Maritime record MWX1653 - Manor (Verdunois)
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Summary
British trawler, 1942
Map
Type and Period (2)
Full Description
Ex-VERDUNOIS. Hired by the Royal Navy as a patrol vessel during WW1 and again as an anti submarine trawler as of August 1939, she was attacked and sunk by a German motor torpedo boat of the 2nd. Flotilla.(1)(2) Year Built: 1913 Builder: J Duthie Torry SB Co. Where Built: Aberdeen Boilers: 1 Propulsion: Screw driven, 3 cylinder triple expansion engine Armament: 1 x 6pdr bow mounted gun Owner: Royal Navy Date of Loss Qualifier: A
gross tonnage
Trawler of 314 tons and 1 x 6pdr, hired 1914-1919 and as an anti-submarine trawler from August 1939. Sunk 09-JUL-1942 by E-boat torpedo in the Channel. (2)
Sunk during E-boat attack, English Channel. (3)(7)
Sunk by E-boat, position 50 19N 003W. (4)
A soup bowl recovered from the MANOR, 32 miles SW of the Bill of Portland. (Droit 086/04) (6) [Double-indexed with 1479166, as unclear whether these items were recovered from the same site.]
Built: 1913 (1)(2)(3)(5)
Builder: J Duthie Torry SB Co. (1)(5)
Where Built: Aberdeen (1)(5)
Boilers: 1 (1)(5)
Propulsion: Screw driven, 3 cylinder triple expansion engine (1)(5)
Armament: 1 x 6pdr bow mounted gun (1)(2)(5)
Owner: Royal Navy [all sources]
Date of Loss Qualifier: Actual date of loss
Sources/Archives (9)
- <1> SWX5030 Index: Larn, Richard. 1992. United Kingdom shipwreck index. Extracted 23 November 1992.
- <2> SDO20520 Monograph: Colledge, J J. 1989. Ships of the Royal Navy. Volume 2: navy-built trawlers, drifters, tugs and requisitioned ships from the fifteenth century to the present. 142.
- <3> SWX4538 Monograph: 1988. British Vessels Lost at Sea 1914-18 and 1939-45. p21.
- <4> SWX4997 Index: 1989. Lloyds war losses: the Second World War 3 September-14 August 1945. Vol 1. p488.
- <5> SWX4541 Monograph: Larn, R, and Larn, B. 1995. Shipwreck index of the British Isles, volume 1 : Isles of Scilly, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset Section 6, Dorset (AJ) Vol 1.
- <6> SDO20527 Unpublished document: Receiver of Wreck. 2004. Droit of the Receiver of Wreck 086/04.
- <7> SDO20525 Monograph: Young, John M. 1989. Britain's sea war : a diary of ship losses, 1939-1945. 153.
- <8> SWX8707 Digital archive: Le Pard, G. 1995-2003. Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database. Shipwreck 1000.
- <9> SDO14739 Digital archive: National Record of the Historic Environment. 900913.
Finds (0)
Related Monuments/Buildings (0)
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Location
| Grid reference | SY 67620 68250 (point) |
|---|---|
| Map sheet | SY66NE |
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Other Statuses/References
- Legacy UID: Dorset Sites and Monuments Record: 9 000 0282
- Legacy UID: National Monuments Record: SY 66 NE 72
- Legacy UID: National Record of the Historic Environment: 900913
Record last edited
Feb 22 2024 4:35PM