Technical

Official Number: 109543
Yard Number: 229
Completed: 1898
Gross Tonnage: 150
Net Tonnage: 39
Length: 100.6 ft
Breadth: 20.5 ft
Depth: 10.7 ft
Built: Mackie & Thomson, Govan
Engine: T.3-cyl by Ross & Duncan, Glasgow

History

1898: Launched by Mackie & Thomson, Govan (Yd.No.229) for Orient Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby as PLATO.
5.6.1898: Registered at Grimsby (GY726).
6.1898: Completed (Frank Barrett, manager).
11.2.1911: Sold to George Sutherland Patterson (salmon factor) & John Watson (shipwright), Montrose (George S. Patterson managing owner).
24. 4.1911: Sold to to Norway.
9.9.1912: Sold to George Sutherland Patterson (salmon factor) & John Watson (shipwright), Montrose (George S. Patterson managing owner).
3.5.1912: Registered at Aberdeen as MANDA (A468).
20.1.1913: Sold to George Sutherland Patterson, Montrose.
2?.1.1913: Sold to Clevedon Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Walter Morley, manager).
27.1.1913: Aberdeen registry closed.
28.1.1913: Registered at Fleetwood (FD178).
1.1.1914: Tonnage altered to 58.11 net under provision of Merchant Shipping Act 1907.
27.7.1914: At Fleetwood, Skipper reported that when he called at Killybegs, Co. Donegal for medical assistance for a crewman, Customs Officers searched the vessel for rifles and ammunition.
29.5.1917: Requisitioned for Fishery Reserve.
6.7.1917: Sold to Grant & Baker Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby (Arthur Grant, manager).
10.8.1917: Fleetwood registry closed.
14.8.1917: Registered at Grimsby (GY1093).
10.1918: Released.
23.12.1918: Posted missing; crew of ten lost.
10.4.1919: Grimsby registry closed “Vessel lost”.

Changelog
26/12/2008: Page published. 4 updates since then.
04/06/2021: Updated history.