Swansea Castle Built 1943 Cochrane & Son Selby as Fish Class Trawler Pollack T 347 for the Admiralty 1946 Bought by Consolidated Fisheries Ltd registered to subsidiary Rhondda Steam Fishing Co. Renamed Swansea Castle 1958 Registered in Grimsby as GY 51
Rilette built 1917 A. Hall Aberdeen for Earl Steam Fishing Grimsby 05/1917 Requisitioned as minesweeper then hydrophone vessel 06/1917 Sold to W. Barrett Grimsby 1919 Returned 07/1919 Bought by E. Cox. 06/1932 To owners in Edinburgh 11/1934 Sold to Thomas H. Scales Leith LH 35 31/09/1942 Bought by J. Marr Fleetwood The vessel was free to fish during the war 1945 Sold to C. Wilson Grimsby 02/1946 Bought by the Rilette Steam Fishing Co Leith 02/1947 To owners in Aberdeen
Neath Castle Built 1942 Cochrane & Son Selby Built as Fish Class Trawler for the Admiralty Named Mullet T 311 Commissioned as an A/S Trawler 24/05/1946 Bought by Consolidated Fisheries Ltd and registered to subsidiary Rhondda Steam Fishing Co 02/1947 Registered at Swansea as the Neath Castle SA 49 04/06/1947 Sailed her first trip out of Swansea 03/1958 Sold to Rhondda Fishing Co Grimsby 20/03/1958 Registered in Grimsby as GY 52 10/06/1960 Sold to BISCO and allocated to Clayton & Davie Dunston for breaking up
Her Details are
Official Number 168577
Yard Number 1253
GT 380 NT 142
Dimensions 147 x 25.1 x 13.2
Quarter Deck 81 Foc’sle 25
Engines Amos & Smith 700 ihp 3 cyl 11.0 knots
Scrapped 06/1960 at the River Tyne, Registry closed 05/06/1961