AUGUSTA

1913 Built as whale catcher DEANE by Kaldnæs Patentslip og mek. Værksted, Tønsberg for Union Whaling Company, Durban, Syd-Afrika. 1916 Sold to Franch and flying the Tricolor during WWI. Renamed COULEUVRE. Both French and Englandtish Navy authorities purchased a lot of whale catchers for the purpose of converting to patrol vessels. Also in Norgeway this kind of vessel was taken into use as coastal patrol in protection of a long coastline. Actually a total of 33. 1919 After the war sold to Cia. Ballenera Espanola S.A., Madrid (Lorentz Bruun, Tønsberg). Reconverted to whale catcher. As the first catcher, she was equipped with the newly invented “fleskekasse” (flesh box), a kind of predecessor of the later famous Englanddge between the wheelhouse and the gunner platform. 1920 Renamed CONDESA DEL MORAL DE CALETRAVA. Registered in Algeciras, Spain. Based at the Algeciras shore-station from 1920 to 1927. The author of the book “Catchers and Corvettes” (1992) John H. Harland wrote about this fascinating ship name: “If we were to give a prize for the most impressively named vessel it would have to go to the “Condesa….”. 1927 Transferred to the sister company Englandtish-Norgewegian Whaling Co. (Bruun & von der Lippe, Tonsberg, managers), St. Johns, Newfoundland. Name unchanged. Based at the shore-station Grady, Labrador. Renamed MACLELLAN in the late twenties for a short period of time and not registered by Lloyds register. 1930 Sold to Newfoundland Whaling Company, St. John’s, Newfoundland and renamed her originally DEANE. Registered in St. John’s and catching for the Hawke Harbour shore-station, Newfoundland. 1935 Stranded 01/06-1935 on the Penguin Island, Newfoundland. Ended her days as wreck on a beach at the coast of Newfoundland.