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Name: MANORBIER CASTLE
Type: Fishing Vessel
Launched: 12/10/1897
Completed: 03/1898
Builder: Edwards Brothers
Yard: North Shields
Yard Number: 565
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: 108322
History:
03/1898 Castle Steam Trawlers Ltd (GHD Birt), London
20/03/1905 Registered at Swansea
by 1910 James W Peterson, Edinburgh
1912 Thomas Stephen, Aberdeen
01/10/1918 Charles Dobson, Grimsby
12/1921 Broken up
Comments: 1898: Allocated fishing registration number LO164 at London
1906: Allocated fishing registration number SA25 at Swansea
1914: Allocated fishing registration number A439 at Aberdeen
1915: Requisitioned by the Admiralty & converted to a boom defence vessel,
later converted into an accommodation ship
1918: Allocated fishing registration number GY1213 at Grimsby
1920: Returned to owners
12/1921: Broken up


Above photo courtesy of Mike Bennett