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Name: LAWRENNY CASTLE
Type: Fishing Vessel
Launched: 27/09/1897
Completed: 01/1898
Builder: Edwards Brothers
Yard: North Shields
Yard Number: 562
Dimensions: 153grt, 49nrt, 105.5 x 20.8 x 10.9ft
Engines: T3cyl (12, 19 & 32 x 22.5ins), 56nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Sunderland
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 108281
History:
01/1898 Castle Steam Trawlers Ltd (GHD Birt), London
1907 Comte de Lusancay, St Nazaire, France; renamed MARNNAY
by 1909 Comte de Lusancay, La Trinite, France
by 1910 Kerihuel & Tregouet, Lorient, France
by 1914 Fred Parkes & Alfred Stringer, Boston, England; renamed MARNAY
22/08/1914 Captured
Comments: 1898: Allocated fishing registration number LO159 at London
1914: Allocated fishing registration number BN32 at Boston
22/08/1914: Captured by German warship, 85m ExN of Spurn
Presumed to have been scuttled