Bellevue GN 90
Built | 1897 Mackie & Thomson Govan as "Escort" (Steel) |
Yard No | 154 |
Owner at New | Great Northern Steamship Fishing Co Ltd, Hull (William R. Nowell manager) |
ID no | 106759 |
Launch Date | 20.05.1897 |
Completed | 1897 |
Gross Tons | 156 |
Nett Tons | 60 |
Engine | 45 hp T.3-cyl by Muir & Houston Ltd, Glasgow |
Length | 104.2ft |
Breadth | 21ft |
Depth | 10.7ft |
19.07.1897 | Registered at Hull H 365. |
06.12.1903 | In collision with S.T. "Campania" GY 598 in thick fog approx one & a half miles from the Spurn Light Ship. |
1914 | Owned by S. Pearson, London (John H. Macdonald manager). |
09.1915 | Purchased into the Royal Navy and converted to a Boom Defence Vessel. |
21.11.1916 | Hull registry closed. |
1920 | Sold to the Mercantile. |
1920 | Owned by Great Northern Steamship Fishing Co Ltd, Hull. |
1921 | Registered at Hull H 33. |
19.04.1922 | Owned by William Flockhart Jnr, Leith Edinburgh (Alexander Flockhart manager). |
07.1922 | Hull registry closed. |
27.07.1922 | Renamed "BELLEVUE". |
27.07.1922 | Registered at Granton GN 90. |
1928 | Owned by John Horne, Port Seton East Lothian (Thomas Harrison Scales, Leith Edinburgh manager). |
19.06.1936 | Ran aground on the south side of Inchkeith Firth of Forth, refloated at high water and proceeded to Granton. |
21.02.1942 | Presumed mined and sunk 5 miles NW Turnberry Lighthouse, all eight hands lost (Fishing West Coast as North Sea fishing restricted due to war). |
Those lost: - |
Robert Shiels (Skipper) 46 Edinburgh Thomas Blackie (Deckhand) 61 Port
Seton, East Lothian Alexander Harkess (2nd engineer) 51 Prestonpans East Lothian David Thomson (Chief Enginner) 54 Prestonpans East Lothian |