S.T. Invicta GY146
Technical
Official Number:123568
Yard Number: 109
Completed: 1906
Gross Tonnage: 259
Net Tonnage: 111
Length: 128.4 ft
Breadth: 22.0 ft
Depth: 11.8 feet
Engine: T.3-cyl by C. D. Holmes & Co, Hull
Built:Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd. Beverley
History
11.4.1906: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd. Beverley (Yd.No.109) for Alick (Alec) Black, Grimsby as INVICTA.
5.1906: Completed.
26.5.1906: Registered at Grimsby (GY146).
11.6.1909: Sold to The South Western Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby & Fleetwood (Alick (Alec) Black, Grimsby, manager).
12.1911: Sold to P. A. Olafsson, Patreksfjördur, Iceland (£6,000/135.000 kronur).
11.12.1911: Grimsby registry closed ‘ Sold to Denmark’.
17.12.1911: Renamed EGGERT OLAFSSON (BA127).
31.1.1913: Sold to Hf. Eggert Olafsson, Reykjavik, Iceland (Elias Stefansson, manager). Patreksfjördur registry closed. Registered at Reykavik (RE156).
1915: Slipped and surveyed at Fleetwood.
1917: Re-measured, 280g 91n
15.12.1917: Sold to Marine Nationale Francaise (French Navy) (400.000 kronur/£22,000). Patreksfjördur registry closed. Renamed GORILLE.
7.1918: Sold to Maurice Bernard, Boulogne. Slipped at Fleetwood.
1919: Renamed CYCLONE (B778).
1925: Sold to Victor Fourney & Others, Boulogne (Victor Fourney, manager).
1931: Sold to Lachenal et Baule, Boulogne. Renamed Ste. THÉRÈSA de LISIEUX (B778).
1932: Sold to Commandant Baule, Boulogne (Lachenal et Baule, managers).
1936: Sold for breaking up.
OR. 1919: Sold to ??, La Rochelle. Renamed CYCLONE. Registered at La Rochelle.
1921: Sold to Maurice Bernard, Boulogne. La Rochelle registration closed. Renamed Ste. THÉRÈSA de LISIEUX (B778).
1922: Sold to Maurice Dubois, Boulogne.
1925: Sold to M. Watteau, Boulogne (Victor Fourney, manager) Renamed CYCLONE (B778).
1931: Sold to Delepierre et Fils, Boulogne. Ste. THÉRÈSA de LISIEUX (B778).
1932: Owners in liquidation.
The information about the Invicta as Eggert Ólafsson in Iceland is slightly confused in the Cook, Welton, & Gemmel book, where this data originates. She was registered as BA 127 (Patreksfjordur) first, as property of P.A. Olafsson, merchant and shipowner, in Patreksfjordur. In january 1913, she was sold to Reykjavik, to “Hf. Eggert Olafsson”, and registered as RE 156. (Hf. is the Icelandic equivelant to to Ltd in UK, Akties. is one form of the danish abbreviation for Ltd., usually rendered As.)
The managers name is properly spelled Elias Stefansson.
P.A. Olafsson bought the ship for 6000 pounds, (135.000 kronur).
Marine Nationale Francaise paid 400.000 kronur (22.000 pounds) for the ship.
Birgir Thorisson, Kopavogur, Iceland.
About her career in France.
Le Guennoc, (La Peche Boulonnaise…) has somewhat different information. According to him, Maurice Bernard bought the ship from La Rochelle, (where she was named Cyclone) in 1921, and renamed her “Sainte Theresa de Lisieux B 778.
Maurice Bernard sold the ship to Maurice Dubois in 1922. He in turn sold the ship in 1925 to a coal merchant Watteau, the ship now called Cyclone B778, and was managed by Victor Fourny. Sold in 1931 to Delpierre et Fils, now named Sainte Therese de Lisieux. That owner went bankrupt in 1932. No mention of its carreer from then until broken up.
I am not sure which one has it right. your sources or Guennoc. Seems strange that the ship is changing names back and forth.
Birgir Thorisson.