Velocity Built 1904 Cochrane & Sons Selby for Great Central Co-op Engineering Co Ltd
02/1908 Bought by the Abbey Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby
11/1913 Sold to S. Gidley Grimsby
01/1915 Bought by H. L. Taylor & H. G. Hopwood Grimsby
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Sunk by gunfire from a U-boat 75 miles N E of Spurn 07/06/1915
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Merlin Built 09/01/1895 Cochrane & Cooper Beverley for Thomas Baskcomb Grimsby
04/1899 Sold to W H Dodds Aberdeen A 44
25/09/1909 Stranded on Red Head Eday Island Orkney
All crew Rescued
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25/09/1909 Stranded on Red Head Eday Island Orkney
Hargood Originally named Prince Philip Hull
Built 1949 by Cook Welton & Gemmell of Beverley
07/1955 Registered as GY 7 owned by Derwent Trawlers
09/1955 Renamed Hargood GY 7
07/1958 Went to Hull and renamed Steela Rigel
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Reported Lost 1962
Epine Built 1929 Cook Welton & Gemmell Beverley for J. Stewart Trawling Co. Ltd Hull
Built as Solway Firth H 107
08/01/1931 Sold to the Firth Steam Trawling Co. Ltd Hull
20/06/1931 Bought by H. W. Hall Thomas Hamling & Co. Ltd Hull
09/01/1931 Sold to the Premier Steam Fishing Co. Ltd Grimsby renamed Epine registered as GY 7
03/09/1939 Requisitioned as a minesweeper
01/1946 Returned to commercial fishing
13/03/1948 Wrecked on rocks at Snæfellsnes, Faxafloi west coast of Iceland in a severe gale and blizzard
An Icelandic rescue party got a line to the vessel and took four of her crew off by breeches buoy
One other crew member managed to swim ashore but fourteen of her crew were lost as heavy seas swept the wreck Clinging to the bridge skipper Alfred Loftis was heard to shout
“I do not mind what happens to me so long as the boys are all right Look after the boys”
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13/03/1948 Wrecked on rocks at Snæfellsnes, Faxafloi west coast of Iceland in a severe gale and blizzard
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Prince Philip Built 1948 Cook Welton & Gemmell Beverley For North Cape Fishing Co Ltd Hull H32 NV Motorvisserij Ostend Belgium originally ordered the vessel 08/07/1955 Sold to Derwent Trawlers Ltd Grimsby renamed Hargood GY 7 01/01/1958 Bought by Charleson-Smith Trawlers Ltd Hull renamed Stella Rigel H 170
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Wrecked at Vestor Falle 7 miles north west of Fugloy lighthouse off the north coast of Norway 21/12/1962 The Norwegian fishing vessel Siv rescued the 20-man crew