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Name: JAPONICA
Type: Fishing Vessel
Launched: 07/11/1896
Completed: 11/1896
Builder: Edwards Brothers
Yard: North Shields
Yard Number: 528
Dimensions: 145grt, 32nrt, 106.0 x 20.6 x 11.0ft
Engines: T3cyl (12, 18 & 30 x 21ins), 41nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Sunderland
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 107049
History:
11/1896 C Morley & WDG Goff, Waterford (FJ Sellick, manager), Milford
09/03/1903 Southern Steam Trawling Co Ltd (C Morley), Milford
16/12/1911 Walter Fulton & John Stewart, Glasgow
20/12/1911 John Colquhoun, Glasgow
04/12/1914 Richard Watson Lewis, Aberdeen
05/06/1915 Sank
Comments: 1896: Allocated fishing registration number M130 at Milford
1914: Allocated fishing registration number A193 at Aberdeen
05/06/1915: Sank after being captured and shelled by U-Boat U19
when 45 miles east of Kinnaird Head