Name: | PORTSMOUTH |
Type: | Fishing Vessel |
Launched: | 30/03/1903 |
Completed: | 05/1903 |
Builder: | Smith's Dock Co Ltd |
Yard: | North Shields |
Yard Number: | 708 |
Dimensions: | 178grt, 30nrt, 110.0 x 21.0 x 11.6ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (12, 19 & 32 x 22.5ins), 51nhp |
Engines by: | MacColl & Pollock Ltd, Sunderland |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 117703 |
History: | |
05/1903 | Western Steam Trawling Co Ltd (SM Price), Bristol |
11/08/1919 | Registered at Milford |
24/11/1919 | North Lincolnshire Steam Trawling Co Ltd (T Sowerby), Grimsby |
01/1923 | Taylor Steam Fishing Co, Grimsby |
12/1923 | W Kermer, IJmuiden; renamed ITA |
by 1927 | NV Noordzee Exploitatie Maats (J Klein), IJmuiden |
1930 | NV Visscherij Maats Ita (WF Kermer), IJmuiden |
1952 | Broken up |
Comments: | 20/05/1903: Allocated fishing registration number BL10 at Bristol |
01/1915: Requisitioned by the Admiralty & converted to a minesweeper | |
Armed with 1 x 12pdr gun | |
1919: Returned to owners | |
11/08/1919: Allocated fishing registration number M61 at Milford | |
24/11/1919: Allocated fishing registration number GY249 at Grimsby | |
1923: Allocated fishing registration number IJM22 at IJmuiden | |
1939: Requisitioned by German Kreigsmarine & converted to a minesweeper | |
1945: Returned to owners |
Above photo courtesy of the Milford & West Wales Mercury