RATTRAY

Shipbuildervessel built by Hall, Russell & Company, Limited (Aberdeen, Scotland, 1864 - 1992)

Date8 November 1900

Object NameFISHING VESSEL

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 110 3/12' x breadth 21 1/12' x depth 12 1/12'
gross tonnage: 182 ton

Object numberABDSHIP002011

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Hall, Russell & Co.
Yard Number: 341.

Fate: Broken up Monmouth, Wales, 1952.

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Trawler

Owners:
1900: Fraserburgh & North of Scotland Steam Trawling Company Limited, registered at Fraserburgh, fishing number FR834.
04/09/1909: Owner John Smart (Jnr), 59 Cleveland Rd., North Shields, SN104.
08/1914: Requisitioned by Admiralty.
08/1915: Returned to the Fishing Fleet.
18/10/1915: Owners J. W. Smethurst, Fish Docks, Grimsby, GY720.
10/1916: Owners L. Bloom, Grimsby.
25/09/1917: Requisitioned into the Fishery Reserve.
1919: Returned to owners.
Owned later by J. Smart, North Shields.
1920: Owned by Rattray Steam Fishing Co. Ltd, Grimsby.
03/1922: Owners George King, 49 Springbank Terrace, Aberdeen, A872.
1928: Owners G. W. Fowler, Aberdeen, A872.
1936: Owners John Martin, Fleetwood (Gremar Steam Fishing Co. Ltd) (FD77)
23/09/1937: Owners Pair Fishing Co., Docks, Milford (M246)
15/11/1937: Owner John C. Llewellin, Milford Haven.
09/06/1938: Owner Henry J. Horwood, West Wickham.
1938: Owned by O. Curphy, Milford.
26/02/1941: Owners Henry J. Richards, Ruislip.
14/08/1942: Owners Oliver Curphy, 11 Eastleigh Drive, Weston (fish salesman) Gerald Edward Leaman Whitmarsh, 1 Culme Rd., Mannamead, Plymouth (accountant), Stanley Sanger, 648 Finchley Rd., London (company director) and Edward Hatherley, 258 Beaumont Rd., Plymouth.
21/10/1946: Owners Gerald Edward Leaman Whitmarsh, manager, 37 Southside St., The Barbican, Plymouth, Edward Hatherley & Stanley Sanger.
12/01/1949: Owners Edward Whitmarsh, 23 Coleridge Rd., Plymouth, Edward Hatherley & S. Edgcumbe, 45 Foreland Rd., Plymouth.
03/1952: Sold to BISCO, John Cashmore Ltd., Newport, for breaking.

Masters:
1904: Master W. Slatter.

General History:
08/1914: Converted to a minesweeper
10/01/1934: Disabled, trawl round propeller. Towed to Aberdeen by AURORA (GY.172).
27/11/1940: Attacked and damged by German aircraft off St. Anne's Head.
05/1941: Attacked by German aircraft off Milford Haven.
19/04/1950: Milford registry closed laid up.

Notes:
1919: New boiler fitted.

source: www.llangibby.eclipse.co.uk/accidents%20&%20incidents/rattray.htm
source: www.fleetwood-trawlers.info/index.php/2009/01/st-rattray-fd77/