Aberdeen Ships | SIR LANCELOT

Name	SIR LANCELOT
Construction	STEEL
Type	MINESWEEPER TRAWLER
Date	1942
Official Number	166703
Description	Yard Number: 160 Round Table Class Trawler; based on Hall Russell's 1936 Star of Orkney, completed as minesweeper. Engine number 237, boiler by Kincaid, Greenock. Full power trial in Torry Dock, 17 March 1942. 1944 converted to Dan Layer. Took part in Operation Neptune, the D-Day landings in June attached to 14th Minesweeping flotilla in Force U. Owned in 1946 by Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Lowestoft LT263. In 1962 owned by Mrs Karin Meta Alexa Husseini, Hamburg and renamed 'Hair-Ed-Din Barbarossa'. Ship is in the 1986 Lloyd's register, but not in 1987 and not owners noted with vessel's continued existence in doubt.
Shipbuilder	John Lewis & Sons
Shipowner	Admiralty
Dimensions	length 125' x breadth 23' 6" x depth 13' 9" 108 tons

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