As Scomber FD 98 |
© Reproduced with acknowledgement to John Clarkson & The Bosuns Watch website |
Inchture GN 44
Built | 1914 Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby as "Scomber" (Steel) |
Yard No | 615 |
Owner at New | Mount Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Fleetwood (George E. J. Moody, Grimsby, manager) |
ID no | 136898 |
Launch Date | 06.10.1914 |
Completed | 12.1914 |
Gross Tons | 321 |
Nett Tons | 127 |
Engine | 89 hp T.3-cyl by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull |
Length | 130.3ft |
Breadth | 24ft |
Depth | 13.1ft |
Owners | |
03.12.1914 | Registered at Fleetwood FD 98 |
12.1914 | Requisitioned from builders and converted to minesweeper (Ad.No.445) based on the Humber. |
1919 | Returned to Owners (Sir George E. J. Moody, Grimsby manager) |
10.10.1923 | Ran aground on rocks at Crowlin Islands in the Sound of Raasay Skye Inner Hebrides. All crewmen took to the small boat and were rescued by MacBrayne's S.S. "Plover" (208g/1904) on passage from Harris. Skipper & four crewmen remained on Crowlin Island to stand by the vessel. |
11.10.1923 | Insurance Surveyor attended in steam drifter "Flower o' Moray" INS 584 (84grt/1908) and found water in engine room, fish hold and fore hold. |
12.10.1923 | Carried out external examination; no serious damage found. |
22.10.1923 | After heaving on stern anchors and with "Flower o' Moray" towing astern refloated and berthed at Kyle of Lochalsh. |
26.10.1923 | Sailed for Fleetwood, via Oban to rectify boiler tube leaks. |
28.10.1923 | Arrived Fleetwood. Subsequently repaired and returned to service. |
07.03.1926 | Sank while fishing 3 miles W by N of the Lune Deeps Buoy, Irish Sea.. Raised, repaired and returned to service pre 1927 |
193? | W. M. Kelly appointed manager. |
06.05.1940 | Requisitioned and converted to Boom Defence Vessel (P.No.Z.183)(Hire rate £85.12.0d/month). |
1940 | Fleetwood registry closed. |
23.11.1943 | Compulsorily purchased by the Ministry of War Transport. |
23.05.1944 | Assigned to Operation Neptune - Normandy landings. |
05.06.1944 | Sailed Solent for Mulberry B with Convoy ETC27W. |
03.07.1944 | Operation Neptune ended; based on the Humber (J. Gibson-Johnston & Co Hull, agents). |
02.1947 | Sold to the Mercantile. |
02.1947 | Owned by Inch Fishing Co Ltd, Granton Edinburgh. |
02.1947 | Renamed "INCHTURE". |
02.1947 | Registered at Granton GN 44. |
09.02.1948 | Skipper Norman Lyle towed disabled S.T. "Inchmickery" GN 29 200 miles to Aberdeen through severe gale. |
10.1953 | Scrapped by Contieri Navali del Golfo, Genoa at La Spezia Italy. |