Tag: 1955-07-16

George Aunger Built 1930 Cook Welton & Gemmell Beverley for Bunch Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby
1935 Renamed Sandham 
06/1938 Sold to W. Butt Grimsby 
07/1938 Sold to the Premier Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby renamed Burke 
13/09/1939 Requisitioned as a minesweeper 
Served in the North Atlantic Command. 
1944 Converted to a wreck dispersal vessel 
1946 Returned to owners

Her Details are

• Official Number 160996
• Yard Number 554
• Admiralty Number FY 605
• GT 363 NT 173
• Dimensions 145.9 x 24.2 x 13.11
• Quarter deck 76 Foc’sle 21
• Engines Amos & Smith 91 NHP 10.9 knots 

16/07/1955 Sold for scrap to B. J. Nijkirk FY. S/A Belgium and broken up at Antwerp

George Aunger Built 1917 Cook Welton & Gemmell Beverley Sold to the Admiralty whilst still on the stocks and completed as a Non-Standard Castle Class bomb thrower/minesweeper
1919 Registered by the Admiralty as a trawler LO 403 given Official number 145079 
1922 Sold to the Bunch Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby registered as GY 325 
1929 Bought by G. Leiper Aberdeen registered as A 37 

Surname	Forename	Age At Death	Date Of Death	Rank	Boat
BANCONE	FRANCESCO CICILLO	26	19/02/1919	Deck Hand	H.M. Trawler “George Aunger”

Her Details are

• Official Number 145079
• Yard Number 376
• GT 260 NT 112
• Dimensions 125.4 x 22.7 x 12.2
• Quarter deck 71
• Engines Amos & Smith 480 IHP 10½ knots 

16/07/1955 Wrecked after running ashore in thick fog on May Island Firth of Forth whilst on a coaling trip Two of her crew were lost four were rescued