ARCTIC PIONEER H462
Built
1937
Cochranes Selby
Off Number
165649
Length Ft
166.8
Tons Gross
501
Yard Number
1177
Breadth Ft
27.6
Tons Net
189
Launched
14 01 1937
 Draught
14.2
Hp
182HP
Registered
Mar 1937
Engine Builder
Amos & Smith
Knots
K
Registered ARCTIC PIONEER H462 Owners Boyd Line Ltd Hull
  H.M.T ARCTIC PIONEER Owners  
    Sunk Sunk 27 May 1942  After been Salvaged she was rebuilt at Hartlepool , and re-engine
    Owners Aug 1947 Rebuild completed ( Tons - G 533 / N 203 )
  ARCTIC VIKING Owners Sept 1947 handed back to Boyd Line and renamed
Fate :
Admiralty Requisition
Pennant No
Role
Returned
09/39
FY 164
Anti-submarine
1947
26th Anti submarine Gp Portsmouth  - HMT Arctic Pioneer (T/Lt. R.H. Burrow, RNR) was sunk by a bomb, from a German JU-87 Stuka dive bomber in the Cowes Roads outside of Portsmouth Harbour. 17 were killed and are buried in Haslar Naval cemetary in Gosport, in row 64. 16 survivors were picked up.
Arctic Pioneer was a asdic trawler and patrolled the waters during the Dunkirk evacuations in june 1940 On June 2nd nearing the last day of the Dunkirk withdrawal Arctic Pioneer heared the distress signal from the trawler Blackburn Rovers in thick fog but could not assist. Blackburn Rovers another asdic trawler was leading the Hull trawler Westella and the trawler Saon on patrol of the channel, Blackburn Rovers picked up a asdic sounding which it believed to be a U boat. On going to investigate Blackburn Rovers entered a British minefield and subsequently exploded, her depth charges also exploding. The trawler Westella had also followed Blackburn Rovers into the minefield and as she was picking up the survivors from Blackburn Rovers she also hit a mine blowing off her bow.The trawler Saon picked up survivors from both the Westella and the Blackburn Rovers.
On 27 05 1956 as the Arctic Viking she was in collision with the St Celestin of Hull off Bear Island, The St Celestin subsequently sank.
18 10 1961 The Arctic Viking was lost in heavy seas close to Flamborough whilst homeward bound.




IN REMEMBERANCE OF CREWMEN WHO DIED AT SEA
Surname
Christian
Age
Vessel
Birth
Occupation
Date of Death
Detail
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BRADLEY WILLIAM . HMT ARCTIC PIONEER . Engineer 27 May 1942  
CLEMENT WILLIAM 25 HMT ARCTIC PIONEER . Seaman 27 May 1942 Son of George and Rachel Clement, of Edinburgh
DAVIDSON ROBERT 20 HMT ARCTIC PIONEER . Seaman 27 May 1942 Son of William and Isabella Davidson, of Gourdon, Kincardineshire
GARDINER ALEXANDER JOHN . HMT ARCTIC PIONEER . Second Hand 27 May 1942 Son of Alexander and Margaret Addison Gardiner, of Cullen, Banffshire
GOODWIN JOHN JAMES 22 HMT ARCTIC PIONEER . Seaman 27 May 1942 Husband of Winifred Helen Goodwin, of Bury, Lancashire
HOLLIS ALBERT EDWARD . HMT ARCTIC PIONEER . Seaman 27 May 1942 .
HOVELL WILLIAM ARTHUR 35 HMT ARCTIC PIONEER . Stoker 27 May 1942 Husband of Nellie Hovell, of Putney, London.
JOHN DAVID RAYMOND 24 HMT ARCTIC PIONEER . Seaman 27 May 1942 Husband of Dorothy John, of Llanelly
LITTLE KENNETH LIONEL . HMT ARCTIC PIONEER . Seaman 27 May 1942 Stepson of Elijah Ball, of Southport, Lancashire
MC CALLUM JOSEPH 25 HMT ARCTIC PIONEER . Engineer 27 May 1942 Son of Joseph and Charlotte E. McCallum, of Aberdeen
NORRIS EDWARD JOSEPH 32 HMT ARCTIC PIONEER . Seaman 27 May 1942 Husband of Margaret Norris of Amblerthorne Yorkshire
ROONEY JAMES WILLIAM 25 HMT ARCTIC PIONEER . Seaman 27 May 1942 Son of Thomas and Harriet Rooney, of Liverpool.
THOMAS WILLIAM JOHN 32 HMT ARCTIC PIONEER . Stoker 27 May 1942 Son of Charles and Florrance Emily Thomas, of Cardiff; husband of Lily Elizabeth Thomas, of Cardiff.
THOMSON LEWIS MITCHELL 22 HMT ARCTIC PIONEER . Seaman 27 May 1942 Son of James and Margaret Black Thomson, of Stechford, Birmingham.
WHALLEY GEORGE EDWARD 21 HMT ARCTIC PIONEER . Stoker 27 May 1942 Husband of Doris Whalley, of Higher Hillgate, Stockport.
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