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Pretoria GY 180

Pretoria built 1906
03/1915 Requisitioned as a mine sweeper
05/1915 Renamed Pretoria II 

Her Details are

  • Official Number
  • Admiralty Number FY 32
  • GT 283

10/07/1917 Sunk by U Boat 60 miles S by E of Sydero

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Perserverance GY 180

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James Cepell GY 180

James Cepell Built 1918 as Castle Class Trawler James Cepell for the Admiralty 
02/1925 Sold to the Boston Deep Sea Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby
03/1925 Renamed Clixby
07/1926 Bought by owners in France and renamed Anticche II 

Her Details are

  • Official Number 143859 
  • GT 281 NT 116 
  • Dimensions 125.6 x 23.5 x 12.8 
  • Quarter deck 72 Foc’sle 21  

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Clixby GY 180

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Cambridgeshire GY 180

Cambridgeshire Built 02/07/1935 Smiths Dock Co Ltd South Bank Middlesbrough for Cambridgeshire Fishing Co. Ltd  Grimsby
Ten-year-old Margaret Cook performed the launching ceremony. She was the youngest person to ever christen a vessel at the shipyard and was chosen for the honour because her father, Frank Cook was one of the partners and a director of Markham Cook Ltd
05/1939 Requisitioned as an anti-submarine vessel  
1945 Returned to owners
Bought by Kingston Steam Trawling Co Ltd Hull Renamed Kingston Sapphire and registered as H 206


Her Details are 

  • Official Number: 164391
  • Yard Number 987 
  • Admiralty Number FY 142
  • Armament 1-4pdr
  • GT 443 NT 161 
  • Dimensions 162.3 x 26.7 x 14.4  
  • Quarter deck 84 Foc’sle 32 
  • Engines 99 HP

Scrapped 1954