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Yarmouth

		 
Yarmouth

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Yarmouth


		
Technical
Official Number117737
Yard Number357
LaunchedAugust 08 1907
Gross Tonnage235
Net Tonnage91
Length120.4 ft
Breadth21.6 ft
Draught11.6 ft
EngineT.3-cyl by W. V. V. Lidgerwood, Glasgow
Built atSmith's Dock Co Ltd, North Shields, 1907
OwnerSaxon Steam Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood
History
August 08 1907 Launched by Smith's Dock Co Ltd, North Shields (Yd.No.357) for Western Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Bristol (Messrs Sellick, Morley & Price, managers) as YARMOUTH.
September 1907Completed. Registered at Bristol (BL9).
March 27 1911Returned to Milford from a trip with damage sustained in westerly gales during the previous week (Sk. J. W. Rumbold).
August 1914Requisitioned for war service and converted for bomb throwing and minesweeping duties (Ad.No.281).
February 1915Renamed YARMOUTH II.
1919Returned and reverted to YARMOUTH (BL9).
1919Sold to Saxon Steam Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood (Joseph H. Taylor, managers).
July 25 1919Registered at Fleetwood (FD334).
1924Managers became New Docks Steam Trawling Co (Fleetwood) Ltd.
1938Sold to The Clifton Steam Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood.
1948Sold to Ch. & Arm. A. Seghers, Ostend for conversion to dry cargo.
1948Fleetwood registry closed.
1949Sold to Charles & Victor Seghers, Ostend.
1949Rebuilt by Chantiers & Armement Seghers, Ostend. Re-engined with 450 bhp 8-cyl Uniporn oil engine by Porn & Dunwoody Ltd, London. Re-measured 242 grt 97 n.
October 10 1949Registered at Ostend (O336).
December 04 1950Homeward from an Icelandic trip (Sk. Arthur Verbeist), in heavy snow showers, stranded on Scroby Sands 3 - 4 miles off Gt. Yarmouth. Attended by Gorleston lifeboat and tug RICHARD LEE BARBER (122 grt/1940).
December 05 1950At high water 5.00 a.m. failed to refloat, crew taken off by Gorleston lifeboat. Further attempts to refloat after removing her 6,000 st of fish and water and fuel with RICHARD LEE BARBER and GEORGE JEWSON (57 grt/1908) failed.
1951Attempts to refloat by the Hull tug KROOMAN (230 grt/1938) failed.
January 1953Engulfed by the sands in the "Great Storm".