Fairway Built 1918 Cochrane & Sons Selby Built as Mersey Class Richard Jewell for the Admiralty
1920 Registered by Admiralty as Fishing Vessel LO 476
1922 Sold to Pickering & Haldane renamed Lord Knaresborough Hull H 646
21/08/1922 Registered at Hull
31/10//1928 Sold to J. Little Grimsby registered as GY 448
03/12/1928 Renamed Fairway
08/05/1929 Sold to the Rinovia Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby
04/1940 Requisitioned as Fishery Protection Vessel
29/05/1940 As a A/S Trawler
05/06/1940 Sailed Solent for Gold Beach ahead of Assault Convoy G1
05/1941 Fitted out as Minesweeper
22/01/1942 Sold to J. Marr & Son Ltd Fleetwood FD 140
1944 Fitted out as Dan Layer and assigned to operation Neptune Normandy landings
22/06/1944 Damaged by Mine
23/05/1944 Attached to the 6th Minesweeping Flotila as a Dan layer
03/07/1944 Operation Neptune Ended
25/06/1945 Sold to K Percival Trawlers Hull H 130
18/06/1946 Returned to Owners
18/04/1953 Sold to Hendersons Trawling Co Hull
07/02/1951 Sold to Fern Leaf Co Fleetwood FD 140
Her Details are
- Official Number 145062
- Yard Number 843
- Admiralty Number FY 4.33,FY1551, 3836
- Armament 1 6pdr HA and W/T
- GT 312 NT 130
- Dimensions 138.5 x 23.7 x 12.8
- Quarter deck 78 Foc’sle 19
- Engines C D Holmes 600ihp 11.0Knots
Scrapped in 1955