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Name: CHESTER
Type: Fishing Vessel
Launched: 03/11/1896
Completed: 11/1896
Builder: Edwards Brothers
Yard: Howdon
Yard Number: 533
Dimensions: 144grt, 46nrt, 104.0 x 20.7 x 10.5ft
Engines: T3cyl (9, 16 & 25.5 x 19.5ins), 45nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Sunderland
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 106682
History:
11/1896 Hagerup, Doughty & Co Ltd, Grimsby
04/1906 Consolidated Steam Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Grimsby
29/02/1916 Sank
Comments: Allocated fishing registration number GY148 at Grimsby
10/1915: Requisitioned by the Admiralty as a minesweeper; renamed CHESTER II
29/02/1916: Sank in the Firth of Forth following a collision