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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