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Name: WOLSELEY
Type: Trawler
Launched: 17/11/1902
Completed: 02/1903
Builder: JT Eltringham & Co
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number: 242
Dimensions: 159grt, 34nrt, 105.2 x 20.6 x 11.3ft; (1914: 159grt, 61nrt)
Engines: T3cyl (11, 18 & 32 x 22ins), 55nhp
Engines by: Shields Engineering Co Ltd, North Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 114529
History:
02/1903 Warrior Steam Fishing Co Ltd; registered at North Shields
06/1917 H Croft Baker; registered at Grimsby
11/1917 William Hill, Grimsby
12/1918 Northern Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby
07/1920 Andrew Walker; registered at Aberdeen
1927 Walker Steam Trawl Fishing Co Ltd, Aberdeen
27/10/1928 Consolidated Fisheries Ltd, Grimsby; registered at Lowestoft
1944 Great Grimsby & East Coast Steam Fishing Co Ltd (AW Butt, manager), Grimsby
1946 Danesbury Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby
1949 Unknown owners, Holland
1952 Broken up
Comments: 20/01/1903: Allocated fishing registration number SN345 at North Shields
1917: Requisitioned as a Fishery Reserve Vessel
04/05/1917: Damaged by gunfire from U-Boat UC77 30 miles off the Tyne
06/1917: Allocated fishing registration number GY1067 at Grimsby
1919: Returned to owners
1920: Allocated fishing registration number A393 at Aberdeen
10/1928: Allocated fishing registration number LT410 at Lowestoft
21/08/1940: Damaged in enemy aircraft attack 9 miles W of the Smalls Lighthouse
1945: Allocated fishing registration number GY23 at Grimsby
1952: Broken up by Van den Roche & Co at Boom, Belgium