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Cecil Coombes GY 487

Cecil Coombes Built 19/12/1918 Cook Welton & Gemmell Beverley for The Admiralty as Castle a Class trawler
Completed as a fishing trawler
1919 Sold J. Coombes Grimsby renamed Cecil Coombes GY 487 
1922 Renamed Highbridge 
1925 Bought by M. F. Pujol Cadiz Spain and renamed Santa Urbana 
1931 Sold to L. Carranza Cadiz 
1936 Bought by Anselmo Ceo Garcia Cadiz 
1936 Requisitioned by the Nationalist Spanish Navy
1939 Returned to fishing 

Her Details are

  • Official Number 140796 in 1922
  • Yard Number 407 
  • Admiralty Number FY 4291
  • GT 285 NT 111 
  • Dimensions 125.5 x 23.5 x 12.7 
  • Quarter deck 72 Foc’sle 21 
  • Engines Amos & Smith 480 IHP 10½ knots 

Sold for scrap and broken up in Spain in 1971