WILLIAM BELL  LO201

Official No:  143811   Port and Year: London, 1919 (LO250)

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

Crew:

Built: 1918,  Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Beverley.  (Yard no. 385)

Tonnage:  291 grt  119 net.

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 125.5 / 23.5 / 12.7

Engine: T 3-Cyl. 60 rhp; by Amos & Smith, Hull

Owners:   1919: Steam Ship Co., 138 Leadenhall St, London EC3 Manager: Brand & Curzon, Docks, Milford   29 Jan 1931: Brand & Curzon, Docks, Milford.   15 Jan 1942: J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood

Landed at Milford: 17 Jan 1920 - 22 Dec 1930

Skippers:

Notes: 17 Jan 1918: Launched for the Admiralty (no.3590) as WILLIAM BELL.  1 x 12pdr. Listening hydrophones. 1919: Sold to mercantile and retained same name. Dec 1931: Laid up at Milford. Jun 1940: Requisitioned by the Admiralty and converted to an auxiliary patrol vessel (P.No. FY.1727). 1 x 6pdr. 1941: Converted to a minesweeper; joined 110th Minesweeping Group at Grimsby. Jun 1944: Based at Portsmouth, sweeping Channel during D-Day operations.  Dec: Returned to Grimsby. Jun 1945: Based at Portsmouth for sweeping the Channel and barge-towing from Portsmouth to Tilbury. Feb 1946: Returned to owners. Mar 1946: Broken up at Troon.

 

 

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