Aracari built 07/11/1907 by Cook Welton & Gemmell Beverley for Cleethorpes Steam Trawling Co Ltd Grimsby
Original Name was Seagul
09/1914 Requisitioned as a minesweeper
16/04/1918 Sold to Walter H. Beeley Grimsby
21/05/1918 Sold to Ernest Taylor Grimsby
1919 Returned to owners
07/07/1919 Bought by Taylor & Ashworth Fleetwood
1920 Talbot Steam Trawling Co Ltd Fleetwood Registered as FD 218
1926 Sold to R. W. Lewis Aberdeen Registered as A 155
1932 Bought by Mrs M. Laycock Milford haven Registered as M 101
1932 Bought by Pettit & Younds Milford haven
1939 Requisitioned as a minesweeper
1940 Returned to commercial fishing
01/1943 Requisitioned as a fuel carrier Y 7.2 Esso
Deployed to the Med
Her Details are
- Official Number 127824
- Yard Number 159
- Admiralty Number FY 514 Y 7.2
- Armament 1-12pdr and 1-6 pdr AA
- GT 245 NT 113
- Quarter deck 76 Foc’sle 19
- Dimensions 120.5 x 22 x 11.9
- Engines Amos & Smith 76 NHP 10½ knots
Ran aground on Filicudi Island north of Sicily on the 03/10/1943 Declared a total loss