Lark Built 1891 Sir Raylton Dixon & Co Ltd Middlesbrough for Pioneer Steam Fishing Co. Ltd Grimsby 05/1907 Sold to Moody & Kelly Fleetwood Registered as FD 120 The sale provided Fleetwood with the ports first steam trawler Sold to owners in Rangoon
Acantha Built 28/11/1914 by Cochranes of Selby for Equitable Steam Fishing Co 05/04/1915 Stopped by U10 and sunk by Torpedo, she was on the return voyage, Captured by the KDM submarine SMU U10 Commanded by Fritz Stuhr. The crew were ordered to abandon ship and she was sunk by surface torpedo, it is however reported that whilst in the escape boat they took fire from rifles of the crew of the submarine All crew escaped The submarine then headed south after the Acantha Exploded and Sank The crew were eventually picked up by the Swedish Steamer Tord and landed them at Blyth
10/04/1915 Grimsby Registry closed
Her Details are
Official Number 137015
Yard Number 621
Call Sign JHSW
GT 322 NT 170
Dimensions 140 x 24 x 12.5
Quarter deck 77′ Foc’sle 20
Engines Earles SB & Eng 88 rhp 3 cyl 10.5 knots
05/04/1915 Sunk by U Boat 25 miles E by N of Longstone
Valafell Built 1943 Cochrane & Sons Selby for The Admiralty as Fish Class Trawler Bream T 306 and commissioned as an A/S fitted with DC & ASDIC Used on Russian Convoy Duties 24/05/1946 Bought by Consolidated Fisheries Ltd 26/11/1946 Renamed Valafell GY 386 27/12/1946 Sailed her first trip 20/07/1955 Arrested for Illegal fishing Iceland 10/03/1958 Sold to Rhondda Fishing Co 06/1960 Sold to BISCO for Breaking Up
Jacinth Built 1914 Cochranes of Selby Registered as H33 23/02/1914 Kingston Steam Trawling Co Ltd Hull 02/1916 Requisitioned as a minesweeper 21/08/1917 in Firth of Tay with HM Trawlers Thomas Young SN 67 & Shikari GY 364 Sank U-boat UC41 which had suffered damage when minelaying 1919 returned 27/02/1926 sold to Bunch Steam Fishing Co Ltd Registered as GY 383 28/11/1928 sold to David Dryburgh, Newhaven Edinburgh. 15/09/1934 After getting a radio message they rescued members of a British Arctic exploration team from Angmagssalik Greenland returned them safely to Aberdeen 05/02/1936 Registry Closed 02/1936 Renamed Inverforth GN 52 Granton Renamed Inverforth 30/12/1937 Contacted by Aberdeen Steam trawler Calvinia A 8 which had lost propeller and delivered her to Aberdeen after 15 mile tow 28/11/1939 Requisitioned as a minesweeper Based Swansea with M/S Group 132 1945 sold to Yolland Bros Ltd Milford Haven 12/04/1946 returned 1946 sold to Cairo Fishing Co Milford Haven