MANOR

Date1913

Object NameFISHING VESSEL

MediumSTEEL

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 130 1/3' x breadth 23 7/12' x depth 13 3/12'
tonnage 314 ton

Object numberABDSHIP000816

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: John Duthie Torry Shipbuilding Co.
Yard Number: 384.
Subsequent Names: VERDUNOIS (1926); MANOR (1937).

Fate: Sunk during e-boat attack in English Channel, 9 July 1942.

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Trawler

Owners:
1912: Clifton Steam Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood, FD174.
08/1914: Requisitioned and converted to minesweeper.
1919: Returned to owners.
1926: H. Veron & Cie, La Rochelle.
1937: R. S. Hancock of Milford, M238.
08/1939: Requisitioned and converted to anti-submarine vessel.

General History:
Sunk on 9 July 1942 while escorting convoy WP.183 in the Channel. One survivor was picked up by the trawler RUBY.
(Gerald Toghill (2004), "Royal Navy Trawlers, Part Two: Requisitioned Trawlers" (Maritime Books, Liskeard))

See also: Fleetwood Online Archive of Trawlers (www.float-lancashire.gov.uk) for a photograph of this vessel.