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Rondo built 01/08/1893 Cochrane & Cooper of Beverley for G F Sleight
26/08/1893 Registered as GY 528
11/1914 Requisitioned converted to an Auxillary Patrol Vessel
03/03/1915 Shetlands F Harlow Captain
Stranded on Unicorn Rocks, Tingwall Shetland Islands at 20:15 position unknown but quoted 60.20N 01.15W bow held by rocks flooded rapidly and sank by the stern, Crew stood by for an hour before leaving in a boat
No lives lost

Her details are 

• Official number 99707
• Yard number 92
• Admiralty Number FY 666
• 117 GT 36 NT
• Dimensions 88.4 x 20.1 x 10.7
• Quarter Deck 17′
• Engines C D Holmes 44 nhp 2 Cyl 10.0 Knots

03/03/1915 Stranded and wrecked Shetlands whilst in Admiralty Service

Argyllshire Built 02/02/1938 Smiths Dock Co Ltd South Bank Middlesbrough for Banffshire Fishing Co Ltd Markham Cook Grimsby
08/1939 To owners in Hull
09/1939 Requisitioned as an anti-submarine vessel and joined the 11th A/S Striking Group 
April/May 1940 Took part in the Norwegian Campaign and Operation Dynamo the evacuation of Dunkirk 

Her Details are

• Official Number 166629
• Yard Number 1036
• GT 540 NT 198
• Quarter Deck 80 Foc’sle 34
• Dimensions 175.8 x 28.6 x 15
• Engines 99 HP

Sunk by E-boat near Dunkirk on the 01/06/1940 Registered at Hull at the time