HMAS Bonthorpe (TR-8)[7] was originally a Canadian Castle-class trawler/TR class naval trawler TR-10 in the Royal Canadian Navy in World War I.[8]Bonthorpe was owned and operated by Albany Tug Company.[5] On 27 November 1939, or 5 February 1940Bonthorpe was requisitioned by the RAN for use as an auxiliary Anti-submarine or minesweeping naval trawler..[9] She was decommissioned on 17 February 1945 and was reconverted to a trawler before becoming stranded at Cairns Inlet, Queensland in 1959.
Post War: Laid up and paid off August 1919. In 1920 taken to Muirtown basin, Caledonian Canal, Inverness for sale and conversion to commercial vessels at Admiralty expense, continued in laid up status until sold 26 June 1926 to Boston deep sea fishing and ice company. Named "Bonthorpe" 19 July 1926.[11] In September 1927 she was chartered by Maritime Fish Corporation, LTD, Montreal, Canada for fishing in Canadian waters. June-October, 1928 she was fishing off the African coast south of the Canary Islands.[12] She was sold again in May 1929 to the Western Australian Trawling Company, and sailed from Fleetwood, England to Freemantle, Australia departing 30 May and arriving at Geraldton on 26 August.[13] She was sold to an unknown buyer 17 October, 1930. That company was in liquidation in 1933 and she was laid up at Freemantle with a salted boiler.[14] She was sold again 26 August 1933 to the Albany Tug Company and converted into a tug based at Fremantle, Western Australia.[15] 1939: Albany Tug Company, a partnership of Alexander Armstrong & Capt. Clarence Douglas, broke up with Armstrong becoming sole owner.[16]
World War II
She would continue as a tug until she was requisitioned by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) in On 27 November 1939, or 5 February 1940.[7] On 10 December, 1939 or 5 February 1940 she would be commissioned by the RAN as HMAS Bonthorpe, (TR-8) and would become a minesweeping, or anti-submarine trawler.[7][17] Purchased by R.A.N. on 30 June 1944.[18] During the war Bonthorpe was based in Fremantle and operated along the Western Australia coastline. She was decommissioned on 17 February 1945 and was laid up at Careening Bay, Garden Island, as part of the Reserve Fleet.
Post War: She was sold in 1948 to Mark Dakas.[19][20] She was sold to Mrs. Mary Dakas in 1949.[21] Sometime in 1950 fitted out as a barge tug. On 3 October 1950 Bonthorpe was damaged after being hit by Cooramba, when the latter broke from her mooring during a 75-mile-per-hour (121km/h) gale.[22] She was sold 3 April 1951 to Marine Contractors Pty, Ltd., Cairns, Queensland. Firm wentinto liquidation in 1954 and she was sold to Marine Contracting & Towing Co. in 1954.[23] In 1955 she was laid up at Cairns. At an unknown date she sank at her pier and buried under fill for a new sugar terminal at Senrab Point.[7][24] Her registry was closed 4 June, 1959.[25]
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