Fair View GN 71
Built | 1909 Alexander Hall & Sons Ltd, Aberdeen (Steel) |
Yard No | 449 |
Owner at New | James L. Inglis, Leith Edinburgh (Thomas L. Devlin manager). |
ID no | 122988 |
Launch Date | 11.03.1909 |
Completed | 03.1909 |
Gross Tons | 186 |
Nett Tons | 77 |
Engine | 68 hp T.3-cyl by Alexander Hall & Sons Ltd, Aberdeen |
Length | 112.4ft |
Breadth | 22ft |
Depth | 11.8ft |
Owners | |
27.03.1909 | Registered Granton GN 71 |
08.08.1910 | Ran ashore in thick fog at Melton Ness Montrose, refloated on next tide. |
04.12.1913 | Charles Ogilvie, cook, Leith, drowned at Peterhead. |
1914 | Owned by Thomas L. Devlin Granton Edinburgh (owner/manager) |
08.1914 | Requisitioned and converted to minesweeper (Ad No.266) based on the Humber. |
1919 | Returned to Owners |
28.02.1919 | Thomas L. Devlin deceased, (Robert D. Devlin & Thomas L. Devlin Jnr managers) (Company Trustees -Grace Darney Devlin ( his wife); John Inglis, Peebles; Alex Stewart ( R. C. Priest) St Mary's Cathedral House Edinburgh)). |
17.06.1919 | Mortgaged by Thomas L. Devlin (Trustees), Granton Edinburgh (A). |
17.06.1919 | Mortgagee: John Inglis, Peebles, Peeblesshire. |
08.02.1923 | Mortgage (A) discharged upon the death of John Inglis |
05.07.1923 | Owned by Thomas L. Devlin & Sons, Granton Edinburgh (Robert D. Devlin & Thomas L. Devlin Jnr owner/managers). |
11.11.1926 | Following the death of Robert D. Devlin; Thomas L. Devlin Jnr becomes owner/ manager. |
1933 | Owned by J. Horne, Port Seton East Lothian (owner/manager). |
11.01.1935 | Grounded in heavy weather on reef near Inchkeith, refloated on rising tide, vessel leaking dry-docked at Leith to carry out repairs. |
18.08.1941 | Reported to have run aground in the Sound of Islay by the Lightkeeper at MacArthurs Head Lighthouse. |
08.1947 | Stranded on May Island, Firth of Forth and later refloated. |
1951 | Sod as scrap. |