Malta II GN 39
Built | 1892 Murdoch & Murray Ltd, Port Glasgow (Steel) |
Yard No | 124 |
Owner at New | James Muirhead, Edinburgh (owner/ manager) |
ID no | 97559 |
Launch Date | 11.03.1892 |
Completed | 03.1892 |
Gross Tons | 143 |
Nett Tons | 34 |
Engine | 58 hp C.2-cyl by Hutson & Corbett Ltd, Glasgow |
Length | 105ft |
Breadth | 20.5ft |
Depth | 10ft |
Owners | |
1892 | Registered at Granton GN 39 |
04.08.1892 | Towed Norwegian Schooner "Tobine" to Granton after she had been in collision with Russian schooner "Katrine" 10 miles East of May Island Firth of Forth. |
10.10.1894 | Collided with S.T. “St. Bernard” GN 44 while transferring fish on the fishing grounds causing damage to her stem, causing her to return to Granton for repairs. |
03.10.1896 | Ran ashore during a haze at Goatness Dunbar East Lothian, later refloated |
01.01.1898 | Owned by Muirheads Trawlers Ltd, Edinburgh (James Muirhead manager) |
Pre1904 | William G. Muirhead appointed manager. |
1904 | Muirheads Trawlers goes into Liquidation. |
1904 | Mortgaged to the Bank of Scotland |
Post1904 | Owned by Samuel James Drennan, Granton Edinburgh (owner/manager) |
08.02.1910 | Skipper John Donaldson at Cupar Sheriff Court fined £100 or 60 days imprisonment for fishing inside the legal limit at May Island Firth of Forth on 1st Dec 1909. |
09.05.1911 | Skipper Frederick Francis Bray at Cupar Sheriff Court fined £30 or 30 days imprisonment for fishing inside the legal limit at May Island Firth of Forth on 14th January 1911. |
25.01.1911 | Foundered 9 miles East of Mull Head, Orkney Isles; Sprung a leak after running a ground in St Mary's Sound sank within an hour ,Skipper Bray and crew took to the small boat, Rescued by Wick drifter "Cordelia" WK 424. Subsequent Board of Trade enquiry exonerated Skipper Bray of all blame. |