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Name: TWO
Type: Fishing vessel - Drifter
Launched: 26/04/1900
Completed: 06/1900
Builder: Smith's Dock Co Ltd
Yard: North Shields
Yard Number: 632
Dimensions: 89grt, 37nrt, 80.0 x 18.6 x 8.6ft
Engines: C2cyl (11.5 & 23 x 16ins), 24nhp
Engines by: GT Grey, South Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 111052
History:
06/1900 Smith's Dock Trust Co Ltd, Great Yarmouth
06/1907 John G George, Macduff; renamed LEONARD
06/1907 Registered at Banff
08/01/1920 Sank
Comments: 1900: Allocated fishing registration number YH473 at Yarmouth
1907: Allocated fishing registration number BF632 at Banff
1915: Hired by the Admiralty. Armed with 1 x 6pdr gun
08/01/1920: Believed sunk 7 miles east of Tayport. Lost with all hands
On a voyage from Inverkeithing to Dundee
Still under Admiralty control