Author: Trevor Hallifax

Boras or Boreas Built 11/09/1907 Cochrane & Son Selby for Consolidated Steam Fishing & Ice Co Grimsby
1914 Requisitioned as a minesweeper
1919 Returned to owners 
09/1927 Registered to Consolidated Fisheries Ltd
06/1928 Transferred to Lowestoft and registered as LT 398 
1939 Requisitioned as an auxiliary patrol vessel 
1940 Renamed Cuckoo and became a minesweeper 
02/1940 Returned to owners 

Her Details are 

• Official Number 125086
• Yard Number 419 
• Admiralty number FY 165
• 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

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Bonito built by Cochranes of Beverley 20/03/1885 for John Hellyer Hull
27/03/1885 First registered as H 1431
02/10/1890 she was sold to Germany and renamed Fiducia Dei
06/1892 Sold to Great Grimsby Ice Co Grimsby
13/06/1892 Renamed Bonito and registered as GY 462
1895 sold to Hewett of London
18/03/1896 she ws registered at Great Yarmouth YH 150
19/02/1900 the Registry was closed

Her details are

• Official Number 91404
• Yard Number 5
• 90 GT 
• Dimensions 79.2 x 20.3 x 10.1

Bonheur 04/1921 Sold to N. Carpenter Grimsby
11/1922 Bought by G. Eratt 
03/1924 Sold to W. Johnson 

Her Details are 

• Official Number 166652
• GT 8.8 NT 8.8 
• Dimensions 31.1 x 8.7 x 3.6 

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Bonby Built 1946 for Shire Trawlers Grimsby
04/1950 Sold to Northern Trawlers Grimsby 
11/1951 Bought by owners in Lowestoft

Her Details are 

• Official Number 166652
• GT 123 NT 40 
• Dimensions 92.9 x 22.5 x 9.9 

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