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Rochester GY 671

Rochester built 1898 Mackie & Thomson Govan for Hagerup Doughty & Co. Grimsby
04/1906 Registered to Consolidated Steam Fishing & Ice Co.
10/1914 Requisitioned as a mine sweeper
1919 Returned
01/1925 Transferred to Lowestoft. 
Lost 27/07/1944. Struck a mine 27 miles East-North-East of Withernsea Light House 53 54N 00 42 30E whilst steaming home with 20 kits of fish aboard.
Evidently, the vessel sank very close to that position. Eleven members of her crew were rescued but one lost


Her Details are 

  • Official Number 109529
  • Yard Number 174
  • Admiralty Number FY 642
  • Armament 1-3pdr
  • GT 165 NT 51
  • Quarter Deck 17 Foc’sle 18
  • Dimensions 104.2 x 21 x 11.7
  • Engines 3 cyl 10, 16 7/16 27 in x 20 in 45 RHP by Muir & Houston Glasgow

Lost 27/07/1944 Struck a mine

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Boston Weelsby GY 671

Boston Weelsby Built 20/03/1961 Cook Welton & Gemmell Beverley for Boston Deep Sea Fisheries Ltd Grimsby
20/09/1962 Sold to F. & T. Ross Ltd Hull
19/09/1969 Sold to Irvin Johnson Ltd Cape Town South Africa registered as CTA 47 
1984 Vessel stripped of all reusable parts


Her Details are 

  • Official Number 303278
  • Yard Number 973 
  • GT 412 NT 140 
  • Dimensions 137.2 x 28 x 14.5 
  • Foc’sle 24 
  • Engines Charles D. Holmes/Werkspoor 1050 BHP 12 knots  

Hulk was scuttled off Robben Island Cape Town on the 26/07/1984