Name: | MANORBIER CASTLE |
Type: | Fishing Vessel |
Launched: | 12/10/1897 |
Completed: | 03/1898 |
Builder: | Edwards Brothers |
Yard: | North Shields |
Yard Number: | 565 |
Dimensions: | 153grt, 49nrt, 105.5 x 20.8 x 10.9ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (12, 19 & 32 x 22.5ins), 56nhp |
Engines by: | North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Sunderland |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Iron |
Reg Number: | 108322 |
History: | |
03/1898 | Castle Steam Trawlers Ltd (GHD Birt), London |
20/03/1905 | Registered at Swansea |
by 1910 | James W Peterson, Edinburgh |
1912 | Thomas Stephen, Aberdeen |
01/10/1918 | Charles Dobson, Grimsby |
12/1921 | Broken up |
Comments: | 1898: Allocated fishing registration number LO164 at London |
1906: Allocated fishing registration number SA25 at Swansea | |
1914: Allocated fishing registration number A439 at Aberdeen | |
1915: Requisitioned by the Admiralty & converted to a boom defence vessel, | |
later converted into an accommodation ship | |
1918: Allocated fishing registration number GY1213 at Grimsby | |
1920: Returned to owners | |
12/1921: Broken up |
Above photo courtesy of Mike Bennett