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Liberia GY 159

Liberia built 1906 Cochrane & Sons Selby for Lindsey Steam Fishing Co Grimsby
08/1914 Requisitioned 
1919 Returned to owners
08/1940 Requisitioned as a minesweeper 
07/1945 Returned to owners 

Her Details are

  • Official Number 123577
  • Yard Number 354
  • Admiralty Number FY 26 FY 1826
  • Armament 1-3pdr 1-1pdr AA 2-0.5 AA 2 machine guns
  • GT 250 NT 101
  • Dimensions 125 x 22 x 12.4 
  • Engines 69 HP 12 knots

Scrapped in 07/1961

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Liberty GY 197

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Liberator GY 583

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Leys GY 1023

Leys built 1916 Cochrane & Sons Selby for C. A. Osborne Grimsby
03/1917 Requisitioned as a mine sweeper
1919 Returned to owners 
07/1927 Sold to the Queen Steam Fishing Co Grimsby
03/1943 Bought by Grimsby Steam Fishing Co Grimsby 
10/1944 Sold to owners in Fleetwood 

Her Details are

  • Official Number 139936
  • Yard Number 666
  • Admiralty Number 3330
  • Armament 1-6pdr AA
  • GT 222 NT 97
  • Quarter deck 69
  • Dimensions 117.1 x 21.6 x 11.5
  • Engines 66 HP

Scrapped in 07/1957

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Leyland GY 254

Leyland Built 1935 Cochrane & Sons Selby for Bunch Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby
1939 Bought by the Admiralty as an anti-submarine vessel Employed on convoy escorts

Her Details are

  • Official Number 164398
  • Yard Number 1147 
  • Admiralty Number FY 103
  • Armament: 1-4pdr
  • GT 452 NT 191 
  • Dimensions 161.8 x 27.1 x 14.2
  • Quarter deck 88 Foc’sle 28 
  • Engines 133 HP 

Sank after a collision with a merchantman off Gibraltar 25/11/1942

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Leslie GY 829

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Le Tiger GY 398

Le Tiger Built 27/02/1937 Cochrane & Sons Selby For Earl Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby
1939 Bought by the Admiralty as an anti-submarine vessel 
03/1942 lent to the United States Navy with her crew to operate off the US East coast under USN control 
03/07/1942 Sank U215 on the  while taking survivors from a torpedoed vessel to a nearby harbour
07/1946 Acquired by the Hull Ice Co. 
11/1946 Sold to the Loyal Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby 
07/1947 Renamed Regal 
09/1948 Bought by owners in Hull renamed Othello 

Her Details are

  • Official Number 164424
  • Yard Number 1180 
  • Admiralty Number FY 243 
  • Armament 1-4pdr
  • GT 516 NT 285 
  • Dimensions 173.2 x 28.6 x 14.7 
  • Quarter deck 89 Foc’sle 37 
  • Engines 156 HP 12 knots

Scrapped Ghent, Belgium 1963

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Le Royal GY 400

Le Royal Built 1940 Cochrane & Sons Selby for Grimsby Motor Trawlers Ltd, Grimsby but completed as H.M.T. Postboy for the Admiralty for Anti- submarine duties
1943 Bought by Milford Steam Trawling Co Ltd on charter to the Navy 
07/1946 Returned by the Navy to her owners Renamed Milford Marquis M 14 
1949 At the end of the year the vessel was fishing 600 miles south of Las Palmas 
1951 Sold to J. V. Pronk of Ijmuiden renamed Postboy IJM 35 
1964 Sold to Claridge Trawlers Ltd Lowestoft Renamed St. Kitts LT 481 

Her Details are

  • Official Number 166638
  • Yard Number 1211
  • Call Sign MHKB
  • Admiralty Number FY 1750
  • GT 316 NT 94
  • Dimensions 142.6 x 24.6 x 11.9
  • Quarter deck 75 Foc’sle 27
  • Engines 8-cylinder 750hp Ruston

Left Lowestoft 29/09/1976 for the breakers yard towed by the St. Martin

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Lepanto GY 1193

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04/01/1909 Stranded Klitmoller Bay Denmark

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Lepanto GY 662

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