Tag: gy-129

Walter S Bailey Built 1902 Cook Welton & Gemmell Beverley for the Humber Steam Trawling Co Ltd Grimsby
1914 Requisitioned as a Q ship decoy vessel 
1919 Returned to commercial owners
11/12/1919 Sold to Fresh Fish Supplies Ltd Hull 
16/07/1924 Bought by the Fish Dinas Steam Trawling Co Ltd Fleetwood registered as FD 19
1932 Sold to the Viking Steam Trawling Co Ltd Hull registered as H 335
1935 Bought by the Line Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby renamed Trocadero registered as GY 129 

Her Details are

• Official Number 113643
• Yard Number 316 
• Admiralty Number FY 265
• GT 244 NT 98 
• Dimensions 125 x 22 x 11.5 
• Quarterdeck 49 
• Engines Charles. D. Holmes 63 NHP 10½ knots 

Wrecked after stranding on the south coast of Iceland 06/09/1936

Basque Built 19/10/1933 Cook Welton & Gemmell Beverley for Hellyer Bros Ltd, Hull
14/01/1939 Bought by Great Grimsby & East Coast Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby 
04/1939 The vessel was renamed as Istria
08/1939 Requisitioned as an Anti-Submarine trawler 
11/1946 Bought by Consolidated Fisheries Ltd and registered to subsidiary company Wendover Steam Fishing Co Grimsby Registered as GY 129
14/01/1947 Bought by Thomas Hamling & Co Ltd Hull Renamed St. Arcadius H 363 
24/11/1947 Bought Eton Fishing Co Ltd Hull Renamed Reptonian H 363
28/08/1950 Bought by J. Marr & Son Ltd Fleetwood
14/08/1951 Sold to Dinas Steam Trawling Co Ltd Fleetwood and registered as FD 171 

Her Details are 

• Official Number 163166
• Yard Number 581
• Admiralty Number FY 150
• GT 424 NT 162
• Quarter Deck 85 Foc’sle 26
• Dimensions 154.6 x 25.6 x 13.9
• Engines Charles D. Holmes 111 NHP 11.6 knots

Arrived at Preston on the 10/01/1959 for scrapping

Aberdeen built 12/10/1896 Mackie & Thomson of Govan for Hagerup & Doughty
04/1906 Sold to Consolidated Steam Fishing & Ice Co
10/1914 Requisitioned 
1919 Returned to the owners 
01/1925 she went to Lowestoft Registered as LT 123 owned by Consolidated Steam Fishing & Ice Co
19/11/1937 Don Trawling Co. Docks Milford
17/03/1939 Pair Fishing Co. Docks Milford
11/03/1941 Bombed whilst in Cardigan Bay 8 Crew lost 2 saved
None hit the trawler but were close enough to cause the trawler to take on water causing her to settle at the stern
When attacked the vessel was out bound from Milford Haven for the Cardigan Bay fishing grounds

Surname	Forenames	Age at Death	Date of Death	Rank	Boat
Barber	John Charles	56	11/03/1941	Skipper	Aberdeen
Butler	Arthur	59	11/03/1941	3rd Hand	Aberdeen
Catchpole	Fredrick Ernest	40	11/03/1941	Chief Engineer	Aberdeen
Christie	James	55	27/03/1941	Crew	Aberdeen
Christie	John	46	27/03/1941	Crew	Aberdeen
Coe	William A	34	12/03/1941	2nd Hand	Aberdeen
Cruickshank	Gordon	44	05/04/1941	Chief Engineer	Aberdeen
Gault	John	47	27/03/1941	2nd Hand	Aberdeen
Harrison	Leslie	29	11/03/1941	3rd Engineer	Aberdeen
Main	William	45	27/03/1941	Skipper	Aberdeen
Main	William	41	27/03/1941	Fireman	Aberdeen
Mills	William Thomas	50	11/03/1941	Fireman	Aberdeen
Moore	Edward	71	27/03/1941	Chief Engineer	Aberdeen
Murphy	James Arthur	51	11/03/1941	2nd Engineer	Aberdeen
Page	George Henry	49	11/03/1941	Cook	Aberdeen
Phillips	John	63	27/03/1941	Crew	Aberdeen

Her details are

• Official Number 106676
• Yard Number 121
• Admiralty Number 639
• Armaments 1 – 6pdr
• 163 GT 63 NT
• Dimensions 104.2 x 20.5 x 10.7
• Quarter Deck 17′ Foc’sle 19′
• Engines T 3-Cyl. 45 rhp by Muir & Houston, Glasgow

1941 Bombed by aircraft in Cardigan Bay