At Leith Docks
© Reproduced with acknowledgement to Captain Walter Lyle Hume Isle of Wight
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At Leith Docks |
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© Reproduced with acknowledgement to Captain Walter Lyle Hume Isle of Wight |
Mary Croan LH 99
| Built | 1916 Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley as "Lapageria" (Steel) |
| Yard No | 341 |
| Owner at New | Dawson Robinson, Grimsby (William Grant manager) |
| ID no | 139919 |
| Launch Date | 08.02.1916 |
| Completed | 10.1916 |
| Gross Tons | 274 |
| Nett Tons | 120 |
| Engine | 79 hp T.3-cyl by Charles D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull |
| Length | 125.3ft |
| Breadth | 22.8ft |
| Depth | 12.2ft |
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| 08.10.1916 | Registered at Grimsby GY 980. |
| 10.1916 | Requisitioned and converted to minesweeper (Ad.No.3311) based at Swansea. |
| 1919 | Returned to Owners. |
| 15.02.1924 | Owned by Harry Robinson, Grimsby (owner/manager). |
| 07.05.1929 | Owned by Fred Dawson Robinson, Grimsby (owner/manager). |
| 09.1940 | Requisitioned as Auxiliary Patrol Vessel. |
| 13.08.1942 | Converted to an ESSO (Fuel carrier) (P.No.4.315). |
| 05.02.1946 | Returned to Owners |
| 06.12.1947 | Skipper Wilfred King took ill outward bound for the fishing grounds, taken to hospital in Thurso were he later died. |
| 26.04.1951 | Owned by Joseph Croan , Newhaven, Edinburgh (Joe Croan owner/manager). |
| 07.1951 | Grimsby registry closed. |
| 07.1951 | Renamed "MARY CROAN". |
| 07.1951 | Registered at Leith LH 99. |
| 1957 | Sold as scrap to BISCO (British Iron & Steel Co). |
| 25.09.1957 | Scrapped by Malcolm Brechin at Granton Edinburgh. |