Yarta

Yarta
Rig Class.Steam Ship
Builder:Hawthorns & Co, Leith
Year built:1898
General characteristics
Ton:357 tons

Designed by A. H. Brown, she was an excellent cruising vessel, with which her owner visited the West Indies, Cuba, the coast of Florida, and cruised in the Mediterranean and around the Scottish and Irish coasts.

Yarta was taken up for war service in July 1915 and armed with two 3-pounders.

She served until April 1919, at Portsmouth in 1915, the Stornoway area in 1916 and 1917, and in the Yarmouth area in 1918.

She was requisitioned again in November 1939 and was commissioned as a danlaying vessel.  In September 1942 she was converted for use as an Anti-Submarine Patrol boat by Harland & Wolff and served in this capacity for the rest of the war.

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