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Name: WILLIAM LOFT
Type: Naval Trawler
Launched: 30/07/1919
Completed: 01/1920
Builder: Charles Rennoldson & Co
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number: 205
Dimensions: 275grt, 113nrt, 125.3 x 23.4 x 12.6ft
Engines: T3cyl (12.5, 21 & 35 x 26ins), 87nhp
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 144557
History:
15/05/1920 The Admiralty
1923 Hull Northern Fishing Co Ltd, Hull; renamed TAMORA
1930 Henderson’s Trawling Co Ltd, Hull
1941 The City Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull
1947 Dublin Trawling, Ice & Cold Storage Co Ltd, Dublin
1954 Broken up
Comments: 1923: Allocated fishing registration number H853 at Hull
1939: Requisitioned by the Admiralty as a minesweeper
1946: Returned to owners
1947: Allocated fishing registration number D303 at Dublin
1954: Sold for breaking up


Above photo as TAMORA is copyright of the Imperial War Museum