as HMT "Laurel"
© Reproduced under IWM Non-Commercial Licence
Strathyre GN 46
Built | 1930 Cook Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley as "Kingston Cyanite " (Steel) | |
Yard No | 541 | |
Owner at New | Kingston Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull (John William Lown manager) (Build price (£15050). | |
ID no | 162175 | |
Launch Date | 15.05.1930 | |
Completed | 12.06.1930 | |
Gross Tons | 365 | |
Nett Tons | 149 | |
Engine | 96 hp T.3-cyl by Charles D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull. | |
Length | 140.3ft | |
Breadth | 24.6ft | |
Depth | 13.3ft | |
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Owners | ||
10.06.1930 | Registered at Hull H 237. | |
12.06.1930 | Completed sea trials. | |
14.06.1930 | Skipper J. Flint, sailed Hull for Icelandic fishing grounds | |
03.07.1930 | Returned and landed 836 kits for £575 in a depressed market. | |
09.1935 |
As a result of the Abyssinian crisis and failure of British
diplomacy, the Government authorised The Admiralty to procure twenty modern trawlers for conversion to minor war vessels. |
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04.10.1935: | Sailed Hull for Icelandic grounds. | |
16.10.1935 | The Admiralty requested a list of vessels in Kingston’s fleet including cost and earnings and from this list "Kingston Coral" and "Kingston Cyanite" were chosen; an offer of £11,000 per vessel was accepted. | |
28.10.1935 | Landed at Hull 687 kits for £586. | |
01.11.1935 | In conducting Admiralty trials some faults were discovered. | |
13.11.1935 | Admiralty trials completed and vessel accepted. | |
25.11.1935 | Sold to the Admiralty at revised price of £10,900. | |
29.11.1935 | Hull registry closed. | |
11.1935 | Converted to minesweeper renamed "LAUREL" (P.No.T.29). | |
01.1940 | Based at Grimsby M/S Group 92 (Skipper F. G. Blockwell RNR). | |
01.1942 | Based at Gibraltar M/S Group 92 (Temporary Skipper. T. W. Morgan RNR). | |
03.1944 | Converted to Wreck Dispersal Vessel and assigned to Operation Neptune – Normandy landings, based at Port Talbot (P.No.FY.4.417). | |
22.06.1944 | Sailed Thames for Solent. | |
03.07.1944 | Operation Neptune ended deployed on wreck dispersal and recovery. | |
1947 | Sold to Mercantile. | |
1947 | Owned by Granton Trawlers Co Ltd, Granton Edinburgh (William Carnie Jnr manager) (Skipper John Wilson). | |
1947 | Renamed "STRATHYRE". | |
1947 | Registered at Granton GN 46. | |
1951 | Owned by Clifton Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Fleetwood. | |
1951 | Granton registry closed. | |
1951 | Renamed "PATRICIA HAGUE". | |
1951 | Registered at Fleetwood FD 58. | |
21.05.1955 | Sold as scrap to BISCO (British Iron & Steel Co). | |
23.05.1955 | Arrived at Troon Ayrshire. | |
26.05.1955 | Scrapped by The West Coast of Scotland Ship Breaking Co Ltd at Troon | |
01.1956 | Fleetwood registry closed. | |
as HMT "Laurel" | ||
© Reproduced under IWM Non-Commercial Licence | ||
History
27.09.1929: The board of Kingston Steam Trawling Co Ltd decided
to build two distant water trawlers to a design submitted by
Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd. |
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