Cramond Island LH 114
Built | 1910 Mackie & Thomson Ltd, Govan (Steel) |
Yard No | 400 |
Owner at New | Leith Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Leith Edinburgh (Thomas H. Scales manager) |
ID no | 129400 |
Launch Date | 17.10.1910 |
Completed | 11.1910 |
Gross Tons | 180 |
Nett Tons | 70 |
Engine | 70 hp T.3-cyl by W. V. V. Lidgerwood & Co Ltd, Glasgow |
Length | 112.3ft |
Breadth | 21.9ft |
Depth | 11.3ft |
Owners | |
11.11.1910 | Registered at Leith LH 114 |
05.1915 | Requisitioned and converted to minesweeper (Ad No 1495) based at Dover. |
1919 | Returned to Owners |
1919 | Owned by Thomas H. Scales, Leith Edinburgh (owner/ manager). |
19.01.1926 | Collided with S.T. "North Queen" GN 51 off Aberdeen. |
11.1934 |
Owned by Thomas H. Scales & Son, Newhaven Edinburgh. |
1935 | Owned by Thomas H. Scales & Sons, Ltd Newhaven Edinburgh. |
11.1939 | Requisitioned and converted to Boom Defence Vessel (P.No Z.158) |
02.04.1941 | Sunk during and air attack by a German JU 88 aircraft 3 miles east of St. Abbs Head, eleven of her crew got away in a boat and two on a raft. Two were killed, one from a direct hit by a bomb, the other drowned. Three more ratings died of wounds. Those in the boat were rescued by the St. Abbs lifeboat "Annie, Ronald & Isabella Forrest" during the rescue the breeches buoy became entangled in the propeller, she was later towed into Eyemouth by the fishing vessel "Spes Bona" BK 123. The two on the raft were rescued by the fishing boat "Milky Way". |
11.11.1941 | Leith registry closed. |
Those lost: - James Bruce (Engineer) (33) Portknockie Banffshire and George Baker (Seaman), Newfoundland Canada. | |
James R. Bruce (Mate) (33) Wick, H. Campon (Seaman) and Jack Cappell Durran (Stoker) (31) died of injuries. | |
Registry closed 31 years to the day after opening. | |