HMT Responso
HMT Responso (No 196) 31/12/1915
Displacement: 228 grt.
Length: 35.75 m. Beam: 6.7 m. Draught: 3.35 m.
Propulsion: 3cyl.trip.exp Single boiler, single screw.
Complement: officers and men.
Crew Lost: 0
Armament: 1 x 3 pdr
Displacement: 228 grt.
Length: 35.75 m. Beam: 6.7 m. Draught: 3.35 m.
Propulsion: 3cyl.trip.exp Single boiler, single screw.
Complement: officers and men.
Crew Lost: 0
Armament: 1 x 3 pdr
The Responso was a steam trawler built by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd of Beverley in 1912 and registered in Grimsby GY666.
The Loss
On the 31st December 1915 HMT Responso stranded on The Rive, (The Riv) a reef of the north coast of Sanday, Orkney and became a total wreck.
All crew were saved.
All crew were saved.
The Riv . (The Rive) Orkney Islands Northern Sheet 1915. (UKHO)
Responso ADM 137-434 Orkney & Shetland Auxilary Patrol Reports
Home Waters Telegrams, 1-6 January 1916. ADM 137/207
The Wreck.
The wreck site of HMT Responso has not been located and there is no UKHO Wreck Card.
