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Fontenoy GY 550
Fontenoy Built 1918 Bow McLachlan & Co Paisley Built as Castle Class Trawler Siam Duffy for the Admiralty
1919 Loaned to the United States Navy
11/1920 Surveyed at London
1922 The vessel was sold to Sold to Soc. Anon Armement Ostendais Ostend Belgium renamed Eduard Anseele Belgium
Call sign MEFA
08/1923 Surveyed at Antwerp
07/1933 Surveyed at Ostend
06/1936 Surveyed at Ostend
12/1938 Acquired by Consolidated Fisheries registered to subsidiary Rhondda Steam Fishing renamed Fontenoy
02/1940 To admiralty Possibly as a Minesweeper
Her Details are
- Official Number 145099
- Yard Number 364
- GT 213 NT 75
- Dimensions 125.7 x 23.4 x 12.8
- Quarter deck 72 Foc’sle 21
- Engines Triple expansion, 12½, 21, 35 x 26 in 83 NHP by Fraser & Chalmers Erith
Lost 19/11/1940 Sunk by aircraft off Lowestoft whilst on Admiralty service
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Corvus GY 550
CORVUS Built 1893 Mackie & Thomson Govan for Grimsby & North Sea Trawling Co Ltd Grimsby
1917 Requisitioned for Fishery Reserve commissioned and flew white ensign continued commercial fishing under naval control
05/1919 Sold to H. Bennett
01/1924 To owners in Milford Haven
Her Details are
- Official Number 99715
- Yard Number 76
- GT 140 NT 54
- Quarter deck 17 Foc’sle 19
- Dimensions 99.3 x 20.1 x 10.4