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Sollum GY 8

Sollum Built 1941 Cook Welton & Gemmell Beverley as a Hills class A/S Trawler for the Navy named Portsdown Built
24/09/1941 by Cook Welton & Gemmell of Beverley Hull
10/04/1946 Sold and Renamed Sollum to Hull Merchants Amalgamated Trawlers Ltd H 369
21/01/1949 Renamed Hargood GY 8 owned by Derwent Trawlers
24/06/1955 Sold to Iago Steam Trawlers London and renamed Red Sabre Registered as LO 71
1964 Sold for Scrap to Haulbowline Ind Ltd Eire 

Her details are

  • Official Number 181287
  • Yard Number 685
  • Admiralty Number T 221
  • Armament 1-12 pdr 3-20mm
  • GT 524 195 NT
  • Dimensions 167.7 x 28.1 x 14.1
  • Quarter Deck 89 Foc’sle 27
  • Engines by CD Holmes 970 IHP 11 Knots

21/12/64 Broken up at Passage West, Cork