8ft |
Breadth | 23ft |
Depth | 12.6ft |
Owners |
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25.09.1917 | Registered at Fleetwood FD 300 |
09.1917 | Requisitioned from builders and completed as a minesweeper. (Ad No. 3066) (Fitted with Hydrophones) based in the Aegean Sea. |
1920 | Returned to Owners |
1934 | Owned by Thomas L. Devlin & Sons, Granton Edinburgh (Thomas L. Devlin Jnr manager) |
20.04.1934 | Fleetwood registry closed. |
04.1934 | Renamed "COMPAGNUS" |
04.1934 | Registered at Granton GN 2 |
29.12.1934 | Mate Gilbert Menzies badly injured blocking up. Taken to Leith Hospital |
13.12.1935 | Towed Aberdeen S.T. "Napier" A.244 from 140 miles NE of Buchan Ness with engine trouble. |
17.12.1939 | Sunk by German aircraft 150 miles E x N of the May Island. One crew member lost, Survivors taken onboard S.T. "Colleague" GN 53. Deckhand James Swanney killed by machine gun fire . |