Ocean Drift LH 73
Built | 1916 Hawthorns & Co Ltd, Leith Edinburgh as "Pitfour" (Steel) |
Yard No | 145 |
Owner at New | Peterhead Trawling Co Ltd, Peterhead (James Glennie Adams manager) |
ID no | 130214 |
Launch Date | 17.06.16 |
Completed | 10.1916 |
Gross Tons | 227 |
Nett Tons | 98 |
Engine | 82 hp T.3-cyl Hawthorns & Co Ltd, Leith Edinburgh |
Length | 117.2ft |
Breadth | 22.1ft |
Depth | 12.5ft |
Owners | |
19.10.1916 | Registered at Peterhead PD 241 |
10.1916 | Requisitioned from the builders and converted to Mine Laying Vessel. |
1917 | Converted to minesweeper (Ad.No.2976) and based at Dover. |
1919 | Returned to Owners |
1927 | Owned by James Glennie Adams, Aberdeen (owner/manager). |
1929 | Owned by Alexander Flockhart, Newhaven Edinburgh (owner/manager). |
26.02.1931 | William Henry (47) engineer Leith, fatally wounded after being struck on the head when the derrick fell on his head while working onboard at the West Pier Granton, he was rushed to Leith hospital in an unconscious condition but died later. |
07.02.1935 | Owned by William & Alexander Flockhart, Leith Edinburgh (Alexander Flockhart manager). |
05.03.1935 | Peterhead registry closed. |
05.03.1935 | Renamed "OCEAN DRIFT". |
05.03.1935 | Registered at Leith LH 73. |
Pre1939 | Carnie & Gibb appointed managers. |
27.03.1939 | Towed S.T. "Ocean Eddy" LH 62 30 miles to Lerwick, engine problems. |
20.07.1939 | Damaged in collision with steam drifter “Lanner” LT 1176 off Peterhead. |
07.01.1940 | Owned by Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Company Ltd, Fleetwood (Basil Arthur Parkes manager). |
09.03.1940 | Owned by William Carnie Jnr, Thomas Y. Carnie & Liston Carnie, Newhaven Edinburgh (William Carnie Jnr Glasgow manager). |
17.03.1940 | Sunk after collision with HMS "Intrepid" (P.No.D.10) 50 miles north east of Kinnairds Head, two crewmen missing A. Cunningham, Port Seton, East Lothian (Engineer) and Robert Liston, Newhaven (deckhand). Skipper George Ratcliffe and remaining crew members rescued by the HMS "Intrepid". |
25.03.1940 | Leith registry closed. |