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Name: DUCHESS
Type: Trawler
Launched: 29/07/1897
Completed: 10/1897
Builder: JT Eltringham & Co
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number: 194
Dimensions: 159grt, 31nrt, 104.5 x 21.2 x 11.7ft
Engines: T3cyl (11, 18 & 30 x 22ins), 58nhp
Engines by: Clyne, Mitchell & Co, Aberdeen
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 106550
History:
10/1897 Robert Laing (North Eastern Ice Co), Aberdeen
1903 Wilhelm Bortfeld, Hamburg; renamed EILBECK
1926 Capron, Gueneron & Quilan, Dieppe; renamed MISTINGUETT
1942 German Kriegsmarine; renamed FB03
194X Sank
Comments: 06/10/1897: Allocated fishing registration number A831 at Aberdeen
1942: Seized by the German Kriegsmarine
Reported sunk between 1942 & 1945