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Emilion built 1914 Smiths Dock Co Ltd South Bank Middlesbrough for Consolidated Steam Fishing & Ice Co Grimsby
04/1915 Requisitioned as a mine sweeper
1919 Returned
09/1927 Registered to Consolidated Fisheries Ltd
11/1939 Called for Admiralty service Served as a Minesweeper
24/10/1941 Sunk after striking a mine in the Thames Estuary in the vicinity of No B6 Buoy in the Barrow Deep and sank nearby
All of the crew were rescued however She was considered a potential danger to navigation and was dispersed soon after by explosives

Her Details are 

• Official Number 137000
• Yard Number 579
• Admiralty number FY 1613 FY 853
• Armament 1-12pdr
• GT 201 NT 78
• Dimensions 112.3 x 21.6 x 12
• Quarter deck 67 Foc’sle 19
• Engines Triple expansion 11½, 19½, 32 in x 24 in 67 NHP by Smiths Dock

24/10/1941 Mined Thames Estuary whilst in Admiralty service