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Name: ROSSLYN
Type: Fishing Vessel - Trawler
Launched: 1892
Completed: 1892
Builder: Hepple & Co
Yard: North Shields
Yard Number: 481
Dimensions: 121grt, 8nrt, 100.8 x 20.4 x 10.4ft
Engines: C2cyl (17 & 34 x 24ins), 48rhp
Engines by: Hepple & Co, North Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 99239
History:
1892 John M Clarke, Leith
1893 Registered at Leith
1896 William Hugh, Dundee
1898 Dundee Steam Trawling Co Ltd
1914 John Johnston, Edinburgh
1915 W Rayner & R Boyle (Robert Boyle, manager), North Shields
1915 Registered at North Shields
1916 Neville S Clark, Scarborough; registered at Scarborough
25/03/1917 Sank
Comments: 1913: Allocated fishing registration number LH138
1915: Allocated fishing registration number SN211
25/03/1917: Captured by U-Boat UC75 & sunk by explosives
in position 54 miles E x S from Girdleness, Aberdeenshire