SEA ROVER LO395

Official No:  127565    Port and Year:  Fleetwood, 1908 (FD219)                                                                 London, 1920 (LO395)

Description: Steel side / beam trawler; coal fired. Ketch rigged

Crew:

Built: by Goole Shipbuilding & Repair Co., Goole; in 1908.  (Yard no. 123)

Tonnage:  261 grt  101 net

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 129.2 / 23 / 12.7

Engine: T.3-Cyl; 62 rhp; by Earles Co., Hull.

Owners:   As OSPRAY II FD219 2 Sep 1908: Cygnet Steam Trawling Co., Fleetwood   Renamed SEAFLOWER Apr 1909:  The Admiralty   Renamed SEA ROVER May 1920: Edward D. W. Lawford, Milford.   As LO395 12 Aug 1920: Colin M. Mason, Atlantic Building, Mountstuart Sq., Cardiff.   c.1920?: Atlantic Trawlers (A.C. Co.), Docks, Milford.   Renamed HEINRICH BEERMAN Mar 1924: Schultz & Merz, Wesermunde, Germany   1935: Allerich Luerssen, Bremerhaven.   Renamed SCHŰTTING 1936: Hanseatische Hochseefischerei A.G., Bremerhaven   [Both Dittmar & Colledge (1972) and Toghill (2004) give 1920 as the year of sale as SEA ROVER and her renaming as HEINRICH BEERMAN, but Les Jones' records of Milford landings list her as SEA ROVER from 1920 to 1922, with a note that she was renamed HEINRICH BEERMAN in 1920, without giving a date.]

Landed at Milford: 17 Sep 1920 - 28 Dec 1922

Skippers:

Notes: Apr 1909: Purchased into the RN as SEAFLOWER, and converted to a trials minesweeper. 1 x 12pdr.AA 1914: With SEAMEW, based at Chatham as minesweeping training ship for trawler reserve crews. 1937: Broken up.

 

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