COMTE HORACE VAN DEN BURGH O.55

Courtesy of Maurice Voss

Official No:               -                          Port and Year: Ostende, 1907 (O.55)                                                                                          Karlstad, 1924 (KD1)                                                                                          Göteborg, 1938 (GG40)

Description: Steel side trawler; steam screw, coal burning.

Crew:

Built: 1907, by Mackie & Thomson, Glasgow.   (Yard no. 346)

Tonnage: 214 grt  85.13 net

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 118.6 / 21.5 / 11.5 / 12.6

Engine: T-3 cyl; 69 nhp; by W.V.V. Lidgerwood & Co., Glasgow

Owners:   As O.55 1907: Soc. Anon. Pêcheries d'Islande, Ostende. Manager: J. Baels-Mauriex.     c.1922/23: S.A. Pecheries des Flandres, Ostende. Manager: J. Baels-Mauriex.   As GAMEN KD1 Jan 1924: Fiskeri A.B. Gamen, Säffle. (Sweden). Manager: Hugo Silvén.   As UTTERN GG40 May 1938: Fiskeri A.B. Uttern, Gothenburg  Manager: Johan Nilsson.

Landed at Milford: 18 Sep 1914 - 24 Nov 1918; 1 Jan 1919 - 22 Jun 1920.

Notes:  Comte Horace van den Burgh was involved with nineteenth century rubber extraction in the Belgian Congo. Gamen is the Swedish word for "vulture", and Uttern is "sea otter". 1914-1919: Fishery Trawler 3 Jan 1918: In collision with JOHN O.131. [See below. Information courtesy of Maurice Voss.]  5 Sep 1939: Taken up by the Swedish Royal Navy, no. 272. 27 Sep 1940: Returned to owner. 8 Jan - 21 Sep 1945:  Taken up by the Swedish Royal Navy again. 1950: Ceased fishing. (In 1951 sold to Sten A. Olsson in Gothenburg who removed the boiler for further sale.) 1951: Sold by Sten A. Olsson for breaking by Establ. Van Heygren Frèses, Gent, Belgium.   [Thanks to Christer Olaussons and Göran Olsson, Maritime Museum of Gothenburg.]

 Accidents and Incidents

 From The Times of Monday 7th January, 1918; pg. 3; Issue 41680.

LIVES LOST AT SEA

Lloyds announces that the Belgian trawler John was sunk at sea on Friday by collision with another Belgian trawler.  Six lives are reported to have been lost.

 

 

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