SEA ROVER LO395

AS OSPREY II FD12

Thanks to Fred Baker and the Fleetwood Maritime Heritage Trust

Official No:  127565    Port and Year:  Fleetwood, 1908 (FD219)

                                                                  London, 1920 (LO395)  

                                                                  Wesermünde, 1924 (PG.351) [† See note below.]

                                                                  Bremerhaven, 1936 (BX.253)     

Description: Steel side / beam trawler; coal fired. Ketch rigged.

Crew:

Built: by Goole Shipbuilding & Repair Co., Goole; in 1908.  (Yard no. 123)

Tonnage:  275 grt  106 net

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 130.1 / 23.1 / 12.2                                                         

Engine: T.3-Cyl; 62 rhp; and boiler;  by Earles Co., Hull.

Owners:

 

As OSPRAY II FD219

2 Sep 1908: The Cygnet Steam Trawling Co. Ltd., Fleetwood.

Manager: Richard Watson Mason.

 

11 Mar 1909: John George Hammond, London.
Managing owner.

15 Apr 1909: Fleetwood registry closed.  (To Admiralty. See below.)

 

As SEA ROVER

May 1920: Edward D. W. Lawford, Milford.

 

12 Aug 1920: Colin M. Mason, Atlantic Building, Mountstuart Sq., Cardiff.

Managing owner.

21 Aug 1920: As LO395.

 

16 Mar 1924: Schultz & Merz, Wesermünde, Germany.

18 Apr 1924: As HEINRICH BEERMAN  PG.351  [† See note below.]

 

1935: Allerich Luerssen, Bremerhaven.

 

As SCHÜTTING  BX.253

1936: Hanseatische Hochseefischerei A.G., Bremerhaven.

 

Landed at Milford: 17 Sep 1920 - 28 Dec 1922

Skippers:

Notes: 

15 Apr 1909: Fitted out as a minesweeper for training fishery reserve crews. Renamed HMS SEAFLOWER (Ad.No.1) and based Chatham/Sheerness.
Jan 1920: As SEA ROVER .

Apr 1909: Purchased into the RN as SEAFLOWER, and converted to a trials minesweeper. 1x12pdr. AA

1914: With SEAMEW, based at Chatham as minesweeping training ship for trawler reserve crews.

18 Nov 1932: Stranded at Mortingebazen, Nr. Floroe, Norway. 

20 Nov 1932: Refloated by salvage steamers TRAUST (222grt/1921) and ACHILLES (217grt/1893); slight damage.

1937: Broken up.

The union of Lehe and Geestemünde in 1924 formed the town of Wesermünde, then in 1939 Bremerhaven was removed from the jurisdiction of Bremen and made a part of Wesermünde In 1947 it was renamed from Wesermünde to Bremerhaven.  [Wikipedia]

[Information supplied by the Fleetwood Maritime Heritage Trust and the Bosun's Watch website.

Also information kindly supplied by Petra Schütz, Bibliothekarische Leitung, Deutsches Schiffahrtsmuseum, Bremerhaven.]

Accidents and Incidents:

From the Times of Thursday 26th October 1922:

 

CASUALTY REPORTS

(From Lloyds)

...........

MILFORD HAVEN. Oct. 25.― Steam trawler NILE, of Milford Haven, foundered at noon yesterday, when fishing about 10 miles off Muirhead (Ireland).  Crew landed here by steam trawler Sea Rover.

 

   

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