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Name: BEN LOMOND
Type: Trawler
Launched: 18/03/1897
Completed: 04/1897
Builder: JT Eltringham & Co
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number: 190
Dimensions: 124grt, 20nrt, 95.0 x 19.0 x 10.8ft
Engines: C2cyl (16 & 33 x 22ins), 45nhp, 270ihp
Engines by: GT Grey & Co, South Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw, 10.0knots
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 106543
History:
04/1897 North British Steam Fishing Co (John H Irvin, manager), Aberdeen
03/1912 Unknown owner, Sweden
29/10/1912 Richard Irvin & Sons, North Shields; renamed BEN IDRIS
1913 Soc des Pecheries du Golfe de Gascogne (J Duvergier, manager), Arcachon, France
1913 Renamed CACHALOT
1926 Unknown owner, Portugal
No later history known
Comments: 06/05/1897: Allocated fishing registration number A818 at Aberdeen
29/10/1912: Allocated fishing registration number SN192 at North Shields


Shields Daily Gazette, Friday, 19/03/1897