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© Reproduced with acknowledgement to Joe Kerr |
Thomas L. Devlin GN 58
Built | 1915 Alexander Hall & Sons Ltd, Aberdeen as "Phyliss Belman" (Steel) |
Yard No | 512 |
Owner at New | Philip Belman, Liverpool (Sydney Morris Cannon, Aberdeen manager). |
ID no | 137169 |
Launch Date | 10.04.1915 |
Completed | 06.1915 |
Gross Tons | 211 |
Nett Tons | 78 |
Engine | 69 hp T.3-cyl by Alexander Hall & Sons Ltd, Aberdeen |
Length | 115.7ft |
Breadth | 22.6ft |
Depth | 13ft |
Owners | |
25.06.1915 | Registered at Aberdeen A.298 |
1915 | Requisitioned and converted to minesweeper |
1919 | Returned to Owners |
22.12.1921 | Owned by Horace Edward Stroud and Sydney Morris Cannon, Aberdeen (Horace Edward Stroud manager) |
19.11.1923 | Owned by Trawlers (Ireland) Ltd, Dublin Ireland (Patrick Fannon manager) |
19.11.1923 | Aberdeen registry closed. |
11.1923 | Registered at Dublin. |
1926 | Owned by Thomas L. Devlin & Sons, Granton Edinburgh (Thomas L. Devlin Jnr manager) |
1926 | Dublin registry closed |
1926 | Renamed "THOMAS L. DEVLIN" |
1926 | Registered at Granton GN 58 |
12.11.1930 | Docked at Leith with stem damage following a collision with S.T "Salvini" GY 70, 250 miles from May Island Firth of Forth, "Salvini" had severe damage to port side. |
1942 | Owned by Thomas L. Devlin & Sons Ltd, Granton Edinburgh. |
18.12.1945 | Sprang a leak. Skipper Robert Gowans headed for Aberdeen. Escorted by Aberdeen lifeboat. |
08.12.1954 | Grounded in thick fog off Fife Ness in evening but was refloated by a tug next morning |
16.09.1958 | Involved in collision with S.S. "Turquoise" (570g/1924) of Glasgow 2 miles NW of Stroma Pentland Firth. Slight damage and no assistance required. One man injured on the “Turquoise”. |
20.12.1959 | Wrecked on North Ness East side of May Island Firth of Forth. All thirteen crew rescued by Anstruther lifeboat. |
28.03.1960 | At the subsequent Board of Trade Inquiry, Skipper James Anderson Glasgow was found to be at fault and his certificate was suspended for two years. |