Tag: 1955

War Grey built 1917 Cook Welton & Gemmell Beverley For the South Western Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby
07/1917 Requisitioned as a minesweeper then hydrophone vessel 
1919 Returned
19/02/1918 Sold to the Great Northern Steam Ship Fishing Co Ltd Hull H 612 
09/1919 Bought by E. E. Cox Grimsby registered as GY 516 
12/1933 Sold to the Arctic Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby 
31/10/1941 Sold to City Steam Fishing Co Ltd Hull 
19/01/1942 Bought by Hudson Bros Trawlers Ltd Hull 
12/01/1945 Sold to Hull Merchants Amalgamated Trawlers Ltd Hull renamed Tobruk registered H 14 
14/02/1947 Sold to G. Sanger Grimsby 
1950 Bought by Alex Hay Aberdeen renamed C D Taylor A 644 

Her Details are 

• Official Number 139940
• Yard Number 340D
• Admiralty Number FY 3342
• Armament 1-12pdr
• GT 246 NT 98
• Dimensions 117.4 x 22 x 12.7
• Quarter deck 66 Foc’sle 16
• Engines Amos & Smith 74 NHP 9½ knots

Scrapped at Granton in 1955

Loch Lomond Built 1917 Dundee Shipbuilding Co Dundee Built as Dorinda for J. Marr & Son Ltd Fleetwood FD 198 taken into service by the Admiralty
1917 Requisitioned as an Escort Vessel
1919 returned to owners
1939 Requisitioned as a mine sweeper
1945 Returned to owners
10/1945 Renamed Loch Lomond A 602
08/1946 Renamed and Re Registered as Loch Lomond GY 310 owned by Anglo Steam Fishing Co
10/1946 Renamed Anglo GY 310
03/1950 Renamed Deernes GY 310
08/1952 sold to Elkington Estates
09/1955 went to Belgium for Breaking

Her Details are

• Official Number 139216
• Yard Number 277
• Admiralty Number FY 3003 FY 623 and FY 600
• Armament 1 x 12 PDR
• GT 270 NT 105 
• Dimensions 128.8 x 23 x 12.6 
• Quarter deck 72 Foc’sle 20  
• Engines 540 HP T.3-cyl by W. Beardmore & Co Ltd, Glasgow

Scrapped at Belgium 1955

Fairway Built 1918 Cochrane & Sons Selby Built as Mersey Class Richard Jewell for the Admiralty
1920 Registered by Admiralty as Fishing Vessel LO 476
1922 Sold to Pickering & Haldane renamed Lord Knaresborough Hull H 646
21/08/1922 Registered at Hull
31/10//1928 Sold to J. Little Grimsby registered as GY 448
03/12/1928 Renamed Fairway 
08/05/1929 Sold to the Rinovia Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby
04/1940 Requisitioned as Fishery Protection Vessel
29/05/1940 As a A/S Trawler
05/06/1940 Sailed Solent for Gold Beach ahead of Assault Convoy G1
 05/1941 Fitted out as Minesweeper
22/01/1942 Sold to J. Marr & Son Ltd Fleetwood FD 140 
1944 Fitted out as Dan Layer and assigned to operation Neptune Normandy landings
22/06/1944 Damaged by Mine
23/05/1944 Attached to the 6th Minesweeping Flotila as a Dan layer
03/07/1944 Operation Neptune Ended
25/06/1945 Sold to K Percival Trawlers Hull H 130
18/06/1946 Returned to Owners
18/04/1953 Sold to Hendersons Trawling Co Hull
07/02/1951 Sold to Fern Leaf Co Fleetwood FD 140

Her Details are

• Official Number 145062
• Yard Number 843 
• Admiralty Number FY 4.33,FY1551, 3836
• Armament 1 6pdr HA and W/T
• GT 312 NT 130 
• Dimensions 138.5 x 23.7 x 12.8 
• Quarter deck 78 Foc’sle 19 
• Engines C D Holmes 600ihp 11.0Knots

Scrapped in 1955