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Sheldon GY 696

Sheldon built 1912 Cook Welton & Gemmell Beverley for the Standard Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby
03/1915 Requisitioned as a mine sweeper/bomb thrower
1919 Returned
01/01/1940 Sold to Sir Thomas Robinson & Son Ltd Grimsby 
28/05/1940 Requisitioned as an auxiliary patrol vessel 
09/1941 Requisitioned as a minesweeper/fuel carrier
01/1945 Returned to owners 

Her Details are

  • Official Number 132128
  • Yard Number 239
  • Admiralty number FY 1407 FY 4.143 Y 7.38
  • Armament 1-6pdr 1-7.5in Bomb Thrower
  • GT 288 NT 144
  • Dimensions 130.1 x 22.2 x 12.2 
  • Quarter deck 72 
  • Engines Amos & Smith 89 NHP 10.5 knots

Presumed to have sunk in storm force conditions 60 miles north west of Dennis Head Officially posted as missing – lost with all hands 31/01/1953 

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Sheffield Wednesday GY 519

Sheffield Wednesday Built 1933 Smiths Dock Co Ltd South Bank Middlesbrough for Consolidated Fisheries Ltd Grimsby 
16/06/1937 Left Grimsby this morning bound for her new owners in Ymuiden Holland re-named Erin 
05/1940 Requisitioned as an anti-submarine vessel to the 3rd Auxiliary A/S Group
18/01/1942 The Erin whilst lying in Gibraltar Bay was hit by explosion at 18.00 A fire broke out and she sank soon afterwards


Her Details are

  • Official Number 162876
  • Yard Number 956
  • Call Sign GWLX 
  • GT 394 NT 150 
  • Dimensions 155 x 26.4 x 12.2 
  • Quarter deck 84 Foc’sle 25 
  • Engines Smiths Dock Co.Ltd cylinders 13½ 22½ and 39 x 26in stroke 

Sank after explosion 18/01/1942

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Shannon GY 546

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Shannon GY 394

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Shamrock GY 746

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Shamrock GY 1139

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29/01/1917 Sunk by U Boat Gun Fire 115 miles N N E of Longstone

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Shamrock GY 234

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Severn GY 865

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Seven Sisters GY 279

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Seti GY 72

Seti built 21/07/1896 Cook Welton & Gemmel for Robert W Roberts & James Ruthven Grimsby
07/12/1915 Sold to Charles Dobson Grimsby
11/10/1916 Sold to Thomas Whitehead Scarborough 
26/08/1914 Sunk by the German Cruiser Albatross in the North Sea 80 miles SW of the Spurn Point

Her Details are

  • Official Number 106659
  • Yard Number 166
  • 160 GT 60 NT
  • Dimensions 101.8 x 20.8 x 11
  • Quarter deck 24 Foc’sle 19
  • Engines by C D Holmes 45 NHP 10 Knots 

Sunk by the German cruiser Albatross NE in the North Sea 80 miles southwest of Spurn Point 26/08/1914