Le Royal Built 1940 Cochrane & Sons Selby for Grimsby Motor Trawlers Ltd, Grimsby but completed as H.M.T. Postboy for the Admiralty for Anti- submarine duties
1943 Bought by Milford Steam Trawling Co Ltd on charter to the Navy
07/1946 Returned by the Navy to her owners Renamed Milford Marquis M 14
1949 At the end of the year the vessel was fishing 600 miles south of Las Palmas
1951 Sold to J. V. Pronk of Ijmuiden renamed Postboy IJM 35
1964 Sold to Claridge Trawlers Ltd Lowestoft Renamed St. Kitts LT 481
Her Details are
- Official Number 166638
- Yard Number 1211
- Call Sign MHKB
- Admiralty Number FY 1750
- GT 316 NT 94
- Dimensions 142.6 x 24.6 x 11.9
- Quarter deck 75 Foc’sle 27
- Engines 8-cylinder 750hp Ruston
Left Lowestoft 29/09/1976 for the breakers yard towed by the St. Martin