Official No:  143811   Port and Year: London, 1919 (LO201)

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

Crew:  11 men (1920).

Built: 1918,  Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Beverley.  (Yard no. 385)

Tonnage:  290 grt  119 net.

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 125.5 / 23.6 / 12.7

Engine: T 3-Cyl. 60 rhp; by Amos & Smith, Hull

Owners:   As WILLIAM BELL LO201 24 Dec 1919: The Admiralty, London. Manager: The Secretary of the Admiralty, Whitehall, London SW1.   Dec 1919: The Mills Steamship Co. Ltd., 138 Leadenhall St., London E.C.3 Manager: Frederick B. O'Meara. (Same address: Dec 1919.)                 Brand & Curzon, Docks, Milford. (From 17 Jan 1920 - 1937.)   15 Jan 1942: J. Marr & Son Ltd., Fleetwood. Manager: Geoffrey Edwards Marr.

Landed at Milford: 28 Oct 1919; 17 Jan 1920 - 22 Dec 1930.

Skippers:

Notes:  William Bell: six seamen of that name were at the Battle of Trafalgar; but possibly born in Whitehaven, age 20; OS (volunteer), HMS VICTORY, at Trafalgar. 17 Jan 1918: Launched for the Admiralty (no.3590) as WILLIAM BELL.  15 May 1918: Commissioned 1 x 12pdr. Listening hydrophones. W/T. 1919: Sold to mercantile and retained same name. Dec 1930: Laid up at Milford. 9 Jun 1940: Requisitioned by the Admiralty and converted to an auxiliary patrol vessel (P.No. FY.1727). 1 x 6pdr. May 1941: Converted to a minesweeper; joined 110th Minesweeping Group at Grimsby. Jun 1944: Based at Portsmouth, sweeping Channel during D-Day operations.  Dec 1944: Returned to Grimsby. Jun 1945: Based at Portsmouth for sweeping the Channel and barge-towing from Portsmouth to Tilbury. Feb 1946: Returned to owners. Mar 1946: Broken up by West of Scotland Shipbreaking Co. Ltd.,  Troon. [Information kindly supplied by the Bosun's Watch website and the Fleetwood Maritime Heritage Trust.]

 

 

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