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Name: AMEER
Type: Fishing Vessel
Launched: 08/10/1908
Completed: 11/1908
Builder: Smith's Dock Co Ltd
Yard: North Shields
Yard Number: 812
Dimensions: 216grt, 83nrt, 117.4 x 21.6 x 11.6ft
Engines: T3cyl (12.25, 20 & 34 x 24ins), 72nhp
Engines by: Shields Engineering Co Ltd, North Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 127836
History:
21/11/1908 Ernest Sleight, Grimsby
18/03/1916 Sank
Comments: 1908: Allocated fishing registration number GY397 at Grimsby
08/1914: Requisitioned by the Admiralty as a minesweeper
Armed with 1 x 6pdr gun
18/03/1916: Sunk by a mine off Felixstow


Above photo as AMEER is copyright of Lancashire County Council