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Name: BLACKTAIL
Type: Fishing Vessel
Launched: 16/03/1961
Completed: 10/1961
Builder: T Mitchison Ltd
Yard: Friar's Goose, Gateshead
Yard Number: 510
Dimensions: 246grt, 76nrt, 150dwt, 114.4 x 25.4 x 11.0ft
Engines: 2 x Oil engines, 4SA, 4cyl (185 x 200mm)
Engines by: Maybach Motorenbau, Friedrichshafen
1966: 2 x 8cyl by Davey Paxman & Co Ltd, Colchester
1969: 6cyl by English Electric Diesels Ltd, Newton-le-Willow
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Reg Number: 187935
History:
10/1961 Pelagic Trawling Co Ltd (Boston Deep Sea Fisheries Ltd), North Shields
1964 Pelagic (Realisations) Ltd, North Shields
1966 Talisman Trawlers (North Sea) Ltd, Lowestoft
1966 Renamed FARNHAM QUEEN
1983 Swallowtail Trawlers Ltd, Lowestoft; renamed SUMMER SWALLOW
1993 Searanger Ltd, Milford; renamed SEA DOG
15/12/1998 Sank
Comments: 1961: Allocated fishing registration number SN36 at North Shields
1966: Allocated fishing registration number LT502 at Lowestoft
1966: Re-engined
1969: Re-engined
1993: Allocated fishing registration number M425 at Milford
15/12/1998: Sank 100 miles west of Galway in position
53.41N - 13.49W after flooding into the engine room


Above photo copyright of the Wallsend News, courtesy of John Dobson

Above photo as FARNHAM QUEEN courtesy of Trawlerphotos