NARVAL  O-141

Official No:                 Port and Year:   Ostend, 1910

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

Crew:

Built: 1910 by Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Beverley.  (Yard no. 205)

Tonnage: 211 grt  69 net

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

Engine: by C. Holmes, Hull.

Owners:

 

Sep 1910: Reederij H.P. Aspeslagh, Ostend.

 

Landed at Milford: 13 Sep 1914 - 29 Feb 1916

Skippers:

Notes: c.3 Sep 1911; Collided with British steamer EROS in Ostend.

Mar 1916: Requisitioned by the Admiralty (Adm. no 3268) as a minesweeper. 1 x 12 pdr.

26 Nov 1916: Disappeared between Grimsby and Harwich, presumably by German destroyers, who had stopped the Dutch vessel BEIJERLAND 10 m N of Shipwash at 22.30,  and taken her pilot prisoner. BEIJERLAND stated that at 22.45  a vessel 1  mile to the southward was sunk by the destroyers (being 12 in number, according to the Dutch steamer).  The empty boat of NARVAL was picked up by trawler ATLANTA II on 27 Nov  in 52°03’5’’N-01°52’E. The whole crew was taken P.o.W. and were reported at Ruhleben prison camp on 8.12.1916. (Skipper James Robinson, RNR)

[Information from Maurice Voss.]

 

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