REPEAT LT131

Official No:  135746    Port Number and Year:   Lowestoft, 1913

Description: Wooden side trawler, steam screw, coal burning.

Crew:

Built: 1913 by J. Chambers, Lowestoft.  (Yard no. -)

Tonnage:  107 grt  48 net

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 84  / 20  / 10.5

Engine: T.3-cyl; 25 hp;  by Elliot & Garood, Beccles.

Owners: 31 May 1913: Ritson J. Tripp, Kessingland, Suffolk. Managing owner.

Landed at Milford: 8 Mar - 8 May 1914; 30 Jan - 8 Aug 1915.

Skippers: O.W. Durrant

Notes:  17 Aug 1915: Sunk by U-38 (Korvettenkapitän Max Valentiner) [See below.] 19 Aug 1915: Lowestoft register closed.

Accidents and Incidents

From B.T. & R. Larn (1995): Shipwreck Index of The British Isles, Vol 5:

 

REPEAT                                                                               17/08/1915

 

St. George's Channel, Bardsey Island, 18 miles W x S            52.40N 05.15W

 

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This wooden screw fishing vessel was stopped by a German submarine, her crew forced to abandon ship, after which she was sunk by gunfire.

 

 

 

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