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Name: VALETTA
Type: Fishing Vessel - Trawler
Launched: 26/08/1891
Completed: 10/1891
Builder: Hepple & Co
Yard: North Shields
Yard Number: 463
Dimensions: 144grt, 30nrt, 105.4 x 20.6 x 11.0ft
Engines: T3cyl (12, 20 & 32 x 22ins), 60rhp
Engines by: Hepple & Co, North Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 99545
History:
10/1891 John EA Kelsall, Manchester; registered at Hull
1897 Kelsall Bros & Beeching Ltd, Manchester; registered at Fleetwood
1899 Registered at Hull
05/07/1903 Sank
Comments: 06/11/1891: Allocated fishing registration number H174
04/09/1897: Allocated fishing registration number FD183
13/04/1899: Allocated fishing registration number H446
05/07/1903: Sank after collision with DOVE in the North Sea
Sank about 40 miles from Borkum. All of the crew were saved


Hull Daily Mail, Friday, 10/07/1903