Tag: gy-74

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Orpheus built 15/07/1905 Cochranes of Selby for E Bacon & Co Grimsby GY 74
11/1906 sold to Dolphin Steam Fishing Co Grimsby
08/1914 Requisitioned as a mine sweeper
09/1915 Sold to Arctic Steam Fishing Co Grimsby
12/1915 Renamed Orpheus II
1919 Returned and reverted to Orpheus GY 74
27/06/1940 Requisitioned as a Minesweeper based at Great Yarmouth with M/S Group 146
01/1946 Returned
1961 Sold to Ijssel N V Heuvelman Holland for Breaking

Her Details are 

• Official Number 122695
• Yard Number 339
• Admiralty Number FY 41, FY 1780
• Armament 1-6pdr AA
• GT 228 NT 91
• Dimensions 120.0 x 21.6 x 11.5
• Engines Amos & Smith 69 rhp 3 cyl 10.5 knots

20/03/1961 Arrived New Waterway for Breaking at Krimpen

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