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Name: FUCHSIA
Type: Fishing Vessel
Launched: 07/09/1896
Completed: 09/1896
Builder: Edwards Brothers
Yard: North Shields
Yard Number: 524
Dimensions: 145grt, 25nrt, 103.0 x 20.6 x 11.0ft
Engines: T3cyl (12, 18 & 30 x 21ins), 50nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Sunderland
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 107045
History:
09/1896 C Morley & WDG Goff, Waterford (FJ Sellick, manager), Milford
09/03/1903 Southern Steam Trawling Co Ltd (C Morley), Milford
16/12/1911 Walter Fulton & John Stewart, Glasgow
09/11/1912 John Colquhoun, Glasgow
09/1915 RD Clark, TB Roberts & G Pierce, Grimsby
28/09/1916 Sank
Comments: 1896: Allocated fishing registration number M127 at Milford
1915: Allocated fishing registration number GY669 at Grimsby
28/09/1916: Captured & sunk by gunfire from U-Boat U45 in the
North Sea at position 56.07N - 00.30W


Above photo courtesy of John Stevenson