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fish hold also abreast of bridge. Deck fractured abreast of fish hold, stern frame broken, rudder missing, suspect propeller and tailshaft badly damaged. Engine-room and hull flooded and lifeboat badly stove in. Forward portion of vessel flexing with action of sea where fractured, not possible to board. Consider salvage impracticable. Further SW gales will accelerate vessel breaking up.
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Trawler Robert
Limbrick, ashore Quinish Point, Mull: Survey shows vessel lying on port side, which not visible but damage to this side suspected extensive. Starboard side so far as visible severely damaged from forecastle to stem. Shell plating fractured from bulwark to keel and badly holed in way of
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was lost at sea with the loss of all 12 of her crew. She had sailed from
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to a 1936 design of the same company. Although the design was for a trawler the ship was commissioned as a
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in 1941. Post war it was sold into civilian service and was wrecked in 1957 after running aground off the
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The ship's total loss was reported by the
Salvage Association's surveyor on 7 February 1957 who reported:
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A memorial service was held for the crew at St
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Milford Fisheries Ltd, the
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radio that the ship was aground off
Quinish Point, Mull (
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1000:Naval trawlers of the United Kingdom
668:"12 Feared Lost In Wrecked Trawler"
294:12 pounder 76 mm (3.0 in)
412:who renamed the ship again as the
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546:Index of ships by pennant numbers
274:13 ft 9 in (4.2 m)
266:23 ft 6 in (7.2 m)
213:Ran aground on Quinish Point off
113:Transferred to civilian ownership
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341:Construction and war service
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347:Hall, Russell & Company
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1015:Round Table-class trawlers
1005:Maritime incidents in 1957
365:class. In March 1943 the
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1020:Ships lost with all hands
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593:"A history of HMS Dasher"
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197:Milford Fisheries Ltd
572:"Admiralty Trawlers"
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685:"Robert Limbrick".
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378:River Clyde
367:Sir Galahad
363:Round Table
355:minesweeper
322:Sir Galahad
237:Minesweeper
232:Round Table
64:Sir Galahad
995:1941 ships
989:Categories
898:Holdernith
838:USNS
754:USNS
734:Shipwrecks
502:References
454:56°38′00″N
331:Royal Navy
279:Complement
205:March 1956
155:April 1947
105:April 1946
797:USS
788:Cleveland
786:HMS
775:HMS
672:The Times
457:6°13′42″W
427:Wreck of
371:HMS
70:Laid down
916:27 Mar:
895:17 Jan:
857:22 Dec:
847:10 Oct:
829:Frontier
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556:12 March
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400:Post war
382:danlayer
351:Aberdeen
287:Armament
241:Danlayer
239:, later
202:Acquired
152:Acquired
102:Stricken
78:Launched
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936:4 Sep:
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836:8 Oct:
763:12 Apr
752:7 Mar:
742:5 Feb:
652:9 March
631:9 March
598:9 March
577:9 March
529:9 March
484:Mallaig
327:trawler
271:Draught
168:History
118:History
40:History
850:U-1305
799:Tarpon
373:Dasher
325:was a
255:Length
235:class
940:Decoy
905:Feb:
860:Narva
809:Pamir
777:Sidon
550:(PDF)
482:from
303:20 mm
194:Owner
144:Owner
976:1958
963:1956
938:HMS
819:M256
654:2010
633:2010
600:2010
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441:hake
419:Loss
320:HMS
308:2 ×
301:1 ×
292:1 ×
263:Beam
215:Mull
210:Fate
184:Name
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