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Name: AUSTRALIAN PRINCE
Type: Trawler
Launched: 17/11/1902
Completed: 02/1903
Builder: JT Eltringham & Co
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number: 240
Dimensions: 157grt, 37nrt, 104.0 x 20.2 x 11.4ft
Engines: T3cyl (11, 18 & 32 x 22ins), 57nhp
Engines by: Shields Engineering Co Ltd, North Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 114530
History:
09/02/1903 William Horsley Storey, North Shields
1903 Prince Steam Fishing Co Ltd (Richard Irvin, manager), North Shields
1904 Steamtrawler Maats Amsterdam, Ymuiden; renamed AMSTERDAM
by 1909 Maats Tot Beheer Van Steam Trawlers & Anders Visschervaartuigen, Ymuiden
19/08/1915 Sunk
Comments: 09/02/1903: Assigned fishing registration number SN348 at North Shields
17/02/1904: North Shields registry closed
1904: Assigned fishing registration number IJM49 at Ijmuiden
19/08/1915: Sunk by a mine on the north side of Ameland