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Name: MARION
Type: Fishing Vessel
Launched: 25/01/1906
Completed: 03/1906
Builder: Smith's Dock Co Ltd
Yard: North Shields
Yard Number: 788
Dimensions: 255grt,98nrt, 125.7 x 22.1 x 12.0ft
Engines: T3cyl (12.5, 20 & 34 x 25ins), 75rhp
Engines by: Shields Engineering Co Ltd, North Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 120683
History:
03/1906 Mrs ML Ryde (C Heron), London
1912 George HD Birt, Milford
by 1918 Croston Steam Trwaling Co Ltd (E Taylor, manager), London
23/02/1918 Sank
Comments: 1906: Allocated fishing registration number LO235 at London
1914: Requisitioned as a Fishery Trawler
1914: Temporarily renamed MARION II for the duration
23/02/1918: Sunk by a mine off Malta
Mine was laid by U-Boat UC25