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Name: TRAWLER PRINCE
Type: Trawler
Launched: 26/08/1897
Completed: 09/1897
Builder: JT Eltringham & Co
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number: 195
Dimensions: 126grt, 20nrt, 96.4 x 19.1 x 10.6ft; (1914: 126grt, 47nrt)
Engines: C2cyl (16 & 34 x 22ins), 47nhp
Engines by: GT Grey & Co, South Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 105222
History:
30/09/1897 William Horsley Storey; registered at North Shields
1903 Prince Steam Fishing Co (Richard Irvin, manager), North Shields
03/08/1916 Sank
Comments: 30/09/1897: Allocated fishing registration number SN241 at North Shields
03/08/1916: Captured by a U-Boat and sunk by explosives,
when 12 miles SSE from Longstone Lighthouse. Crew saved