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Name: MACAW
Type: Fishing Vessel - Trawler
Launched: 07/12/1908
Completed: 01/1909
Builder: Smith's Dock Co Ltd
Yard: North Shields
Yard Number: 393
Dimensions: 187grt, 69nrt, 110.8 x 21.0 x 11.7ft
Engines: T3cyl (12, 19 & 32 x 22.5ins), 64nhp
Engines by: WVV Lidgerwood, Glasgow
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 128745
History:
27/01/1909 Morley & Price, Milford
06/09/1919 Swansea Steam Trawling Co Ltd (HE Rees), Milford
28/08/1933 Harry Eastoe Rees, Milford
11/12/1935 William Gove, Aberdeen
1942 JC Johnson, Scarborough; registered at Aberdeen
1945 General Discount Trust Ltd (J Johnson), Aberdeen
01/1952 Broken up
Comments: 1909: Allocated fishing registration number M18 at Milford
08/1914: Requisitioned by the Admiralty as a minesweeper
1919: Returned to owners
1935: Allocated fishing registration number A388 at Aberdeen
01/1952: Broken up by JJ King & Co at Gateshead