Sister ship Saturn GY 976

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Invertay GN 49 

Built 1915   Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co Ltd,   as "Cancer"    (Steel)
   
Yard No 176
   
Owner at New Grimsby & North Sea Steam Trawling Co Ltd,  Grimsby  (John R. Mackrill manager)
   
ID no 138971
   
Launch Date 09.12.1915
   
Completed 06.1916
Gross Tons 230
   
Nett Tons 107
 
Engine 76 hp   T.3-cyl by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
   
Length 120.3ft
   
Breadth 22ft
   
Depth 12.1ft
 
Owners  
06.1916 Registered at Grimsby GY 918.
08.1916 Requisitioned and converted to minesweeper (Ad.No.2957) based at Devonport.
1919 Returned to Owners.
08.1921 Owned by Lindsey Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby   (Edwin Bacon manager).
09.1929 Owned by David Dryburgh,  Granton  Edinburgh (owner/manager).  
1936 Renamed "INVERTAY".
02.1936 Registered at Granton GN 49.
1936 Owned by G. R. Cook, Granton Edinburgh  .
1939 Owned by G. R. Cook & William Carnie Jnr, Granton Edinburgh (Wm Carnie Jnr manager).
08.08.1939 Towed by S.T. "Star of the East" LH 36 (Skipper Watson Liston)  200 miles from Cape Wrath to Aberdeen.( Engine Trouble). Arrived 11th August.
1940 Owned by Carnie & Gibb, Granton  Edinburgh
08.1940 Requisitioned and converted to minesweeper (P.No.FY.1748)
1941 Owned by J. Bennett (Wholesale) Ltd, Grimsby   (W. A .Bennett manager)
1946 Owned by Lord Line Ltd, Hull (Thomas W. Boyd manager) 
06.1946 Owned by Harcol Trawling Co Ltd, St. Anne's on Sea Lancs.    (William Stevenson, St. Anne's-on-the-Sea, manager)
06.1946 Granton registry closed.
06.1946 Registered at Grimsby GY 287.
07.1946 Returned to Owners.   
09.1950 Owned by Sir Thomas Robinson & Son (Grimsby) Ltd, Grimsby
10.03.1961 Sank following a collision in the North Sea with the German trawler "Franz Schau" (393grt/1949) in thick fog , 190 miles off Humber, Crew rescued by German trawler "Grundmann" and transferred to Grimsby trawler "Saxon Progress"  GY 655.
   
   
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