As "Daily Chronicle" FD 69 |
© Reproduced with acknowledgement to John Clarkson & The Bosuns Watch website |
Commodator GN 6
Built | 1917 Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Beverley as "Richard Bacon" (Steel) |
Yard No | 382 |
Owner at New | Admiralty (Ad.No.3587) |
ID no | 143809 |
Launch Date | 02.11.1917 |
Completed | 12.03.1918 |
Engine | 87 hp T.3-cyl by Amos & Smith Ltd, Hull |
Gross Tons | 281 |
Nett Tons | 109 |
Length | 125.5ft |
Breadth | 23.5ft |
Depth | 12.7ft |
Owners | |
24.08.1920 | Registered at London LO 438 |
1922 | Sold to the Mercantile |
1922 | Owned by Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Boston Lincs (Fred Parkes manager) |
07.07.1922 | London registry closed |
07.1922 | Renamed "HAGANBY" |
07.1922 | Registered at Boston BN 179 |
1923 | Transferred to Fleetwood when Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, moved to Fleetwood |
02.1925 | Owned by Victor Fourny, Boulogne France |
02.1925 | Boston registry closed. |
02.1925 | Renamed “PROFESSUER BERGONIE”. |
02.1925 | Registered at Boulogne. |
1930 | Owned by Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Fred Parkes manager) |
1930 | Boulogne registry closed. |
04.03.1930 | Renamed "DAILY CHRONICLE" |
04.03.1930 | Registered at Fleetwood FD 69 |
05 .07.1933 | Chartered by Italian Government to provide support for a trans-Atlantic flight involving 20 to 30 aeroplanes |
1934 | Owned by Thomas L Devlin & Sons, Granton Edinburgh (Thomas L. Devlin Jnr manager) |
05.11.1934 | Fleetwood registry closed. |
11.1934 | Renamed "COMMODATOR" |
11.1934 | Registered at Granton GN 6 |
29.08.1939 | Requisitioned and converted to minesweeper (P.No. FY.634) |
1942 | Owned by Thomas L. Devlin & Sons Ltd, Granton Edinburgh (Thomas L. Devlin Jnr manager). |
1943 | Owned by Mrs Elizabeth D. Breen, Edinburgh (Thomas L. Devlin Jnr manager). |
06.1945 | Owned by Grimsby Merchants Amalgamated Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby (Harvey Wilfred Wilson manager). |
06.1945 | Granton registry closed. |
18.06.1945 | Registered at Grimsby GY 57. |
04.10.1945 | Returned to Owner. |
15.02.1946 | Bill of Sale: Owned by Richard Gordon Parsley, Milford Haven (owner/manager). |
28.02.1946 | Mortgaged by Richard Gordon Parsley, Milford Haven (A). |
28.02.1946 | Mortgagee: Midland Bank Ltd, London (secure account & interest). |
20.04.1946 | Sought refuge in Berehaven, Co. Cork after 140 tons of bunker coal shifted in 85mph gale force conditions on the W of Ireland grounds and put her on her beam ends. Crew spent five and a half hours trimming bunkers to restore her to an even keel. |
1948 | Renamed "LYNANDI" |
14.01.1954 | Skipper W. G. King experienced boiler problems, blew down and lost power while fishing off Old Head of Kinsale, taken in tow by S.T. “Inverforth” GN52. |
16.01.1954 | The tow parted and the vessel in danger of going ashore on St. Ann’s Head, Pembroke-shire. The Angle life boat (Cox Alfred Watkins) was launched and the tug “Empire Rosa” dispatched to from Pembroke Dock to go to her assistance. Both vessels returned to Milford Haven unable to assist because of the 40ft waves. S.T. “Inverforth” remained on standby as did the S.T. “Thomas Booth” M 274. The Angle lifeboat and the “Empire Rosa” returned as the weather abated taking her in tow to Milford Haven |
27.08.1954 | Scrapped by Thomas W. Ward at Castle Pill, Milford Haven |
19.10.1954 | Grimsby registry closed (except for part of mortgage (A). |
08.11.1954 | Mortgage (A) discharged. |
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