As Ratapiko LH 86 second from pier in Lerwick |
© Reproduced with acknowledgement to the Shetland Museum & Archives |
Kelvingrove LH 86
Built | 1912 John Duthie Torry Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Aberdeen as "Ratapiko" (Steel) |
Yard No | 367 |
Owner at New | John G. Smith, Fleetwood (owner/manager) |
ID no | 129379 |
Launch Date | 17.02.1912 |
Completed | 03.1912 |
Gross Tons | 247 |
Nett Tons | 90 |
Engine | 79 hp T.3-cyl by W. V. V. Lidgerwood & Co Ltd, Glasgow |
Length | 120.3ft |
Breadth | 22.6ft |
Depth | 13.6ft |
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Owners | |
14.03.1912 | Registered at Aberdeen A.446 |
08.1914 | Requisitioned and converted to minesweeper (Ad.No.347) based at Granton . |
19.09.1916 | Deployed on Special Service using name “Lennard”. |
07.10.1916 | Towed the Hartlepool steamer “Jupiter” (2124grt/1901) stopped by submarine (UB27) 40 miles NE by E from Longstone Lighthouse whilst on passage Archangel-Hull with timber, (scuttled but failed to sink) into Firth of Forth until relieved by tugs and trawlers. |
30.01.1918 | Escorting Convoy T.M.15 in thick fog at 19:15 stranded on the Longstone Rock, Farne Islands. |
03.02.1918 | Salvage underway but hampered by bad weather. |
11.02.1918 | Refloated and taken in tow by tug for Blyth, Northumberland |
21.04.1918 | Returned to service after repairs on Tyne. |
22.04.1918 | Operating as a decoy trawler (using name “St. George” SN49) towing/and in company with HM S/M C.24. |
11.11.1918 | Reverted to an Armed Trawler. |
1919 | Returned to Owners |
1919 | Owned by Stepney Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Scarborough (Abraham Moore manager) . |
20.02.1920 | Aberdeen registry closed. |
27.02.1920 | Registered at Scarborough SH 221. |
02.09.1920 | Scarborough registry closed, converted to cargo vessel, (Re-measured 256.5g/99.5n) (W. Aiston manager) (Winch removed and fitted onto S.T. “Magnolia” SH 160). |
1922 | Owned by Co-operative Fishing Society Ltd, Scarborough (C. Naylor, manager). |
01.1926 | Converted back to a trawler (Re-measured 247g/90n) . |
11.01.1926 | Owned by Thomas H. Scales, Newhaven Edinburgh (owner/manager) |
29.01.1926 | Registered at Scarborough SH 39 |
1931 | New boiler fitted. |
1934 | Owned by Thomas H. Scales & Son Ltd, Newhaven Edinburgh |
1935 | Owned by Thomas H. Scales & Sons Ltd, Newhaven Edinburgh |
04.04.1935 | Scarborough registry closed |
16.04.1935 | Registered at Leith LH 86 |
02.07.1940 | Requisitioned and converted to minesweeper (P.No. FY.1878) (Hire rate £61.15s 0d/month). |
12.1945 | Returned to Owners |
1946 | Owned by I. C. MacFarlane ? |
1947 | Owned by Kelvin Trawlers Ltd, Aberdeen |
1947 | Renamed "KELVINGROVE" operating as fish & liver oil carrier |
1948 | Returned to trawling |
1952 | Owned by Heather Fishing Co Ltd, Newhaven Edinburgh |
1954 | Owned by William Liston & Son, Newhaven Edinburgh (William Liston manager). |
1956 | Sold as scrap to BISCO (British Iron & Steel Co) for £4150. |
14.05.1956 | Arrived at Charlestown Fife. |
07.1956 | Scrapped by Shipbreaking Industries Ltd at Charlestown Fife. |