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Name: NEW CENTURY
Type: Trawler
Launched: 03/07/1901
Completed: 08/1901
Builder: JT Eltringham & Co
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number: 231
Dimensions: 143grt, 34nrt, 100.5 x 20.1 x 10.6ft
Engines: T3cyl (11, 18 & 30 x 21ins), 46rhp
Engines by: GT Grey, South Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 9.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 114636
History:
08/1901 The Steam Trawler "New Century" Ltd, (WS Dawson, manager), Sunderland
1906 Richard Irvin & Sons Ltd, North Shields
1914 Gumruk Dairesi, Constantinople, Turkey; renamed RUSUMAT NO 1
1924 Turkish Customs service, Turkey
1929 Sold
No later history known
Comments: 1901: Allocated fishing registration number SD65 at Sunderland
01/05/1906: Allocated fishing registration number SN37 at North Shields
07/12/1910: Ran ashore at Goswick Sand ridge, Northumberland. Lost propeller
Subsequently recovered and repaired
1914: Requisitioned into the Turkish Navy and converted to a minesweeper
1918: Returned to owners