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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