Kingfisher GN 1
Built | 1886 J. Knox & Co Ltd, Sunderland (Iron) |
Yard No | 9 |
Owner at New | Unknown owners for service in the Irish deep sea fisheries, was specially designed as a fish dispatch vessel and screw tug |
ID no | 90329 |
Launch Date | 30.12.1885 |
Completed | 1886 |
Gross Tons | 139 |
Nett Tons | 39 |
Engine | 67 hp C.2-cyl by W. Doxford & Sons, Sunderland |
Length | 103ft |
Breadth | 19.3ft |
Depth | 10.1ft |
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Owners | |
20.02.1886 | Registered at Sunderland. |
Pre1888 | Owned by Thomas Willcock, Manchester, fishing from Scarborough & Aberdeen |
30.04.1888 | Ran ashore at Rattray Head Aberdeenshire, all crew rescued. |
05.05.1888 | Refloated with the help of a tug and taken to Aberdeen |
25.11.1889 | Rescued the ship "Carmen" (Rotterdam to Newcastle) towing her into the Tyne. |
24.03.1890 | Awarded £900 salvage for the above rescue by the Court of the Admiralty. |
18.12.1893 | Awarded £700 salvage money for services rendered to S.S. "Countess" of Sunderland on 11th November. |
1894 | Owned by William Gunn & Co, Granton Edinburgh |
1896 | Sunderland registry closed. |
1896 | Registered at Granton GN 1. |
18.08.1898 | Rammed the S.T. "Mount Blanc" GN 51 while she was landing fish on the Middle Pier Granton, "Mount Blanc" later beached for inspection and repair to her badly damaged starboard side amidships. |
28.12.1898 | Arrived at Granton and reported damage to her quarter deck & her small boat during the recent storm. |
03.11.1909 | Wrecked 2.5 miles SE from Barns Ness, East Lothian. Skipper Edward Hayward & seven crew rescued. |