Leaving Leith
© Reproduced with acknowledgement to Joe Kerr
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Leaving Leith |
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© Reproduced with acknowledgement to Joe Kerr |
Ocean Freeman LH 242
| Built | 1916 Smiths Dock Co Ltd, Middlesbrough as "Mewslade" (Steel) |
| Yard No | 632 |
| Owner at New | Rhondda Fishing Co Ltd, Swansea (Crawford Heron manager) |
| ID no | 136137 |
| Launch Date | 03.03.1916 |
| Completed | 04.1916 |
| Gross Tons | 275 |
| Nett Tons | 108 |
| Engine | 87 hp T.3-cyl by Smiths Dock Co Ltd, Middlesbrough |
| Length | 125.4ft |
| Breadth | 23.4ft |
| Depth | 12.8ft |
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| Owners | |
| 04.1916 | Requisitioned from the builders and converted to minesweeper (Ad.No1993) based at Devonport. |
| 01.05.1916 | Registered at Swansea SA 34. |
| 1919 | Returned to Owners. |
| 1922 | Owned by Rhondda Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Swansea (John Denton Marsden, Grimsby manager (Consolidated Steam Fishing & Ice Co Ltd)). |
| 04.03.1922 | Manager becomes Sir John Denton Marsden, Bart, Grimsby |
| 09.1927 | Managing Company becomes Consolidated Fisheries Ltd, Grimsby (Sir John Denton Marsden manager). |
| 07.03.1940 | Requisitioned and converted to minesweeper (P.No.FY.816) attached to 7th Minesweeping Group at Lowestoft. |
| 1941 | Owned by Walbro Fishing Co Ltd, Aberdeen (Thomas Walker manager). |
| 04.04.1946 | Returned to Owners . |
| 1946 | Owned by Ocean Fishing Co Ltd ,Newhaven, Edinburgh (Alexander Flockhart, William Flockhart, James Bowman Anderson & George Inglis Ward) (Skipper Norman Lyle). |
| 1946 | Swansea registry closed. |
| 1946 | Renamed "OCEAN FREEMAN". |
| 1946 | Registered at Leith LH 242. |
| 06.06.1955 | Owned by Ocean Fishing Co Ltd, Newhaven Edinburgh (George Inglis Ward sole owner/manager)(Three owners retire) |
| 1957 | Sold as scrap to BISCO (British Iron & Steel Co). |
| 05.1957 | Scrapped by G & W. Brunton at Grangemouth. |