Official No:  143899   Port and Year: London, 1919 (LO250)                                                                Arcachon, 1924 (ARC ?)                                                                Bordeaux, 1936 (?)                                                                Aberdeen, 1957 (A26)

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

Crew:  10 men (1920)

Built: 1917,  Hall, Russell Co., Aberdeen.  (Yard no. 622)

Tonnage:  216 grt  93 net.

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 115.4 / 22.1 / 12.1

Engine: T 3-Cyl. 80 rhp; by builders.

Owners:   As WILLIAM BARNETT (LO250) 1919: The Admiralty, London. Manager: The Secretary, Admiralty, Whitehall, London S.W.1   As VALERIE W. LO250 2 Jan 1920: The Val Trawlers Ltd., Bank Chambers, London Rd., Lowestoft. Manager: Harold Wooding.   1920?: Vanessa Steam Trawling Co., Docks, Milford Manager: Edward D. W. Lawford, 'Havenhurst'. The Rath, Milford.   As ROCHE NOIRE ARC ? 2 Oct 1924: Société Nouvelle des Pêcheries à Vapeur, Arcachon.   1936: Société Nouvelle de Gérance Maritime, Bordeaux.   As SHANDWICK A26 1957: J. Wood, Aberdeen. By 1960: Wood & Davidson, Aberdeen.

Landed at Milford: WILLIAM BARNETT: 3 Apr, 13 Dec 1919. VALERIE W.: 2 Mar 1920 - 26 Sep 1924.

Skippers: Arthur Mayhew (1923)

Notes:  William Barnett: three men of that name served at the Battle of Trafalgar. 8 Dec 1917: Launched for the Admiralty (no.3632) as WILLIAM BARNETT.  1x12pdr. 1919: For sale to mercantile. 29 Sep 1924: London Registry closed. Aug 1939: Requisitioned by the French navy as AD355 ROCHE NOIRE.  18 Jun 1940: Scuttled in Brest, and raised by the Germans on 27 Nov 1940.  1964: Broken up.

 

 

ROCHE NOIRE AD355

(With thanks from atf40.forumculture.net)

Back to Other Registrations Q-Z