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Coriolanus GN 40
Built | 1917 Alexander Hall & Sons Ltd, Aberdeen as "Urie" (Steel) |
Yard No | 529 |
Owner at New | Richard Watson Lewis, Aberdeen (owner/manager) |
ID no | 139797 |
Launch Date | 1917 |
Completed | 04.1917 |
Gross Tons | 226 |
Nett Tons | 87 |
Engine | 71 hp T.3-cyl by Alexander Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen |
Length | 121ft |
Breadth | 22.2ft |
Depth | 12.1ft |
Owners | |
23.04.1917 | Registered at Aberdeen A.754 |
05.1917 | Requisitioned and converted for Armed Escort Duties (Ad.No.1267) based at Harwich. |
1919 | Returned to Owners |
06.05.1919 | Owned by Scarisbrick Steam Trawlers (Fleetwood) Ltd, Fleetwood (Joseph A. Taylor manager) |
06.05.1919 | Aberdeen registry closed. |
08.05.1919 | Registered at Fleetwood FD 163. |
1924 | Owned by Sam Robford & Co Ltd, London (Keith R. Hoare, Aberdeen manager) |
27.10.1924 | Fleetwood registry closed. |
05.11.1924 | Registered at Aberdeen A.62 |
28.01.1927 | Owned by William Alexander Mackie, Aberdeen (owner/manager) |
14.10.1932 | Owned by Andrew Lewis, Aberdeen (owner/manager). |
26.01.1933 | Owned by North East Fisheries Ltd, Aberdeen (Andrew Lewis manager). |
30.09.1933 | Owned by Thomas L. Devlin & Sons, Granton Edinburgh (Thomas L. Devlin Jnr manager) |
30.09.1933 | Aberdeen registry closed. |
10.1933 | Renamed "CORIOLANUS" |
10.1933 | Registered at Granton GN 40. |
08.1940 | Requisitioned and converted to minesweeper (P.No.FY.1948) (Hire rate £65.18.4d/month). and later deployed on Dan Laying duties. |
12.1940 | Renamed "CRAFTSMEN" |
1942 | Owned by Thomas L. Devlin & Sons Ltd, Granton Edinburgh. |
03.1944 | Deployed on Dan Laying duties. |
10.1944 | Returned to Owners and reverted to "Coriolanus" |
31.03.1948 | Sprang a leak in engine room during severe gale 200 miles off Aberdeen. |
1951 | Owned by John S. Wells, Edinburgh (Thomas L. Devlin & Sons Ltd managers) |
1960 | Sold as scrap to BISCO (British Iron & Steel Co). |
04.1960 | Scrapped by G & W Brunton at Grangemouth |
1960 | Granton registry closed. |
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