As "Cancer" GY 918 |
© Reproduced with acknowledgement to Joe Kerr |
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 Richardson 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 Charles D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull |
Length | 120.3ft |
Breadth | 22ft |
Depth | 12.2ft |
Owners | |
28.06.1916 | Registered at Grimsby GY 918. |
08.1916 | Requisitioned and converted to minesweeper (Ad.No.2957) based at Devonport. |
1919 | Returned to Owners. |
19.12.1919 | Alfred Bannister appointed manager. |
15.08.1921 | Bill of Sale: Owned by Lindsey Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby (Edwin Bacon Snr, manager). |
31.08.1929 | Bill of Sale: Owned by David Dryburgh, Robert Dryburgh, Thomas Liston & George Hunter, Leith Edinburgh. |
10.09.1929 | David Drybrugh appointed manager. |
14.10.1929 | Four Bills of Sale: (16 shares each) Owned by David Dryburgh, Robert Dryburgh, Thomas Liston & George Hunter, Leith Edinburgh (David Dryburgh manager). |
29.10.1929 | Mortgaged by George Hunter (16 shares) (A). |
29.10.1929 | Mortgagee: Royal Bank of Scotland, Edinburgh (secure sums due & interest). |
18.05.1931 | Mortgage (A) discharged |
19.05.1931 | Four Bills of Sale: Owned by David Dryburgh, Robert Dryburgh, Thomas Dryburgh Liston, Leith Edinburgh (David Dryburgh manager). |
21.05.1931 | Mortgaged by David Dryburgh, Robert Dryburgh, Thomas Dryburgh Liston, Leith Edinburgh (B). |
21.05.1931 | Mortgagee: Royal Bank of Scotland, Edinburgh (secure sums due & interest). |
05.02.1936 | Grimsby registry closed. |
21.03.1936 | Renamed "INVERTAY". |
21.03.1936 | Registered at Granton GN 49. |
1937 | Owned by George R. Cooke, Edinburgh (owner/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. |
1939 | Owned by George R. Cook, Edinburgh & William Carnie Jnr, Newhaven Edinburgh. |
1940 | Owned by Carnie & Gibb, Newhaven, Edinburgh (William Carnie Jnr, manager). |
08.1940 | Requisitioned and converted to minesweeper (P.No.FY.1748) (Hire rate £65.3.4d/month). |
1941 | Owned by J. Bennett (Wholesale) Ltd, London (William Alfred Bennett, Grimsby manager). |
1946 | Owned by Lord Line Ltd, Hull (Thomas W. Boyd manager). |
06.1946 | Owned by Bramwell Collinge , St. Anne’s-on-the-Sea, Lancashire (owner/manager). |
06.1946 | Granton registry closed. |
24.06.1946 | Registered at Grimsby GY 287. |
07.1946 | Returned to Owners. |
31.08.1946 | Bill of Sale: Owned by Harcol Trawling Co Ltd, St. Anne's on Sea Lancashire (William Stevenson, St. Anne's-on-the-Sea, manager). |
03.10.1946 | Arthur Gladstone Hamer, Grimsby appointed manager. |
10.10.1946 | Mortgaged by Harcol Trawling Co Ltd, St. Anne's on Sea Lancashire (C). |
10.10.1946 | Mortgagee: Barclays Bank Ltd, London (secure sums dur & interest). |
29.03.1950 | Harcol Trawling Co Ltd, St. Anne’s-on-the-Sea Lancashire in voluntary liquidation. |
21.09.1950 | Mortgage (C) discharged. |
21.09.1950 | Bill of Sale: Owned by Sir Thomas Robinson & Son (Grimsby) Ltd, Grimsby |
28.09.1950 | Frank Wheeler Robinson appointed manager. |
19.02.1954 | Frank Bellamy Robinson appointed manager. |
07.10.1954 | In gale conditions in North Sea shipped heavy seas flooding stokehold losing fires and disabled pumps. Trawler "Flying Wing" GY 690 responded to radio message, connected with difficulty and commenced 70 mile tow to Grimsby. |
08.10.1954 | Arrived at Grimsby. |
03.1961 | Sailed Grimsby for the North Sea fishing grounds, Skipper A. Osborne. |
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. |
06.12.1961 | Grimsby registry closed. |