Name: | BULRUSH |
Type: | Fishing Vessel - Drifter |
Launched: | 27/03/1907 |
Completed: | 05/1907 |
Builder: | Smith's Dock Co Ltd |
Yard: | North Shields |
Yard Number: | 344 |
Dimensions: | 90grt, 44nrt, 82.3 x 18.3 x 8.5ft |
Engines: | C2cyl (11.25 & 25 x 16ins), 25nhp |
Engines by: | MacColl & Pollock Ltd, Sunderland |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 120368 |
History: | |
20/06/1907 | Westmacott Ltd, Great Yarmouth |
1931 | Samuel FR Spilling, Gorleston-on-Sea; renamed YOUNG SAM |
1939 | Broken up |
Comments: | 1907: Allocated fishing registration number YH972 at Yarmouth |
03/1915: Hired by the Admiralty as a patrol boat & armed with 1 x 6pdr gun | |
1919: Returned to owners | |
1939: Reported sold to Dutch shipbreakers |
Above photo as YOUNG SAM is courtesy of Ron Taylor