Official No:  143948   Port and Year:   London, 1920 (LO437)                                                                 Ostend, 1924 (O161)                                                                 Hull, 1939 (H52)                                                                 Fleetwood, 1951 (FD46)

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

Crew:  11

Built: 1918, Ailsa Shipbuilding, Troon.  (Yard no. 344)

Tonnage:  279 grt  109.79 net.

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 125.5  / 23.5 / 12.8

Engine: T 3-Cyl. 61 nhp.  Fawcett Preston & Co., Liverpool.

Owners:   1920: Registered by the Admiralty as PETER HALL LO437   Renamed TRANSPORT UNION 0161 1924: Soc. Anon. Armement Ostendais, Ostend.   Renamed ALVIS H52 1939: St. Andrew's Steam Fishing Co., Hull Manager: Basil A. Parkes   1944: Ocean Steam Trawling Co., Hull Manager: W. L. Barkworth   1945: Milford Fisheries, Docks, Milford Manager: Owen Willie Limbrick   1947: Argosy Trawling Co., Fleetwood Manager: William Stevenson, St. Anne's-on-the-Sea.   1951:  H. D. T. Birch, Aberdeen.   As FD46 1951:  Alvis Trawlers, 6 Fish Trade Buildings, Wyre Docks, Fleetwood.   1954:  Boston Deep Sea Fisheries, Fleetwood.

Landed at Milford: 9 Feb 1946 - 2 May 1947

Skippers:

Notes: 6 Nov 1918: Launched as PETER HALL, Admy.no. 3795. 1 x 12 pdr. 1921: Sold to mercantile. 18 Sep1939: While fishing NNW of St. Kilda. U-35 fired a single shot and ordered her skipper to heave to and launch the boat. Because of the poor state of the boat, the Germans boarded the trawler and after destroying the radio and fishing gear allowed her return to St Kilda and Fleetwood. 30 Sep 1940:  Requisitioned for war service and converted for anti-submarine/auxiliary patrol (P.No. 4.118) May 1941: Converted to a minesweeper.. Mar 1945: Returned to owners. May 1954: Broken up at Barrow. [Information from 'The Bosun's Watch' Fleetwood trawlers' website. ]