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Name: SAILFIN
Type: Fishing Vessel
Launched: 11/07/1961
Completed: 11/1962
Builder: T Mitchison Ltd
Yard: Friar's Goose, Gateshead
Yard Number: 514
Dimensions: 390grt, 177nrt, 150dwt, 114.4 x 25.4 x 11.0ft
Engines: 2 x Oil engines, Maybach, 4SA, 4cyl (185 x 200mm)
Engines by: Bristol Siddeley Engineering Ltd, Coventry
(1967: 2 x 8cyl by Davey Paxman & Co Ltd, Colchester)
(1969: 6cyl by English Electric Diesels Ltd, Newton le Willows)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Reg Number: 187940
History:
11/1962 Pelagic Trawling Co Ltd (Boston Deep Sea Fisheries Ltd), North Shields
1964 Pelagic (Realsisations) Ltd, North Shields
1966 Talisman Trawlers (North Sea) Ltd, Lowestoft
1966 Renamed YOXFORD QUEEN
1983 Rutford Enterprises Ltd (Belfast Steamship Co Ltd), Lowestoft
1983 Renamed RAE-ELIZABETH
1985 Broken up
Comments: 1962: Allocated fishing registration number SN58 at North Shields
1966: Allocated fishing registration number LT501 at Lowestoft
1967: Re-engined
1969: Re-engined


Above photo as YOXFORD QUEEN copyright M White & E Graystone

Above photo as RAE-ELIZABETH copyright M White & E Graystone