Chiltern GN 25

As "Chiltern" H 660

Chiltern GN 25

Built	1917 Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby as "John Cormack" (Steel)

Yard No	822

Owner at New	Admiralty (Ad No 3562)

ID no	143867

Launch Date	04.09.1917

Completed	05.12.1917

Gross Tons	324

Nett Tons	130

Engine	87 hp T.3-cyl by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull

Length	138.5ft

Breadth	23.7ft

Depth	12.8ft

Owners
28.01.1920	Registered at London LO 263
1922	Sold to the Mercantile
1922	Owned by Pickering & Haldanes Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull (John McCann & Edward Cartwright managers)
28.07.1922	London registry closed
04.08.1922	Renamed "LORD PIRRIE"
04.08.1922	Registered at Hull H 660
1929	Owned by Eton Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull
28.06.1929	Renamed "CHILTERN"
1930	Owned by W. R. Willey & Sons, Hull (W. B. Wiley Jnr manager)
1936	Fishing from Fleetwood, Deckhand George Cook fell overboard and drowned at Rockall fishing grounds
1938	Owned by H. Elliot & Sons, Fleetwood (H. Elliott & Sons Trawlers Ltd managers ).
1940	Owned by Boston Deep Sea Fishing Co & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Basil Arthur Parkes manager)
04.06.1940	Requisitioned as Auxiliary Patrol Trawler (P.No. 4.125). ) (Hire rate £94.10s.0d/month). (Went to St. Nazaire in northern France, where she rescued women and children from the invading Nazis. "Chiltern" was the last British ship to leave the French port.)
30.05.1941	Shot down a twin-engined German bomber into the sea off the West Country.
09.1941	Converted to minesweeper
1945	Returned to Owners
1945	Owned by Planet Fishing Co Ltd, Granton Edinburgh (Edwin Walker & Sons managers)
28.10.1945	Laid up at Granton had engine-room filled with water owing to leakage.
1945	Hull registry closed.
1945	Registered at Granton GN 25
26.01.1950	Picked up crew of S.T. "Kuvera" GN 39 which had sprung a leak and foundered 110miles NE of Buchan Ness
1952	Owned by Medway Yacht Basin Ltd, Borstal Rochester ( R. W. Pearson manager )
1954	Sold as scrap