VALERIE W  LO250

Official No:  143899   Port and Year: London, 1919 (LO250)                                                               Arcachon, 1924                                                               Bordeaux, 1936                                                               Aberdeen, 1957 (A26)

Description: Strath Class steel side trawler; single screw, coal burning. Ketch rigged.

Crew:

Built: 1917,  Hall, Russell Co., Aberdeen.  (Yard no. 622)

Tonnage:  208 grt  58 net.

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 115.6 / 21.9 / 10.8

Engine: T 3-Cyl. 80 rhp; by builders.

Owners:   As WILLIAM BARNETT 1918: Admiralty.   Renamed VALERIE W LO250 1919: Val Trawlers, London Manager: H. Wooding   c.1920: Vanessa Steam Trawling Co., Docks, Milford Manager: Edward D. W. Lawford, 'Havenhurst'. The Rath, Milford.   Renamed ROCHE NOIRE 2 Oct 1924: Soc. Nouvelle des Pecheries a Vapeur, Arcachon   1936: Soc. Nouvelle de Gérance Mar., Bordeaux   Renamed SHANDWICK A26 c.1957:  J, Wood, Aberdeen

Landed at Milford: 2 Mar 1920 - 26 Sep 1924

Skippers: Arthur Mayhew (1923)

Notes: 8 Dec 1917: Launched for the Admiralty (no.3632) as WILLIAM BARNETT.  1 x 12pdr.. 1919: Sold to mercantile and renamed VALERIE W Aug 1939: Requisitioned by the French navy as AD355 ROCHE NOIRE.  [Fate post-1957 unknown.]

 

 

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