Histoire
This minesweeper, trawler (castle-class) was built in 1918 by Canadian Government Shipyards in Sorel, QC.
Notes historiques
From 21 April to 2 May 1918, TR 32 was trapped in pack ice of Glace Bay suffering damaged that caused it's hold to flood to two feet. Paid off in 1919.
Propriétaires et capitaines
In 1918 she was owned by the Royal Canadian Navy.
In 1926 she was owned by Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co. Ltd., Grimsby UK.
In 1938 she was owned by Enterprise Jean Negri & Fils, Marseilles, France, and then the same year, re-owned by Marseille Maritime, Marseilles, France. Chartered: by Spanish Gov't, Madrid, in 1938 for use during Spanish Civil War. On January 06, 1939 she was sunk by Nationalist aircraft.
She was salvaged and repaired and returned to service. On 16 Apr 1942 she was commissioned in the Spanish Navy as a tug.
In 1944 she was reclassified as a Patrol Escort Trawler and renamed Alhucemas.
She was stricken from Spanish Navy records in 1954.
Capitaines
Chief Skipper Robert Davidson, RCN 1918;
Armement
1-12pdr
Références
- Dittmar, .J. & J.J. Colledge (1972)
- Macpherson, Ken and John Burgess (1981)
- www.forposterityssake.ca ↗
