MFV Feasible ex-LT122 Built in 1912, by John Duthie of Aberdeen, as a steam drifter for the port of Lowestoft, where she would have been engaged in the pursuit of herring, a fishery that saw the boats, the crews, the fish packers and their families migrate with the fish, around the coasts of the British Isles.
She saw service in the Royal Navy in both world wars. In The Great War, she was requisitioned, and used as a patrol boat, and assisted in the destruction of U Boat 48, in November 1917. In World War II the Feasible was once again enlisted, being used as a minesweeper, and assisting in the rescue of hundreds of servicemen from the beach at Dunquerque. After the conflict, she was sold away to Norway. Her 1903 triple compound expansion engine was removed in Penzance recently and is now in a museum in Norway, and has been replaced with a Rolls Royce engine. Feasible is number 711 on the designated vessels list of the Historic Ships Register, part of an initiative by the National Maritime Museum, to help provide funding, and awareness of the need to protect our nations maritime heritage. She is undergoing a long term restoration and conversion programme, which is being privately funded by the owner.
