S.T. Invertay GY287 | The Bosun's Watch

Additional information courtesy of Bill Blow and Andy Hall

Technical

Official Number: 138971
Yard Number: 176
Completed: 1916
Gross Tonnage: 229.89
Net Tonnage: 106.92
Length: 120.2 ft
Breadth: 22.0 ft
Depth: 12.1 ft
Built; Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co Ltd, Goole
Engine: 400ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull

History

9.2.1916: Launched by Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co Ltd, Goole (Yd.No.176) for The Grimsby & North Sea Steam Trawling Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby as CANCER.
6.1916: Completed.
28.6.1916: Registered at Grimsby (GY918).
28.6.1916: John Richardson Mackrill designated manager. Requisitioned from the builders for war service (Ad.No.2957).
6.1916: Fitted with WT and 6-pdr gun and fitted out as a minesweeper (Ad.No.2957).
10.1916: Allocated – Unit No.1212 ‘Trawler Sweepers’ based Devonport (Lieut. F.F. Wyeth RNR).
Post 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Grimsby.
5.8.1921: Sold to Lindsey Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
15.8.1921: Edwin Bacon Snr designated manager.
2.1.1923: Arrived Grimsby with steam trawler PORTSMOUTH (GY249) in tow picked up disabled with engine problems.
31.8.1929: Sold to David Dryburgh, Robert Dryburgh, Thomas Liston and George Hunter (64/64 joint owners), all Leith.
10.9.1929: David Dryburgh designated managing owner.
7.10.1929: David Dryburgh designated managing owner.
14.10.1929: Sold to David Dryburgh (16/64), Robert Dryburgh (16/64), Thomas Liston (16/64) and George Hunter (16/64), all Leith.
29.10:1929: George Hunter (16/64) shares mortgaged to Royal Bank of Scotland, Edinburgh (A).
18.5.1931: Mortgage (A) discharged.
19.5.1931: Sold by David Dryburgh (16/64), Robert Dryburgh (16/64), Thomas Liston (16/64) and George Hunter (16/64), all Leith to David Dryburgh, Robert Dryburgh, Thomas Liston and George Hunter, all Leith (64/64 joint owners).
21.5.1931: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Royal Bank of Scotland Ltd, Edinburgh (B).
26.5.1931: David Dryburgh designated managing owner.
5.2.1936: Grimsby registry closed.
21.3.1936: Registered at Granton as INVERTAY (GN49) (BoT Minute No.R.G.1020/1936 dated 31.1.1936).
1937: Sold to George R. Cooke, Edinburgh. George R. Cooke designated managing owner.
8.8.1939: Off Cape Wrath disabled with broken tail shaft. Steam trawler STAR OF THE EAST (LH36) (Sk. Watson Liston) connected and commenced tow 200 miles to Aberdeen.
11.8.1939: Arrived Aberdeen after 36 hour tow.
1939: Sold to George R. Cook & William Carnie Jnr, Newhaven, Edinburgh.
1940: Sold to Carnie & Gibb, Newhaven, Edinburgh. William Carnie Jnr designated manager.
8.1940: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (P.No.FY.1748) (Hire rate £65.3.4d/month).
1941: Sold to J. Bennett (Wholesale) Ltd, London. William Alfred Bennett designated manager.
29.12.1942: Roderick Finlayson Murray (32), Aberdeen, 2nd Hand missing, presumed drowned.
1946: Sold to Lord Line Ltd, Hull. Thomas W. Boyd designated manager.
30.5.1946: At Hull landed from a North Sea trip, 3,500 stone, including hake – 1,200, coley – 900, mixed – skate, ling, whiting, witches, etc – 1400 stone.
7.6.1946: Outward for the fishing grounds, put into North Shields with engine trouble.
6.1946: Sold to Bramwell Collinge (64/64), St. Anne’s-on-the-Sea.
6.1946: Granton registry closed.
24.6.1946: Registered at Grimsby (GY287).
24.6.1946: Bramwell Collinge designated managing owner.
7.1946: Returned to owner.
30.11.1945: Insured value £18,000; for 1946 proposed same.
31.8.1946: Sold to Harcol Trawling Co Ltd (64/64), St. Anne’s-on-the-Sea.
1.10.1946: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Barclays Bank Ltd, London (C).
3.10.1946: Arthur Gladstone Hamer, Grimsby designated manager.
10.1949: Fishing from Fleetwood.
30.1.1950: Last landing. Laid up.
29.3.1950: Meeting of creditors.
31.5.1950: Company placed in Voluntary Liquidation. Eric Stevenson Browne, Liverpool appointed Liquidator.
21.9.1950: Mortgage (C) discharged.
21.9.1950: Sold by the liquidator to Sir Thomas Robinson & Son (Grimsby) Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
28.9.1950: Frank Wheeler Robinson designated manager.
30.9.1953: Harcol Trawling Co Ltd wound up.
19.2.1954: Frank Bellamy Robinson designated manager.
7.10.1954: In gale conditions in North Sea shipped heavy seas flooding stokehold losing fires and disabled pumps. Trawler FLYING WING (GY690) responded to radio message, connected with difficulty and commenced 70 mile tow to Grimsby.
8.10.1954: Delivered Grimsby.
3.1961: Sailed Grimsby for North Sea grounds (Sk.A. Osborne); ten crew.
10.3.1961: On a North Sea trip (Sk. A. Osborne); nine crew all told. At about 1.20am. foundered after collision with German steam trawler FRANZ SCHAU (393grt/1949) in thick fog 190 miles off Humber in approx position 55°11N/5°10E. Crew* took to liferaft and picked up by German trawler GRUNDMANN and transferred to motor trawler SAXON PROGRESS (GY655), on maiden trip, for return to Grimsby.
6.12.1961: Grimsby registry closed “Vessel sunk… after collision”.

*Crew: Sk. A. Osborne; A Hodson, Mate; W. Lambert, Third hand; H. Dodd, Ch Eng; C. Guyton, 2nd Eng; P. Wandel, W. Ramsey, A. Clark, Deckhands; J. Wardle, cook.

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S.T. Invertay GY287
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S.T. Invertay GY287
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Changelog
24/12/2008: Page published. 7 updates since then.
10/06/2015: Picture added.
15/06/2016: Information updated.
06/03/2017: Image added.
23/12/2017: Removed FMHT watermarks from images.
26/04/2018: Information updated.
30/01/2021: Updated history.
29/04/2022: Added an image.