Author: Trevor Hallifax

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Athelstan GY 648

Athelstan built 15/08/1911 Cook Welton & Gemmell Beverley for Onward Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby
08/1914 Requisitioned as a minesweeper 
1919 Returned to owners 
17/09/1927 Sold to Sir Thomas Robinson & Sons Grimsby
29/12/1939 Requisitioned as an auxiliary patrol vessel
01/1940 The conversion to an auxiliary patrol vessel wasn’t carried out so she was returned to her owners
26/04/1940 Missing
Lost with all nine crew

SurnameForenamesAge at DeathDate of DeathRankBoat
SCOREROBERT2426/04/1940Deck HandAthelstan
GODDARDALFRED2526/04/1940Third HandAthelstan
FURNEAUXWALTER SIDNEY2926/04/1940Second HandAthelstan
SCOTTWALTER6426/04/1940CookAthelstan
SILVERJAMES HENRY3026/04/1940Second EngineerAthelstan
BECKITTCHARLES3526/04/1940TrimmerAthelstan
HARTLEYALFRED ERNEST3626/04/1940SkipperAthelstan
SARGENTTHOMAS RAYMOND3026/04/1940Deck HandAthelstan
WILLIAM CHARLES4426/04/1940First EngineerAthelstan

Her Details are

  • Official Number 132114
  • Yard Number 222
  • Admiralty number FY 343
  • Armament 1-6pdr AA
  • GT 202 NT 90
  • Quarter Deck 58
  • Engines Charles D. Holmes 67 HP 10 knots
  • Dimensions 115.4 x 21.6 x 11.5

Missing lost with all nine crew 26/04/1940

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Atalanta GY 171

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Aston Villa GY 508

Aston Villa Built 06/07/1933 Smiths Dock Co Ltd South Bank Middlesbrough for Consolidated Fisheries Ltd Grimsby
1947 Bought by Boston Deep Sea Fishing Co. Ltd Fleetwood who Re-named Fotherby and Registered FD 262
08/02/1951 Sold to the Ezra Fishing Company of Haifa & Tel Aviv 
A skeleton crew of seven men, deckhands and firemen arrived in Grimsby from Palestine to take the Fotherby to her new owners 
To be renamed Miriam and used mainly for fishing for bream off the coasts of Morocco and Greece
The vessel was the first steam trawler to be bought by the company and also the largest to be bought for fishing in the East
1953 The vessel was sold to new owners in Poland who gave her the new name of Pollux

Her Details are 

  • Official Number 162872
  • Yard Number 953
  • Call Sign GWLV
  • GT 397 NT 148
  • Quarter Deck 84 Foc’sle 25
  • Dimensions 155 x 26.4 x 12.2

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Aston Villa GY 42

Aston Villa Built 20/02/1946 Cook Welton & Gemmell Beverley for St. John, for St Andrews Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull and registered as H254
20/08/1948 The vessel was sold to the Newington Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull who renamed her as Anthony Hope
01/01/1957 Bought by Consolidated Fisheries registered as GY 42 
The trawler was also renamed Aston Villa, the third Consolidated vessel to bear the name
1965 Sold to Arie Rijsdijk, Holland for scrapping 


Her Details are 

  • Official Number 180483
  • Yard Number 763
  • Call Sign GDXN
  • GT 536 NT 192
  • Quarter DEck 91 Foc’sle 32
  • Engines Triple expansion steam engine by C. D Holmes & Co Ltd Hull which had 3 cylinders 14, 24, and 40in by 27in stroke 12½ knots
  • Dimensions 166.9 x 27.6 x 14.3

Scrapped at Dordrecht after arriving there on the 03/06/1965

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Aston Villa GY 428

Aston Villa Built 08/06/1937 Smiths Dock Co Ltd South Bank Middlesbrough for Consolidated Fisheries Ltd Grimsby
1939 Requisitioned and converted to A/S Joining the 16th A/SStrike Force as Group Leader Based Aberdeen
03/05/1940 Operating off the Norwegian coast the Aston Villa came under fire from enemy aircraft and suffered heavy damage 
Such was the extent of the damage that it was deemed inadvisable to attempt a North Sea crossing so the trawler was sunk by fire from our own forces

