Velinda Built 1956 Cook Welton & Gemmell Beverley for Atlas Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby 24/01/1966 Sold to Northern Trawlers Ltd Grimsby 10/12/1973 Landed 2,929 kits of fish which grossed £47,500 and broke the then port landings record
Monarch built 1904 Cochrane & Sons Selby for the Monarch Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby 04/1906 Registered to Consolidated Steam Fishing & Ice Co. 07/1915 Requisitioned as a mine sweeper 08/1915 Renamed Monarch III 1919 Returned 08/1918 Sold to J. Little 03/1919 Sold to Brent Steam Fishing 01/1925 Sold to Frank V. Vokes & Co Princes Dock Street Hull renamed Golden Gleam 1929 Owned by Mrs Edith Crimlis Filey
Her Details are
Official Number 118935
Yard Number 328
Call Sign HBNK
Admiralty Number FY 1599
Armament 1-12pdr 1-7.5in Bomb Thrower
GT 234 NT 110
Quarter deck 66 Foc’sle 20
Dimensions 120 x 22 x 11.6
Engines 3cyl 12, 21, 34 x 24 in 60 rhp by CD Holmes & Co Hull
Bempton Built 29/11/1913 Cook Welton & Gemmell Beverley for Hull Steam Fishing & Ice Co Ltd Hull Registered as H 19 04/1915 Requisitioned as a minesweeper 1919 Returned to commercial fishing 06/03/1936 Bought by Heward Trawlers Ltd London registered LO 192 27/04/1943 Sold to the Kingston Steam Trawling Co Ltd Hull and registered as H 546 07/03/1957 To the Loyal Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby and registered as GY 29 1951 Sold to A Hay Aberdeen and registered as A 673 1958 Sold for scrap to F. & W. Joch Germany
One Incident involving the Bempton, 20 miles SW of the Mizzen Head Ireland the Italian barque Sardomene was makingthe land from West Australia with a cargo of Timber she was being escorted by the Bempton a Submarine managed to get off a shot between the two vessels (Bempton was steaming 1000 yards ahead) and the ship under sail. A massive expolsion ensued and although the Bempton launched a boat she could only rescue 7 survivors in good health with 2 injured and 2 corpses this left 10 men missing
Her Details are
Official Number 136174
Yard Number 285
Admiralty Number FY 1369
GT 226 NT 87
Dimensions 115.5 x 22.5 x 12.3
Engines Amos & Smith 94 NHP 11 knots
Arrived at Hamburg for scrapping on the 07/05/1958