Category:LO.51 Queen Alexandra (ship, 1901)

Ship

20.7.1901 Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Hull (Yd.No.292) for Armitage’s Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull as QUEEN ALEXANDRA.
24.8.1901 Registered at Hull (H530).
8.1901 Completed (George T. Armitage, manager).
1914 Transferred to, Fleetwood (George T. Armitage, Hull, manager).
16.10.1916 Sank the Douglas registered smack SUNBEAM (95317) (48n/1888) in collision SE of NW Boulders Buoy, Morecambe Bay.
3.1917 At Fleetwood. Fitted with Hotchkiss 6pdr gun (No.1234)(ex PHOEBE); compliment increased by two gunners.
29.5.1917 Requisitioned for Fishery Reserve.
1919 Released.
7.1.1920 Sold to Thomas H. Smith, Fleetwood.
15.1.1920 Hull registry closed.
16.1.1920 Registered at Fleetwood (FD364).
1923 Sold to The Sun Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Fleetwood (James W. Armitage, manager).
1927 Sold to Mason Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood (Thomas Cardwell, manager).
14.9.1940 Requisitioned for war service and appointed for minesweeping duties.
16.9.1940 Returned to owner (Robert H. Bagshaw, manager).
1943 Working Faroe grounds.
28.4.1951 In moderate weather, stranded 2 miles S of Carraig Mhor Light, Sound of Islay; Islay lifeboat stood by. Refloated.
8.1952 Fishing off Isle of Man had net carried away by RN submarine. No damage to trawler or submarine.
5.8.1952 Last landing.
8.1952 Sold to BISCO and allocated to Thos. W. Ward Ltd, Sheffield for breaking up.
11.9.1952 Delivered Barrow from Fleetwood under own power.

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