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Commander Evans Built 1924 Cochrane & Sons Selby for Hudson Steam Fishing Co Ltd Hull
1940 Requisitioned
05/1946 Sold to Sir Thomas Robinson & Sons Grimsby
06/1946 Renamed Tunisian
07/1955 Registered to the Onward Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby
12/1955 Bought by the Standard Steam Fishing Co Ltd Hull

Her Details are

Official Number 147136
Yard Number 706
GT 344 NT 142
Dimensions 140.2 x 24 x 13.3
Quarter deck 75 Foc’sle 23

Scrapped in 1956

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Cedric GY 278

Post author By Trevor Hallifax
Post date 29 June 2020

Cedric Built 07/1899 Cochrane & Cooper of Beverly for United Steam Fisheries
29/05/1917 Requisitioned into the Fishery Reserve
10/07/1917 stopped by U53 Commander Hans Rose 55 miles S by W of South Point of Sydero and Sunk with No casualties recorded
14/08/1917 Registry Closed

Her details

Official Number 110896
Yard Number 247
GT 197 NT 63
Dimensions 112.5’ x 21’ x 11.5’
Quarter Deck 47’ Foc’sle 20’
Engines by C D Holmes, 55 RHP 10 knots
Crew 9

Captured and sunk by a U-boat about 60 miles from the Faeroe Islands on the 10/07/1917

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