Maritime record MWX1653 - Manor (Verdunois)

Ex-VERDUNOIS. Hired by the Royal Navy as a patrol vessel during WW1 and again as an anti submarine trawler as of August 1939, she was attacked and sunk by a German motor torpedo boat of the 2nd. Flotilla.(1)(2) Year Built: 1913 Builder: J Duthie Torry SB Co. Where Built: Aberdeen Boilers: 1 Propulsion: Screw driven, 3 cylinder triple expansion engine Armament: 1 x 6pdr bow mounted gun Owner: Royal Navy Date of Loss Qualifier: A

gross tonnage

Trawler of 314 tons and 1 x 6pdr, hired 1914-1919 and as an anti-submarine trawler from August 1939. Sunk 09-JUL-1942 by E-boat torpedo in the Channel. (2)

Sunk during E-boat attack, English Channel. (3)(7)

Sunk by E-boat, position 50 19N 003W. (4)

A soup bowl recovered from the MANOR, 32 miles SW of the Bill of Portland. (Droit 086/04) (6) [Double-indexed with 1479166, as unclear whether these items were recovered from the same site.]

Built: 1913 (1)(2)(3)(5)
Builder: J Duthie Torry SB Co. (1)(5)
Where Built: Aberdeen (1)(5)
Boilers: 1 (1)(5)
Propulsion: Screw driven, 3 cylinder triple expansion engine (1)(5)
Armament: 1 x 6pdr bow mounted gun (1)(2)(5)
Owner: Royal Navy [all sources]

Date of Loss Qualifier: Actual date of loss

<1> Larn, Richard, 1992, United Kingdom shipwreck index, Extracted 23 November 1992 (Index). SWX5030.

<2> 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 present, 142 (Monograph). SDO20520.

<3> 1988, British Vessels Lost at Sea 1914-18 and 1939-45, p21 (Monograph). SWX4538.

<4> 1989, Lloyds war losses: the Second World War 3 September-14 August 1945, p488 (Index). SWX4997.

<5> Larn, R, and Larn, B, 1995, Shipwreck index of the British Isles, volume 1 : Isles of Scilly, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset Section 6, Dorset (AJ) Vol 1 (Monograph). SWX4541.

<6> Receiver of Wreck, 2004, Droit of the Receiver of Wreck 086/04 (Unpublished document). SDO20527.

<7> Young, John M, 1989, Britain's sea war : a diary of ship losses, 1939-1945, 153 (Monograph). SDO20525.

<8> Le Pard, G, 1995-2003, Dorset Coast Forum Maritime Archaeological Database, Shipwreck 1000 (Digital archive). SWX8707.

<9> National Record of the Historic Environment, 900913 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Feb 22 2024 4:35PM