as HMT "Kate Lewis"

© Reproduced with acknowledgment to Joe Kerr

                Noreen Mary GN 17                      

Built 1916   Cochrane & Sons  Selby as " Kate Lewis"
   
Yard No 710
   
Owner at New Richard Lewis  Aberdeen A 260
   
ID no 139783
   
Launch Date 05.02.1916
   
Gross Tons 207
   
Engine 80 HP Steam         T.3-cyl by J. Abernethy & Co Ltd, Aberdeen
   
Length 117ft
   
Breadth 22ft
   
Owners  
1916 Purchased by the Admiralty as Mine Layer and attached to Mine School at Portsmouth
1939 Sold to the Mercantile
1939 Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood       (Basil A. Parkes, Cleveleys, manager)
1939 Renamed " NOREEN MARY "       FD 4
1939 Carnie & Gibb  Granton renamed " NOREEN MARY "  GN 17  (William Carnie Jnr, Glasgow  manager ) Fishing from Ayr  North Sea closed due to war
1944 5th July sunk by submarine ( U247 ) gunfire 20 miles while fishing West of Cape Wrath. 6 dead, 2 Missing & 2 survivors, ( 2nd Engineer  48 shrapnel wounds & deckhand  James MacAllister 14 shrapnel wounds) taken on board  S.T. " Lady Madeleine "
   
  Those Dead & Missing
 
John Flockhart Skipper 54 275 Milton Road Portobello
Alex Barnet Mate 58 1 Jessfield Terrace Leith
Alex Mackenzie 2nd Fisherman 44 10 Hawthorn Terrace Cockenzie
William Jackson Chief Engineer 53  St Johns House Church Street Eyemouth
Wilfred Allen Deckhand 41 28 Auborough Street Scarborough
George Gordon Fireman 39 167 Forthview Wallyford Midlothian
Charles Lindsay Cook 52 68 Granton Crescent Edinburgh
James F Coats Apprentice 18  21 Lecket Hill Street Springburn Glasgow
   
  James MacAllister Adelphi Place Portobello Edinburgh was later awarded the British Empire Medal ( Civil Division ) for exceptional gallantry and fortitude, although wounded by shrapnel he stood 8 hours until rescued allowing his more seriously wounded shipmate more room to rest.