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Name: EBOR DOWNS
Type: Trawler
Launched: 14/02/1919
Completed: 26/08/1919
Builder: Charles Rennoldson & Co
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number: 201
Dimensions: 275grt, 113nrt, 125.3 x 23.4 x 12.6ft
Engines: T3cyl (12.5, 21 & 35 x 26ins), 87nhp
Engines by: R & W Hawthorn, Leslie & Co Ltd, Newcastle
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 136086
History:
26/08/1919 Ebor Fishing Co Ltd, Middlesbrough (CW Robinson, manager)
1920 Harley & Miller Ltd, Liverpool
1928 Consolidated Fisheries Ltd, Swansea; renamed CARDIFF CASTLE
1944 Dinas Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Fleetwood
1946 Renamed LILAMAR
12/02/1958 Broken up
Comments: Launched as EDWARD GALLAGHER for The Admiralty
1926: Allocated fishing registration number LL23 at Liverpool
1928: Allocated fishing registration number SA90 at Swansea
1939: Requisitioned by the Admiralty as a minesweeper
1945: Allocated fishing registration number FD128 at Fleetwood
1946: Returned to owners
12/02/1958: Arrived at Dublin for breaking up by Hammond Lane Foundry Ltd


Above photo as CARDIFF CASTLE is copyright of the Imperial War Museum

Above photo as LILAMAR is courtesy of David Buckley