Ocean Drift LH 73
| Built | 1916 Hawthorns & Co Ltd Leith as "Pitfour" (Steel) |
| Yard No | 145 |
| Owner at New | Peterhead Trawling Co Ltd Peterhead (James G. Adams manager) |
| ID no | 130214 |
| Launch Date | 17.06.16 |
| Completed | 10.1916 |
| Gross Tons | 227 |
| Nett Tons | 98 |
| Engine | 82 hp T.3-cyl Hawthorns & Co Ltd Leith |
| Length | 117.2ft |
| Breadth | 22.1ft |
| Depth | 12.5ft |
| Owners | |
| 10.1916 | Registered at Peterhead PD 241 |
| 10.1916 | Requisitioned from the builders and converted to Mine Laying Vessel. |
| 1917 | Converted to minesweeper (Ad.No.2976) and based at Dover. |
| 1919 | Returned to Owners |
| 1927 | Owned by James G. Adam, Aberdeen |
| 1930 | Owned by Alexander Flockhart, Newhaven Edinburgh |
| 1934 | Owned by Flockhart & Sons Newhaven Edinburgh |
| 03.1935 | Peterhead registry closed. |
| 05.03.1935 | Renamed "OCEAN DRIFT". |
| 05.03.1935 | Registered at Leith LH 73. |
| Pre1939 | Carnie & Gibb appointed managers. |
| 1939 | Owned by Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Company Ltd Fleetwood (Basil A. Parkes manager). |
| 27.03.1939 | Towed S.T. "Ocean Eddy" LH 62 30 miles to Lerwick, engine problems. |
| 20.07.1939 | Damaged in collision with steam drifter “Lanner” LT 1176 off Peterhead. |
| 1940 | Owned by Carnie & Gibb Granton Edinburgh ( William Carnie Jnr manager ) |
| 17.03.1940 | Sunk after collision with HMS "Intrepid" (P.No.D.10) 50 miles north east of Kinnairds Head, two crewmen missing A. Cunningham, Port Seton, East Lothian (Engineer) and Robert Liston, Newhaven (deckhand). Skipper George Ratcliffe and remaining crew members rescued by the HMS "Intrepid". |
| 25.03.1940 | Leith registry closed. |
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