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Name: GULL
Type: Fishing Vessel
Launched: 15/07/1897
Completed: 09/1897
Builder: Edwards Brothers
Yard: North Shields
Yard Number: 555
Dimensions: 143grt, 39nrt, 106.0 x 20.6 x 11.0ft; (1913: 166grt, 67nrt, 118.1ft)
Engines: T3cyl (12, 18 & 30 x 21ins), 41nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Sunderland
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 108533
History:
09/1897 Kelsall Brothers & Beeching Ltd (JEA Kelsall), Manchester
12/1922 Sank
Comments: 1897: Allocated fishing registration number FD177 at Fleetwood
1899: Allocated fishing registration number H241 at Hull
22/10/1904: Damaged by gunfire from Russian warships in ‘The Dogger Bank Incident’
10/1912: Lengthened at Goole, then 118.1ft
10/1914: Requisitioned by the Admiralty as a minesweeper
Armed with 1 x 3pdr gun
03/1919: Released to owners
12/1922: Sank after a collision in the North Sea


Above photo copyright of Lancashire County Council