Ocean Eddy LH 62             

Built 1929   Alexander Hall & Sons Ltd,  Aberdeen  as "Richard W Lewis"   (Steel)
   
Yard No 617
   
Owner at New Richard Watson Lewis,  Aberdeen  (owner/manager)
   
ID no 148963
   
Launch Date 22.08.1929
   
Completed 09.1929
 
Gross Tons 231
   
Nett Tons 99
   
Engine 63 hp       T.3-cyl   R. W. Lewis & Sons, Aberdeen
   
Length 124.5ft
   
Breadth 22.5ft
 
Depth 12.1ft
 

 

Owners  
25.09.1929 Registered at Aberdeen  A.57
1933 Owned by North Eastern Fisheries Ltd, Aberdeen   (Sir Andrew Lewis manager)
1934 Owned by Flockhart & Sons Ltd, Leith Edinburgh (Alexander Flockhart, manager).
11.01.1935 Aberdeen registry closed.
14.01.1935 Renamed "OCEAN EDDY"
14.01.1935 Registered at Leith LH 62
Pre1939 Carnie & Gibb appointed managers.
1939 Owned by Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Company Ltd  Fleetwood  (Basil Arthur Parkes manager).
27.03.1939 Towed 30 miles to Lerwick by S.T. "Ocean Drift" LH 73 (engine problems).
06.01.1940 Requisitioned and converted to a Boom Defence Vessel (P. No. Z.143) (Hire rate £108.15.3d/month)..
1945 Owned by Huxley Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby  (H. Markham Cook manager)
25.02.1945 Returned to Owners
11.1946 Leith registry closed.
11.1946 Registered at Grimsby GY 391
05.1948 Owned by George Walker, Aberdeen
05.1948 Grimsby registry closed.
26.05.1948 Registered at Aberdeen A.609
16.12.1950 Owned by Clydesdale & North of Scotland Bank, Glasgow.
15.01.1951 Owned by Andrew Walker King, James King & William Jappy, Aberdeen (Andrew Walker King owner/manager).
22.02.1954 Owned by Andrew Walker King & James King Aberdeen (Andrew Walker King (owner/manager).
1958 Owned by George Inglis Ward, Newhaven Edinburgh (owner/ manager)  
1958 Aberdeen registry closed.
1958 Registered at Leith LH 85
1958 Owned by Ocean Fishing Co Ltd, Newhaven Edinburgh (George Inglis Ward manager).
1960 Sold as scrap to BISCO (British Iron & Steel Co).
15.04.1960 Arrived at St. David's
04.1960 Scrapped by James A.White at St. David's on Forth.
1960 Leith registry closed.