| December 09 1915 |
Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.658) for Taylor & Staff, Grimsby as TRANSVAAL. |
| June 1916 | Completed. Registered at Grimsby (GY953). Requisitioned by The Admiralty from the builders and fitted out as mine sweeper (Ad.No.3307). |
| 1919 | Returned. |
| 1920 | Sold to Melville Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Fleetwood. (Herbert M. Johns, manager). |
| October 27 1920 | Registered at Fleetwood (FD381). |
| 1923 | Sold to Transvaal Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Fleetwood (J. N. Ward & Son, managers). |
| December 1939 | Requisitioned for war service and converted for auxiliary patrol duties. |
| 1940 | Converted for minesweeping duties (magnetic). |
| 1940 | Sold to B. A. Parkes, Cleveleys. |
| 1941 | Sold to Don Fishing Co Ltd, Aberdeen. |
| 1942 | Converted as a fuelling trawler(Esso) (33 ton tank for refuelling diesel landing craft) (P.No.Y7.45). |
| June 1944 | Operation Neptune-Normandy landings. Assigned as a fuelling trawler to Force O. |
| November 18 1944 | Foundered in English Channel in severe weather conditions. |
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