Triton  SA 61

Built 1907         Dundee Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Dundee (Steel)
   
Yard No 192
   
Owner at New Thomas James Wales, Swansea
   
ID no 124721
   
Launch Date 12.09.1907
Completed 11.10.1907
   
Gross Tons 230
Nett Tons 87
   
Engine

71 hp T.3-cyl by W.V.V. Lidgerwood & Co Ltd, Glasgow

   
Length 120ft
   
Breadth 21.9ft
   
Depth 11.4ft
   
Owners  
11.10.1907 Registered at Swansea SA 61.
16.10.1907 Mortgaged by Thomas James Wales, Swansea (A).
16.10.1907 Mortgagee:  Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co Ltd, Goole. 
19.10.1908 Mortgage (A) discharged.  
03.11.1908 Mortgaged by Thomas James Wales, Swansea (B).
03.11.1908 Mortgagee:  Lloyds Bank Ltd, London.
13.04.1913 Mortgaged by Thomas James Wales, Swansea (C)
13.04.1913 Mortgagee: William Deacons Bank Ltd, London. 
06.05.1913 Mortgage (C) discharged.
20.12.1913 Mortgage (C) discharged.
20.12.1913 Mortgaged by Thomas James Wales, Swansea (D).
20.12.1913 Mortgaged to London City & Midland Bank Ltd London.
1913 Transferred to Fleetwood.
05.1915 Requisitioned and converted to minesweeper (Ad No 1761) based in the Aegean Sea.
1918 Owned by William Sutherland, Aberdeen (owner/manager).
12.1918 Swansea registry closed.
16.12.1918 Registered at Aberdeen A.94.
1919 Returned to Owners.
28.05.1923 Owned by Loch Line Steam Trawling & Fishing Co Ltd, Empire Steam Fishing Co of Aberdeen Ltd & Bon Accord Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Aberdeen (Harry Alexander Holmes manager).
25.10.1924 Owned by Thomas Hall & Seaton Hall, Newhaven Edinburgh (Alexander Flockhart, Leith manager).
03.1926 Owned by Walter Garratt & Fred Birch Jeffs, Grimsby.
08.03.1926 Aberdeen registry closed.
10.03.1926 Registered at Grimsby GY 384.
26.03.1926 Walter Garratt appointed manager
18.08.1930 Mortgaged (32 shares) by Walter Garratt, Grimsby (A).
18.08.1930 Mortgagee: Barclays Bank Ltd, London.
15.12.1930 Mortgaged (32 shares) by Fred Birch Jeffs, Grimsby (B).
15.12.1930 Mortgagee: Barclays Bank Ltd, London.
11.08.1931 Sold under mortgages (A) & (B): Owned by Thomas William Baskcomb, Grimsby.
11.08.1931 Mortgaged by Thomas William Baskcomb, Grimsby (C).
11.08.1931 Mortgagee: Barclays Bank Ltd, London.
14.08.1931 Thomas William Baskcomb appointed manager.
22.10.1935 Sold by Mortgagee under mortgage: Owned by Fred Parkes, Fleetwood.
24.10.1935 Owned by Charles Dobson, Grimsby.
29.10.1935 Charles Dobson appointed manager.
29.09.1937 Mortgaged by Charles Dobson, Grimsby (D).
29.09.1937 Mortgagee: Midland Bank Ltd, London.
27.11.1939 Requisitioned as an Auxiliary Patrol Vessel based at Nore/Sheerness (Hire rate £57.10s.6d/month).
01.1940 Renamed “WRANGLER”.
27.03.1940 Returned to Owners reverted to “Triton”.
03.02.1941 Mortgage (D) discharged.
04.02.1941 Owned by J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood (£6000).
13.02.1941 Geoffrey Edwards Marr appointed manager.
26.09.1941 Owned by Henderson's Trawling Co Ltd, Hull (J. Marr & Son Ltd managers).
27.09.1941 Leslie James Marr, Fleetwood appointed manager.
14.08.1942 Requisitioned and converted for fuel carrying duties (ESSO) (P No Y7.42).
03.1944 Assigned to Operation Neptune- Normandy Landings.
03.1944 At Plymouth and allocated to Force O
03.1944 Operation Neptune ended.
1944 Geoffrey Edward Marr, Hull appointed manager.
05.11.1945 Owned by J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood.
06.11.1945 Geoffrey Edward Marr appointed manager.
1946 Sold as scrap to BISCO (British Iron & Steel Co).
28.02.1946 Grimsby registry closed.
06.1946 Scrapped by John Lee at Belfast.