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Name: STURGEON
Launched: 23/05/1891
Completed: 06/1891
Builder: JP Rennoldson & Sons, South Shields
Yard Number: 131
Dimensions: 139grt, 45nrt, 95.0 x 20.3 x 10.6ft
Engines: C2cyl (16.125 & 32.25 x 21ins), 40nhp, 240ihp
Engines By: JP Rennoldson & Sons, South Shields
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Iron
Reg Number: 98291
History:
06/1891 Steam Trawling Co; registered at Boston
1897 Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co, Boston
1911 D Walker appointed manager
26/06/1913 William Chrystal Duncan (Charles William Duncan, manager)
02/12/1913 Renamed IDA DUNCAN
08/07/1914 Charles Duncan & Sons Ltd (Charles William Duncan, manager)
08/07/1914 Registered at Middlesbrough
31/01/1917 Sank
Comments: 06/1891: Completed as a trawler
26/06/1913: Cost £775
1913: Converted to a tug
31/01/1917: Sunk by mine off the River Tees. Six lives lost