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FOYLE HMT 1918

Post by aukepalmhof » Thu Feb 11, 2016 7:08 pm

This stamp depict the HMT FOYLE but while she is depict on the stamp, I believe the intention was to depict the destroyer FOYLE who was in service in the Royal Navy during World War I. The HMT FOYLE was at that time not sailing under that name but carried the name JOHN EDMUND and she was just completed before the end of World War I.

Built as a navy minesweeper trawler under yard No 224 by Goole Shipbuilding & repairing Co. Ltd, Goole, U.K. for the Royal Navy.
1918 Launched as the HMT JOHN EDMUND she was one of the Mersey class.
Tonnage 328 gross, 131 net, dim. 45.1 x 7.2m., length bpp. 42.2m.
Powered by one triple expansion steam engine, manufactured by Campbell Gas Engine Co. Ltd. Halifax, 69 nhp., one shaft, speed 11 knots.
Armament 1 – 12pdr gun.
Crew ?
22 October 1918 completed.
1919 Registered in London.
1920 Renamed in HMT FOYLE (T48).
1921 Bought or leased by the new formed South African Navy and renamed HMSAS SONNEBLOM (sunflower). She was one of the first South African navy vessels.
When the “Great Depression” hit also South Africa, there was not any money for the navy and the Government was forced to hand back the ship to the U.K. government in 1934, where she was again renamed in FOYLE.
1938-1945 Can’t find anything on her WW II war history.
After the war sold by the Royal Navy to Thomas H. Scales & Son Ltd., Granton and refitted in a fishing trawler, renamed CRAMOND ISLAND GN 18.
1949 Sold to Oddson & Co. Ltd, Hull, renamed BRIMNES H 558.
09 January 1949 towed into Stromness, Orkney by the Islandic trawler RODULL, with five feet of water in the engine room.
January 1950 was she owned by Alexander Robertson Milne, Aberdeen.
06 April 1950 renamed HETTY MILNE A 648.
October 1954 sold for scrap, arrived 16 October1954 by the scrapyard of Jacques Bakker & Zn., Bruges, Belgium.

Guyana 2015 $80 sg?, scott?
Source: http://www.miramarshipindex.org.nz and various internet sites.
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