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Name: ASHTON
Type: Fishing Vessel
Launched: 24/09/1896
Completed: 10/1896
Builder: Edwards Brothers
Yard: Howdon
Yard Number: 531
Dimensions: 144grt, 46nrt, 104.0 x 20.7 x 10.5ft
Engines: T3cyl (9, 16 & 25.5 x 19.5ins), 30nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Sunderland
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 106672
History:
10/1896 Hagerup, Doughty & Co Ltd, Grimsby
04/1906 Consolidated Steam Fishing & Ice Co Ltd (Sir John Marsden), Lowestoft
01/1925 Registered at Lowestoft
1929 NV Vissch Maats 'IJmond' (PJ Schipper), IJmuiden; renamed ECLIPTICA
1933 Renamed JULIANA
1935 NV Zeevissch Maata "Juliana", IJmuiden
1936 Broken up
Comments: 1896: Allocated fishing registration number GY123 at Grimsby
10/1914: Requisition by the Admiralty as a minesweeper.
Armed with a 1 x 6pdr gun
09/1918: Returned to owners
1925: Allocated fishing registration number LO401 at Lowestoft