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Alabama GY 941

Alabama Built 15/09/1898 Edwards Bros North Shields for  J. & G. Alward Ltd Grimsby

Her Details are 

  • Official Number 109826
  • Yard Number 578
  • GT 136 NT 43
  • Dimensions 100.8 x 20.6 x 10.7
  • Quarter deck 18 Foc’sle 21

24/09/1905 Stranded 1/2 mile E of Cape Wrath

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Alabama GY 115

Built 11/1863 as a Dandy Trawl

Her Details are

  • Official Number 47991
  • Crew 3 men 2 boys

Missing Supposed foundered in the North sea 12/1877

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Akranes GY 1219

Akranes built 24/02/1899 by Edwards Bros, North Shields for Fiskeri og Handels A/S Isafold, Reykjavik, Iceland
1915 sold to James H Marr Fleetwood FD 33
Requisitioned by the Admiralty as a Boom Defence Vessel 
1919 Returned to owners 
10/1920 Sold to Edward Baxter, Grimsby 
02/1923 Sold to E. Baskcomb, Grimsby
05/1928 Sold to Baskcomb & Northcote Ltd, Grimsby
08/1929 Sold to Dutch owners. Renamed Anna Josina 

Shown Here as FD 33

Her Details are 

  • Official Number 114418
  • Yard Number 608
  • GT 184 NT 73
  • Dimensions 114.6 x 21.1 x 10.8
  • Quarter deck 48  Foc’sle 21
  • Engines GT Grey South Shields 3cyl 52rhp

Scrapped in 1936

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Akranes GY 155

Akranes Built 07/09/1929 Cochrane & Sons for Consolidated Fisheries Ltd, Grimsby
11/1929 Registered
08/1939 Requisitioned by the Admiralty as a minesweeper. 
Joined the 40th Minesweeper Group based at Grimsby.
04/07/1941 Lost Foundered following attack by German aircraft in Bridlington bay.
She had been made command vessel of a group of three mine sweeping trawlers, employed in sweeping the channel between Flamborough Head and Sheringham.
The trawler was at anchor off Danes Dyke, south of Flamborough Head at night, with the trawlers Sandringham and Almandine, following the days mine sweeping work.
The Almandine was guard ship for the night, shortly after midnight a German aircraft approached very low, the gunners on the Almandine assumed it to be an allied plane returning from a raid.
The plane dropped two bombs, neither of which exploded, but cannon fire ripped through the deck of the Akranes and caused her to sink, leaving her wheelhouse and forecastle awash.
The crew escaped in their own lifeboat.

SurnameForenamesAge at DeathDate of DeathRankBoat
BAINWilliam S R3112/07/1941StokerAkranes


Her Details are 

  • Official Number 160979
  • Yard Number 1060
  • Admiralty Number FY 513
  • Call Sign GMJX
  • GT 358 NT 153
  • Dimensions 140.4 x 25 x 13.2
  • Quarter Deck 78 Foc’sle 22
  • Engines by CD Holmes & Co Triple expansion 13½, 24, 39 x 27in 103 HP 1 single ended boiler, 200lb pressure

04/07/1941 Sunk by Aircraft Bridlington Bay whilst in Admiralty Service

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Ajax GY 18

Ajax built 14/02/1896 by Cochrane Cooper & Schofield Beverly for W Grant 
Registered 02/1896 GY 18
03/09/14 The Vessel was presumed mined approx 29 miles E by N of Spurn 
All 9 hands lost
Grimsby Telegraph 03/09/1914 Reports
The Ajax sailed from Grimsby on the a.m. tide Wednesday 26/08/1914
Thursday 03/09/1914 Skipper H. Baker, of the trawler Cygnus which arrived in dock Wednesday night, reported having picked up, at eleven o’clock yesterday morning, on the way to Grimsby, a buoy belonging to the Ajax
This was about 29 miles E. 3/4 N. of Spurn. There was also floating on the surface of the water a piece of wreckage which had apparently formed part of the life-boat, together pound boards and dead fish, mostly cod.
The trawler Gardenia which was outward bound, also passed the spot, and picked up another life-buoy carried by the Ajax
Ship presumed mined, given up as lost with all nine hands

SurnameForenameAge At DeathDate Of DeathRankUnit
GRANTALFRED2502/09/1914Third HandAjax
GRANTEDWARDUnknown02/09/1914SkipperAjax
PETTMAN5002/09/1914First EngineerAjax
ELTON3002/09/1914Fourth HandAjax
COLEMAN4002/09/1914Second HandAjax   
BAYESTHOMAS7002/09/1914StewardAjax
POTTERJOHN3302/09/1914TrimmerAjax
NAYLOR2102/09/1914Fourth HandAjax
BACON2802/09/1914Second EngineerAjax

Her details are 

  • Official number 105541
  • Yard Number 147
  • GT 123 NT 33
  • 40 Horsepower
  • Dimensions 89.4′ x 20.1′ x 10.8′ 
  • Quarterdeck 17 feet
  • Engines C D Holmes 40 rhp 3 cyl 10.0 Knots

Sank after hitting a mine in the Humber estuary on Wednesday 02/09/1914

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Aigrette GY 1324

Aigrette Built 1918 Murdock & Murray Glasgow as a Strath Class Boat Named Joseph Coates
12/1921 Joseph Coates GY 1324 Owned by Consolidated Steam Fishing & Ice Co
02/1922 Renamed Aigrette GY 1324

Her Details are

  • Official Number 144700
  • GT 215 NT 81
  • Dimensions 115.5 x 22 x 12

14/12/1924 Foundered 150 miles NE of Aberdeen

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Agra GY 608

Built 04/1877 as a Dandy Trawl

Her Details are

  • Official Number 76688
  • Crew 3 men 2 boys

Went to Great Yarmouth 03/1896

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Agonist GY 802

Built 06/1881 as a Dandy Trawl

Her Details are

  • Officail Number 83543
  • Crew 2 men 3 boys

Sunk after collision in the North Sea 09/1896

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Agnes Louisa GY 1083

Built 04/1886 as a Ketch

Her details are

  • Official Number 92816
  • Crew 4 men 6 boys

Sold to Danes 12/1899

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Agile GY 263

Agile built 17/01/1907 by Cook Welton & Gemmell Beverley for W Grant
27/12/1914 Requisitioned as a minesweeper Harwich-based
1915 Renamed St. Vincent II
Skipper George Rushton RNR Division of seven trawlers clearing field laid east of Sunk LV completed one sweep and division reversed course preparing to stream wires
Mined at 1020 laid by UC 11 Benno von Ditfurth sank rapidly after large explosion off Sunk Head LV off Harwich
3 ratings lost 

SurnameForenamesAge at DeathDate of DeathRankBoat
CREAR Ernest G 4227/04/1917Engineman Agile
JEFFERY Charles G 2327/04/1917Deck Hand Agile
RAMPLING Ambrose H 4127/04/1917Engineman Agile
MUMMERYLeonard R3627/04/1917Deck HandAgile

Her details are

  • Official Number 125056
  • Yard number 132
  • Admiralty number FY 697
  • GT 246 NT 100
  • Dimensions 125 x 22 x 11.8
  • Quarter Deck 68 Foc’sle 19
  • Engines by CD Holmes 3 cylinders of 12½, 22 & 35 inches with 24 inch stroke 70 HP 10.5 Knots

27/04/1917 Mined off Sunk Head Light Vessel 51.54N 01.20E off Harwich whilst in Admirlaty Service