WH 480 Lia-G; picture kindly provided by Neil Swanson; this is an exclusive and is the best picture of her to be seen. Heading out from Newlyn. She sank in 1993 with loss of a life.
Lia-G
She was lost 16th February 1993 near Padstow.
Owned and working out of Newlyn.
Registration WH 480
Owned by Paul Semmens and Pat Leeds;
Julian Semmens (elder brother) was drowned in the incident.
Built 1976 by South Ocean Services at Portsmouth.
Her hull was a copy of the tug TORBAY ENDEAVOUR, built by them in 1975.
The form was as the WW2 Canadian built TANAC tug, a chine hull.
24.94 grt; 15.75 metres; 270 bhp.
ON 364274
RSS A23947
Call Signal : ZINE
She was first owned 1976 in Brixham by Reginald T. Gibbs.
Registered BM 147, name Lia-G.
Sold to Timothy S Thomas at Weymouth.
Registered WH 480, same name, after not fishing for two years in the early 1980s.
Date of sale to Newlyn not known.
Raymond Forward
