The story behind the Hull 1943 to 1961
Pictured here circa 1953 in Dunmore East Harbour. Registered in Dublin Port as a pleasure craft. Listed as having cabin space fore and aft. Registered under the name INTAVA. Original twin engines are still in place, which gives the layout of the cabin top a different shape to what it is now.
Having a nice leisurely life now after her years of working in Foynes refuelling the Pan Am Boeing Clippers. Logged within the Foynes Port Records from November 1943 until the last Pan Am Flying boat left in October 1945. Pan Am land planes were now landing in Shannon Airport. INTAVA has a little stop over lying up in Limerick Port. Then sitting on a trailer for sale in Alexandra Basin in Dublin. Finally refitted for civilian life and registered for the first time in Dublin Port in 1952.
The story behind the Hull 1961 to 1984
| 1961 and INTAVA ( Blackthorn) is sold and transferred to Glasgow Port. Another new owner in 1968. Engines were replaced along with a complete refit of the cabin areas. All these details are recorded in the Port Registration update. Still fitted with twin engines now twin Parson engines. Following fraud squad enquiries noted in the Port logs in 1972 the trail cools a little. An enquiry regarding retrieving lost paperwork is made in 1975, but documents provided don't seem to satisfy the Port Registry and in 1999 the record is closed due to inactivity. 1984 she is sold by the Department of Agriculture, Drainage Division, by tender auction. She was sold with a wooden wheelhouse in place but the forward and aft cabins have been stripped down to canvas and board covered holds. Gay Boylan buys her and has her transported to the Grand Canal in Hazel Hatch, Kildare. In 1985 Mick Clinton spots her and buys her and Blackthorn begins. When Mick purchases her the wheelhouse, mentioned in the newspaper advert has also been stripped off . |