Buckingham Built 10/09/1930 Cochrane & Sons Selby for Queen Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby 08/1939 Requisitioned as a minesweeper 02/1940 Converted to a Boom Defence Vessel 12/1945 Returned to owners 04/1956 Bought by owners in Leith 09/1959 Sold to Alfred Bannister Grimsby renamed Ocean Vinca registered GY 64 1959 Renamed Saxon Alfred 10/1962 Bought by owners in Denmark
Buckingham Built 31/01/1899 Cochrane & Cooper Ltd Beverley & Selby for Queen Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby 1917 Requisitioned into the Fishery Reserve and flew white ensign continued commercial fishing under naval control 1919 Returned to owners 03/1930 Bought by A. Grant Grimsby 08/1930 Renamed Warren 10/1940 Sold to Shire Trawlers Ltd Grimsby 12/1940 Bought by J. Bennett Grimsby 12/1943 Sold to the Wembley Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby 11/1945 Sold to owners in London 01/1946 Sold to owners in Lowestoft
Her Details are
Official Number 110867
Yard Number 231
GT 172 NT 62
Dimensions 100 x 21 x 11
Quarter deck 48 Foc’sle 17
10/12/1904 Stranded 2 miles N of Tunstall Yorkshire
Bucentaur built 11/09/1907 Cochrane & Sons Selby for Consolidated Steam Fishing & Ice Co Grimsby 08/1914 Requisitioned as a minesweeper 1919 Returned to owners 01/1925 Transferred to Lowestoft registered as LT 170 11/1939 Requisitioned as an auxiliary patrol trawler 01/1940 Returned to owners
Her Details are
Official Number 125087
Yard Number 420
Admiralty number FY 297
Armament 1-6pdr
GT 184 NT 88
Dimensions 105 x 21.5 x 12
Quarter deck 62 Foc’sle 15
Engines Triple expansion 11.5, 19.5 32 in x 23 in 57 NHP by C D Holmes & Co Hull
Brucklay was built 08/11/1900 by Hall & Russell of Aberdeen for Fraserbro & North of Scotland Steam Trawling Co Ltd 1902 she was owned by Fraserburgh & North of Scotland Steam Fishing Co FR 835 1910 she was owned by The Dundee Steam Fishing Co Ltd Dundee 1916 Re Registered DE 5 same owners Until she went to Sleights During the WW1 conflict she was operating as a Fishery Trawler 21/05/1917 Sold to G F Sleight Registered at Grimsby as GY 1052 1918 Requisitioned by the Admiralty 1919 Returned to owners 13/12/1920 she was transfered to Aberdeen 1922 she was registered as A 489 and owned by A Walker of Aberdeen 1929 she was owned by E J Walker Edinburgh A 489
Bromelia built 14/12/1905 Cochrane & Sons Selby for North Eastern Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby 06/1915 Requisitioned as a minesweeper then hydrophone vessel 1919 Returned to owners 12/1919 Sold to T. W. Baskcomb Grimsby 10/1935 Bought by F. Parkes 11/1935 Sold to the United Steam Fishing Co Ltd
Surname
Forenames
Age at Death
Date of Death
Rank
Boat
HITCHMAN
JAMES
48
22/06/1942
Trimmer
Bromelia
WEBB
WILLIAM EDWARD
51
22/06/1942
Skipper
Bromelia
CORCORAN
LEO
38
22/06/1942
Second Engineer
Bromelia
BORE
CHARLES FREDERICK
44
22/06/1942
Second Hand
Bromelia
EDWARDS
EDWARD ABRAHAM
60
22/06/1942
Deck Hand
Bromelia
ROGERS
THOMAS
41
22/06/1942
First Engineer
Bromelia
ROLF
JAMES
48
22/06/1942
Trimmer
Bromelia
PERRIN
FREDERICK ARTHUR
46
22/06/1942
Deck Hand
Bromelia
CLARK
RALPH HERBERT
51
22/06/1942
Deck Hand
Bromelia
OSGOTHORPE
WILLIAM
49
22/06/1942
Deck Hand
Bromelia
CUTHBERT
SIDNEY VICTOR
44
22/06/1942
Cook
Bromelia
ELLIS
WILLIAM
34
22/06/1942
Deck Hand
Bromelia
NICHOLLS
JOHN HENRY
41
22/06/1942
Third Hand
Bromelia
Her Details are
Official Number 122718
Yard Number 358
Call Sign HFPL
Admiralty number FY 3203
Armament 1-12pdr
GT 242 NT 121
Dimensions 126.2 x 22 x 11.4
Quarter deck 67 Foc’sle 19
Lost 22/06/1942 It is thought that the vessel hit a mine as German records reveal that a U-boat witnessed an explosion
Briton Built 08/06/1891 Sir Raylton Dixon & Co Ltd Cleveland Yard Middlesbrough for Great Grimsby Albion Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby 01/1915 Sold to E. D. Baxter & A. W. Green Grimsby
Her Details are
Official Number 99179
Yard Number 343
Call Sign MJPV
GT 134 NT 55
Dimensions 96.3 x 20.3 x 10.7
Quarter deck 20 Foc’sle 19
24/09/1916 Sunk by U-boat gunfire about 18 miles S E by E of Flamborough Head
