MARY WHITE NE3

Official No:  161586   Port and Year:   Newcastle, 1935 (NE3)                                                                 Grimsby, 1947 (GY465)                                                                 Granton, 1948 (GN57)

Description: Steel side trawler; steam screw; ketch rigged; cruiser stern

Crew:

Built: 1935, by John Lewis & Sons, Aberdeen.  (Yard No. 134)

Tonnage: 254 grt  98 net

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 126.3  / 23.2  / 12.6

Engine:  C-2.Cyl; 96 HP turbine; by Whites Marine Engineering Co., Hebburn on Tyne.  Boiler by Stockton Chemical Engines & Riley Boilers, Stockton-on-Tees.

Owners: As WHITE PIONEER NE3 Aug 1935: White Trawlers Ltd, Hebburn, Durham 1937: Renamed MARY WHITE Managers: (1 Jul 1937): Peter Hancock & Sons, Docks, Milford   1943: Shire Trawlers, London. Manager: W. A. Bennett   May 1947: As GY465 Shire Trawlers, Robinson Lane, Fish Docks, Grimsby Manager: W. A. Bennett   Renamed LUFFNESS  GN 57 1948: Newhaven Trawlers,  6 Pier Place, Newhaven, Granton   Manager: William Carnie

Landed at Milford: 11 Jun 1937 - 24 Sep 1938

Skippers:

Notes: Jun 1937: Arrived at Milford from the Spithead Review; first in Milford with a low pressure steam turbine. 7 Oct 1938 - 18 Jan 1939: Laid up. Jan 1940: Requisitioned by the Admiralty and converted to a boom defence vessel (P.No.Z.147). Feb 1946: Returned to owners. 1948: Re-engined. 21 Jan 1958: Wrecked on the North Pier, Aberdeen. Crew were rescued by Harbour Pilot Cutter DANNY. 1958: Removed by Metal Industries (Salvage ) Co., for breaking up.

 

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