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Lowestoft
Fishing Vessels
LT122 Feasible
LT122 Feasible
Steam Drifter
(
Now at Penzance, Cornwall, UK - Under Restoration )
ON:
132963
Port
of Registry: Lowestoft
Callsign:
GYPQ
Built:
1912 J. Duthie; Torry S.B. Co. Aberdeen
Tonnage:
105 grt; 46 nrt
86ft
( o/a 89ft 11ins ) x 18ft 6ins x 9ft 1ins.
Triple
Expansion Engines; 3 Cylinder; 25RHP
(Elliott & Garood Ltd.
Lowestoft)
1912 First registered as LT1191
1914 Admiralty Service : Patrol Boat; 1 x 6
pounder gun.
1917 24th November; Assisted in the
destruction of U-48.
1918 Drifter - herring fishing
1919 Sold ; became R157
1930
Returned to Lowestoft; became LT122; Owner
in 1937 - J.V. Breach.
1939 Admiralty Service : Minesweeper
Served at Dunkirk; Engineer, A A Storr
received a DSM.
On one of her returns to Ramsgate
FEASIBLE was bombed and disabled.
1945 Fishing Vessel
1946
Sold to Norway; converted to a motor
coaster
Renamed MELOY; 22hp diesel engine.
Arctic
Shipping of Cowes IOW, found her 70 miles from the sea
in
Veafjord and brought her across the North Sea from Bergen
to
Cowes under her own power.
In Penzance
Harbour, June 2006
More of my
photographs have been placed
in my Gallery
on ShipsNostalgia
http://www.shipsnostalgia.com/gallery/showgallery.php/cat/500/ppuser/3868
Raymond
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