Name: | JOHN BULLOCK |
Type: | Trawler |
Launched: | 09/07/1917 |
Completed: | 01/09/1917 |
Builder: | Charles Rennoldson & Son |
Yard: | South Shields |
Yard Number: | 186 |
Dimensions: | 275grt, 106nrt, 125.3ft x 23.2 x 12.6ft |
Engines: | T3cyl (12.5, 21 & 35 x 26ins), 87nhp |
Engines by: | Shields Engineering & Dry Dock Co Ltd, North Shields |
Propulsion: | 1 x Screw |
Construction: | Steel |
Reg Number: | 144506 |
History: | |
01/09/1917 | Admiralty |
11/1921 | Société Anonyme Armement Ostendais, Ostend; renamed FILIEP COENEN (O157) |
02/1939 | Saint Andrew’s Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull (Basil A Parkes, manager) |
02/1939 | Renamed FLYING ADMIRAL (H66) |
1941 | Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood; same manager |
1945 | Amalgamated Trawlers Ltd, Hull (A Bailey & J Balderson, managers) |
1945 | Renamed BENGHAZI (H66) |
1947 | Wyre Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Merchants (Fleetwood) Ltd, managers) |
26/04/1947 | Sank |
Comments: | Member of the Castle Class of Admiralty trawlers |
30/05/1940: Requisitioned for war service as an auxiliary patrol vessel | |
31/12/1941: Returned to owners | |
23/04/1947: NW gale drove her on to Bogha Nuadh, Firth of Lorne | |
Subsequently floated clear but stranded on Fladda Island, north end of Scarba Sound | |
26/04/1947: Vessel slipped off rocks and sank |
Photo courtesy of www.fleetwood-trawlers.info