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Loss
Date 9 April 1915
Event ID 556086
Category Documentary Reference
Type Loss
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/556086
(Classified as iron armed trawler: registration cited as H 443, and date of loss as 9 April 1915). Rhodesia: this vessel was reported as wrecked near Stornoway, so is this really Rhodesia?
Registration: Hull. Built 1899. 193grt. Length: 30m. Beam: 6m.
(Location of loss cited as N57 41.18 W6 20.85).
I G Whittaker 1998.
Dispalcement: 153grt 55nrt
Engines: 40hp (9kts)
Admiralty no: 1215
Port registration: H443
This trawler was bult at the Hull by Cook Welton and Gemmell, and in the ownership of Hull Steam Fisheries and Ice Co in 1915. She was requisitioned in January of that year, and converted to an Auxiliary Patrol Vessel. She was wrecked near Stornaway [Stornoway] on 19 April 1915.
G Toghill 2004.