RICHARD ROBERTS LO371
Official No: 144574 Port and Year: London, 1919 (LO458)
Description: Castle Class steel side trawler; steam screw, coal burning. Ketch rigged
Crew:
Built: 1917, by Smith's Dock, South Bank on Tees. (Yard no. 699)
Tonnage: 275 grt - net.
Length / breadth / depth (feet): 125.5 (134 oa) / 23.5 / 12.7
Engine:
Owners:
12 Jun1920: Brand & Curzon, Docks, Milford
Landed at Milford: 17 Jul 1920 - 20 Jul 1922
Skippers:
Notes: 1917: Completed for the Admiralty (Admy.no. 3520) as a minesweeper, employed on escort duties. 1 x 12 pdr
1920: Sold to mercantile.
Jul 1922: Ran aground on Spanish coast; constructive total loss.
Accidents and Incidents
Skipper's Statement:
We left Milford for the fishing grounds off the coast of Portugal on 26th July 1922. The vessel went ashore off Spain, and became a total wreck.
Skipper John Scoble
Mate John Edward Scoble
Chief Eng. Ernest James Norman
Boatswain Thomas James
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