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 WAVE11 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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