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Name: WESTWARD HO
Type: Fishing Vessel
Launched: 05/03/1897
Completed: 04/1897
Builder: Edwards Brothers
Yard: North Shields
Yard Number: 559
Dimensions: 146grt, 49nrt, 108.0 x 20.9 x 10.9ft
Engines: T3cyl (11.5, 18 & 30 x 21ins), 60nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Sunderland
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 106738
History:
04/1897 ST White & J Chant, Hull
1898 ST White & Co Ltd, Hull
1915 Renamed WESTWARD HO II
1920 George Grimmer, Aberdeen; registered at Aberdeen
1924 Smith & Holmes (J Cormack), Aberdeen
1927 John Murray, Aberdeen
1928 Alexander F Wood, Aberdeen
1930 M de Coquereaument, Dieppe; renamed SANCTE MICHAEL
No later history known
Comments: 1916: Hired by the Admiralty as a minesweeper
Armed with 1 x 6pdr gun
1918: Returned to owners
Listed in LR 1945 but not in 1950