Sister ship Saturn GY 976

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Invertay GN 49 

Built 1916   Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co Ltd   as " Cancer
   
Yard No 176
   
Owner at New Grimsby & North Sea Steam Fishing Co Ltd  GY 918
   
ID no 138971
   
Launch Date 09.12.1915
   
Gross Tons 230
   
Engine 76 HP Steam       T.3-cyl by C D Holmes & Co Ltd Hull
   
Length 120ft
   
Breadth 22ft
   
Owners  
1916 Requisitioned and converted to minesweeper
1919 Returned to Owners
1921 Lindsey Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby   (Edwin Baker manager)
1935 D Dryburgh  Granton  Edinburgh  
1936 G R Cook Granton Edinburgh renamed "INVERTAY" GN 49
1939 G R Cook & William Carnie Jnr Granton Edinburgh
1939 8th August 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 Carnie & Gibb Granton  ( Wm Carnie Jr manager )
1940 Requisitioned and converted to minesweeper
1942 J Bennet ( Wholesale ) Ltd Grimsby   ( W A Bennet manager )
1946 Returned to Owners   
1946 Lord Line Ltd Hull
1946 Harcol Trawling Co Ltd  GY 287  (William Stevenson, St. Anne's-on-the-Sea, manager)
1950 Thomas Robinson & Son Grimsby
1961 10th March sank following a collision in the North Sea with the German trawler "Franz Schau" 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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