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Name: X 104
Type: Landing Craft
Launched: 03/05/1915
Completed: 1915
Builder: JT Eltringham & Co Ltd
Yard: Willington Quay
Yard Number: 319
Dimensions: 131grt, 101nrt, 105.6 x 21.1 x 7.3ft
Engines: Oil engine, 40nhp; (19XX: 2SCSA, oil engine, 1cyl (9 x 13.5ins), 14nhp)
Engines by: (19XX: D Goedkoop Jnr, Amsterdam)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a; (1920: 148790)
History:
1915 The Admiralty
06/1920 MS Hilton, London
19XX Renamed SHRIMP
06/07/1926 James Dredging, Towage & Transport Co Ltd (REV James, manager), London
06/07/1926 Renamed SWANMORE
22/01/1936 Lincoln & Hull Water Transport Co Ltd, Hull
No later history known
Comments: 1919: Used in the Northern Russia campaign
19XX: Re-engined
1992: Believed sighted in Hull


Above photo as SWANMORE is copyright of Les Reid