As George Bligh LO 309 |
© Reproduced with acknowledgement to Johnleif Jenson Faeroe Islands |
Inchkenneth GN 26
Built | 1917 Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby as "George Bligh" (Steel) |
Yard No | 802 |
Owner at New | Admiralty (Ad.No.2542) |
ID no | 144324 |
Launch Date | 24.03.1917 |
Completed | 07.1917 |
Gross Tons | 324 |
Nett Tons | 182 |
Engine | 87 hp T.3-cyl by Campbell Gas Engine Co Ltd, Halifax |
Length | 138.5ft |
Breadth | 23.7ft |
Depth | 12.8ft |
Owners | |
1920 | Sold to the Mercantile. |
1920 | Owned by Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries, London and converted for Fishery Research work. Draught to deep for inshore work so her lifeboat was converted to carry out this work. |
03.02.1920 | Registered at London LO 309 |
1921 | Sailed on maiden voyage to open up new plaice fishing grounds between Scotland & Iceland. (George Bligh Bank named after this ship) |
1930 | Laid up for five months due to a lack of funds |
10.06.1931 | Re-Registered at London. |
1935 | Deployed at Iceland to assist the Danish Fisheries researchers. |
09.1939 | Requisitioned and converted to Boom Defence Vessel (P.No.Z.178) |
23.05.1944 | Skipper Thomas Taylor Ritchie (31) Anstruther Fife killed during a Luftwaffe air raid over Dover. |
12.1945 | Returned to Owners |
1947 | Owned by Inch Fishing Co Ltd, Granton Edinburgh. |
1947 | London registry closed. |
1947 | Renamed "INCHKENNETH". |
1947 | Registered at Granton GN 26. |
11.1954 | Sold as scrap to BISCO (British Iron & Steel Co) for £2400. |
13.11.1954 | Arrived at Charlestown, Fife |
11.1954 | Scrapped by Shipbreaking Industries Ltd at Charlestown, Fife |