Built |
1930 Alexander
Hall & Sons Ltd, Aberdeen as "Melgum"
(Steel) |
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Yard No |
625 |
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Owner at New |
Richard W. Lewis, Aberdeen
(owner/manager) |
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ID no |
148977 |
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Launch Date |
01.04.1930 |
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Completed |
05.1930 |
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Gross Tons |
248 |
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Nett Tons |
106 |
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Engine |
64 hp
T.3-cyl by R. W. Lewis & Sons, Aberdeen |
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Length |
125ft |
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Breadth |
22.5ft |
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Depth |
12.5ft |
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Owners |
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30.04.1930 |
Registered at Aberdeen A.108 |
1931 |
Owned by North Eastern Fisheries
Ltd, Aberdeen (Sir Andrew Lewis manager) |
1935 |
Alexander Flockhart, Newhaven
Edinburgh (owner/manager) |
11.01.1935 |
Aberdeen registry closed. |
01.1935 |
Renamed “OCEAN VIEW”. |
01.1935 |
Registered at Leith LH 63 |
Pre1939 |
Carnie & Gibb appointed managers. |
1939 |
Owned by Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice
Company Ltd, Fleetwood (Basil A. Parkes manager). |
12.12.1939 |
Attacked by German
aircraft gunfire, no casualties. |
02.1940 |
Requisitioned and converted to
minesweeper (P.No.FY.863) attached to the 28th minesweeping
group (Hire rate £62.8s.6d/month). |
1940 |
Owned by Carnie & Gibb, Newhaven Edinburgh
(William Carnie Jnr , manager) |
1945 |
Owned by Ocean Fishing Co Ltd,
Newhaven Edinburgh (Alexander Flockhart, William Flockhart, John
Bowman
Anderson & George Inglis Ward) (George Inglis Ward manager). |
29.12.1945 |
Returned to Owners |
06.06.1955 |
Owned by Ocean Fishing Co Ltd,
Newhaven Edinburgh (George Inglis Ward owner/manager)
(Three owners retire). |
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 |
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In Leith Harbour |
© Reproduced with acknowledgement to Ian
Murray Edinburgh |
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From a painting by A.S. Hall (post
1940) |
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