STRUMBLE  M135

Courtesy of Robert Kettle

Official No: 128761     Port Number and Year:   4th in Milford, 1912

Description: Wooden sailing smack; beam trawling.  Ketch rigged: foresail, mainsail, and mizzen.

Crew: 4 men

Registered: 22 Apr 1912

Built: 1912, by J. W. & A. Upham, Brixham

Tonnage: 56.45 grt  44.8 net.

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 70.7 / 19.3 / 8.9

Engine: -

Owners:   22 Apr 1912: Alfred George John    )  'Treathro', Goodwick Levi Hughes                                     )  Trevay Sq., Fishguard Henry Rowland Morris                     )  Trevasser, Fishguard James John                                       )  'Treathro', Goodwick

Landed at Milford: 2 May 1912 - 25 Apr 1916

Skippers: Edward James Pillar cert. 8032, age 26, born Brixham; residing Queen's Court, Brixham; signed on 2 May, 8 Jul 1912; 9 Jan 1913. R. Novock 10376, 23, Brixham; 17 Apr 1913.

Notes: 1914 -1918: Requisitioned and converted as Q Ship (submarine decoy vessel). 1 x 12 pdr. 4 May 1917: Sunk by U-65 (Kapitänleutnant Otto Steinbrinck),  10 miles NNE of Strumble Head; captured and bombs placed aboard; no lives lost.

Cert. Cancelled & Registry Closed: 16 May 1917

 From a report by the Senior Naval Officer, Milford Haven, to the Admiralty, in May 1916:

 

Special Service Vessels.

            The sailing trawler N.[sic] 135 "Strumble" was requisitioned for Special Service in my Area on 1st May and M.145 "Kemes" on 4th May.  Both these vessels were fishing from this Port and are well built and considered suitable for the required service.  They have been manned by a specially selected crew from amongst the ratings serving in Patrol vessels under my command and on 6th May proceeded to Falmouth for fitting out.

            Up to the present I have been unable to secure the two additional coasting vessels sanctioned by Admiralty Letter M. 03299/1916 of 22nd April 1916.

 

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