KONING ALBERT O-25

As RACHAEL FD2 (1924-37)

Courtesy of Fleetwood Maritime Heritage Trust and The Bosun's Watch

Official No: 141965    Port and Year: Ostend, 1912                                                               Fleetwood, 1924 (FD2)

Description: Steel side trawler; steam screw, coal burning.

Crew:

Built: Mackie & Thompson, Glasgow, launched 19 Dec1912.  (Yard no. 439)

Tonnage: 208 grt  64 net

Length / breadth / depth (feet): - / - / -

Engine: T3-Cyl. 77 rhp; by W.V.V. Lidgerwood, Glasgow.

Owners:   1913: Soc. Anon. Pêcheries d'Islande, Ostend Manager: J. Baels.   Renamed RACHAEL FD2 1923: Reliance Trawlers, Fleetwood Manager: Walter M. Olney, Cleveleys (to 1930)

Landed at Milford: 14 Sep 1914 - 16 Dec 1919

Notes: Built to replace the original KONING ALBERT, also 208 grt., b.1911 by the same shipbuilders (Yard no.401), which was run down by the cargo ship ANSELMA DE LARRINAGA, 4094 grt, in the Irish Channel on 25 Apr 1912. [Law Report: Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division, of 9 June 1913, in "The Times", Tuesday 10 June 1913] 1914-19: Fishery Trawler 1937: Broken up at Preston

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