Entering Leith |
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Ocean Venture LH 243
Built | 1918 Bow McLachlan & Co Ltd, Paisley as "Henry Chevallier" (Steel) |
Yard No | 353 |
Owner at New | Admiralty (Ad.No.3673) |
ID no | 143808 |
Launch Date | 13.03.1918 |
Completed | 03.04.1918 |
Gross Tons | 277 |
Nett Tons | 107 |
Engine | 61 hp T.3-cyl by Bow McLachlan & Co Ltd, Paisley |
Length | 125.7ft |
Breadth | 23.4ft |
Depth | 12.8ft |
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Owners | |
24.08.1920 | Registered at London LO 416 |
1924 | Sold to Mercantile |
11.1924 | Owned by Societe Anonyme Armement Ostendias, Ostend Belgium |
18.11.1924 | London registry closed. |
11.1924 | Renamed "ALBERT" |
11.1924 | Registered at Ostend O 149. |
02.1939 | Owned by Rhondda Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby (Sir John Denton Marsden, Bart manager (Consolidated Fisheries Ltd)) |
02.1939 | Ostend registry closed |
02.1939 | Renamed "LIGNY" |
02.1939 | Registered at Grimsby GY 60 |
1940 | Requisitioned and converted to minesweeper (P.No.1765) |
03.1942 | Owned by Walbro Fishing Co Ltd, Aberdeen (Thomas Walker manager) |
1945 | Returned to Owners |
1947 | Owned by Ocean Fishing Co Ltd ,Newhaven, Edinburgh (Alexander Flockhart, William Flockhart, James Bowman Anderson & George Inglis Ward) (Skipper Norman Lyle). |
1947 | Grimsby registry closed. |
1947 | Renamed "OCEAN VENTURE". |
1947 | Registered at Leith LH 243. |
07.01.1955 | Put into Aberdeen to land the body of the mate Robert Linton (52) of Boswall Green Granton, who died at sea. |
06.06.1955 | Owned by Ocean Fishing Co Ltd, Newhaven Edinburgh (George Inglis Ward owner/manager) (Three owners retire) |
1958 | Sold as scrap to BISCO (British Iron & Steel Co) |
1958 | Scrapped by P & W. McClellan at Bo' ness on Forth |