Her Details are 

  • Official Number 164431
  • Yard Number 1029
  • Call Sign GBBT
  • Admiralty Number FY 261
  • Armament 1 4 inch
  • GT 546 NT 196
  • Quarter Deck 77 Foc’sle 33
  • Dimensions 173.6 x 28.6 x 15
  • Engines 99 HP

03/05/1940 Sunk by Aircraft off Norway whilst in Admiralty Service 

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Assyrian GY 401

Assyrian built 05/02/1908 Coopers of Selby for Great Central Co-Op Engineering & Ship Repairing Co Ltd Grimsby
04/1909 Requisitioned and renamed SPIDER Converted to a mine sweeper and employed on M/S Experiments at Portland
1914 based at Portsmouth as an M/S Training Ship for Fishery Reserve Crews
Her Chief Gunner was Albert Frankland She was headed inshore at 2.00 am in a strong easterly gale with very heavy seas and was driven onto the beach near the War Signal Station at the Northern end of the breakwater, Lowestoft. The crew were taken off by lifeboat and she was abandoned as a wreck, the remains were sold 04/1915

Her Details Are

  • Official Number 127837
  • Yard Number 426
  • Admiralty Number FY 54
  • Armament 1 x 6pdr
  • 256 GT 107 NT
  • Dimensions 127 x 22 x 11.6
  • Quarter Deck 68′ Foc’sle 21′

22/11/1914 Wrecked off Lowestoft whilst in Admiralty Service

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Assyrian GY 877

Assyrian Built 10/08/1899 Cochrane & Cooper Ltd Beverley & Selby for Great Grimsby Co-op Engineering & Ship Repair Co Ltd Grimsby
06/1900 To owners in France 

Her Details are 

  • Official Number 110913
  • Yard Number 260
  • GT 176 NT 54
  • Quarter Deck 47 Foc’sle 22
  • Dimensions 110.6 x 21 x 11.2

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Assyrian GY 273

Assyrian Built 1890 by and for Great Grimsby Co-op Engineering Co Grimsby 04/1898 To the Great Central Co-op Engineering Co, Grimsby  05/1899 Bought by owners in Denmark

Her Details are 

  • Official Number 96232
  • GT 175 NT 84
  • Quarter Deck 47 Foc’sle 23
  • Dimensions 109.3 x 20.3 x 10.7

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Aspasia GY 793

Aspasia Built 21/12/1915 Smiths Dock Co Ltd South Bank Middlesbrough for Iceland Steam Fishing & Fish Curing Co Ltd Grimsby
04/1916 Requisitioned as a minesweeper 
12/1917 Bought by W. Alnutt 
1919 Returned to owners
01/1919 Bought by owners in Gloucester
04/1920 To owners in Scarborough 
To owners in Portugal where she became Lisboa then Albufeira

As can be clearly seen she has painted on the wrong Reg Number
GY 793 is the correct Registry

Her Details are

  • Official Number 138949
  • Yard Number 556
  • Admiralty number FY 1996
  • Armament 1-12pdr
  • GT 342 NT 141
  • Quarter Deck 78 Foc’sle 21
  • Engines 89 HP
  • Dimensions 140.6 x 24 x 13.2

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Asia GY 431

Asia Built 11/1891 Cochrane Cooper & Schofield Beverley for International Steam Trawling Co. Ltd Grimsby
18/12/1891 Registered as GY 431
07/1898 Sold to the North Eastern Steam Fishing Co. Grimsby
06/1912 Went to Consolidated Whaling & Deep Sea Fishing Co. Based at Durban 
08/1914 Sold to Irvin & Johnson Cape Town South Africa Based at Port Elizabeth
1930 Used as an Oil carrier

Her Details are 

  • Official Number 99663
  • Yard Number 68
  • GT 151 NT 66
  • Quarter Deck 19 Foc’sle 17
  • Dimensions 100.5 x 20.5 x 11
  • Engines C D Holmes 45 nhp 3 Cyl 10.0 Knots

29/11/1934 Scuttled off East London