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MERSE
MERSE
MERSE

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
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)

LOBELIA
DUTHIE
1898
ORTHOS
1913
TETTENHALL
DUTHIE
1905
LYDIAN
1908
BEN ARDNA
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
9 December 1912
OSTA
1915
OTHONNA
DUTHIE
1899
NEW COMET
Alexander HALL & Co.
1910
LANNER
1912
RIBBLE
1900
VICTOR
1906
DONSIDE
DUTHIE
1900
WILLIAM MORRISON
Alexander HALL & Co.
1915
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
1917
SEMNOS
24 January 1914
ERNA
1915
VALPA
1915
GLENBOYNE
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
9 August 1915