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Delphine GY 958

Delphine built 1914 Smiths Dock Co Ltd South Bank Middlesbrough for Consolidated Steam Fishing & Ice Co Grimsby
05/1915 Requisitioned as a minesweeper
1919 Returned
09/1927 Registered to Consolidated Fisheries Ltd 
10/1939 Sold to Boston Steam Fishing & Ice Co Ltd Fleetwood


Her Details are 

  • Official Number 135979
  • Yard Number 569
  • Call Sign GWVK
  • Admiralty Number 1619
  • Armament 1-6pdr AA
  • GT 250 NT 96
  • Dimensions 125 x 23.52 x 13
  • Quarter Deck 74 Foc’sle 20
  • Engines by Smith’s Dock Middlesbrough Triple expansion 12½, 21, 35 in x 26 in 85 rhp

Lost by gunfire from U33 on 20/11/1939 18 miles North by east of Tory Island off Northern IrelandAt time of the loss she was on passage from Fleetwood for the fishing grounds