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Ramsey Bay FD378






  
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Picture by John Clarkson




 	  	  

 	  	  	
 	  	  	 

 	  	  	  

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    Technical
	

	




Official Number 141957


Yard Number 5


Gross Tonnage97


Net Tonnage39


Length86 ft


Breadth18.5 ft


Draught9.3 ft


Built atJ. W. Brooke & Co Ltd, Oulton Broad, 1918


EngineT.3-cyl by Plenty & Sons Ltd, Newbury 


OwnerH Dingle & Wright Bros







		

    History
	



		

    November 22 1918
Completed as a minesweeper by J. W. Brooke & Co Ltd (Yd.No.5) ("Admiralty Drifter") for The Admiralty as FORK LIGHTNING.


1920
Transferred to Board of Agriculture & Fisheries, London.


1920Sold to Henry Dingle & Wright Bros, Fleetwood.


August 06 1920Registered at Fleetwood (FD378).


June 28 1921Renamed RAMSEY BAY (FD378).


August 25 1923Fleetwood registry closed "ceased fishing". Sold to Ministry of Agriculture, London.


1923Sold to D. N. Randlesome, F. C. Burton & Arthur Gouldby, Lowestoft.


December 21 1923Registered at Lowestoft (LT1290).


1928Sold to Randlesome & Gouldby, Lowestoft.


1930Sold to D. N. Randlesome, Lowestoft.


1938Sold to Locarno Fishing Co Ltd, Lowestoft.


March 1955Sold to Belgian shipbreakers for demolition.


March 30 1955Sailed Lowestoft for Antwerp in tow of Byng (LT632), also for demolition. 


March 09 1955Delivered Bruges.