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 and refitted as a auxiliary
anti submarine trawler and one 4 " gun. 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 perished. The wreck was later blown up
due to the shallow depth and live ammunition on board, and
the remains rest today approx 100 meter south of the
harbor entrance on a depth of twenty meters.
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 Picture: HMS Basset in 1938 Typical Royal naval trawler of the time, equipped with one gun Last updated: October 2013 |
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