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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

 

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Raymond Forward