Length (feet) : | 390.0 |
Breadth (feet) : | 55.0 |
Depth (feet): | 26.5 |
Gross Registered Tonnage (g.r.t.) : | 4,886 |
Net Registered Tonnage (n.r.t.) : | 2,995 |
Engine Type : | T.3 cyl 26, 43 & 71 -48 180lb 302nhp |
Engine Builder : | Central Marine Engine Works. |
Additional Particulars : | Completed May 1927; Official No. 139243: Code Letters GNCP. |
On a voyage from Rosario for Glasgow with a cargo of grain Troutpool left Belfast Lough on 20 July 1940 & struck a mine & sank off Bangor Pier Light. The wreck was disposed of by dredging a hole causing the wreck to collapse into the cavity. 11 lives lost. (CWGC gives 12 names)
Lives lost July 1940:
Abdul Ali, fireman/trimmer, 39, India; Ahmed, Shief, fireman/trimmer, 40, Glasgow; Awled Mohamed, fireman/trimmer, 40; Beckett, Thomas Smith, carpenter, 32, Glasgow; Caleb, Mucklele, fireman/trimmer, 43; Connell, Alexander, boy, 19; Demari, Saleh Ahmed, fireman/trimmer, 41; MacDougall, Donald Andrew, ordinary seaman, 17, Castlebay, Isle of Barra; McGrath, John, able seaman, 53; McNeill, Donald, able seaman, 41, Port Charlotte, Isle of Islay; Murray, William George, ordinary seaman, 25, Hopeman, Morayshire; Shief, Ahmed, fireman/trimmer, 40, Glasgow (husband of Margaretta).
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