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Name: DORADE
Type: Fishing Vessel
Launched: 02/06/1961
Completed: 02/1962
Builder: T Mitchison Ltd
Yard: Friar's Goose, Gateshead
Yard Number: 512
Dimensions: 246grt, 76nrt, 150dwt, 114.4 x 25.4 x 11.0ft
Engines: 2 x Oil engines, Maybach, 4SA, 4cyl (185 x 200mm)
Engines by: Bristol Siddeley Engineering Ltd, Coventry
(1967: 2 x 8cyl by Davey Paxman & Co Ltd, Colchester)
(02/1970: 6cyl by English Electric Diesels Ltd, Newton le Willows)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Reg Number: 187938
History:
02/1962 Pelagic Trawling Co Ltd (Boston Deep Sea Fisheries Ltd), North Shields
1964 Pelagic (Realisations) Ltd, North Shields
1966 Talisman Trawlers (North Sea) Ltd, Lowestoft
1966 Renamed OULTON QUEEN
1983 Dynamic Shipping Co (SJ Validakis), Piraeus; renamed MICKEY
1990 Renamed COSTAS X
Comments: 1962: Allocated fishing registration number SN49 at North Shields
1966: Allocated fishing registration number LT503 at Lowestoft
1967: Re-engined
1970: Re-engined
2005: Still listed in Lloyd's Register but with no owners or flag


Above photo as DORADE courtesy of Trawlerphotos

Above photo as OULTON QUEEN courtesy of Trawlerphotos