Technical

Official Number: 122950
Yard Number: 169
Completed: 1906
Gross Tonnage: 256
Net Tonnage: 90
Length: 128.7 ft
Breadth: 22.7 ft
Depth: 11.4 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Shields Engineering Co Ltd, North Shields
Boiler: R. Stephenson & Co Ltd. Hebburn-on-Tyne
Built: Dundee Shipbuilding Co.Ltd, Dundee

History

17.10.1906: Launched by Dundee Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Dundee (Yd.No.169) for J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood as MARY.
13.11.1906: Registered at Fleetwood (FD84), James Herbert Marr appointed manager.
11.1906: Completed at a cost of £6450 (James Herbert Marr, manager).
7.12.1906: Mortgaged for £6750 @ 5% to James Herbert Marr, Fleetwood (A).
6.12.1907: Mortgage (A) discharged.
6.5.1908: Four shares sold to John Wignall, Fleetwood (fishing skipper).
29.4.1911: Four shares (John Wignall) sold to John Walsh, Fleetwood (trawling master).
1.5.1911: Four shares (John Walsh) mortgaged for £200 @ 5% to James Herbert Marr, Fleetwood.
1.1.1914: Tonnage altered to 98.62net under provision of Merchant Shipping Act 1907.
8.1914: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (Ad.No.361).
5.11.1914: Mined off Gt Yarmouth in position 52°35N/01°54E while minesweeping; eight lost.
18.11.1914: Fleetwood registry closed “Blown up by mine”.

(Lost – Skipper William S. Greenway; William Carter, 2nd Hand; John McKimmie, Engineman; William J. Burton, Ldg. Seaman; Frank A. Hall, Ernest Levitt & Samuel Pearson, deckhands; Robert Cockshott, trimmer.)

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