Trevor Hallifax – Page 43 – Deep Sea Trawlers

Star of the Realm Built 07/1921 by Cochranes of Selby as Non Standard Mersey Class William Westenburgh Ordered by Pickering & Haldanes Hull
Purchased by the Admiralty whilst on the stocks
1919 Registered in British Ships at London
28/01/1920 Registered by Admiralty as a Fishing Vessel LO 279
06/1921 Sold to Pickering & Haldanes Hull
11/06/1921 London Registry Closed
Cochranes contracted to refurbish as a fishing Trawler
Allocated Yard Number 756
05/07/1921 Registered as H 292
19/10/1921 Re named as Lord Talbot H 292
17/05/1928 Sold to Perihelion Steam Fishing Co
22/05/1928 Registered as GY 463 Lord Talbot
01/1931 Sold to Walker Steam Fishing Co Aberdeen
09/01/1931 Registered as A 147 Renamed Star of the Realm
02/1933 Went to Crampins Steam Fishing Co
06/02/1933 Registered as GY 475
06/1934 Owned by Malmata Steam Fishing Co
02/1938 Sold to P/F Uvak A/S Torshavn Faroe Islands
10/02/1938 Registered as Nordst Jornan
17/02/1940 Sold to Admiralty Converted to a boom defence vessel based at Granton
06/1946 Sold to William R Metcalfe Dover as a Boom defence Conversion
05/1948 Converted to a Mooring vessel Registered at Falmouth renamed S 48
1952 Sold to George A Ferguson Borstal Rochester
1952 Sold to Italian Shipbreakers and Broken Up

Surname	Forenames	Age at Death	Date of Death	Rank	Boat
Barker	G	Unknown	23/03/1934	Crew	Star of the Realm

Her Details are

Official Number 143929
Yard Number 687,756
Admiralty Number 3577
Admiarlty Pennant Z 105
Armament 2 x 12 pdrs
GT 325 NT 130
Dimensions 138.5 x 23.7 x 12.8
Quarter Deck 78 Foc’sle 19
Engines Richardsons Westgarth 87 rhp 3 Cyl 11.0 Knots