S.T. Marie Louise O98 | The Bosun's Watch

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Technical

Official Number: ??
Yard Number: ??
Completed: 1918
Gross Tonnage: 271
Net Tonnage: 123
Length: 125.7 ft
Breadth: 23.5 ft
Depth: 12.7 ft
Built: Polson Iron Works Co, Ontario
Engine: 480ihp T.3-cyl by Polson Ironworks Co, Toronto

History

1.1917: Ordered. 1918: Launched by Polson Iron Works Co, Ontario, ON (Yd.No.- ) (Canadian “Castle” – “T.R.” class) for The Admiralty (paid for and built under direction of RCN) as TR.18.
1.8.1918: Completed and commissioned in Royal Canadian Navy (1-12pdr).
31.1.1919: Paid off and laid up.
1920: Accepted offer of Rose Street Foundry & Engineering Co Ltd, Inverness (Captain D. J. Munro as agent) to bring drifters with trawlers as escorts to UK for lay-up in Muirtown Basin, Caledonian Canal, Inverness prior to sale and possible refit for classification as steam trawlers (The Rose Street Foundry & Engineering Co Ltd letter dated 12 April 1920).
1921: Brought over at The Admiralty’s expense.
1.1926: Still laid up.
2.1926: Rejected offer for all remaining trawlers at £2,000 each (B. Allenby, Aberdeen letter dated 10 Feb 1926).
1926: Sold “as is” to Société Anonyme Pêcheries à Vapeur, Ostend (John Bauwens, manager). Registered at Ostend as MARIE LOUISE (O98).
1926: Re measured 124.4 x 23.5 x 12.8 feet – 258Bgt 48n.
13.3.1926: Crew from Pêcheries à Vapeur sailed for England onboard steam trawler RAYMOND (O140) to take delivery.
19.3.1926: Arrived Ostend.
5.1933: Moved to Canal de dérivation, Ostend to lay up (economic climate).
1939-1940: Landing at Fleetwood.
1940: Transferred to Belgian Economic Mission, London.
24.9.1940: Requisitioned for war service as a boom defence vessel. (P.No.Z.238).
1.1946: Returned to owner.
1946: Ostend registry closed.
9.1946: Sold to Norway. FATE?

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S.T. Marie-Louise O 98

Changelog
27/04/14: Information updated
09/06/2015: Picture added.
23/09/2018: Removed FMHT watermark from images.