gy-400 – Deep Sea Trawlers

Surname	Forenames	Age at Death	Date of Death	Rank	Boat
DOYLES	GEORGE WILLIAM	22	08/02/1915	Deck Hand	Rapio
FRANKISH	JOHN	47	08/02/1915	Skipper	Rapio
HALMAN	FREDERICK WILLIAM	30	08/02/1915	Deck Hand	Rapio
MOORHOUSE	JOHN WILLIAM	43	08/02/1915	Second Engineer	Rapio
PIERCY	JOHN THOMAS CHARLES	46	08/02/1915	Cook	Rapio
BLOWERS	HENRY WALTER	31	08/02/1915	Trimmer	Rapio
BLYTH	WALTER EDWIN	34	08/02/1915	First Engineer	Rapio
BELL	FREDERICK	46	08/02/1915	Second Hand	Rapio
FITZGERALD	EDWARD	47	08/02/1915	Third Hand	Rapio

Surname

Forenames

Age at Death

Date of Death

Rank

Boat

DOYLES

GEORGE WILLIAM

08/02/1915

Deck Hand

Rapio

FRANKISH

JOHN

08/02/1915

Skipper

Rapio

HALMAN

FREDERICK WILLIAM

08/02/1915

Deck Hand

Rapio

MOORHOUSE

JOHN WILLIAM

08/02/1915

Second Engineer

Rapio

PIERCY

JOHN THOMAS CHARLES

08/02/1915

Cook

Rapio

BLOWERS

HENRY WALTER

08/02/1915

Trimmer

Rapio

BLYTH

WALTER EDWIN

08/02/1915

First Engineer

Rapio

BELL

FREDERICK

08/02/1915

Second Hand

Rapio

FITZGERALD

EDWARD

08/02/1915

Third Hand

Rapio

Le Royal Built 1940 Cochrane & Sons Selby for Grimsby Motor Trawlers Ltd, Grimsby but completed as H.M.T. Postboy for the Admiralty for Anti- submarine duties
1943 Bought by Milford Steam Trawling Co Ltd on charter to the Navy
07/1946 Returned by the Navy to her owners Renamed Milford Marquis M 14
1949 At the end of the year the vessel was fishing 600 miles south of Las Palmas
1951 Sold to J. V. Pronk of Ijmuiden renamed Postboy IJM 35
1964 Sold to Claridge Trawlers Ltd Lowestoft Renamed St. Kitts LT 481

Her Details are

Official Number 166638
Yard Number 1211
Call Sign MHKB
Admiralty Number FY 1750
GT 316 NT 94
Dimensions 142.6 x 24.6 x 11.9
Quarter deck 75 Foc’sle 27
Engines 8-cylinder 750hp Ruston

Left Lowestoft 29/09/1976 for the breakers yard towed by the St. Martin