ARCTIC EXPLORER H445
Built
1937
Cochrane`s Selby
Off Number
165010
Length Ft
166.7
Tons Gross
501
Yard Number
1176
Breadth Ft
27.6
Tons Net
187
Launched
30 12 1937
 Draught
14.2
Hp
132 HP
Registered
12 03 1937
Engine Builder
C D Holmes
Knots
K
Registered ARCTIC EXPLORER H445 Owners 1937 - 1939 Boyd Line Ltd
Renamed H.M.T ARCTIC EXPLORER Owners 1939 - 1945 Admiralty
    Owners 1945 - 1947 Prince Fishing Co Ltd Hull ( Hellyer Brothers ) Managers
  CAPT OATES H287 Owners 1947 - 1948 Northern Fishing Co Ltd
  ARCTIC EXPLORER H287 Owners 1948 - 1967 Boyd Line Ltd Hull
Fate : Scrapped 1967
Admiralty Requisition
Pennant No
Role
Sold
1939
FY162
Anti-Submarine
1945
1942 Loaned to US for Anti-Submarine Patrols returned Oct 1942
1943 Stationed Durban S Africa Convoy Escort
 

 

War Service Crewmen
       
Lieutenant Commander   PIGGOT - WILLIAM . BROWN  
Seaman   SPARKES - HAROLD . LESLIE  
       

 

Mention in Despatches.

Lieutenant-Commander William Brown Piggot, R.N.R., H.M.T. Arctic Explorer.

Able Seaman Harold Leslie Sparkes, D/J.108240, H.M.T. Arctic Explorer.