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© Mike Thompson for FMHT with additional material by Maurice Voss

Technical

Official Number: 149020
Yard Number: 977
Completed: 1925
As built: 338g 137n 138.8 x 23.8 x 13.3 feet
Gross Tonnage: 338
Net Tonnage: 137
Length: 138.8 ft
Breadth: 23.8 ft
Depth: 13.3 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby

History

6.8.1925: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.977) for Pickering & Haldane’s Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull as LORD MOUNTBATTEN.
29.9.1925: Registered at Hull (H225) (O.N.149020).
6.10.1925: Completed John McCann & Edward Cartwright, managers).
7. 1938: Sold to Pêcheries à Vapeur, Soc. Anon, Ostend (John Bauwens, manager).
1938: Re measured 46,50 x 7,50 metres – 324.40Bgrt 113n.
16.7.1938: Hull registry closed.
21.7.1938: Arrived at Ostend in company with LORD WEIR (H280) (PRINCE DE LIÈGE (O83)).
27.7.1938: Registered at Ostend as GRAAF VAN VLAARDEREN (O92).
6.1940: At Dartmouth requisitioned by Belgian Marine Corporation for evacuation at Dunkirk (Did not participate).
18.6.1940: Took part in evacuation of Cherbourg (Sk. Charles Vermeersch). Sailed for Plymouth.
6.1940: Transferred to Belgian Economic Mission, London. Fishing from Fleetwood.
16.9.1940: Requisitioned for war service as a boom defence vessel (P.No.Z.239). South Atlantic Command Based Durban.
2.2.1946: Returned to owner.
10.1946: At Antwerp rebuilt with new bow section 148.2 feet – 375.36Bgrt 137n.
16.10.1946: Returned to service after rebuild.
8.11.1950: Sailed for Hemiksem for conversion to a motor trawler.
1951: Re engined by St. Pieterswerf, Hemiksem with 4 stroke 6-cyl Carels oil engine 755bhp by Société d’Electricité et de Mécaniques (Engine No.9657.62). Re measured 391.89 Bgrt 159.82n
27.10.1951: Returned to service.
13.4.1965: Ostend registry closed.
3.1965: Sold to Brugse Scheepssloperij, Bruges for breaking up.
23.9.1966: Delivered Bruges.

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S.T. Lord Mountbatten H225
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S.T. Graaf van Vlaaderen O92
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GRAAF van VLAARDEREN O92
Picture from the Internet

Changelog
23/08/2010: Page published. 2 revisions since then.
25/08/2014: Added 3 pictures.
17/09/2018: Removed FMHT watermarks from images.
16/12/2020: Updated history.