HMD Sheen FY 51(admiralty number 3955) was a steel drifter built in May 1918 by J W Brooke and Co., Ltd., Lowestoft, to a standard admiralty design by Alex Hall and Co, Aberdeen.
She had an 86 ft keel, beam of 18 ft, and depth of 10ft 6", and displaced 97 gross tons as per admiralty specifications. Her engine was a Beardmore triple expansion engine.
During WW2 she was used as a torpedo recovery vessel and on harbour duties in Scapa Flow.
Armament 1x 6 pounder .
In 1946 she returned to fishing and was registered as Summer Rose PD246, and was scrapped in 1955.
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