Elcho GN 68
Built | 1908 Hawthorns & Co Ltd, Leith Edinburgh (Steel) |
Yard No | 119 |
Owner at New | General Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Granton Edinburgh (James Caw manager). |
ID no | 122986 |
Launch Date | 12.08.1908 |
Completed | 09.1908 |
Gross Tons | 155 |
Nett Tons | 59 |
Engine | 53 hp T.3-cyl by Hawthorns & Co Ltd, Leith Edinburgh |
Length | 105.4ft |
Breadth | 21.6ft |
Depth | 10.5ft |
Owners | |
27.08.1908 | Ran trial trip in Firth of Forth. |
29.08.1908 | Registered at Granton GN 68 |
23.09.1908 | In collision with unknown steamer in dense fog 14 miles ESE from Bass Rock. Sustained damage to starboard quarter. |
1914 | Requisitioned and converted to minesweeper. |
23.12.1916 | Peter Wilson, (49) Aberdeen (Engineman) died of illness. |
1919 | Returned to Owners |
1919 | Adam E. Noble appointed manager. |
Undated | Owned by Dow & Lyle, Newhaven Edinburgh |
1926 | Owned by John S. Ireland, Leith Edinburgh (Kinnear & Co Ltd, North Shields managers). |
1928 | Owned by David A. Melrose, North Shields (owner/manager) |
05.09.1935 | Collided with and sank steam drifter "Lord Lovat" 16 miles off Tynemouth in pitch darkness while fishing. Two of the drifters crew were lost, Harold Barber & Michael Buck from Lowestoft, seven others rescued. |
1940 | Owned by T. A. Melrose & Sons Ltd, North Shields. |