Tag: gy-8

Magnific Built 1899 Dundee Shipbuilding Co Dundee for Atlantic Steam Fishing Co. Ltd Grimsby 
06/1900 Bought by the Grimsby Steam Fishing Vessels Mutual Insurance Co Grimsby 
1901 Sold to owners in Liverpool 
12/1903 Registered as GY 1285
01/1904 Renamed Edinboro Castle 
01/1909 Bought by J. Hobbs Grimsby
1912 Sold to the Waverley Steam Fishing Co. Ltd Grimsby 
1912 Bought by Alfred Bannister Grimsby 1931 Sold to W. Baxter Grimsby 

Her Details are

• Official Number 110877
• GT 241 NT 90 
• Dimensions 119.3 x 22.1 x 11.6 
• Quarter deck 66 Foc’sle 19  

Scrapped 1956

Built 06/03/1942 Cook Welton & Gemmell as a Hills class Trawler Original name Portsdown
10/04/1946 Renamed Sollum H 369 Hull Merchants Amalgamated Trawlers
21/01/1949 to Derwent Trawlers Renamed Hargood
02/1949 Registered as GY 8 Owned by Crampin of Grimsby 
12/1949 fitted for fuel oil
24/06/1955 Iago Steam Trawlers London and renamed Red Sabre LO 71

Her details are

• Official Number 181287
• Admiralty Number T 221
• GT 524 195 NT
• Dimensions 167.7 x 28.1 x 14.1
• Quarter Deck 89 Foc’sle 27
• Engines C D Holmes 970ihp 11 knots

1964 Vessel sold for scrap to Haulbowline Industries Eire.