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CALLIOPSIS at breakers yard, Llanelli, photograph
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