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Gladys


		
Technical
Official Number 143963
Yard Number 358
Admiralty Number FY. 3613
Launched February 02 1917
Registered June 15 1917
Gross Tonnage306
Length130 ft
Breadth23 ft
69 hp engine byAmos & Smith
Speed10.5 knots
Built btCook Welton & Gemmell, Beverley, 1917
OwnerFleetwood Steam Fishing Co Ltd
History
1917 Built for Standard SFC of Grimsby as SANNYRION. Purchased by the Admiralty whilst on the stocks and completed as non-standard Mersey JOHN ARTHUR.
1919 Registered by the Admiralty as a fishing trawler LO299.
1922Sold to mercantile and renamed GLADYS. Acquired by Fleetwood Steam Fishing Co.
1940Requisitioned in November as Gladys and converted to BDV.
November 23 1943Purchased into RN.
1946Sold to mercantile. Acquired by J. Buckie Shipyard of Leith and renamed THE BRUCE (LH21)
1949Sold to Joseph Croan, Leith.
1961Sold to G & W Brunton, Grangemouth, for scrap
June 28 1961Scrapped.