Author: Trevor Hallifax

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Buzzard GY 825

Buzzard Built 21/07/1898 Cochrane & Cooper Beverley for T. Baskcomb Grimsby
01/1911 Bought by A. Black Grimsby 
12/1912 Sold to A. & J. Bannister & W. Barton Cleethorpes
02/1916 Sold to the East Anglia Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby 
1917 Requisitioned into the Fishery Reserve 
1919 Returned to owners
01/1920 Bought by A. & J. Bannister & W. Barton Cleethorpes 
11/1931 Sold to T. Ross Grimsby
05/1932 Sold to F. Bannister Grimsby
1940 Requisitioned as a boom gate vessel 
1941 Renamed Arrest 
07/1945 Returned to owners and reverted to original name
1948 laid up
1949 sold to BISCO and allocated for Breaking up at Dunston on Tyne

Shown here with A Bannister colours

Her Details are

  • Official Number 119814
  • Yard Number 193 
  • Admiralty Number Z 246
  • GT 181 NT 65 
  • Dimensions 109.1 x 21 x 11.3 
  • Quarter deck 46 Foc’sle 20 
  • Call Sign QGSL 
  • Engines C D Holmes 50rhp 3 Cyl 10.0 Knots

07/1949 Broken up River Tyne

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Butter Cup GY 1102

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Busy Bee GY 960

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Burton Constable GY 227

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Burton GY 414

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Bustard GY 1283

Bustard Built 1903 George Cooper Hull for T. Baskcomb Grimsby


Her Details are 

  • Official Number 118917 
  • GT 207 NT 72 
  • Dimensions 114.5 x 21.5 x 11.2 
  • Quarter deck 59 Foc’sle 19 

13/10/1908 Collision with SS JOHN O SCOTT of Newcastle approx 110 miles NE of Spurn Point

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Burke GY 285

Burke Built 10/1930 Cook Welton & Gemmell for Bunch Steam Fishing Co Original Name George Aunger GY 285
11/1935 Renamed Sandham GY 285
06/1938 Went to W Butt
07/1938 Went to Premier Steam Fishing Co
09/1938 Renamed Burke GY 285

Her Details are

  • Official Number 160996
  • GT 363 NT 173
  • Dimensions 145.9 x 24.2 x 13.1
    Quarter Deck 76 Foc’sle 21

Scrapped 07/1955

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Burfell GY 346

Burfell Built 22/10/1941 Cochrane & Sons Selby for The Admiralty as Fish Class trawler Whiting T 232 as an A/S Fitted with DC & ASDIC
15/10/1946 Bought by Consolidated Fisheries Grimsby renamed Burfell and registered as GY 346
10/03/1958 Sold To Rhondda Fishing Co
1960 Sold to BISCO for breaking
10/06/1960 Arrived Sunderland for Breaking Up

Her Details are 

  • Official Number 166651
  • Yard Number 1240 
  • Admiralty Number T232
  • Armament 1 4″ AA
  • GT 380 NT 142 
  • Dimensions 147.8 x 25.1 x 13.2 
  • Quarter deck 81 Foc’sle 25 
  • Engines C D Holmes 700ihp 11.0 Knots

Scrapped in Sunderland on 10/06/1960

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Bull Dog GY 576

Bull Dog built 26/03/1892 Cook Welton & Gemmell  for Humber Steam Trawling Co Hull H 192
30/07/1915 Sold to Walter H Beeley of Grimsby and Registered GY 576
1917 Requisitioned by the Royal Navy as a fishing Trawler for the Fishery Reserve
01/1918 Bought by N. Ashworth Fleetwood and registered as FD 328
1919 Returned to owners
1924 Sold to Shipbreakers and Broken up


Her Details are 

  • Official Number 99562
  • Yard number 82
  • GT 148 NT 57 
  • Quarter Deck 18 Foc’sle 18
  • Dimensions 100.4 x 20.7 x 10.6
  • Engines by Bailey & Leetham 45 NHP 10 Knots

Scrapped 1924

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Buffalo GY 52

Buffalo built 10/01/1905 Cook Welton & Gemmell Beverley for Henry Morris & Thomas E. Fisher Grimsby
07/1915 Requisitioned as a minesweeper 
12/1915 Renamed Buffalo II 
1919 Returned to owners and reverted to original name 
11/11/1926 Sold to Walter Garrett Grimsby
26/11/1931 Bought by Thomas E. Fisher Grimsby 

24/04/1909


Her details are

  • Official Number 118946
  • Yard Number 65
  • Call Sign HCFP
  • Admiralty number FY 1597
  • Armament 1-6pdr
  • GT 230 NT 92
  • Quarter deck 71 Foc’sle 20
  • Dimensions 122 x 21.5 x 11.4
  • Engines Amos & Smith 65 NHP 10 knots

Arrived at Thornaby for breaking up on the 27/04/1937