Additional information courtesy of Bill Blow

Technical

Official Number: 108441
Yard Number: 173
Completed: 1897
Gross Tonnage: 158.11
Net Tonnage: 67 .03
Length: 101.0 ft
Breadth: 20.5 ft
Depth: 11.2 ft
Built: Cochrane & Cooper, Beverley
Engine: 250ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co, Hull

History

21.12.1896: Launched by Cochrane & Cooper, Beverley (Yd.No.173) for Arctic Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby as VANILLA.
5.2.1897: Registered at Grimsby (GY202).
2.1897: Completed.
6.2.1897: Edwin Bacon appointed manager.
15.9.1903: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Edwin Bacon Snr & John George Bates, Grimsby (joint mortgagees) (A).
10.5.1911: Mortgage (A) discharged.
10.5.1911: Sold to The South Western Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Fleetwood.
10.5.1911: Alick Black, Grimsby appointed manager.
22.5.1911: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to The London City & Midland Bank Ltd, London (B).
27.5.1914: Mortgage (B) discharged.
28.5.1914: Sold to The Savoy Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
5.6.1914: Henry Croft Baker appointed manager.
30.6.1914: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to The London City & Midland Bank Ltd, London (C).
18.4.1915: Mined 53 miles E by S from Inner Dowsing Light Vessel (On 17.4.1915 the German light cruisers STRALSUND and STRASSBURG laid a minefield from 53.30N, 02.30W to about 53.40N, 03.25W). Nine crew MPK including skipper.
26.4.1915: Grimsby registry closed “Vessel blown up and sunk in North Sea on the 18th April 1915 by a German submarine”.

(MPK – Sk. Thomas T. Bennett; John Maney, Mate; William W. May, Deckhand; George Cruse; C. Phillips; R. Lovelock; R. Ducker; T. Sanders & J. Macarthy)

Changelog

08/01/2009: Page published. 6 updates since then.