Grand Duke built 1915 Cochrane & Sons Selby for T. Baskcomb Grimsby
11/1915 Requisitioned as a minesweeper
1919 Returned
Served in WW2 as Night Rider
11/1915 Purchased before completion by Admiralty as a minesweeper
11/1919 Put up for sale by the Admiralty
03/1920 Sold to Direct Fish Supplies Ltd Grimsby
08/1922 Bought by the Nocturne Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby
10/1922 Renamed Night Rider
10/1939 Sold to the Hull Northern Fishing Co Ltd Hull
01/1940 Requisitioned as a Boom Defence Vessel
02/1947 Put up for sale by Hellyer Bro’s after de-requisitioning
1947 Sold to Storhaug & Partners Ltd Storship Salvage London NNC
1949 Bought by Zacharis Bro’s & M. Vassilias & Co Piraeus Greece renamed Kassos
1958 To Zacharis Bro’s & Co. Piraeus NNC
1961 Bought by Groumas Bro’s Piraeus NNC
Gross tonnage reduced to 299
1963 Sold to Tsitzas Bro’s & Asterios Belos & Co. Piraeus NNC
Her Details are
- Official Number 138938
- Yard Number 642
- Admiralty number FY 2512 Z 113
- Armament 1-12pdr 4 AA machine guns
- GT 327 NT 171
- Dimensions 140.4 x 24.2 x 12.8
- Quarter deck 78 Foc’sle 21
- Engines Fitted with a triple expansion engine and one single ended Scotch boiler supplied and fitted by Charles D. Holmes & Co Hull
Reported broken up at Piraeus 03/1970