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Valmont GY 885

Valmont built 1916 Cook Welton & Gemmell Beverley for South Western Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby
05/1916 Requisitioned as a mine sweeper
27/02/1917 Sold to Neal Green Grimsby
04/06/1917 Bought by the Cleethorpes Steam Trawling Co Ltd Grimsby
12/1918 Returned
25/02/1919 Bought by the Victorian Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby 
19/12/1929 Sold to the Lindsey Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby 
29/11/1939 Requisitioned as a minesweeper 
12/1945 Returned to owners 
During her refit the vessel was given the port’s first electric engine room telegraph system 

Her Details are 

  • Official Number 138953
  • Yard Number 340
  • Admiralty Number FY 864
  • Armament 1-6pdr
  • GT 245 NT 108
  • Dimensions 117.3 x 22.5 x13.2
  • Quarter deck 61
  • Engines Amos & Smith 92 NHP 11 Knots

Scrapped in 1961