King Henry Built 1900 Schofield Hagerup & Doughty Grimsby for the Monarch Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby
04/1906 Registered to Consolidated Steam Fishing & Ice Co.
1918 Requisitioned as a minesweeper
10/1927 Transferred to Lowestoft registered as LT 355
05/1940 King Henry was hired as a boom gate vessel at Lowestoft
1941 Converted to an armed trawler
Her Details are
- Official Number 113175
- Yard Number 8
- Call Sign MGPT
- GT 160 NT 72
- Dimensions 105.7 x 21.1 x 10.7
- Quarter deck 18 Foc’sle 21
- Engines Triple expansion with cylinders 11, 17, 28 in x 20 in 46NHP 45rhp by Muir & Houston Ltd Glasgow
Lost 13/06/1941 Sunk by enemy aircraft at Lowestoft She was about to be used as a Blockship After the sinking the vessel was raised 21/12/1941 and broken up in the port