NORMAN WILSON KY228

 

John Stevenson Collection

Official No:  140843   Port and Year:   Kirkaldy, 1919

Description: Admiralty steel drifter / side trawler; steam screw; coal burner; ketch rigged.

Crew:

Built: 1919, by Alexander Hall & Co., Aberdeen.  (Yard No.567)

Tonnage: 94 grt  41 net

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 86 (93.25 oa)  / 18.5  / 9.25

Engine TE 270 ihp = 9 kts.

Owners:


As TIDAL WAVE

11 Dec 1919: Fishery Board for Scotland

 

Renamed SOPHIA S. SUMMERS KY228

1920: Unknown owners.

 

Renamed NORMAN WILSON

1923:  W. C. Wilson, N. Shields;

           J. & P. Gardner, Cellardyke.

 

c.1948: Neptune Steam Fishing Co., 152 Fenchurch St., London E.C. 3

 

1949: W. H. Kerr, Docks, Milford.

 

Landed at Milford: 13 Feb 1949 - 12 May 1955

Skippers:

Notes: 8 Mar 1919: Completed for the Admiralty as TIDAL WAVE (Admy.No. 4126).

Nov 1939: Requisitioned by the Admiralty as NORMAN WILSON, and converted to a barrage balloon vessel.

Sep 1946: Returned to owners.

[Fate unknown.]

 

   

 

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