River Doon ME 248               

Built 1907  Hall Russell & Co Ltd,  Aberdeen  as "Loch Doon"  (Steel)
   
Yard No 436
   
Owner at New Loch Line Steam Fishing & Trawling Co Ltd, Aberdeen (Harry Alexander Holmes manager)
   
ID no 127131
   
Launch Date 19.09.1907
   
Completed 10.1907
   
Gross Tons 198
   
Nett Tons 52
   
Engine 69 hp     T.3-cyl by Hall Russell & Co Ltd, Aberdeen
   
Length 112.2ft
   
Breadth 22.9ft
   
Depth 11.6ft
 

 

Owners  
12.10.1907 Registered at Aberdeen A.161
01.01.1914 Tonnage altered 198g/74n after re-measurement.   
1914 Requisitioned and converted to minesweeper (Ad No. 271) based on the Tyne.
08.04.1918 Owned by Montrose Fishing Co Ltd,  Montrose (Charles Finlay Paton manager)  
08.04.1918 Aberdeen registry closed.
10.04.1918 Renamed "RIVER DOON"
10.04.1918 Registered at Montrose ME 248
10.01.1919 Returned to Owners
1922 W. C. Simpson appointed manager
1923 Owned by William Brown, Granton Edinburgh (owner/manager).
03.12.1924 William Mackay 2nd Fisherman died at sea.
1931 Owned by Alexander Aitken Davidson, Aberdeen (owner/manager)
03.1931 Montrose registry closed.
12.03.1931 Registered at Aberdeen A.152.
1940 Owned by J. Bennett (Wholesale Ltd), London (William Alfred Bennett, Grimsby manager).
1940 Directed to Fleetwood under wartime control
08.10.1941 Owned by Aldred Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby (H. Markham Cook manager).
03.1944 Returned to Grimsby.
26.03.1945 Owned by Arthur Gladstone Hamer, Grimsby (owner/manager).
11.1946 Aberdeen registry closed.
12.1946 Registered at Grimsby GY 424
03.02.1948 Owned by St. Anne’s Trawling Co Ltd, St. Anne’s-on-the-Sea Lancs. (William Gladstone Hamer manager).
11.1948 Company in liquidation.
24.11.1940 Owned by Joseph Parker, Grimsby.
28.11.1948 Joseph Parker appointed manager.
1949 Owned by Grange Fishing Co Ltd ,Fleetwood.
28.03.1919 Herbert Schofield appointed manager.
1950 Sold as scrap to BISCO (British Iron & Steel Co)
02.1950 Scrapped by Thomas W. Ward at Preston Lancashire
08.08.1950 Grimsby registry closed.