Technical
Admiralty Number: 3679
Official Number: 143465
Yard Number: 359
Completed: 1918
Gross Tonnage: 277
Net Tonnage: 122
Length: 125.7
Breadth: 23.4
Depth: 12.8 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Bow, McLachlan & Co Ltd, Renfrew
Built: Bow, McLachlan & Co Ltd, Renfrew
History
28.6.1918: Launched by Bow, McLachlan & Co Ltd, Renfrew (Yd.No.359) (“Castle” class) for The Admiralty as CHARLES DONNELLY.
12.7.1918: Completed (1-12pdr, Hydro and W/T).
4.5.1920: Sold by auction at Milford to D. Pettit, Hakin for £8500.
25.5.1920: Registered at London (LO358).
10.7.1920: Registered at London as CALYDAVIA (LO358).
10.7.1920: London registry closed.
21.7.1920: Registered at Milford (M110).
1920: Transferred to D. Pettit Ltd, Milford Haven (Mrs Elizabeth A. H. Pettit, manager)
19??: Mrs Elizabeth A. H. Pettit designated manager.
2.11.1934: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood.
4.2.1935: Sold to Liston Carnie, William Carnie Jnr and Thomas Young Carnie, Glasgow & Newhaven.
4.2.1936: Milford registry closed.
2.1936: Registered at Granton as PELAGOS (GN55).
1939: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Basil A. Parkes, Cleveleys, manager).
9.3.1940: Fishing 12 miles NW of Tory Island, Co. Donegal in company with ALVIS (H52); FLYING ADMIRAL (H66); JOHN MORRICE (A786) and SEDOCK (GY123) and reported with the Irish trawler LEUKOS (D86) also in the vicinity. Group approached by U-boat (U.38) which fired a single round at a trawler, hitting her in the engineroom and she subsequently sank. Although no conclusive evidence confirms, the trawler probably was the LEUKOS; all eleven crew lost*.
Pre 4.1940: Employed on Fishery Protection (WA/Fort William/Fleetwood).
30.5.1940: Requisitioned for war service as a patrol vessel (P.No.4.103) (Hire rate £83.2.0d/month).
3.1941: Fitted out as a minesweeper.
1942: Sold to Saint Andrew’s Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull (Basil A. Parkes, Cleveleys, manager).
1945: Sold to Joseph Craig, Aberdeen.
8.1945: Returned to owner.
1945: Granton registry closed.
1945: Registered at Aberdeen (A589).
1953: Sold to BISCO and allocated to Malcolm Brechin, Granton for breaking up.
30.12.1953: Arrived Granton from Aberdeen under own power.
(Lost* – Sk. James P. Thomason (28), Fleetwood & Dublin; William Donnelly, Blackpool, Mate; P. J. Scanlon, Cleethorpes, Bosun; Alexander McLeod, Stornoway, Ch Eng; Bernard Smith (23), Dublin, 2nd Eng; Thomas Mulligan, Fleetwood & Dublin & Anthony Pill, Fleetwood & Dublin, deckhands; Michael Cullen (17), Dublin, fireman; Patricio McCarthy (42) Dublin, cook; James Hawkins (17) Fleetwood & Dublin & Robert Sumler (16), Fleetwood & Dublin, apprentices)