BCK 439 Vesper Star

[michaelb]

Pictured here on Hartlepool's 'Old Pier'(Pilots Pier)about 1930....one for Stan to put on the other site perhaps....Built as''North Tyne'' 1903 in South Shields,scrapped 1936,re/named as Vesper Star BCK439 in 1926....

[magoonigal]

1928 details....

VESPER STAR ex NORTH TYNE.
Registered Buckie in 1926.
Built South Shields 1904. (Completion date as apposed to Launch date.)
Steel Hull.
80.0 x 18.1 x 8.5 (Depth of hold.) feet
28 Tons Net, 79 Gross.
Steam 35 ihp.
Managing Owner:- John McKenzie, 28 Gordon Street, Portgordon, Banff.

[magoonigal]

Builder was Joseph T Eltringham & Co, South Shields.

Official Number 99480.
NORTH TYNE. SSS 1 (Registered South Shields 1904)
Owner:- Durham W. Fitzgerald, Stone Quay, South Shields.

1908.
Sold to The Star Drift Fishing Co Ltd. Star Buildings, Beach Road, Lowestoft.
Manager:- George Catchpole, Kessingland, Suffolk.
Renamed VESPER STAR and Registered in Lowestoft 1908. LT 94.

1926.
Sold to John McKenzie, 28 Gordon Street, Banff. (Managing Owner)
Registered Buckie 1926. BCK 439.

1936.
Scrapped.