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Favorita built 1916 Cochrane & Sons Selby for Consolidated Steam Fishing & Ice Co Grimsby
12/1917 Requisitioned as a mine sweeper 
1919 Returned
09/1927 Registered to Consolidated Fisheries Ltd 
08/1928 Surveyed at Grimsby 
Wrecked 06/03/1937 after running aground on Uskalor Reef Iceland after leaving Reykjavik bound for Grimsby. The vessel had been in the Icelandic capital where the skipper had been fined heavily for alleged illegal fishing During the rescue of the crew, Mr. H. Robinson on the Fleetwood trawler Northern Reward (LO.168) was killed after being hit by the davit

Her Details are

• Official Number 139943
• Yard Number 684
• Admiralty Number FY 1655
• Armament 1-12pdr
• GT 314 NT 162
• Dimensions 137 x 24 x 12.8
• Quarter deck 74 Foc’sle 21
• Engines Triple expansion 13, 23, 37 in x 26 in 86 NHP by Cooper & Greig Ltd Dundee

Wrecked 06/03/1937 after running aground on Uskalor Reef Iceland