Author: Trevor Hallifax

Valafell Built 1943 Cochrane & Sons Selby for The Admiralty as Fish Class Trawler Bream T 306 and commissioned as an A/S fitted with DC & ASDIC
Used on Russian Convoy Duties
24/05/1946 Bought by Consolidated Fisheries Ltd
26/11/1946 Renamed Valafell GY 386
27/12/1946 Sailed her first trip 
20/07/1955 Arrested for Illegal fishing Iceland
10/03/1958 Sold to Rhondda Fishing Co
06/1960 Sold to BISCO for Breaking Up

Her Details are

• Official Number 166654
• Yard Number 1259 
• Admiralty Number T306
• Armament 1 4″ AA Weapon
• GT 380 NT 142 
• Dimensions 147.8 x 25.1 x 13.2 
• Quarter deck 81 Foc’sle 25   
• Engines Amos & Smith 700ihp 11.0 Knots

Scrapped 06/1961

Ugiebank Built 1913 Hall Russell & Co Aberdeen for Peterhead Trawling Co Ltd PD 85
1932 To Richard Irvin & Sons Ltd North Shields 
1939 Requisitioned as an Auxiliary Patrol vessel
14/03/1941 Bought by the Active Fishing Co Fleetwood whilst the vessel was still under requisition
1943 Sold to J Bennet Peterhead 
1945 Returned
11/1946 Sold to A. Hamer Grimsby Registered as GY 393 

Her Details are

• Official Number 130204
• Yard Number 524 
• Admiralty Number FY 4.430
• GT 205 NT 79 
• Dimensions 117.3 x 22 x 12.2   

Scrapped 08/1951