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Name: BOSTON COMET
Type: Fishing Vessel
Launched: 15/03/1957
Completed: 08/1957
Builder: T Mitchison Ltd
Yard: Friar's Goose, Gateshead
Yard Number: 81
Dimensions: 249grt, 79nrt, 160dwt, 115.4 x 25.4 x 11.0ft
Engines: Oil engine, 4SA, 6cyl (381 x 457mm), 760bhp
Engines by: Mirrlees, Bickerton & Day, Stockport
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Reg Number: 181386
History:
11/1957 St Andrew's Steam Fishing Co Ltd (BA Parkes), Grimsby
1959 Packers Steamship Co Ltd, Vancouver; renamed RUPERT BRAND IV
by 1976 Crest Trawlers Ltd, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
No later history known
Comments: Allocated fishing registration number GY410 at Grimsby


Above photo courtesy of Trawlerphotos