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Name: SCOTIA
Type: Fishing Vessel - Trawler
Launched: 20/03/1905
Completed: 05/1905
Builder: Smith's Dock Co Ltd
Yard: North Shields
Yard Number: 770
Dimensions: 205grt, 51nrt, 117.8 x 21.6 x 11.5ft
Engines: T3cyl (12, 20 & 32 x 23ins), 52nhp
Engines by: MacColl & Pollock Ltd, Sunderland
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 120527
History:
08/05/1905 Birt & Hextall, London
08/04/1910 JA Steenken, Bremerhaven; renamed GUSTAV OBER
20/06/1910 Ges Bolte & Steenken mbH, Bremerhaven
19/11/1910 Missing
Comments: 1905: Allocated fishing registration number LO201 at London
Comments: 1910: Allocated fishing registration number BX93 at Bremerhaven
11/05/1909: Ashore in fog near Bude. Refloated same day by tug ASSISTANCE
19/11/1910: Departed Bremerhaven. Subsequently reported missing


Above photo, showing SCOTIA ashore at Northcott Mouth near Bude, is copyright of Cornwall Council

Exeter & Plymouth Gazette, Friday, 14/05/1909