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  • The Armed trawler Ethel & Millie was a British auxiliary warship which served during World War I. She was built in 1908 as the fishing smack Ethel & Millie...
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  • Armed trawler Nelson was a British auxiliary warship which served during World War I. She was built in 1905 as the fishing smack G&E, operating from Lowestoft...
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  • is a list of civilian trawlers requisitioned by the Royal Navy for use in World War II. HMT stands for "His Majesty's Trawler". A B C D E F G H I J K...
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    Battalion, Welch Regiment Able Seaman Edwin J. Barrett (d.1917), Armed trawler Ethel & Millie" Furthermore, the plaque commemorating the Second World...
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  • Orpin (d.1915), HMS Pembroke Deck-Hand Arthur Soanes (1879–1917), HM Armed trawler Ethel & Millie Engineman Fred W. Leathers (1891–1916), HM Drifter Buckler...
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    The Castle-class minesweeper was a highly seaworthy naval trawler adapted for patrol, anti-submarine warfare and minesweeping duties and built to Admiralty...
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    number of Lowestoft trawlers were fishing in the North Sea, off the Jim Howe bank. Among them were the armed smacks Nelson and Ethel & Millie. Nelson—skippered...
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    vessel operating out of Cornwall. Well smack HM Armed Smack Inverlyon March, E. J. (1970). Sailing Trawlers: The Story of Deep-Sea Fishing With Long Line...
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  • 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...
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    spending several years as a herring fisherman before joining a fishing trawler out of Lowestoft. He was a natural to the work, being a remarkably good...
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    night. My own boat was almost full of water when we were picked up by a trawler the next morning, but all the men in the boat survived. Another boat, picked...
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    overboard." — Thomas Crisp VC, DSC, Royal Naval Reserve, skipper of armed trawler Nelson (15 August 1917), to his son after being mortally wounded in...
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    20th September – 1st October 1916. To west of Orkney Islands. Sank 1 armed trawler. Took 2 prizes. 14th October – 9th November 1916. Northabout to S.W...
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    particularly for the operation of auxiliary vessels, including armed trawlers such as Nelson and Ethel & Millie which were used to combat enemy U-boat action...
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    Railway. Percy Charles Younger, Sergeant-Major, Armed Reserve Police, Chitoor District, Madras. Lilian Ethel Davis, Grade "A" Clerk, Registrar Office, British...
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  • currency, sank 50 miles (80 km) south of New Orleans, discovered by a fishing trawler in 1993. El Nuevo Constante  Spain September 1766 A merchant ship that...
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    The port was a major naval base during the war, including for armed trawlers such as Ethel & Millie and Nelson used to combat German U-boat actions in the...
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  • effect. Herbert returned to duty on Q-ships, commanding a flotilla of four trawlers – the Sea King, Sea Sweeper, Nelly Dodds and W. H. Hastie. These were equipped...
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  • Victoria Cross for rescuing wounded comrades. 3 November – Trawler Ivanhoe, requisitioned as an armed patrol vessel, strikes the Black Rock near Leith while...
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  • "Tugboat Information". www.tugboatinformation.com. Retrieved 2021-04-25. "Name Ethel von Brixham | National Historic Ships". www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk...
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