Author: Trevor Hallifax

William Wesney Built 1929 Cook Welton & Gemmell Beverley for the Crampin Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby 
27/01/1934 Lost Crew T L Andrew
16/09/1939 Requisitioned as a minesweeper
She was lost whilst serving with mine sweeper group 5 based at Harwich Five of her crew were lost

Her Details are

• Official Number 160981
• Yard Number 536 
• GT 364 NT 171 
• Dimensions 145.9 x 24.2 x 13.1 
• Quarter deck 77 Foc’sle 21 
• Engines Amos & Smith 91 NHP 10½ knots 

Sunk after hitting a mine off Orfordness 07/11/1940 

William Harrison Built 1919 Rennie Forrestt Shipbuilding Engineering & Dry Dock Co Ltd Wivenhoe Built as Strath Class Trawler William Harrison
12/1921 Acquired by Consolidated Steam Fishing & Ice Co. 
02/1922 Renamed Flavia
09/1927 Registered to Consolidated Fisheries Ltd
10/1935 Bought by John Craig Fairhaven Springfield Road Aberdeen registered as A 940 

Her Details are

• Official Number 144364
• Yard Number 1324 
• GT 202 NT 76 
• Dimensions 115.4 x 22.1 x 12.1   

Lost in the North Sea 23/08/1940 presumably by enemy action Her crew of ten men eight from Aberdeen and two from Peterhead were all lost 

William Hanbury Built 1918 Hawthorne of Leith as a Strath Class Trawler
12/1921 Sold to Taylor Steam Fishing Co Grimsby
11/1939 Requisitioned as APV
01/1940 Returned to Owners
02/1940 Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fisheries
1942 Lost

20/01/1942 Ran aground and stranded off St Ann’s Head Isle of Man

Her Details are

• Official Number 144310
• Admiralty Number 3824
• Armament 1 12pdr
• GT 204 NT 82
• Dimensions 115.4 x 22.2 x 12.1