SEA LORD H71

 

John Stevenson Collection

Official No:  183399    Port and Year:  Hull, 1949?

Description: Wooden side trawler; motor.

Crew:

Built: by Argentin, Fecamp in 1942 (Yard no.-)

Tonnage:   227 grt  119 net

Length / breadth / depth (feet): 107  / - / -

Engine:  Oil; 2 SA 5 Cyl; 500 hp = 91 kts; Cie. de Cost. Mec., St. Denis.

Owners:   As GEORGES LANGANAY 1947: French owners   Renamed SEA LORD H71 26 Nov 1948: A. J. Tilbrook (Trawlers), Docks, Milford   [Not under this name or port number in Olsen's 1963.]   1966?: Jens C. Gunderson, Kristiansund, Norway.

Landed at Milford: 7 Nov 1949 - 2 Jan 1952

Skippers: Charles Watts

Notes: 18 Dec 1941: Launched for the Admiralty as SIR GALAHAD and completed as a minesweeper (P.No. T.227). 1 x 12 pdr AA; 1 x 20mm AA; 2 x LG (2x single) 1944: Converted to a dan layer. Took part in Operation Neptune, D-Day landings, attached to 14th M/S Flotilla in Force U. Apr 1946: Sold to mercantile. 5 Feb 1957: Lost with all hands on the Isle of Mull. [See story below.]

Accidents and Incidents

 From the Pembrokeshire Telegraph of Wednesday 13th April 1949:

 

    News of another arrival in the near future also comes this week, for Messrs Tillbrook have purchased the Sea Lord, a smaller class diesel powered trawler, which had only done a few trips.  She is due at Milford shortly.

 

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From the West Wales Guardian of Friday 11th January 1952:

 

    The fleet of trawlers owned by Messrs. Tilbrook Trawlers Limited and A. J. Tilbrook have suspended operations, and we understand their management has now been taken over by Messrs. Peter Hancock and Sons, Limited. 

    The vessels concerned are the steam trawlers Sea Hunter and Dagon, and the two diesel engined trawlers Sea Lord and Sea Monarch.  Upon enquiry the Managing Director, Mr. R. L. Hancock, stated that he could give no further information.

 

 

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