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Name: ARGO
Type: Fishing Vessel
Launched: 11/03/1903
Completed: 04/1903
Builder: Smith's Dock Co Ltd
Yard: North Shields
Yard Number: 705
Dimensions: 174grt, 41nrt, 105.7 x 21.1 x 8.5ft
Engines: T3cyl (12, 18 & 30 x 21ins), 46nhp
Engines by: North Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Sunderland
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 118151
History:
04/1903 Newhaven Trawlers Ltd, Granton
1912 Thomas Stephen, Aberdeen
12/1916 I Bunch, Grimsby
11/1917 Robert G Roberts, Grimsby
05/1919 George Pearce, Grimsby
03/1924 John Snowden, Hull; registered at Grimsby
01/1932 NV Visscherij Maats 'Fram', IJmuiden; renamed FRAM
1936 Broken up
Comments: 1912: Allocated fishing registration number A554 at Aberdeen
1916: Allocated fishing registration number GN26 at Granton
1917: Allocated fishing registration number GY1004 at Grimsby
1917: Requisitioned by the Admiralty into the Fishery Reserve
1919: Returned to owners