Technical

Admiralty Number: 3742
Official Number: 147960
Yard Number: 233
Completed: 1918
Gross Tonnage: 317
Net Tonnage: 127
Length: 138.9 ft
Breadth: 23.7 ft
Depth: 12.8 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Ferguson Bros (Port Glasgow) Ltd, Port Glasgow
Built: Ferguson Bros (Port Glasgow) Ltd, Port Glasgow

History

4.8.1918: Launched by Ferguson Bros (Port Glasgow) Ltd, Port Glasgow (Yd.No.233) (“Mersey” class) for The Admiralty as ROBERT DRUMMOND (Ad.No.3742).
26.6.1918: Completed (1 – 12pdr and W/T).
1924: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Boston (Fred Parkes, Wyburton, Boston, manager). Registered at Boston as SALMONBY (BN206). Operating from Grimsby.
1925: Homeward, in fog stranded on the Ness of Duncansby. Refloated with the help of local fishermen and continued passage.
23.3.1926: Sailed Grimsby for West of Scotland grounds and to land at Fleetwood and transfer to that port (Sk. Joseph Rawcliffe), twelve crew. When S of New Sands Gas Buoy suffered boiler explosion, foundered, two crew* rescued from rigging by Spurn Head lifeboat.

(*Saved: Harry Leadbetter, Mate, Fleetwood and Robert Butcher, deckhand, Grimsby) (Body of fireman C. Lewis, Boston washed up at Donna Nook.)

Changelog

27/12/2008: Page published. 4 updates since then.