New Comet GN 38
Built | 1915 Alexander Hall & Sons Ltd Aberdeen as "Goeland II" (Steel) |
Yard No | 509 |
Owner at New | Harley & Miller Ltd, Liverpool (Robert Harley manager) |
ID no | 137432 |
Launch Date | 02.1915 |
Completed | 03.1915 |
Gross Tons | 245 |
Nett Tons | 93 |
Engine | 91 hp T.3-cyl by Alexander Hall & Sons Ltd, Aberdeen |
Length | 120.7ft |
Breadth | 22.6ft |
Depth | 12ft |
Owners | |
22.03.1915 | Registered at Liverpool LL 2 |
03.1915 | Requisitioned and converted to minesweeper (Ad.No.1194) based at Dover. |
29.10.1915: | Arrested Danish S.S. "Rhodesia" trying to cross Folkestone boom. Escorted to Downs. |
23.02.1916: | Attached to Unit.91 Dover Patrol, picked up one dead crew member of S.S. "Sea Serpent" (902g/1898) mined in Channel. |
1919 | Returned to Owners. |
1919 | Owned by Port St Mary Fishing & Curing Co Ltd, London (Joseph A. Taylor, manager). |
03.1919 | Liverpool registry closed. |
31.03.1919 | Registered at Fleetwood FD 109. |
1924 | New Docks Steam Fishing Co (Fleetwood) Ltd appointed managers. |
12.1926 | Owned by Charles R. Baskcomb, Grimsby (owner/manager). |
10.12.1926 | Fleetwood registry closed. |
13.12.1926 | Registered at Grimsby GY 406. |
01.1927 | Lloyds class withdrawn |
05.1928 | Owned by Baskcomb & Northcote Ltd, Grimsby (Charles R. Baskcomb manager). |
05.1933 | Owned by James Johnston, Newhaven Edinburgh (owner/manager) |
29.05.1933 | Grimsby registry closed. |
06.1933 | Renamed "NEW COMET". |
06.1933 | Registered at Granton GN 38 |
28.11.1939 | Requisitioned and converted to minesweeper (Magnetic) (P.No. FY.760) (Hire rate £67.7.6d/month). |
23.11.1940 |
Damaged by a mine explosion 1.5 miles east off the River Tyne. All twenty crewmen rescued by the Tynemouth lifeboat "Westmoreland". Another minesweeper took the "New Comet" in tow and beached her. The Admiralty sent its thanks for this service and the trawler Captain based at North Shields sent £5 in gratitude for the rescue (Rewards £19 3s 3d), repaired and returned to service. |
07.1943 | Converted to an ESSO (Fuel carrier)(P.No.Y.7.21). |
06.06.1944 | Took part in the Normandy landings as part of Force G |
1944 | Owned by William & James Coull Johnston, Newhaven Edinburgh. |
10.1945 | Owned by Anglo Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby (J. R. Cobley manager). |
10.1945 | Granton registry closed. |
10.1945 | Registered at Grimsby GY 122. |
29.12.1945 | Returned to Owners. |
1950 | Leslie Little appointed manager. |
10.1952 | Sold as scrap.. |