Sea King LH 144
Built | 1893 Cumming & Ellis, Inverkeithing Fifeshire |
Yard No | 6 |
Owner at New | Mackay & Co Ltd, Edinburgh |
ID no | 99241 |
Launch Date | 18.05.1893 |
Completed | 1893 |
Gross Tons | 175 |
Nett Tons | 11 |
Engine | 75 hp T.3-cyl by Muir & Houston Ltd, Glasgow |
Length | 112ft |
Breadth | 21.1ft |
Depth | 10.1ft |
Owners | |
1893 | Registered at Leith LH 144 |
27.07.1897 | Stranded on rocks behind the pier at Leith during thick fog, later dry-docked but no damage found. |
01.06.1898 | Owned by Alexander Kay & George Shaw, Leith Edinburgh (owner/managers). |
07.10.1898 | Towed S.T. "Bonito" LH 48 into Dundee from east off the Bell Rock Lighthouse after she had broken down. |
03.11.1898 | Towed the Norwegian schooner "Progress" of Stavanger into Granton after she had lost both anchors while sheltering off Methil in a gale. |
1898 | Owned by Alexander Hay, Leith Edinburgh. |
06.04.1904 | Towed S.T. "Tyne Belle" SN 180 to Granton from the fishing grounds after it was discovered she was making water. |
29.11.1907 | Towed into Leith by S.T. "Sea Hawk" GN 37 with disabled engines, Engineer Edward Phillips was badly scalded and taken to Leith hospital. |
1910 | Owned by The National Bank Of Scotland Ltd Edinburgh (James Cormack Jnr, manager) |
1913 | Owned by Robinson Tug Co Ltd Middlesbrough (George Robinson manager) |
1913 | Leith registry closed. |
05.1913 | Renamed "SAMPHIRE BATTS" and converted to a tug |
05.1913 | Registered at Middlesbrough. |
25.08.1914 | Requisitioned for Admiralty service |
06.10.1919 | Returned to Owners. |
1920 | Owned by Tees Towing Co Ltd, Middlesbrough (William H. Crosthwaite & Charles William Robinson manager) |
1933 | Sold as scrap. |
17.10.1933 | Scrapped by Clayton & Davie Ltd at Dunston on Tyne. |