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S.T. Chiltern H660


 	  	 

 	  	  

 	  	  	
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Official Number 143867


Yard Number 882


Completed December 05 1917


Pennant number 4.125


Gross Tonnage324


Net Tonnage130


Length138.5 ft


Breadth23.7 ft


Draught12.8 ft


Engine87 hp T.3-cyl by Charles D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull


Armament1 x 12 pdr AA


Built byCochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby, 1917


OwnerH Elliot







		

    History
	



		

    December 05 1917
Completed by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.822) ("Mersey" class) for The Admiralty as JOHN CORMACK.


January 28 1920
Registered by The Admiralty as a fishing vessel at London (LO263).


1922Sold to Pickering & Haldanes Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull.


July 28 1922London registry closed.


August 04 1922Renamed LORD PIRRIE (H660).


1929Sold to Eton Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull


June 28 1929Renamed Chiltern (H660).


1930Sold to W. B. Willey & Sons Ltd, Hull.


Pre 1936Fishing from Fleetwood.


July 1936On Rockall grounds, George Cook of Blackburn, deckhand, fell overboard and was drowned.


1938Sold to H. Elliot, Fleetwood (H. Elliott & Sons Trawlers Ltd, managers).


Pre April 1940Employed on Fishery Protection (WA/Fort William/Fleetwood


1940Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood (B. A. Parkes, manager).


June 04 1940Requisitioned for war service and converted for auxiliary patrol duties (P.No. 4.125).   At St. Nazaire, rescued women and children from advancing German forces.  The last British ship to leave the port.


June 30 1941Shot down twin engined German bomber off West Country (Temp Sk. A. J. Drake RNR).


September 1941Converted for minesweeping duties.


1945Returned.


1945Sold to Planet Fishing Co Ltd, Edinburgh. (Edwin Walker & Sons, managers).  Registered at Granton (GN25).


October 28 1945Laid up at Granton. Flooded engine room due to leak.


January 26 1950Picked up crew of KUVERA (GN39) which had sprung a leak and foundered 110 miles NE of Buchan Ness.


1952Sold to Medway Yacht Basin Ltd, Borstal, Rochester (R. W. Pearson, manager).


1954Sold for demolition.


Note(John Cormack (aka Cormick), Bosun's Mate (prest), age 26,  b. Co.Wexford (also recorded as age 29,  b. Edinburgh) - VICTORY (SB573))