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Seton Castle GN 65
Built | 1895 Cochrane & Cooper, Beverley as "Ontario" |
Yard No | 135 |
Owner at New | Hull Steam Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Hull (Henry Toozes, manager) |
ID no | 105064 |
Launch Date | 26.08.1895 |
Completed | 09.1895 |
Gross Tons | 139 |
Nett Tons | 58 |
Engine | 34 hp T.3-cyl by Amos & Smith Ltd, Hull |
Length | 98.5ft |
Breadth | 20.5ft |
Depth | 11ft |
Owners | |
26.09.1895 | Registered at Hull H 294 |
06.1914 | Owned by V. Putz Co, Geestemunde Germany |
23.06.1914 | Hull registry closed. |
1914 | Renamed "WEST". |
1914 | Registered at Geestemunde PG 197. |
07.10.1915 | Captured by HMS "Manly" in the North Sea. |
10.1915 | Renamed "CUDWOSIN" and commissioned as a minsweeper (Ad.No.1944). |
1917 | New boiler fitted. |
16.03.1920 | Sold by auction at Aberdeen to the Mercantile |
16.03.1920 | Owned by George Brown & Thomas Thomson Brown, Leith Edinburgh (George Brown manager)(£2300) . |
03.07.1920 | Renamed "SETON CASTLE" |
03.07.1920 | Registered at Granton GN 65. |
06.1924 | Owned by Edward James Hellings & Hans Brun Tyvold, Milford Haven (Edward James Hellings manager). |
28.06.1924 | Granton registry closed. |
03.07.1924 | Registered at Milford Haven M 27 |
06.04.1926 | Towed S.S. "Olivine" (754g/1918) of Glasgow into Holyhead. |
Pre1927 | Owned by Edward James Hellings, Milford Haven (owner/manager). |
23.12.1932 | Owned by Ernest C. A. Clark, London |
02.1933 | Owned by Jacques A. Testulat, Dieppe France |
28.021933 | Milford registry closed. |
02.1933 | Renamed "ABYSSINIA" |
02.1933 | Registered at Dieppe. |
28.08.1933 | Foundered near Portsail, Finnistere, all crewmen rescued. |