As General Birdwood H 121 at Fleetwood
© Reproduced with acknowledgement to John Clarkson & The Bosuns Watch website
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As General Birdwood H 121 at Fleetwood |
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© Reproduced with acknowledgement to John Clarkson & The Bosuns Watch website |
Woodesse GW 6
| Built | 1919 Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby as "James McLaughlin" (Steel) |
| Yard No | 893 |
| Owner at New | Admiralty (Ad.No.4250) |
| ID no | 144023 |
| Launch Date | 1.05.1919 |
| Completed | 07.11.1919 completed as a fishing vessel |
| Gross Tons | 327 |
| Nett Tons | 129 |
| Engine | 87 hp T.3-cyl by Charles D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull |
| Length | 138.3ft |
| Breadth | 23.7ft |
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| Depth | 12.7ft |
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| 1919 | Sold to the Mercantile. |
| 07.11.1919 | Owned by Hellyer Brothers Ltd, Hull (Frank O. Hellyer & Owen S. Hellyer, managers). |
| 18.11.1919 | Renamed "GENERAL BIRDWOOD". |
| 18.11.1919 | Registered at Hull H 121. |
| 1928 | Fish carrier for halibut fishery in Davis Straits, Greenland. |
| 24.11.1933 | Owned by Fred Parkes & Basil Arthur Parkes, Fleetwood (Basil Arthur Parkes manager). |
| 08.1939 | Purchased into the Royal Navy(£6000) and converted to minesweeper (P.No.FY.724). |
| 27.10.1939 | Hull registry closed. |
| 1940 | Attached to 93rd Minesweeping group based at Freetown Sierra Leone. |
| 03.1944 | Converted to an ESSO (Fuel carrier) and deployed as a smoke making trawler and assigned to Operation Neptune – Normandy landings. |
| 11.06.1944 | Sailed |
| 03.07.1944 | Operation Neptune ended. |
| 1946 | Sold to the Mercantile. |
| 05.1946 | Owned by Easton Trawling Co Ltd, Swansea |
| 05.1946 | Renamed "WOODESSE". |
| 05.1946 | Registered at Swansea SA 23. |
| 06.1949 | Owned by John S. Boyle Ltd, Glasgow (Richard Allan Manager) |
| 06.1949 | Swansea registry closed. |
| 28.06.1949 | Registered at Glasgow GW 6. |
| 1955 | Sold as scrap to BISCO (British Iron & Steel Co). |
| 05.1955 | Scrapped by Malcolm Brechin at Granton. |