The engine powered a single screw propeller driven via a geared low pressure turbine.

[2] The ship was named for Carl Röver, a Nazi Gauleiter and party official.

[4] Carl Röver was one of the first two fishing trawlers built by Bremenhaven-based shipbuilder Seebeckwerft after Hitler's rise to power, along with R. Walther Darré.

[3][5] Carl Röver took part in the Festungkriegsübung Swinemünde naval exercises on 10 June 1937.

[5] On 28 July 1942, Carl Röver and V 292 Hermann Bösch involved in a battle with the Royal Navy destroyers HMS Calpe, HMS Cottesmore, and two motor gun boats in the English Channel off La Hague, Manche, France.

[3] On 13 July 1944, she was severely damaged in an engagement with HMS Eskimo and HMCS Huron in which V 213 Claus Bolten and the minesweeper M 4611 were sunk.

[8] Due to damage received, Carl Röver was withdrawn from service in September 1944.

She returned to merchant service in December as the fishing boat Essen, registration BX343,[9] under the ownership of the Nordsee Deutsche Hochseefischerei AG, Bremen.

She was sold to M. K. Walsh, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, United Kingdom, who had her repaired and renamed Handsome.

In 1979, Handsome I was sold to A. R. Hegazi Bureau d'Assistance Maritime Agence, Beirut, Lebanon and was renamed Walid.