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M.T. Argo of Pembroke M74



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Official Number 301710


Launched 1962


Gross Tonnage302


Net Tonnage 93


Length121.4 ft


Breadth26.9 ft


Draught14.6 ft


Engine Twin Diesel electric by Electrical Engineering Co.


Speed 11.5 knots


Built byJames & Stone, Brightlingsea


OwnerPembroke Fishing Co, Docks, Milford
Fred Ingram, Cairo Fishing Co, Manager







		

    History
	



		

    1962Launched by James & Stone, Brightlingsea for Pembroke Fishing Co, Docks, Milford (Fred Ingram, Cairo Fishing Co., Manager) as ARGO OF PEMBROKE (M74)


May 02 1962Registered at Milford (M74).


January 1964Fishing from Fleetwood with a Milford skipper (Sk James Jobson) & crew.


1966Sold to Craig & Son Ltd, Aberdeen.


September 1966Sailing from Aberdeen.



1974Sold to P. K. Stovlbaek Partrederi, Denmark. Renamed SILLERSLEV.Later owned by Kaj R. Jensen Partrederi, and registered at Thyboron, Denmark.


1981Sold to Sisimut Trawl ApS, and renamed SARFAQ, and registered at Holsteinsborg/Sisimut, Greenland (Danish flag).


1988Refitted with new engines.


1993Arrived in New Zealand.


1994Shrimping outside the 200-mile exclusive economic zone, in joint ventures with independent companies, but was then laid up for nearly a year at Lyttelton.


1995Owners listed as Island Fisheries Ltd. The shrimping gear was replaced with hoki trawling gear.


1996Listed as owned by New Zeafish Ltd.
 

 
August 28 2001Towed thirty-seven miles from Wellington by the tug KUPE and was scuttled in the early evening in 41048'S.,175000'E., about fifteen miles S.S.W. from Cape Palliser in 1,700 metres of water.