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Britannia GY 410

Britannia built 1891 Earle’s Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd Hull for Meadows Steam Fishing Co Grimsby
11/1903 Bought by Alfred Bannister Grimsby
01/1915 Requisitioned as a Stores/Water Carrier 
05/1915 Renamed Britannia III 
09/1915 Returned to owners 
01/1916 Sold to a Grimsby group of owners 

Her Details are

  • Official Number 99194
  • Call Sign MKDP
  • Admiralty Number FY 826
  • GT 138 NT 58 
  • Dimensions 96.7 x 20.1 x 10.6 
  • Quarter deck 18 Foc’sle 18 

23/09/1916 Sunk by U Boat 40 miles S E by E  of Spurn Light Vessel

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Boston Comet GY 410

Boston Comet Built 1957 T. Michison Newcastle for Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co
04/1959 To Canada where she was renamed Rupert Brand IV


Her Details are 

  • Official Number 181386
  • GT 249 NT 78 
  • Dimensions 113.3 x 25 x 12.5 
  • Focl’sle 16