Granton Harbour

Trawlers

1946

Granton Harbour

Trawlers

Thank you to John Ross for sending me the photograph above which he took with an old Kodak camera.

Within a few hours of adding this photograph to the web site, I received a message from Walter Lyle Hume of  Cowes, Isle of Wight.

Walter wrote:

A384 at Granton

"I am almost certain the boat in foreground, A384, was the 'Kuvera', owned and operated by the Planet Fishing company.

It was:

-   built as a minesweeper 1919 and named John Heath

-   never commissioned as a minesweeper

-   sold to Grimsby and registered GY383.

-   sold , becoming A384 in 1936.

-   minesweeper, 1940 to 1945. 

-   came to Granton, 1946.

-   re-registered GN39 in 1949

-   also sailed from Leith.

The vessel sank on 26 January 1950 after springing a leak 110 miles NE of Buchan Ness.  The crew was rescued by Granton trawler Chiltern GN25

I wish more of such pictures were posted, helps with the records."

Walter Lyle Hume of  Cowes, Isle of Wight, England:  June 30, 2006

Granton

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