Rigged out as a minesweeper
© Reproduced with acknowledgement to Robert Mills Edinburgh
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Rigged out as a minesweeper |
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© Reproduced with acknowledgement to Robert Mills Edinburgh |
Trinity N B GN24/GN 95
(NB = North Britain )
| Built | 1914 Hall Russell & Co Ltd, Aberdeen (Steel) |
| Yard No | 555 |
| Owner at New | David Dow, Granton Edinburgh (Thomas Y. Carnie manager) |
| ID no | 131830 |
| Launch Date | 27.08.1914 |
| Completed | 09.1914 |
| Gross Tons | 203 |
| Nett Tons | 85 |
| Engine | 75 hp T.3-cyl by Hall Russell & Co Ltd, Aberdeen |
| Length | 115.5ft |
| Breadth | 22.1ft |
| Depth | 12.1ft |
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| 17.09.1914 | Registered at Granton GN 24 |
| 12.1914 | Requisitioned and converted to minesweeper (Ad No.470) based at Granton. |
| 1919 | Returned to Owners |
| 1919 | Owned by Taylor & Ashworth Ltd, Fleetwood (Ernest Taylor manager). |
| 15.07.1919 | Granton registry closed. |
| 18.07.1919 | Registered at Fleetwood FD 324 |
| 1920 | Owned by Edward Ferry, Granton Edinburgh |
| 1923 | Owned by Archibald Glen Brown Granton Edinburgh (owner/manager). |
| 01.03.1923 | Fleetwood registry closed. |
| 02.03.1923 | Registered at Granton GN 95. |
| 18.12.1939 | Sunk by enemy aircraft 17 miles NE from Rattray Head while outward bound from Granton to the fishing grounds . Two crew were drowned and a third died from exposure. Skipper D. Young & rest of crew were picked up by a Danish schooner " Start " (131g/1918) from Marstal and landed in Egersund Norway. Casualties David Addison Chief Engineer & William Murray fireman drowned. Robert Wright cook died from cold and exposure after rescue. |
| WRIGHT, Robert - Cook, Steam Trawler "Trinity N.B." (Granton). Merchant Navy. 18th December 1939. Age 58. A. 2. 25. Buried Egersund Churchyard (Norway) | |