Taking on boxes at the Middle Pier Granton |
© Reproduced with acknowledgement Buccleugh Estatates (Granton Harbour Handbook) |
John Watterston GW 1
Built | 1913 Alexander Hall & Sons Ltd, Aberdeen as "Princess Royal" (Steel) |
Yard No | 485 |
Owner at New | Dodds Steam Fishing Co Ltd, North Shields ( W. H. Dodds manager ) |
ID no | 133307 |
Launch Date | 20.02.1913 |
Completed | 03.1913 |
Gross Tons | 213 |
Nett Tons | 79 |
Engine | 56 hp T.3-cyl by Alexander Hall & Sons Ltd, Aberdeen |
Length | 117.2ft |
Breadth | 22.5ft |
Depth | 13ft |
Owners | |
14.03.1913 | Registered at North Shields SN 209 |
09.1914 | Requisitioned and converted to minesweeper (Ad No 518) and based on the Tyne |
02.1915 | Renamed “PRINCESS ROYAL II” |
1919 | Returned to Owners reverted to "Princess Royal" |
1930 | John A. Lewis Aberdeen appointed manager |
31.12.1935 | Arrived at North Shields from the fishing grounds with her galley funnel broken and her small boat washed away after being struck on the port side by a huge wave. |
1940 | Owned by John S. Boyle Ltd, Glasgow (Richard Allan manager) |
02.05.1940 | North Shields registry closed. |
05.1940 | Renamed "JOHN WATTERSTON" |
05.1940 | Registered at Glasgow GW 1 |
26.01.1952 | At Edinburgh Sheriff Court William Sutherland of Wilkie Place Leith & Patrick McIntyre of North Fort Street Leith fined £12 for wilfully disobeying orders after a deckhand had been asked to take over the duties of a sick cook. The skipper decided to return to port ofter they refused to carry out duties in story weather. |
1957 | Sold as scrap. |