Ocean Drift  LH 73

Built 1916    Hawthorns & Co Ltd  Leith  as " Pitfour "
   
Yard No 145
   
Owner at New Peterhead Trawling Co Ltd Peterhead  PD 241
   
ID no 130214
   
Launch Date 17.06.16
Gross Tons 227
   
Engine 82 HP Steam      T.3-Cyl  Hawthorns & Co Ltd Leith
   
Length 117ft
   
Breadth 22ft
   
Owners  
1916 Requisitioned and converted to Mine Laying Vessel, then to minesweeper
1919 Returned to Owners
1930 A  Flockhart Newhaven Edinburgh
1934 Flockhart & Sons  Newhaven Edinburgh LH 73
Pre1939 Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Company Ltd .
1939 27th March towed S.T. " Ocean Eddy " LH 62 30 miles to Lerwick,  engine problems.
1939 Carnie & Gibb  Granton Edinburgh  ( Wm Carnie Jr manager )
1940 1st March sunk after collision with HMS "Intrepid" 50 miles  North East of Kinnairds Head Two crew missing A Cunningham Engineer and R Liston deckhand. Skipper George Ratcliffe and remaining crew members rescued by the HMS " Intrepid ".