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.