Newhaven NB  GN 72

(NB = North Britain )

Built 1909   Hall Russell  & Co  Ltd, Aberdeen  (Steel)
   
Yard No 469
   
Owner at New Walter Lyle, Newhaven Edinburgh (Thomas Y. Carnie manager)
   
ID no 122989
   
Launch Date 02.08.1909
   
Completed 08.1909
 
Gross Tons 182
   
Nett Tons 69
   
Engine 67 hp   T.3-cyl by  Hall Russell  & Co  Ltd, Aberdeen
   
Length 110.3ft
   
Breadth 21.8ft
 
Depth 11.7ft
 

  

Owners  
25.08.1909 Registered at Granton GN 72
09.11.1911 Towed S.S. "Embla" (1172g/1883) (short of bunkers) to Burntisland Fife from 120 miles east of the Bass Rock Firth of Forth.
1911 Owned by David Dow, Leith Edinburgh (Thomas Y. Carnie, manager).
08.1914 Requisitioned and converted to minesweeper (Ad.No82) based Kirkwall Orkney.
1919 Returned to Owners.
13.02.1922 Thomas T. Dow appointed manager.
1927 Owned by John Walker, Aberdeen (owner/manager).
02.04.1927 Granton registry closed.
04.04.1927 Registered at Aberdeen A.231.
02.1940 Requisitioned and converted to minesweeper (P.No.FY.820).
20.10.1942 Owned by Silver Star Fishing Co Ltd,  Aberdeen (Andrew Craig manager).
1945 Returned to Owners.
15.12.1947 Owned by Drifters (Peterhead) Ltd  Peterhead, (R. Foreman, manager).
09.01.1948 Owned by Drifters (Peterhead) Ltd, Robert Tait Milne, Alexander Millican Ross, Isabel Helen Taylor Ronald Sutherland, Peterhead & James Thompson, Aberdeen.
21.01.1949 Owned by Drifters (Peterhead) Ltd, Robert Tait Milne, Alexander Millican Ross, Isabel Helen Taylor, Peterhead & James Thompson, Aberdeen.
06.04.1949 Owned by Drifters (Peterhead) Ltd, William Alexander Milne, Alexander Millican Ross, Isabel Helen Taylor, Peterhead & James Thompson, Aberdeen.
28.04.1949 Owned by Goodleigh Fisheries Ltd, Milford Haven (Henry John Richards manager)
1951 Aberdeen registry closed
18.07.1951 Renamed "LOULEIGH"
18.07.1951 Registered at Milford Haven M 163
1953 Sold as scrap to BISCO (British Iron & Steel Co) for £405.
1953 Scrapped by Thomas W. Ward at Castle Pill Pembrokeshire.
24.02.1953 Milford registry closed