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Name: AKRANES
Type: Trawler
Launched: 24/02/1899
Completed: 04/1899
Builder: Edwards Brothers
Yard: North Shields
Yard Number: 608
Dimensions: 178grt, 66nrt, 114.6 x 21.1 x 10.8ft; (1901: 184grt, 73nrt)
Engines: T3cyl (12.25, 19.5 & 32 x 22.5ins), 52rhp
Engines by: GT Grey, South Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a; (1901: 114418)
History:
04/1898 Fiskeri-aktieselskabet Isafold (Isafold Fishing Co Ltd), Iceland
1901 Joseph Brown, Newcastle
1901 James Herbert Marr, Hull
29/05/1902 J Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood (James H Marr, manager)
28/02/1905 Registered at Fleetwood
10/11/1916 Margaret Fawns, Granton; (John Thomson, Leith designated manager)
02/10/1917 Archibald Glen Brown, Granton
10/1918 Ernest Davy Baxter, Grimsby
02/1923 Ernest J Baskcomb, Grimsby
05/1928 Baskcomb & Northcote Ltd, Grimsby
08/1929 Nicolaas Maarleveld, IJmuiden; renamed ANNA JOSINA
1934 Zeevisscherij Maatschappij-Anna Josina, Ijmuiden
31/05/1936 Broken up
Comments: 1901: Purchase price £4000
1901: Allocated fishing registration number NE9 at Newcastle
1905: Allocated fishing registration number FD33 at Fleetwood
06/1915: Requisitioned for war service as a boom defence vessel
1918: Allocated fishing registration number GY1219 at Grimsby
1919: Returned to owner
1929: Allocated fishing registration number IJM128 at Ijmuiden


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Above photo copyright of John Warman