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Name: LORD KITCHENER
Type: Trawler
Launched: 05/08/1898
Completed: 01/1899
Builder: JT Eltringham & Co
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number: 203
Dimensions: 158grt, 22nrt, 104.8 x 21.1 x 11.6ft; (1914: 158grt, 59nrt)
Engines: T3cyl (12.25, 19.5 & 32 x 22.5ins), 52nhp
Engines by: GT Grey, South Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 109722
History:
01/1899 St Hilda Steam Fishing Co (Peverell, Mason & Lister), Hartlepool
1914 Andrew Walker, Aberdeen; registered at Aberdeen
12/1916 GF Sleight, Grimsby
06/04/1917 Sank
Comments: 01/1898: Assigned fishing registration number HL55 at Hartlepool
12/1916: Assigned fishing registration number GY1009 at Grimsby
06/04/1917: Captured by U-Boat UB35 & sunk by explosives,
45 miles NxE from Kinnairds Head. All crew survived