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Name: WILIAM FLEMMING
Type: Trawler
Launched: 12/02/1918
Completed: 05/1918
Builder: Hepple & Co Ltd
Yard: South Shields
Yard Number: 646
Dimensions: 275grt, 109nrt, 125.1 x 23.4 x 12.6ft
Engines: T3cyl (12.5, 21 & 35 x 26ins), 61rhp
Engines by: Belliss & Morcom Ltd, Birmingham
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: n/a; (1919: 143862)
History:
05/1918 Admiralty
1919 Registered at London
24/06/1920 Harry Eastoe Rees, Milford; renamed TRAWLER PRINCE
23/08/1920 Swansea Steam Trawling Co (HE Rees, Manager), Milford
25/08/1933 Harry Eastoe Rees, Milford
18/08/1938 Renamed TRANIO
26/06/1941 Sank
Comments: A Castle Class Naval Trawler, armed with 1 x 12pdr gun
24/06/1920: Allocated fishing registration number M104
10/1939: Requisitioned by the Admiralty for use as a minesweeper
26/06/1941: Sunk by German aircraft off Smith's Knoll whilst in tow