Tag: 1957

Brabant Built 25/04/1918 Ailsa Shipbuilding Co Troon for The Admiralty as Castle Class trawler Emmanuel Camelaire
1921 The vessel was sold and she was renamed President Franqui Belgium
11/1938 Bought by Consolidated Fisheries who renamed her as Brabant and registered to subsidiary company Rhondda Steam Fishing as GY 544
08/1939 Requisitioned as a Minesweeper 
12/81945 Returned
09/1946 Bought by Clifton Steam Trawlers Ltd Fleetwood where she was registered as FD 239

Her Details are 

• Official Number 144640
• Yard Number 333 
• GT 279 NT 106 
• Dimensions 125.6 x 23.5 x 12.8 
• Quarter deck 72 Foc’sle 17 

Scrapped in 1957

Admiral Souchon Built 11/1916
04/06/1918 commissioned ADMIRAL SOUCHON 
Intended for boat department Flanders, Flak School Blankenberghe
2nd escort flotilla, 7 half flotilla
1919 4th mine search flotilla Baltic Sea, 7th half flotilla
10/08/1920 delivered to Great Britain
12/1922 ADMIRAL SOUCHON Registered as GY 136
Owners Marshal Line Steam Fishing Co. Ltd Manager  Sir Alec. Black
27/12/1922 Renamed CHRISTINA CATHARINA registered IJM 13
New survey 242 GRT, 70 NRT with 38.65 x 7.06 x 3.16 m
05/05/1926 CHRISTINA CATHARINA Registered as IJM 3
29/11/1932 Renamed BLOEMENDAAL Registered IJM 71
04/09/1939 went to Dutch Navy
27/09/1939 Renamed BOEIENSCHIP 5
1940 Converted to a Minesweeper
29/10/1943 out of service
1943 went to the Royal Navy
1943 Renamed BLOEMENDAAL as a Barrage balloon vehicle
03/1946 Returned to Owners
1946 BLOEMENDAAL Registered as  IJM 71
04/09/1956 sold for demolition
06/09/1956 from IJmuiden in tow for demolition
The Details were been supplied by Hans-J. Heise Hamburg

Her Details are 

• Official Number 146876
• Yard Number 681
• Admiralty Number FY 1787
• GT 238 NT 91
• Dimensions 38.45 x 7.03 x 3.15 x 4.10
• Engines 400 hp, 3 Cyl 340 x 520 x 820 mm, 560 mm
• Speed10 knots

Scrapped in 1957 the Netherlands

Valentia Built 1898 Irvine Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd Irvine For Hagerup Doughty & Co Ltd Grimsby 
04/1906 Registered to Consolidated Steam Fishing & Ice Co Grimsby
1917 Requisitioned into the Fishery Reserve 
1919 Returned to owners
1945 Sold to the Standard Steam Fishing Co Grimsby as GY 26
1946 Bought by the Valentia Fishing Co Grimsby 

Her Details are

• Official Number 109518
• Yard Number 3 
• GT 164 NT 51 
• Dimensions 104.2 x 21 x 10.7 
• Quarter deck 17 Foc’sle 18   

Scrapped in 1957