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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