S.T. Marie Louise O98
Wartime Visitor
© Maurice Voss for FMHT
Technical
Completed: 1918
Gross Tonnage: 271
Net Tonnage: 123
Length: 125.7 ft
Breadth: 23.5 ft
Depth: 12.7 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Polson Ironworks Co, Toronto
Built: Polson Iron Works Co, Ontario
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.
31.1.1919: Paid off and laid up.
1921: Accepted offer of Rose Street Foundry & Engineering Co Ltd, Inverness (Captain D. J. Munro) for reconditioning and lay-up prior to sale. Brought over at The Admiralty’s expense. Laid up in Caledonian Canal.
!92?: Re measured 124.4 x 23.5 x 12.8 feet – 258Bgt 48n.
8.1926: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Fred Parkes, manager).
10.1926: Moved to lay-up in Boulogne.
10.1927: Moved to Ostend for work to class her as a fishing trawler. Renamed MARIE LOUISE.
1927: Sold to Société Anonyme Pêcheries à Vapeur, Ostend (John Bauwens, manager).
1939: 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.
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