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: 271 grt  118 net; (15 Feb 1948: 254.05 grt 98.04 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.

26 Jan 1948: Re-engined 96 hp T.3-cyl by Alexander Hall & Sons Ltd, Aberdeen (engine built 1926) & new boiler by Riley Bros Stockton fitted.

Owners:

    

As WHITE PIONEER NE3

Aug 1935: White Trawlers Ltd., Prince Consort Rd., Hebburn, Durham.

Manager: Joseph D. Irwin, Cliffords Fort, Fish Quay, North Shields.

As MARY WHITE

1 Jul 1937: Managers: Peter Hancock & Sons, Docks, Milford.

 

11 Mar 1944: Shire Trawlers Ltd., Grimsby. 

Manager: William Alfred Bennett

 

As GY465

11 Mar 1947: Shire Trawlers, Robinson Lane, Fish Docks, Grimsby.

Manager: W. A. Bennett

 

As LUFFNESS  GN 57

3 Dec 1948: Newhaven Trawlers,  6 Pier Place, Newhaven, Granton.  

Manager: William Carnie, Jnr.

 

c.1950: Philip Liston, Newhaven, Edinburgh.

Managers: Newhaven Trawlers Ltd.

 

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. Skipper/Owner Philip Liston entered Aberdeen to land a sick crew member. Crew were rescued by Harbour Pilot Cutter DANNY.

1958: Removed by Metal Industries (Salvage ) Co., for breaking up.

 [Thanks to Andy Hall for information.]

 

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