Name St. Ignatius

Originally allocated H.M. Dockyard Chatham but re-allocated to Commander of the Dockyard at Sheerness. Delivered and completed in July 1941 and remained in Sheerness until 1950.

Re-engined with a Foden FD6 in 1958 and re-allocated to Mersey RNVR.  Became PAS RNVR Mersey under Devonport control. Allocated to HMS GANGES in 1966 for use by St Ignatius College CCF.  In 1967 she was towed to Harwich by Mastiff.

She was owned from late 1976 and sold her in 1982/3 by B Jenkins, who I bought her from Terry Carter of Heybridge Basin/Maldon, Essex and during his time of ownership she was moored in Heybridge Basin, Essex, mostly in the Chelmer Blackwater Canal. He sold her to P Smith.

During his ownership of her, she carried out coastal marine biological survey work, mostly on the East Coast including the 1979 Herring Larval Survey for (then) the Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food (MAFF) based in Pakefield, Suffolk.

Updated, August 2023: Owner reported vessel disposed of by the Environment Agency several years ago due to poor condition.

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