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S.T. Kipper LT1111


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Technical
Official Number 128532
Yard Number 156
Launched 1908
Gross Tonnage92
Net Tonnage32
Length86.9 ft
Breadth18.9 ft
Draught8.7 ft
EngineC.2-cyl by Wm. Burrell, Great Yarmouth. Boiler by Riley Brothers (Boilermakers) Ltd, Stockton on Tees
Built byR. Cock, Appledore, 1908
OwnerAlfred Fitzgerald & Joseph Robert Searles, Fleetwood
History
1908 Completed by R. Cock, Appledore for Wm. Burrell, Great Yarmouth as KIPPER (Yard number 156).
August 20 1908 Registered at Yarmouth (YH358).
1911Sold to J. Harrington, Lowestoft.
January 24 1911Registered at Lowestoft (LT1111).
February 1915Requisitioned for war service and operated as A/A net drifter.
1919Sold to George & Louisa Breach, Lowestoft.
1920Returned to owners.
September 21 1926George Breach died. Ownership transferred to executors, Louisa Breach, George Alan Breach & Wm. Hutchings.
November 1935Fishing out of Fleetwood.
March 07 1936Sold to Alfred Fitzgerald & Joseph Robert Searles, Fleetwood.
March 05 1937Sold to Alfred Fitzgerald, Fleetwood.
November 1937Lost funnel and mast in heavy weather and put into Douglas.
December 1937Laid up in Fleetwood.
January 1938Sold to Samuel Grey, Belfast for use as a salvage vessel. Assisted Messrs Carroll, Liverpool, in the attempted salvage of the steamer ANNAGHER (583grt/1924) which had foundered off Ballycopeland Point, Donaghadee, Co. Down following a shift in her scrap cargo.
October 28 1938Lowestoft registry closed.
November 1938Sold to Dutch shipbreakers for demolition at Nieuw Lekkerland.
1940Sold to N.V. Mercurius, Vlaardingen. Renamed PAX (VL68).
April 1942Sold to F. Pot, Vlaardingen. Requisitioned by German military.
1947Sold to J. Roelofs, Ijmuiden. Renamed Dolfjn (RO2).
1951Converted to motor. Re-engined with 300bhp oil engine by Bolnes and re-built as a beam trawler. Renamed ZEEHAAN (IJM55).
1972Sold to Dutch owners and used for sea angling parties.
Post 1972Sold for demolition.