HMS Sir Galahad (T226)
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| Name: | HMS Sir Galahad |
| Laid down: | 13 June 1941 |
| Launched: | 18 December 1941 |
| Commissioned: | 28 February 1942 |
| Decommissioned: | February 1946 |
| Struck: | April 1946 |
| Fate: | Transferred to civilian ownership |
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| Name: | Star of Freedom |
| Owner: | Walker Steam Trawling & Fishing Co Ltd |
| Acquired: | April 1947 |
| Fate: | sold March 1956 |
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| Name: | Robert Limbrick |
| Owner: | Milford Fisheries Ltd |
| Acquired: | March 1956 |
| Fate: | Ran aground on Quinish Point off Mull, 5 February 1957 |
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| Class and type: | Round Table class Minesweeper, later Danlayer |
| Displacement: | 440 long tons (447 t) |
| Length: | 125 ft (38.1 m) |
| Beam: | 23 ft 6 in (7.2 m) |
| Draught: | 13 ft 9 in (4.2 m) |
| Complement: | 35 |
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HMS Sir Galahad was a trawler built for the British Royal Navy in 1941. Post war it was sold into civilian service and was wrecked in 1957 after running aground off the Isle of Mull.
The vessel was built by Hall, Russell & Company of Aberdeen to a 1936 design of the same company. Although the design was for a trawler the ship was commissioned as a minesweeper (Pennant number T226). Launched in December 1941 she was the second member of the Round Table class. In March 1943 the Sir Galahad was one of the first ships to respond when the aircraft carrier HMS Dasher sank in the River Clyde. In 1944, having been converted to a danlayer, Sir Galahad was attached to the 14th Minesweeping Flotilla, part of Force U. The 14th Minesweeping Flotilla took part in Operation Neptune, the maritime part of the Normandy Landings.
Decommissioned in February 1946, the ship was sold in April of the same year to the Walker Steam Trawling & Fishing Co Ltd of Aberdeen and renamed Star of Freedom, her merchant marine registration number being A283. Walker's sold the vessel onto Milford Fisheries Ltd of Milford Haven who renamed the ship again as the Robert Limbrick
Less than a year after purchase by Milford Fisheries Ltd, the Robert Limbrick was lost at sea with the loss of all 12 of her crew. She had sailed from Milford on 2 February 1957 under skipper William Burgoyne to fish for hake off Scotland. On Tuesday 5 February reports were received by Oban radio that the ship was aground off Quinish Point, Mull (56°38′00″N 6°13′42″W / 56.63333°N 6.22833°W) and that the crew had abandoned ship. Despite a search by other vessels in the area and the lifeboat from Mallaig, no survivors were found and only two bodies were recovered at the time. The bodies of the rest of the crew were washed ashore over the next weeks.
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