HMT Lincoln City
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Pembroke
Castle was laid down as a trawler by Smiths Dock Company
in Middlesbrough and was launched in October 1933 for
Consolidated Steam Fishing & Ice Co. Ltd. Five years
later she was renamed to Lincoln City, but still sailed
for the same company. At the outbreak of world war two she
was requisitioned by the Admiralty in London and refitted
as a auxiliary anti-submarine trawler. In early 1941 she
was to the Faeroe Island and stationed in Torshavn. The
island suffered several German air raids in 1941 and under
a raid 21.February 1941 she shot down one bomber but was
herself bombed and sunk outside Torshavn harbor. The whole
crew of eight men lost their lives in the sinking. The
wreck was later blown up due to her shallow depth, and the
live ammunition on board. Her broken remains rest today
approximately 100 meter south of the harbor entrance on a
depth of twenty meters.
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 Picture: HMS Basset in 1938 Typical Royal Navy trawler in the 1930's Last updated: January 2021 |
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