ROBERT BOWEN LO254 / M269
Official No: 143810 Port Number and Year: 573rd in London, 1919 (LO254)
1st in Milford, 1938
- in Fleetwood, 1939 (FD ?)
Description: Castle Class steel side trawler; steam screw, coal burning. Ketch rigged: mizzen sail
Crew: 10 men
Registered at Milford: 23 May 1938
Built: 1918 by Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Beverley. (Yard no. 390)
Tonnage: 290.16 grt 126.58 net.
Length / breadth / depth (feet):125.5 / 23.5 / 12.7
Engine: T 3-Cyl. 60.7 nhp.10 kts. Engine and boiler by Amos & Smith Co., Albert Docks Works, Hull.
Owners:
As LO254
1919: Britannic Trawler Co., London
Manager: T. W. Holland, 9 Bedford Rd., London WC1
Feb 1920: Brand & Curzon, Docks, Milford
As M269
23 May 1938: Milford Fisheries, Docks, Milford.
Manager: Owen Willie Limbrick, Pill Lane, Milford
10 Aug 1939: J. Marr & Sons., Dock St., Fleetwood
Manager: Geoffrey Edward Marr, 'Rookwood', Holmleigh Ave., Cleveley
Landed at Milford: 8 Feb 1920 - 26 Jul 1939
Skippers:
Notes: 14 Mar 1918: Built for Admiralty service, no. 3595
1919: Sold to mercantile.
Aug 1939: Requisitioned for war service and converted to a minesweeper; based at Aberdeen.
9 Feb 1940: Attacked 20 miles NE of Aberdeen by two Heinkel He111s; struck by bomb; lost with all hands.
Cert. Cancelled & Milford Registry Closed: c.10 Aug 1939. Vessel transferred to the port of Fleetwood.
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