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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Black and white photograph showing the steel drifter CALLIOPSIS (KY 223) waiting to be broken up at breakers yard, Llanelli, c.1950s. Mounted onto card.
Official No: 144788 Port and Year: Aberdeen?, 1920 (A ? ) Kirkaldy, ? (KY223) Description: Admiralty Steel Drifter / side trawler; steam screw, coal burning. Ketch rigged Crew: 10 Built: Rose Street Foundry, Inverness, 1918. Tonnage: 94 grt 38 net Length / breadth / depth (feet): 93.3 / 18.5 / 9.3 Engine: 207 ihp = 9 kts. Owners: As NEBULA 20 Aug 1920: Fisheries Board of Scotland Renamed NACRE A ? 1920: J. Gore, Aberdeen? Manager: B. Allenby Renamed CALLIOPSIS KY223 By 1937: A. May and others, Buckie 29 Feb 1944: Yolland & Llewellin, Docks, Milford 1946: Yolland Bros., Docks, Milford