Bloomfield Built 1906 for Owners in Banff
12/1923 Sold to Flotsam Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby
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Assumed to have floundered in the North Sea on the 10/10/1926
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Blanche Built 18/12/1906 Cook Welton & Gemmell Beverley for Hellyer Steam Fishing Co Ltd Hull registered as H 928
05/1915 Requisitioned as a minesweeper
31/07/1917 Purchased by Captain Q Dick Milford Haven
1929 To owners in Hull
1939 Bought by J W Hates Hull
12/1945 Bought by Consolidated Fisheries Ltd and registered with subsidiary Wendover Steam Fishing Co Grimsby
06/1946 Sold to St Christopher Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby
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Scrapped in 07/1952
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Blakkur Built 27/08/1931 Cook Welton & Gemmell Beverley for Rinovia Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby
1938 Renamed Rinovia
31/08/1939 Requisitioned as a minesweeper
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Sunk by mine off Falmouth Bay on the 02/11/1940
Blake built 1900 by Earle’s Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd Hull for William Grant Grimsby
01/1915 Requisitioned
02/1915 Renamed BLAKEDOWN
19/02/1915 North Sea – Stranded and total wreck at Crudensgeir or Cruden Skares near Peterhead Aberdeenshire 57.24.30N 01.51.15W No lives lost
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19/02/1915 Wrecked at Crudensgeir whilst in Admiralty Service
Blaefell Built 07/08/1941 Cochrane & Son Selby for the Admiralty as Fish Class trawler Bonito
27/02/1947 Bought by Consolidated Fisheries Ltd Grimsby renamed Blaefell registered as GY 456
01/1955 Sold to Clifton Steam Trawlers Ltd Fleetwood and registered as FD 40
Sold to South Africa where she became Benjamin Gelcer.
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Lost in 1967
Black Watch was built by Rickmers Weft, Bremenhaven, Germany
04/1956 and was owned by Loyal Steam Fishing Co from 07/1956.
01/1966 sold to Northern Trawlers
08/1976 sold to Belgium
One incident reported in the Grimsby Bygones Paper, in June 1974 she was involved in a collision with the Vianova, another Grimsby Trawler, whilst fishing off Iceland, The Vianova required repairs to her stern which were carried out in Iceland but the Black Watch came off worse and suffered a flooded fish room which needed her to be beached before repairs could be undertaken. She finally returned to Grimsby by which time the catch had gone rotten and she became famous for the smell of rotten fish coming from her hold.
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Scrapped 08/1976
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03/04/1895 Dandy In collision with EMPRESS OF INDIA of Grimsby approx 130 miles E N E of Spurn Point
Black Prince Built 29/04/1930 Smith’s Dock Co. Ltd Stockton-on-Tees for Consolidated Fisheries Ltd Grimsby
Lost 12/05/1932 Ran aground off the Westermann Islands Iceland
The vessel was refloated but she foundered in shallow water shortly afterwards
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12/05/1932 Foundered after stranding at Westmann Isles