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Name: BULRUSH
Type: Fishing Vessel - Drifter
Launched: 27/03/1907
Completed: 05/1907
Builder: Smith's Dock Co Ltd
Yard: North Shields
Yard Number: 344
Dimensions: 90grt, 44nrt, 82.3 x 18.3 x 8.5ft
Engines: C2cyl (11.25 & 25 x 16ins), 25nhp
Engines by: MacColl & Pollock Ltd, Sunderland
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 120368
History:
20/06/1907 Westmacott Ltd, Great Yarmouth
1931 Samuel FR Spilling, Gorleston-on-Sea; renamed YOUNG SAM
1939 Broken up
Comments: 1907: Allocated fishing registration number YH972 at Yarmouth
03/1915: Hired by the Admiralty as a patrol boat & armed with 1 x 6pdr gun
1919: Returned to owners
1939: Reported sold to Dutch shipbreakers


Above photo as YOUNG SAM is courtesy of Ron Taylor