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Name: PICTON CASTLE
Type: Fishing Vessel
Launched: 11/06/1903
Completed: 07/1903
Builder: Smith's Dock Co Ltd
Yard: North Shields
Yard Number: 698
Dimensions: 192grt, 72nrt, 110.0 x 21.0 x 11.2ft
Engines: T3cyl (12, 19 & 32 x 22.5ins), 56nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Sunderland
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 118304
History:
07/1903 Castle Steam Trawlers Ltd (C Heron), London
06/1906 Emprela Lisbonesa, Lisbon; renamed DINORAH
1913 William H Dodds, Aberdeen
11/1917 Overseas Steam Fishing Co, Grimsby
09/1920 Bowering's Steam Fishing Co Ltd (Beeley & Sleight), Grimsby
12/1932 John Buchan, Grimsby
1936 AA Davidson, Grimsby
12/1940 J Bennett (Wholesale) Ltd, Grimsby
10/1944 Thornton Trawlers (J Marr & Son), Fleetwood
28/04/1945 Sank
Comments: 1903: Allocated fishing registration number LO177 at London
1913: Allocated fishing registration number A505 at Aberdeen
1917: Allocated fishing registration number GY1107 at Grimsby
28/04/1945: Sank off Bridlington, believed to have struck a British mine