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Name: ELLA
Type: Trawler
Launched: 10/02/1891
Completed: 05/1891
Builder: JT Eltringham & Co
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number: 161
Dimensions: 113grt, 22nrt, 93.0 x 18.6 x 10.1ft
Engines: C2cyl (16 & 32 x 22ins), 45nhp
Engines by: GT Grey, South Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 98282
History:
05/1891 North Steam Herring Fisheries Ltd, Sunderland
1892 JT Eltringham (William Horsley Storey, manager), South Shields
1907 J Innes, A Mair & TD Mair, Portknockie
by 1912 Alexander Mair, Portknockie
1915 WH Dodds, Aberdeen; renamed GOLDEN MONARCH
25/08/1916 A Ritchie, Aberdeen
1920 W Hutchinson, Aberdeen; renamed EVENING STAR
1924 A Flockhart & Sons Ltd, Leith
09/05/1927 Sank
Comments: 06/05/1891: Allocated fishing registration number SSS7 at South Shields
1907: Allocated fishing registration number BF337 at Banff
21/07/1915:Allocated fishing registration number A406 at Aberdeen A406
29/05/1917: Requisitioned as a Fishery Reserve Vessel
1919: Returned to Owners
14/10/1924: Ran aground on Inchkeith Firth of Forth badly holed and
abandoned by the crew. Subsequently repaired
09/05/1927: Sank after a trawl door punched a hole in her side 16 miles north
of May Island, Firth of Forth. Eigth crew took the small rowing boat to Dunbar