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Name: MARGARET ISOBELL
Launched:
Completed: 1968
Builder: Unknown
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 13.9 x 3.7 x 1.8metres
Engines: Oil engine, 240bhp; (Later: 250bhp, 6-7tbp)
Engines by: ???; (Later: Cummins)
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number:
History:
1968 Unknown construction company
19XX G Beezley, Hartlepool
1990 Lorimer Marine, Tayport
199X Unknown owner, Toward, Clyde; renamed TOWARD VENTURE
199X N Farm, Inverkeithing
XXXX Unknown owner, Dundee; supposedly renamed ISABEL
2006 Unknown owner, Tyne; as TOWARD VENTURE
2007 James Culley (JSeas Marine Services Ltd), South Shields; renamed AMBER ROSE
No later history known
Comments: Thought to have been privately built to a Damen design
Above history pieced together from snippets of information


Above photo as MARGARET ISOBELL is copyright of James Pottinger

Above: TOWARD VENTURE at North Queensferry. Photo by Webmaster

Above photo (supposedly as ISABEL) is copyright John Evans

Above photo as TOWARD VENTURE is copyright of Kevin Blair

Above photo as TOWARD VENTURE is copyright of Kevin Blair

Above photo as AMBER ROSE is copyright of Kevin Blair

Above photo as AMBER ROSE is copyright of Kevin Blair

Above photo as AMBER ROSE is copyright of Kevin Blair

Above photo as AMBER ROSE is copyright of Ernest Storey