Technical

Official Number: 127568
Yard Number: 415
Completed: 1908
Gross Tonnage: 328
Net Tonnage: 130
Length: 141 ft
Breadth: 24.1 ft
Depth: 12.67 ft
Built: Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co Ltd, Goole
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by Earle’s Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Hull

History

28.9.1908: Launched by Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co Ltd, Goole (Yd.No.415) for The Devon Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Fleetwood (John R. Dier, manager). as RIVER DART.
11.1908: Completed.
14.11.1908: Registered at Fleetwood (FD227).
21.1.1910: Alongside at Berehaven, Co. Cork took onboard survivors of steam trawler TRITON (M93) (Sk. Joyce) and provided them with restoratives and warm clothing. TRITON had started to take in water when some 20 miles SSW of Blackball Head and despite all efforts with the pumps started to settle and crew abandoned in boat before vessel foundered and pulled for Kingstown, Co. Cork.
1913: Sold to C. J. Spahde, Riga, Russia.
9.5.1913: Fleetwood registry closed.
1913: Registered at Archangel as SAPED.
Post 1913. Registered at Archangel as ZAPAD.
7.1915: Requisitioned by Russian Naval Authorities as a minesweeper.
12.1916: Renamed T.12.
3.8.1918: Seized in WhiteSea and subsequently renamed STEAMAXE (Ad.No.4342).
1.11.1919: Inward from Murmansk to Rosyth, stranded on rocks off Inchkeith Island, Firth of Forth.
1921: Salved and cut up.

Changelog
04/01/2009: Page published. 4 updates since then.
20/07/2021: Updated history.