| Name: | THE NORMAN | 
| Type: | Fishing Vessel | 
| Launched: | 22/10/1908 | 
| Completed: | 12/1908 | 
| Builder: | Smith's Dock Co Ltd | 
| Yard: | North Shields | 
| Yard Number: | 391 | 
| Dimensions: | 225grt, 87nrt, 121.2 x 21.5 x 11.6ft | 
| Engines: | T3cyl (12.5, 20 & 34 x 24ins), 57nhp | 
| Engines by: | MacColl & Pollock Ltd, Sunderland | 
| Propulsion: | 1 x Screw | 
| Construction: | Steel | 
| Reg Number: | 128742 | 
| History: | |
| 12/1908 | Neale Brothers, Milford | 
| 15/12/1910 | Registered at Cardiff | 
| 1917 | Hesketh Steam Trawlers, London St., Fleetwood | 
| 30/12/1924 | Frederick Swann, Lytham (Seafield Trawling Co, Fleetwood) | 
| 11/06/1926 | L Häller, Gothenburg; renamed NORMAN | 
| 1944 | A/B Doggersbankar, Göteborg | 
| 1945 | Göteborg Torskmjölsfabrik, Göteborg | 
| 1963 | Broken up | 
| Comments: | 1908: Allocated fishing registration number M231 at Milford | 
| 1910: Allocated fishing registration number CF30 at Cardiff | |
| 1915: Requisitioned by the Admiralty as a minelayer | |
| Armed with 1 x 6pdr gun & 24 x mines | |
| 1917: Converted to a minesweeper | |
| Armed with 1 x 6pdr gun & 1 x 7.5ins bomb thrower | |
| 1917: Allocated fishing registration number FD145 at Fleetwood | |
| 1919: Returned to owners | |
| 1926: Allocated fishing registration number GG56 at Göteborg | |
| 1963: Broken up at Gothenburg | 

Above photo as NORMAN is courtesy of Göran Olsson

Shields Daily News, Friday, 23/10/1908