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Name: VOLUNTEER
Type: Fishing Vessel - Trawler
Launched: 05/05/1891
Completed: 07/1891
Builder: Hepple & Co
Yard: North Shields
Yard Number: 455
Dimensions: 112grt, 12nrt, 96.6 x 19.4 x 10.4ft
Engines: C2cyl (16.25 & 32.25 x 22ins), 43nhp
Engines by: Hepple & Co, North Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 98283
History:
07/1891 John Murray, South Shields; registered at South Shields
1897 John Stevenson, North Shields
by 1910 Andrew Ritchie, Glasgow
by 1918 George Craig, Aberdeen
by 1925 James McIntosh, Aberdeen
No later history known
Comments: 16/03/1892: Grounded in the mouth of the Tees & capsized
26/03/1892: Raised & taken to Hepple & Co for repairs
1929: Register closed


Above photo is courtesy of Ron Mapplebeck

Shields Daily News, Wednesday, 30/03/1892