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O.304 Laermans

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Does anyone know the date and possible location were the Belgian trawler O.304 Laermans sunk. She must have sunk in October or December 1949, probably around the Doggers Bank.

I believe she dissaperaed without any trace, but I'm not sure...

Thanks in advance,

Frederic
 

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Missing O.304- "Laermans"

The O.304 - "Laermans" (Sistership O.305 "Francois Musin") belonged to the Belgian N.V. Motorvisserij from Oostende.
She was just a few month old, as she disappeared without a trace on 18 th(official date of loss) October 1948 sowewhere at the Doggersbank. The number of victims differs between 8 to 10, but there were nobody saved anyway !

There is something about the ship at the Oostende-Zeevisserij-page (with a special small link to the "Laermans") on :

http://www.ibiblio.org/musin/files/laermans/index.php

I found another trace at the page of the Oostende-family Verburgh, which had some family members on the ship earlier (Click left on "3" !):

http://groups.msn.com/fishermenandboates/verburghsdeel3.msnw

Maybe You should send them or the Oostende-fishery-school-archive (look around the website !!) an e-mail and they know more.

Hope, I helped You
Nice Regards from the Danube
Werner
 
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"Laermans" again..

Excusez moi, Frederic

I didn't want to tease You, I saw later another of Your postings and understood, that You are living in Oostende. (Nice place !)
So You must know already the things, I posted here.....

Nice visserij-page You got !
But anyhow : Had there been 8 or 10 crew-members aboard ?
I don't know about the weather in this specific days on the Doggersbank, but at those days (1947, shortly after WW II) it could be a sea-mine also !
In 1961 I was as an OS working on a german "Fischkutter"- "HF 484" and we still caught a mine in the net during trawling in the Kattegat. The thing didn't explode - for heaven's sake - and the experts said later, that the mine was from WW I(!) and still flooding around in the Northsea !!

Nice Regards + Groetjes
Werner
 
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No problem Werner, I'm happy you alreayd tried to help me!

The problem with the vessels was there ballast. These ships had water tanks for keeping them right and most likely, the forgot to fill there tanks while fishing. At least that is what I heard.
Since there has never been a SOS signal, could a mine have been the cause of sinking so quickly?

Frederic
 
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