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Simplon GN 59
| Built | 1898 Cumming & Ellis, Inverkeithing (Steel) |
| Yard No | 36 |
| Owner at New | Muirheads Trawlers Ltd, Edinburgh (James Clark manager) |
| ID no | 108590 |
| Launch Date | 18.08.1898 |
| Completed | 11.1898 |
| Gross Tons | 184 |
| Nett Tons | 69 |
| Engine | 75 hp C.2-cyl by Hutson & Sons Ltd Glasgow |
| Length | 109ft |
| Breadth | 21.1ft |
| Depth | 10.4ft |
| Owners | |
| 04.11.1898 | Registered at Granton GN 59 |
| 1900 | D. Gammie appointed manager |
| 09.04.1901 | Thomas Jinks landed at Granton and taken to Leith Hospital with severe head injuries, sustained when he was dashed against the funnel in heavy weather. |
| Pre1904 | William G. Muirhead appointed manager. |
| 1904 | Muirheads Trawlers Ltd goes into Liquidation. |
| 03.05.1904 | Owned by Joseph Constant, (Shipbroker) London |
| 01.10.1905 | Owned by Swansea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Swansea |
| 07.10.1908 | Owned by J. E. Fisher (Shipbroker) Liverpool, selling vessels on behalf of liquidators. |
| 08.10.1908 | Owned by Thomas H. Jones, Swansea (John H. Rice manager). |
| 1908 | Granton registry closed. |
| 1908 | Registered at Swansea SA? |
| 1910 | Owned by William Cave, Adelaide Australia |
| 05.04.1910 | Swansea registry closed. |
| 1910 | Registered at Sydney. |
| 1915 | Carried out fishing research in the Great Australian Bight on behalf of the Australian Government |
| 06.1917 | Chartered by Royal New Zealand Navy as a minesweeper. |
| 1919 | Chartered to Auckland City Council New Zealand as a trawler (J. S. Brigham, town clerk) |
| 1926 | Owned by Auckland Launch & Towboat Co Ltd, Auckland New Zealand. Mizzen mast removed and converted to tug |
| 1930 | Owned by Fish Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand. Mizzen mast replaced and reverted to trawling. |
| 1934 | Scrapped |