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