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Name: PRIMROSE
Type: Trawler
Launched: 03/09/1891
Completed: 10/1891
Builder: JT Eltringham & Co
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number: 167
Dimensions: 136grt, 27nrt, 100.0 x 20.0 x 10.9ft
Engines: C2cyl (17 & 34 x 24ins), 48nhp
Engines by: Clyne & Mitchell & Co, Aberdeen
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 96531
History:
10/1891 Richard K Lillie; registered at North Shields
1899 Dundee Fishing Co Ltd; registered at Dundee
05/02/1917 Sank
Comments: 27/10/1891: Allocated fishing registration number SN115 at North Shields
09/1896: Ran ashore near Newburgh, Aberdeenshire, refloated on next tide
05/1899: Allocated fishing registration number DE114 at Dundee
05/02/1917: Mined & sunk 17 miles SSW from Tod Head, Kincardineshire
All nine crew lost