S.T. Graaf van Vlaaderen O92
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© Mike Thompson for FMHT with additional material by Maurice Voss
Technical
Official Number:
Yard Number: 977
Completed: 1925
Gross Tonnage: 338
Net Tonnage: 137
Length: 138.8 ft
Breadth: 23.8 ft
Draught: 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.
7. 1938: Sold to Pêcheries à Vapeur, Soc. Anon, Ostend (John Bauwens, manager).
16.7.1938: Hull registry closed.
21.7.1938: Arrived at Ostend in company with LORD WEIR (H280) (PRINCE de LIEGE (O83)).
1938: Re measured 46,50 x 7,50 metres – 324.40Bgrt 113n
27.7.1938: Registered at Ostend as GRAAF van VLAARDEREN (O92).
6.1940: At Dartmouth requisitioned by Belgian Marine Corps 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).
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.
195?: Re engined by St. Pieterswerf, Hemiksem with 4 stroke 6-cyl Carels oil engine 755bhp by Soc.d’Elec. et de Méc, Ghent (Engine No.9657.62). Re measured 391.89 Bgrt 159.82n
27.10.1951: Returned to service.
13.4.1965: Ostend registry closed.
5.1965: Sold to Brugse Scheepssloperij, Bruges for breaking up.
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