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Name: TWENTY EIGHT
Type: Fishing Vessel - Drifter
Launched: 24/03/1902
Completed: 05/1902
Builder: Smith's Dock Co Ltd
Yard: North Shields
Yard Number: 678
Dimensions: 79grt, 33nrt, 80.0 x 18.0 x 8.2ft
Engines: C2cyl (10.75 & 23 x 16ins), 22nhp
Engines by: MacColl & Pollock, Sunderland
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 115515
History:
09/05/1902 Smith's Dock Trust Co Ltd, Great Yarmouth
1920 George Woodhouse, Winterton, Norfolk
1928 John Findlay, Cullen, Banff; renamed RESOURCE
07/1935 Broken up
Comments: 1902: Allocated fishing registration number YH681 at Great Yarmouth
02/07/1907: Collided with & sank steam drifter PARVAIM BF403
1915: Hired by the Admiralty as a net vessel
Armed with 1 x 3pdr gun
1919: Returned to owners
Comments: 1928: Allocated fishing registration number BF343 at Banff