FALMOUTH BL12

Official No:  127070   Port and Year:   Bristol, 1909 (BL12)

Description: Steel side trawler; single screw, coal burning.  Ketch rigged: foresail, mainsail and mizzen.

Crew:  

Built: 1909; J. Duthie, Torry Shipbuilding, Aberdeen.  (Yard no. 335)

Tonnage:  198 grt  74 net.

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 111.1  / 21.1 / 11.5

Engine: T 3-Cyl. 64 rhp.  W.V.V. Lidgerwood, Coatbridge, Glasgow

Owners:

 

Oct 1909: Western Steam Trawling, Docks, Milford

Manager: Sidney Morgan Price

 

Landed at Milford:  19 Oct 1909 - 2 Aug 1914

Skippers: J. Coaker (1909)

Notes: Aug 1914:  Requisitioned by the Admiralty and converted to a minesweeper. (Admy.No.152) 2 x 6 pdrs.

Apr 1915: Renamed FALMOUTH III

19 Nov 1915:  Mined off Deal, and settled on the wreck of the mined hospital ship ANGLIA

 

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