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Wimpole GY 923

Wimpole built 1916 Cochrane & Sons Selby for Welbeck Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby
08/1916 Requisitioned as a minesweeper then escort vessel
1919 Returned
02/1919 Sold to Rushworth Steam Fishing Grimsby
06/1919 Sold to Shaftesbury Steam Fishing Grimsby
03/1926 Bought by J. Rushworth
03/1935 To Kopanes Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby renamed Andanes Bought by Drangey Steam Fishing 
1940 Served with the Royal Navy as a boom defence vessel 
22/01/1942 Sold to J. Marr & Son Ltd Fleetwood
1946 The vessel was delivered to her new owners J. Marr & Son Ltd 
24/01/1947 Sold to Marine Metals London for scrapping 

Her Details are 

  • Official Number 138972
  • Yard Number 654
  • Admiralty Number FY 2956 FY 4.151
  • Armament 1-12pdr
  • GT 320 NT 163
  • Dimensions 137 x 23.5 x 12.9
  • Quarter deck 76 

Scrapped in 1947