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Author: Trevor Hallifax
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Virtue GY 475
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Viper GY 518
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Virgo GY 150
Virgo Built 1888 Earle’s Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd Hull for Grimsby & North Sea Steam Fishing Co.
09/1900 To Norway
05/1906 Returned to Grimsby & North Sea Steam Fishing Co registered as GY 144
09/1908 To Sweden
05/1909 Returned to Grimsby & North Sea Steam Fishing Co. Renamed Scorpio registered as GY 467
04/1913 Sold to the Aldersyde Steam Fishing Co.
12/1916 Sold to owners in Scarborough
Moved to North Shields
Her Details are
- Official Number 94080
- GT 145 NT 66
- Dimensions 101.6 x 20.5 x 10.6
- Quarter deck 17 Foc’sle 22
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Virgo GY 1008
Virgo Built 1885 Earle’s Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd Hull for Grimsby & North Sea Steam Fishing Co Grimsby
Her Details are
- Official Number 91512
- GT 135 NT 74
- Dimensions 95.5 x 20.1 x 10.5
- Quarter deck 16
Sank following a collision with Taurus of Grimsby approx 240 miles N E by E of Spurn Point in the North Sea. 18/08/1887 Register closed smae Month
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Virginian GY 116
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Virginian GY 211
Virginian built 1906 Cook Welton & Gemmell Beverley for Onward Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby
09/1914 Requisitioned as a mine sweeper
02/1915 Renamed VIRGINIAN II
1919 Returned Sank following a collision with the troopship Empire Rapier
05/11/1946 The collision happened 30 miles NNE of the River Humber and after an attempted towing of the Virginian failed her crew of eleven men were taken aboard the Empire Rapier and landed at Hull
Her Details are
- Official Number 123600
- Yard Number 131
- Admiralty Number FY 618
- Armament 1-3pdr
- GT 211 NT 76
- Dimensions 115.4 x 21.6 x 11.5
- Quarter deck 58 Foc’sle 19
- Engines Charles D. Holmes 60 NHP 10 Knots
Sank following a collision with the troopship SS Empire Rapier 05/11/1946 30 miles N N E of River Humber
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Virgilia GY 1200
Virgilia Built 1900 Schofield Hagerup & Doughty Grimsby for North Eastern Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby
Her Details are
- Official Number 113206
- Yard Number 22
- GT 209 NT 89
- Dimensions 116.2 x 21.5 x 11.2
- Quarter deck 48 Foc’sle 20
03/06/1917 Sunk by U Boat 5 miles E of Girdleness
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Violet Caie GY 1051
Violet Caie built 1889 Cook Welton & Gemmell for Charles Hellyer & James Chant of Hull
Originally called Graphic H 78
19/03/1890 She was sold to Parceria de Pescarais Norte Oporto Portugal renamed Chire
21/05/1917 she was sold to G F Sleight Renamed Violet Caie registered as GY 1051
1917 Requisitioned for the Fishery Reserve
1919 returned to the owners
04/12/1925 She was sold to Moreau & Cayrouse Dieppe France Renamed Jacqueline-Louise
1937 She was sold to the ship breakers and broken up
Her Details are
- Official Number 95807
- Yard Number 42
- 141 GT 68 NT
- Dimensions 103.7 x 20.3 x 10.7
- Engines by C D Holmes 45NHP 10 Knots
Scrapped in 1937
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Violet GY 90
Violet Built 1896 Cochrane & Cooper Beverley for Arctic Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby
07/1905 Sold to The Ceylon Company of Pearl Fishers Ltd Colombo Celon
1919 Removed from Lloyds Register
Her Details are
- Official Number 106661
- Yard Number 164
- GT 150 NT 57
- Dimensions 95.3 x 20.6 x 11
- Quarter deck 17
1919 Removed from Lloyds Register