MERSE

Date1914

Object NameFISHING VESSEL

MediumSTEEL

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 136' x breadth 23 1/6' x depth 12 3/12'
Gross Tonnage: 296 ton

Object numberABDSHIP002766

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: John Duthie Torry Shipbuilding.
Yard Number: 408.

Fate: Mined off Garroch Head, Bute, 22 May 1917.

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Trawler.

Owners:
1914: Mersey Steam Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood, FD62.
02/1915: Requisitioned by the Admiralty and converted to a minesweeper, armament 1 x 12 pdr, Admiralty no. 980.

(Gerald Toghill (2004), "Royal Navy Trawlers, Part Two: Requisitioned Trawlers" (Maritime Books, Liskeard), p. 301)