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Ashwold GY 697

Ashwold Built 17/09/1894 Cochrane & Cooper Beverley for Northwold Steam Fishing Co. Ltd Grimsby
11/02/1917 Stopped by UC 44 133 miles NE by N of the river Tyne and sunk by gun fire
Skipper taken prisoner, Crew released


Her Details are 

  • Official Number 104186
  • Yard Number 117
  • GT 129 NT 45
  • Quarter Deck 17
  • Dimensions 93.5 x 20.5 x 11
  • Engines Amos & Smith 35 rhp 3 Cyl 9.0 knots

11/02/1917 Sunk by U Boat 130 miles N E by N of Shields

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Ashton GY 123

Ashton built 24/09/1896 Edwards Bros North Shields for Hagerup Doughty & Co Grimsby
04/1906 Registered to Consolidated Steam Fishing & Ice Co 
10/1914 Requisitioned as a minesweeper
09/1918 Returned to owners 
01/1925 Moved to Lowestoft and became a Mission ship LO 401 
1929 Sold to P J Schipper, Ymuiden Netherlands and renamed Ecliptica

Her Details are

  • Official Number 106672
  • Yard Number 531
  • Admiralty number FY 640
  • Armament 1-3pdr
  • GT 144 NT 46
  • Engines 30 HP
  • Dimensions 104 x 20.7 x 10.5

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Ashby GY 359

Ashby built 1891 Furner & Leaver of Grimsby as a Ketch for J E Furner and L W Leaver
17/08/1891 Registered at Grimsby 
06/1899 went to W Armitage
Motor Fitted Date unknown

Her Details Are

  • Official Number 99174
  • GT 48
  • Dimensions 62.6′ x 17.9′ x 8.45′
  • Crew of 4 men

04/05/1940 Register Closed

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Ashanti GY 16

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Artillaryman GY 90

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Arthur Pelham GY 859

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Arthur Herwin GY 279

Arthur Herwin Built 09/12/1919 Fleming & Ferguson Ltd Paisley for The Admiralty as Strath Class trawler
10/11/1919 Sold to the Montrose Fishing Co Ltd and renamed River Lossie registration number ME 121 
05/1923 Acquired by Consolidated Steam Fishing & Ice Co, Grimsby and registered as GY 279
09/1927 Registered to Consolidated Fisheries Ltd Grimsby 
08/1935 Moved to Aberdeen and registered as A 332 under ownership of Skipper J. K. Robertson 
06/1940 Requisitioned as an Auxiliary Patrol vessel 
02/1945 Returned to fishing 
28/03/1953 she was half full of water and was abandoned by her crew of eleven She became a total loss soon afterwards


Her Details are 

  • Official Number 144163 
  • Yard number 455
  • Call Sign GYNM
  • Admiralty Number 4.246
  • GT 202 NT 86
  • Dimensions 115.5 x 22.1 x 12.1

Ran aground in a gale and snow on Friday 27/03/1953 on Robbie Ramsays Baa outside of Lerwick harbour 

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Arthur & Fanny GY 880

Arthur & Fanny built by Smith, Stevenson & Vere Grimsby 1883 for T Sleight & Wm Grant
Registered 02/1883
She was sold to the Danes 02/1899
Registered on 23/02/1899 as ÍS 29
In Ísafjordur, Iceland, as property of Leonard Tang,
1907 the firm was restyled Leonard Tang & sön. The company was wound up during WW1, as Britain used its domination at sea to sever commercial links between Iceland and Denmark.
The Isafjordur branch was sold off in 1918, and the ship vanishes from the records until 1926, when it was registered in Reykjavík as RE 259, but the property of “Djupbaturinn hf” Isafjordur, a company that maintained a post-and-transport boat in the vicinity of Isafjordur.
The Arthur & Fanny had presumably been used as transport during the time it vanished from the fishery records.
1929 the registration is transferred to Isafjordur (ÍS 499).
1936 ownership passed to the local bank (Utvegsbanki Íslands) .
The boat got a new engine in 1939, a 110 hp June Munktell. (Previous engine a 48 hp Tuxham, of unknown age.) 3/8/1940 sold to Kristjan Tryggvason, Akureyri, Iceland, registerd EA 658.
The boat had returned to fishing. 6/6/1941 sold to Oskar Halldorsson Gardur, Gullbringusysla, Iceland, renamed Arthur GK 374.
14/3/1945 sold to Hf. Milly, Siglufjördur, Iceland, renamed Milly SI 81.
3/8/1958, the boat was sold to Gunnar Halldorsson Hf, Raufarhöfn Iceland, and Leifur Zakaríasson, Reykjavík, and registered at Reykjavík, as Milly RE 39.

Her Details are

  • Official Number 86449
  • 46.42 GT
  • Dimensions 61.5′ x 18′ x 8.5′
  • Crew of 3 men and 2 boys

The information above has been kindly supplied by  Birgir Thorisson, Iceland

Removed from the registry 18/8/1963 as no longer usable. 23/12/1894 Dandy Foundered approx 16 miles N E of spurn Point

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Arthur & Ernest GY 821

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Arsenal GY 48

Arsenal Built 28/09/1957 Cook Welton & Gemmell Beverley for Consolidated Fisheries Ltd Grimsby

Arsenal GY 48

Her Details are

  • Official Number 181398
  • Yard Number 928
  • Call Sign GXJC
  • GT 774 NT 272
  • Foc’sle 32
  • Engines Triple expansion steam engine by Charles D. Holmes Hull which had cylinders 17¼, 29½, and 48½in by 30in stroke 13.5 knots. 
  • Dimensions 189.4 x 32.5 x 17.5

Sent for scrap 12/03/1975