King Emperor LH 130
Built | 1914 Dundee Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Dundee (Steel) |
Yard No | 270 |
Owner at New | Mills Steam Shipping Co Ltd, London (Frederick B. O'Meara, London manager) |
ID no | 136221 |
Launch Date | 1914 |
Completed | 12.1914 |
Gross Tons | 246 |
Nett Tons | 96 |
Engine | 76 hp T.3-cyl by W. V. V. Lidgerwood & Co Ltd, Glasgow |
Length | 120.4ft |
Breadth | 22.6ft |
Depth | 12.4ft |
Owners | |
07.01.1915 | Registered at Hull H 202. |
05.1915 | Requisitioned and converted to Mine Laying Vessel (Ad No 3220) later (P No. N.5A) based at Harwich. |
04.02.1916 | Sank following a collision off Sheerness, Kent; five crewmen lost. Later salved, repaired and returned to service. |
1916 | Owned by Imperial Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull (Frank O. Hellyer manager). |
1917 | Owen S. Hellyer appointed manager. |
1918 | Converted to minesweeper (P No. N.66). |
1919 | Returned to Owners. |
1919 | Owned by Henry L. S. Knell, Hull (owner/manager). |
1920 | Owned by Hull & District Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull (Henry L.S. Knell manager). |
1926 | Owned by Henry Percival & Co Ltd, Hull (Henry Percival manager). |
03.01.1934 | Struck by S.T. "Charles Boyes" LO 334 while lying at anchor during thick fog in Hull Roads. |
01.1935 | Owned by James L. Inglis, Leith Edinburgh. |
31.07.1935 | Hull registry closed. |
01.08.1935 | Registered at Leith LH 130 |
02.1940 | Requisitioned and converted to minesweeper joined the 80th Minesweeping group (P. No. FY.730) based at Lowestoft. |
11.1943 | Converted to ESSO (Fuel carrier), later deployed as a Stores Carrier (Y7.14). |
1945 | Owned by Easton Trawling Co Ltd, Lowestoft (B. Easton manager). |
01.1946 | Returned to Owners |
1949 | Sold as scrap. |
01.07.1941 | William Wilfred Mantripp was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for outstanding zeal, patience and cheerfulness, and for never failing to set an example of wholehearted devotion to duty, without which the high tradition of the Royal Navy could not have been upheld. |