Wave Queen built 08/1868 as a Smack Trawl at Grimsby 03/1869 Wave Queen Registered as GY 155 owned by W.W. Dawson 11/1874 went to C.M. Mundahl Managers H.J. Haaland, G. Hobson, T. Playford 03/1899 sold to Norwegians
Eastbourne Built 1896 Mackie & Thomson Govan for Hagerup Doughty & Co Grimsby 04/1906 Registered to Consolidated Steam Fishing & Ice Co 12/1916 Sold to new owners in Fleetwood 1917 Requisitioned 1919 Returned
Akranes Built 07/09/1929 Cochrane & Sons for Consolidated Fisheries Ltd, Grimsby 11/1929 Registered 08/1939 Requisitioned by the Admiralty as a minesweeper. Joined the 40th Minesweeper Group based at Grimsby. 04/07/1941 Lost Foundered following attack by German aircraft in Bridlington bay. She had been made command vessel of a group of three mine sweeping trawlers, employed in sweeping the channel between Flamborough Head and Sheringham. The trawler was at anchor off Danes Dyke, south of Flamborough Head at night, with the trawlers Sandringham and Almandine, following the days mine sweeping work. The Almandine was guard ship for the night, shortly after midnight a German aircraft approached very low, the gunners on the Almandine assumed it to be an allied plane returning from a raid. The plane dropped two bombs, neither of which exploded, but cannon fire ripped through the deck of the Akranes and caused her to sink, leaving her wheelhouse and forecastle awash. The crew escaped in their own lifeboat.
Surname
Forenames
Age at Death
Date of Death
Rank
Boat
BAIN
William S R
31
12/07/1941
Stoker
Akranes
Her Details are
Official Number 160979
Yard Number 1060
Admiralty Number FY 513
Call Sign GMJX
GT 358 NT 153
Dimensions 140.4 x 25 x 13.2
Quarter Deck 78 Foc’sle 22
Engines by CD Holmes & Co Triple expansion 13½, 24, 39 x 27in 103 HP 1 single ended boiler, 200lb pressure
04/07/1941 Sunk by Aircraft Bridlington Bay whilst in Admiralty Service