Author: Trevor Hallifax

King Athelstan Built 1899 Schofield Hagerup & Doughty Grimsby for the Monarch Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby 
04/1906 Registered to Consolidated Steam Fishing & Ice Co 

Her Details are

• Official Number 110894
• Yard Number 4 
• GT 159 NT 66 
• Dimensions 105.7 x 21.1 x 10.7 
• Quarter deck 18 Foc’sle 21 
• Engines Triple expansion 10 and 7/8 17 and 3/8 28 x 20 in 40 rhp by Muir & Houston Glasgow 

Lost 22/07/1915 Captured & scuttled by U-Boat about 100 miles North by West of Hoy Head Lloyd’s Register gives the position of her loss as lat 60 20 N Long 05 W Lat

King Alfred Built 1899 Schofield Hagerup & Doughty Grimsby for the Monarch Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby
04/1906 Registered to Consolidated Steam Fishing & Ice Co Captured and scuttled by the German submarine minelayer UC-44, approx 75 miles South of Fair Isle
The skipper of the trawler was taken prisoner and landed at Heligoland the U-Boat base
16/02/1917 The crew were landed at Whitby with the exception of the Master who was taken as a prisoner of war.

Her Details are

• Official Number 110892
• Yard Number 3 
• GT 159 NT 66 
• Dimensions 105.7 x 21.1 x 10.7 
• Quarter deck 18 Foc’sle 21 
• Engines Triple expansion 11, 17, 28 x 20 in 40 rhp by Muir & Houston Glasgow 

13/02/1917 Sunk by U Boat 75 miles S of Fair Isle

Kimberly built 1902
08/1914 Requisitioned as a mine sweeper
1919 Returned
Served in WW2

Her Details are

• Official Number
• Admiralty Number FY 11
• Armament 1-12pdr
• GT 190

25/03/1941 Sunk by Aircraft near 62D Buoy 22 miles S E of Flamborough Head

Kilmarnock Built 1897 Mackie & Thomson Govan for Hagerup Doughty & Co Grimsby 
04/1906 Registered to Consolidated Steam Fishing & Ice Co 

Her Details are

• Official Number 108488
• Yard Number 166 
• GT 165 NT 51 
• Dimensions 104.2 x 21 x 10.7 
• Quarter deck 17 Foc’sle 18   

Lost 22/09/1914 after hitting a mine 31 miles East of Spurn Head Six lives were lost