Technical
Official Number: 132414
Yard Number: 384
Completed: 1913
Gross Tonnage: 314
Net Tonnage: 128
Length: 130.0 ft
Breadth: 23.6 ft
Depth: 13.3 ft
Built: J Duthie Torry Shipbuilding Co Aberdeen
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by J. Abernethy & Co, Aberdeen
History
6.2.1913: Launched by J. Duthie Torry Shipbuilding Co, Aberdeen (Yd.No.384) for The Clifton Steam Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood as MANOR.
4.3.1913: Registered at Fleetwood (FD174).
3.1913: Completed (Joseph A. Taylor & Ernest Tomlinson Ltd, managers).
8.1914: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-12pdr) (Ad.No.299).
11.8.1914: Sailed Fleetwood for base port. Based Kirkwall.
Post 12.3.1919: Returned.to owner at Fleetwood.
1924: Sold to H. Veron & Cie, La Rochelle.
9.5.1924: Fleetwood registry closed.
5.1924: Registered at La Rochelle as VERDUNOIS (LR2728).
2.1938: Sold to Reginald L. Hancock, Milford Haven (managing owner).
2.1938: La Rochelle registry closed.
21.2.1938: Registered at Milford as MANOR (M238).
13.9.1938: Sold to Hancock’s Ship Building Co Ltd, Pembroke Dock (Reginald L. Hancock, manager).
21.4.1939: Sold to Reginald L. Hancock, Hakin; Frederick L. Hancock, Alan Hancock & Wilfred L. Hancock, Milford Haven (Reginald L. Hancock, manager).
29.8.1939 Requisitioned for war service and employed on miscellaneous duties. Later fitted out as an anti-submarine trawler (P.No.FY.333) (Hire rate £81.2.4d/month).
5.1940: Operating on West coast of Ireland as decoy trawler towing/and in company with HMS/M H43.
15-25.6.1940: Operation Ariel *.
19.6.1940: Reported had onboard 67 naval ratings, 2 army officers, 25 other ranks and one civilian.
20.6.1940: Arrived Plymouth.
1.5.1941: Sold to J. Bennett (Wholesale) Ltd, London (William A. Bennett, manager).
9.7.1942: Under command of Sk. Benjamin Pile RNR, lost by E-boat torpedo attack in Lyme Bay when escorting convoy WP.183. Wreck lies in position 50.19N 03.01W in 60m; twenty-nine crew MPK, one survivor, 2nd Hand Cyril Foale picked up from water by HMS RUBY (P.No.T24) (Ty Lieut. Nicolas Leadley Brown RNR) and landed at Yarmouth, IoW.
8.10.1943: Milford registry closed “Vessel totally lost”.
* Operation Ariel – withdrawal of remaining troops of the British Expeditionary Force from France plus other nationals, civil and military.
(Crew MPK – Sk. John Wood RNR; Ty/Sk. Joseph Jacques RNR; Timothy S. Beesley, James Gray & Sydney Thomas, Engiemen; Walter M. Emmitt, Ldg Sea; Raymond F. Bryant, Frederick R. Bunting, David A. Evans, Laurence V. Harrison, Edward Harvey, Nino W. Marven, Francis J. Reddy, Arthur F. Riches & Charles W.G. Taylor, Seamen; Charles Gulliford, Act/AB; Albert J. Bowles & Kenneth W. Rout, O/S; Cyril C. Wren, Tel; Lewis G. Evans, Alfred Greenhadge & Roland Davidson, O/Tel; Frederick C. Forman, O/Sig; Albert Lines, John Morton & Andrew R. Walker, Stokers; Peter Harley, Cook; William A. Cato, Ast/Cook.)
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Changelog
26/12/2008: Page published. 4 updates since then.
09/09/2017: Removed FMHT watermark from image, repaired damaged link.
05/06/2021: Updated information.