Theresa Boyle GW3/ GN 4

Built	1915   Hall Russell  & Co Ltd,  Aberdeen  (Steel)
Yard No	570
Owner at New	John Stewart Boyle, Glasgow  (owner/manager)
ID no	137800
Launch Date	12.07.1915
Completed	08.1915
Gross Tons	224
Nett Tons	99
Engine	83 hp T.3-cyl  by  Hall Russell  & Co Ltd,  Aberdeen
Length	120.7ft
Breadth	22.7ft
Depth	12.2ft
Owners
03.08.1915	Registered at Glasgow GW 3
09.1915	Requisitioned and converted to minesweeper (Ad.No.1311) based at Cromarty.
01.06.1916	Temporary Skipper Lewis Whyte (37) Aberdeen died of pneumonia.
1918	Owned by Port St Mary Fishing & Curing Co  Ltd, London     (Joseph A. Taylor manager).
1919	Returned to Owners
07.1919	Glasgow registry closed.
01.08.1919	Registered at Fleetwood FD 338.
04.1924	Owned by James Lyle,  Newhaven, Edinburgh (owner/manager).
02.051924	Fleetwood registry closed.
06.05.1924	Registered at Granton GN 4.
10.02.1940	Sunk by enemy aircraft (KG 26) bomb  and machine gun attack 115 miles E x N from Aberdeen. Skipper Oliver Bell and nine crew took to the small boat, later rescued by HMT "Alamandine" (H415) (P.No.FY.645), after spending 50hrs in small boat using a blanket as a sail, all men suffering from exposure.
	Crew:- Oliver Bell, skipper; J.M. Linton, Mate; W. Wilson, Deckhand: W. Taylor Snr, Deckhand: W. Taylor Jnr, Deckhand: R. NcNab; Chief Engineer: T. Shanley, 2nd Engineer: W. Wilson, Fireman: G. Fagen, Trimmer and T. Arbuckle, Cook.
	Captain Oliver Bell RNVR © Reproduced with acknowledgement to Jean Bell, Mary Bell, Margaret McDonald and Margaret Wallace.
	Newspaper clipping 1940
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