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Catania GY 1216

Catania Built 1901 Watson & Bird Hull for Grimsby Alliance Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby
04/1908 Bought by owners in Denmark where she became Svendborg 
07/1910 Back to Grimsby Alliance Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby
Renamed Calvinia Registered as GY 559 
01/1915 Requisitioned as a minesweeper
03/1918 Sold to W. Doughty Grimsby 
1919 Returned to owners
03/1924 Bought by the Gorspen Steam Trawling Co Aberdeen
01/1940 Requisitioned as a minesweeper
01/1945 Returned to owners 

Her Details are 

  • Official Number 113221
  • Admiralty Number FY 1850 FY 734
  • Armament 1-6pdr AA
  • GT 197 NT 69 
  • Dimensions 111 x 21 x 11 
  • Quarter deck 46 Foc’sle 21