SLB 5 blt Cochrane & Sons, Selby (yard 815)
L 7.7.17 completed 29.10.17
MERSEY class Admiralty trawler (standard unit)
17-20 JAMES ADAMS FY 3555 Royal Navy
20-40 PILOTE 5 Administration de la Marine, Ostend Be/
2.40-40 A 5 Belgian Marine Corps
1.6.40 was at Dunkirk
18.6.40 towed the French patrol boat P 55 LA CHERBOURGEOISE from Lorient to Le Verdon.
June 1940 interned Spain (26.6.40 arrived at Portugalete,near Bilbao)
24.2.41 crew repatriated
1946 towed back to Ostend by tug ZEEHOND
46-46 SLB 5 Belgian Administration
moored 2nd Handelsdok (now“Mercator” dock)
Utilisé comme navire-école par la Zeevaartschool (sections pont et machines) en compagnie du A 4
46-47 SLB 5 loaned to Belgian Navy
ship laid up at Ostend until 1950
26.5.50 delivered to Marine Cadets, Brussels at Ostend and left Ostend in tow of tug ZEELEEUW to Wintham, then towed by tug PRESIDENT BARON LOUIS STEENS and arrived Brussels on 28.5.50.
renamed CONSTANT VAN DER MEER in 50/51
SE 1957 as stationary training ship
Became ??
Note:démonté en partie à Ostende pour permettre le passage sous les ponts du canal de Wintham à Bruxelles (mâts, cheminée…)
26.5.50…. concerne peut-être en fait le P 13 ??
Et voilà son historique (incomplet)