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Name: PORTSMOUTH
Type: Fishing Vessel
Launched: 30/03/1903
Completed: 05/1903
Builder: Smith's Dock Co Ltd
Yard: North Shields
Yard Number: 708
Dimensions: 178grt, 30nrt, 110.0 x 21.0 x 11.6ft
Engines: T3cyl (12, 19 & 32 x 22.5ins), 51nhp
Engines by: MacColl & Pollock Ltd, Sunderland
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 117703
History:
05/1903 Western Steam Trawling Co Ltd (SM Price), Bristol
11/08/1919 Registered at Milford
24/11/1919 North Lincolnshire Steam Trawling Co Ltd (T Sowerby), Grimsby
01/1923 Taylor Steam Fishing Co, Grimsby
12/1923 W Kermer, IJmuiden; renamed ITA
by 1927 NV Noordzee Exploitatie Maats (J Klein), IJmuiden
1930 NV Visscherij Maats Ita (WF Kermer), IJmuiden
1952 Broken up
Comments: 20/05/1903: Allocated fishing registration number BL10 at Bristol
01/1915: Requisitioned by the Admiralty & converted to a minesweeper
Armed with 1 x 12pdr gun
1919: Returned to owners
11/08/1919: Allocated fishing registration number M61 at Milford
24/11/1919: Allocated fishing registration number GY249 at Grimsby
1923: Allocated fishing registration number IJM22 at IJmuiden
1939: Requisitioned by German Kreigsmarine & converted to a minesweeper
1945: Returned to owners


Above photo courtesy of the Milford & West Wales Mercury