© Reproduced with acknowledgement to Mick Watchman Scarborough
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© Reproduced with acknowledgement to Mick Watchman Scarborough |
Kernevel GN 35
| Built | 1906 Hall Russell & Co Ltd, Aberdeen as "Ker-Nevel" (Steel) |
| Yard No | 413 |
| Owner at New | Soc Anon Des Chalutiers de l'Quest, St Nazaire France |
| ID no | 145005 |
| Launch Date | 18.10.1906 |
| Completed | 1906 |
| Gross Tons | 172 |
| Nett Tons | 65 |
| Engine | 57 hp T.3-cyl by Hall Russell & Co Ltd, Aberdeen |
| Length | 112.3ft |
| Breadth | 21.6ft |
| Depth | 11.6ft |
| Owners | |
| 1906 | Registered at Lorient L 754. |
| 18.05.1914 | Requisitioned by the Marine Nationale (French Navy). |
| Post 1917 | Owned by Dieppe owners |
| 31.01.1919 | Returned to Owners. |
| 1925 | Owned by George F. Liston, Granton Edinburgh (owner/manager) |
| Undated | Renamed/altered to “KERNEVEL”. |
| 05.1925 | Lorient registry closed. |
| 25.05.1925 | Registered at Granton GN 35 |
| 1930 | Owned by Wear Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Sunderland (James Hall manager) |
| 1931 | Granton registry closed |
| 1931 | Registered at Sunderland SD 36 |
| 1931 | New boiler fitted |
| 1935 | Owned by Sunderland Ice Co. Ltd, Sunderland (Charles Hall manager) |
| 1939 | Owned by John Charles Llewellin. Joseph Leslie Yolland, John Yolland Jnr, Milford Haven & Thomas Stewart Yolland, Swansea (John Charles Llewellin manager). |
| 1940 | Sunderland registry closed. |
| 01.03.1940 | Registered at Milford Haven M 62 |
| 12.08.1940 | Attacked and damaged by German aircraft 6 miles NW of Smalls Lighthouse (Skipper J. Cheyney). |
| 10.01.1941 | Owned by Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Fred Parkes manager ) |
| 02.02.1943 | Owned by Peter Alexander Johnstone, Aberdeen (owner/manager) |
| 12.02.1943 | Milford registry closed. |
| 15.02.1943 | Registered at Aberdeen A.560 |
| 10.04.1944 | Requisitioned and converted to an ESSO (Fuel carrier). |
| 1944 | Assigned to Operation Neptune - Normandy landings |
| 08.05.1944 | Part of Group B1. Sailed Bracklesham Bay for Mulberry A |
| 09.05.1944 | Arrived Mulberry A. |
| 03.07.1944 | Operation Neptune ended. |
| 07.11.1944 | Returned to Owners |
| 06.11.1952 | Owned by Scarborough Pure Ice & Cold Storage Co. Ltd, Scarborough (J. Johnson manager). |
| 1956 | Sold as scrap. |
| 1956 | Scrapped by Thomas W. Ward Ltd at Castle Pill Milford Haven. |
| 04.05.1956 | Aberdeen registry closed. |