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Simplon GN 59
| Built | 1898 Cumming & Ellis Inverkeithing |
| Yard No | 36 |
| Owner at New | Muirheads Trawlers Ltd Edinburgh GN 59 |
| ID no | 108590 |
| Launch Date | 18.08.1898 |
| Gross Tons | 131 |
| Engine | 75 HP Steam C.2-cyl by Hutson & Sons Glasgow |
| Length | 109ft |
| Breadth | 21ft |
| Owners | |
| 1904 | Muirheads Trawlers Ltd goes into Liquidation. |
| 1904 | Joseph Constant (Shipbroker) London |
| 1905 | Swansea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd Swansea |
| 1908 | J E Fisher (Shipbroker) Liverpool, selling on behalf of liquidators. |
| 1908 | Thomas H Jones Swansea. SA? |
| 1910 | William Cave Adelaide Australia |
| 1915 | Carried out fishing research in the Great Australian Bight on behalf of the Australian Government |
| 1917 | Chartered by Royal New Zealand Navy as a minesweeper. |
| 1919 | Chartered top Auckland City Council New Zealand as a trawler |
| 1926 | Auckland Launch & Towboat Co Ltd Auckland New Zealand. Mizzen mast removed and converted to tug |
| 1930 | Fish Ltd Auckland New Zealand. Mizzen mast replaced and reverted to trawling. |
| 1934 | Scrapped |