Namur Built 1917 Bow McLachlan & Co Paisley Built as Castle Class Trawler Benjamin Cooke for the Admiralty
1922 The vessel was sold to Societe Anonyme Armement Ostendais Ostend
Renamed Emiel Vandervelde Belgium
Lloyds Register listed GT 213 NT 75 Belgian measurement
12/1938 Acquired by Consolidated Fisheries registered with subsidiary Rhondda Steam Fishing
Renamed Namur
05/1940 Requisitioned as an Auxiliary Patrol Trawler
12/1940 Changed to a Boom Defence vessel
03/1942 Bought by Aberdeen owners
11/1943 The vessel was bought by the Admiralty
1944 Renamed Pallisade
07/1946 The vessel was laid up later sold
Her Details are
- Official Number 144667
- Yard Number 347
- Call Sign ORDA, MEQP
- GT 276 NT 107
- Dimensions 125.7 x 23.4 x 12.8
- Quarterdeck 72 Foc’sle 21
- Engines 3 cyl 12½, 21, 35 x 26 in 87 NHP Bow McLachlan & Co