Author: Trevor Hallifax

Vambery built 1917 Cochrane & Sons Selby for Atlas Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby
07/1917 Requisitioned as a mine sweeper then escort vessel
1920 Returned
07/1935 Sold to Shire Trawlers Ltd Grimsby
08/1936 Sold to Earl Steam Fishing Grimsby 
04/1937 Renamed Saronta
06/1940 Requisitioned as an auxiliary patrol vessel 
01/1941 Converted to a minesweeper 
12/1940 Sold to Sir Alec Black Bart Grimsby 
22/04/1942 Bought by the Active Fishing Co Fleetwood 
12/1945 Returned to owners 
12/1946 Bought by Lord Line Hull H 390 

Her Details are

• Official Number 139956
• Yard Number 677
• Admiralty Number FY 1280 FY 1849
• Armament 1-6pdr 1-7.5in Bomb Thrower
• GT 316 NT 127
• Dimensions 135.5 x 23.5 x 12.3
• Quarter deck 74 Foc’sle 21
• Engines 84 HP  

Scrapped in 1952

Valmont built 1916 Cook Welton & Gemmell Beverley for South Western Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby
05/1916 Requisitioned as a mine sweeper
27/02/1917 Sold to Neal Green Grimsby
04/06/1917 Bought by the Cleethorpes Steam Trawling Co Ltd Grimsby
12/1918 Returned
25/02/1919 Bought by the Victorian Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby 
19/12/1929 Sold to the Lindsey Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby 
29/11/1939 Requisitioned as a minesweeper 
12/1945 Returned to owners 
During her refit the vessel was given the port’s first electric engine room telegraph system 

Her Details are 

• Official Number 138953
• Yard Number 340
• Admiralty Number FY 864
• Armament 1-6pdr
• GT 245 NT 108
• Dimensions 117.3 x 22.5 x13.2
• Quarter deck 61
• Engines Amos & Smith 92 NHP 11 Knots

Scrapped in 1961