Ashore on the South Coast

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Smilin Thro   A.504

Built 1920   Ouse Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Goole as "Neaptide"   (Steel)
   
Yard No 66
   
Owner at New Admiralty   (Ad No.4174)
   
ID no 144794
   
Launch Date 21.08.1920
 
Completed 11.1920 Completed as a fishing vessel.
   
Gross Tons 96
   
Nett Tons 37
   
Engine 42 hp T.3-cyl by Pollit & Widgzell, Sowerby Bridge Yorkshire
   
Length 86f.2t
   
Breadth 18.5ft
   
Depth 9.2ft
   
Owners  
19.11.1920 Handed over to Fishery Board of Scotland for disposal to the Mercantile.
1920 Sold to the Mercantile
12.1920 Owned by F. B. Scott, Aberdeen.
27.12.1920 Registered at Aberdeen  A.504. 
14.12.1922 Owned by the Admiralty London.
14.12.1922 Aberdeen registry closed,.
1923 Owned by John  Alexander Harrow, Aberdeen.
03.1923 Owned by Arthur Gouldby, Kessingland Lowestoft (owner/manager).
1923 Aberdeen registry closed.
27.03.1923 Registered at Lowestoft LT 1274.
24.09.1923 Renamed "SMILIN THRO" .
20.04.1924 Wrecked at Pentonwarra Point, Newtrain Bay near Padstow, Cornwall, crew landed in small boat.
15.05.1924 Lowestoft registry closed.