Name: | GULL |
Type: | Fishing Vessel |
Launched: | 15/07/1897 |
Completed: | 09/1897 |
Builder: | Edwards Brothers |
Yard: | North Shields |
Yard Number: | 555 |
Dimensions: | 143grt, 39nrt, 106.0 x 20.6 x 11.0ft; (1913: 166grt, 67nrt, 118.1ft) |
Engines: | T3cyl (12, 18 & 30 x 21ins), 41nhp |
Engines by: | North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Sunderland |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Iron |
Reg Number: | 108533 |
History: | |
09/1897 | Kelsall Brothers & Beeching Ltd (JEA Kelsall), Manchester |
12/1922 | Sank |
Comments: | 1897: Allocated fishing registration number FD177 at Fleetwood |
1899: Allocated fishing registration number H241 at Hull | |
22/10/1904: Damaged by gunfire from Russian warships in ‘The Dogger Bank Incident’ | |
10/1912: Lengthened at Goole, then 118.1ft | |
10/1914: Requisitioned by the Admiralty as a minesweeper | |
Armed with 1 x 3pdr gun | |
03/1919: Released to owners | |
12/1922: Sank after a collision in the North Sea |
Above photo copyright of Lancashire County Council