Mount Rosa GN 55

Built 1898    Cumming & Ellis  Inverkeithing Fifeshire (Steel)
   
Yard No 29
   
Owner at New Muirheads Trawlers Ltd, Edinburgh  (James Muirhead manager).
   
ID no 108587
   
Launch Date 20.06.98
 
Completed 1898
 
Gross Tons 184
   
Nett Tons 22
   
Engine 75 hp     C.2-cyl by Hutson & Son, Glasgow
   
Length 108.9ft
   
Breadth 21.1ft
 
Depth 10.4ft
   
Owners  
1898 Registered at Granton GN 55
03.01.1899 Towed 90 miles into Granton by S.T. "Champion" GN 48 when her engines were disabled in the North Sea. (£1000 salvage fee claimed, £200 towage fee paid after court settlement)
16.10.1900 Skipper Alex Bremner at Cupar Sheriff Court fined £40 or 40 days imprisonment for fishing inside the legal limit at May Island Firth of Forth on 13th Sept 1900
06.11.1903 Stranded on Dog Rocks North side of  Fidra  Island, Firth of Forth, returned to Granton to ascertain damage.
Pre1904 William G. Muirhead appointed manager
1904 Muirheads Trawlers Ltd goes into Liquidation.
03.05.1904 Owned by Joseph Constant, (Shipbroker) London
01.10.1905 Owned by H. O. Rice & Others, Colchester.
07.10.1908 Owned by J. E. Fisher (Shipbroker) Liverpool, selling vessels on behalf of liquidators.
08.10.1908 Owned by Thomas H. Jones, Swansea (John H. Rice manager).
1908 Granton registry closed.
1908 Registered at Swansea SA?
1910 Owned by Russian owners
18.08.1910 Swansea registry closed.
Pre1930 Owned by Sovtorgflot, Archangel Russia.
Pre1930 Registered at Archangel.
Pre1930 Renamed "MITROFFAN"
Pre 1936 Owned by USSR government.
Pre1936 Renamed "UNA"
Pre1936 Licensed to carry passengers.
1941 License to carry passengers cancelled.