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S.T. Bonthorpe FD104





  
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Official Number 148219


Yard Number 54


Gross Tonnage106


Net Tonnage 94


Length125.5 ft


Breadth 23.5 ft


Draught 12.7 ft


Engine T.3-cyl by Collingwood Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Collingwood, Ontario


Built byT.3-cyl by Collingwood Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Collingwood, Ontario, 1918


OwnerBoston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co. Ltd








		

    History
	




January 1917Ordered.


1918Completed by Collingwood Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Collingwood, Ontario (Yd.No.54 or 55) (Canadian "Castle" - "T.R." class) for The Admiralty (paid for and built under direction of RCN) as TR10.


May 16 1918Completed and commissioned in the Royal Canadian Navy.


August 1919Paid off and laid up.


1921Accepted offer  of Rose Street Foundry & Engineering Co Ltd, Inverness (Captain D. J. Munro) for reconditioning and lay-up prior to sale.  Brought over at The Admiralty's expense.


June 26 1926Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Fred Parkes, manager).


July 19 1926Renamed BONTHORPE  (FD104).


June 1929Sold to W. A. Trawling Co Ltd, Perth, Western Australia.


June 06 1929Sailed Fleetwood for Fremantle, WA (Capt Leslie Caxton).


October 17 1930Registry noted "Sold out of District".


1933Company in liquidation.


1934Sold to Albany Tug Company, Albany, Western Australia.


November 27 1939Requisitioned for war service (RAN) and converted for anti submarine duties.


December 10 1939Commissioned in RAN (P.No.FY85).


1941Converted for minesweeping duties.


June 30 1944Purchased by RAN.


February 17 1945Paid off and laid up.


1946Sold to Mark Dakas, Broome, Western Australia.


1949Sold to Mrs Mary Dakas, Broome, Western Australia.


May 1949Fleetwood registry closed.


May 23 1949Registered at Fremantle.


1950Converted to a barge tug.


April 03 1951Sold to Marine Contractors Pty Ltd, Fremantle, Western Australia.


September 17 1951Fremantle registry closed.


October 08 1951Registered at Cairns.


August 18 1954Sold to Marine Contracting & Towing Co Ltd, Cairns, Queensland.


1959Stranded Cairns Inlet.  Declared a CTL and broken up in situ.


June 04 1959Cairns registry closed.