Author: Trevor Hallifax

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Jeria GY 985

JERIA built 1916 Cook Welton & Gemmell Beverley for Great Grimsby and East Coast Steam Fishing Co. Ltd Grimsby
12/1916 Requisitioned as a mine sweeper
12/1917 Returned to commercial fishing
Ran aground in thick fog on St Johns Head Hoy
07/09/1929 whilst homeward bound to Grimsby The crew fired flares which were seen by the Aberdeen fishing liner Curlew A 906
All of the Jeria’s crew launched the trawler’s boat and were taken in tow by the Curlew into Stromness and were landed safely

Her Details are

  • Official Number 139921
  • Yard Number 348
  • Admiralty Number  FY 3319
  • Armament 1-6pdr
  • GT 344 NT 138
  • Quarter deck 74 
  • Dimensions 135.4 x 23.5 x 12.7
  • Engines Amos & Smith 89 NHP 10 knots

Ran aground in thick fog on St Johns Head Hoy Orkney 07/09/1929 whilst homeward bound to Grimsby 

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Jellicoe GY 522

Jellicoe built 1915 Cook Welton & Gemmell Beverley for Earl Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby
07/1915 Requisitioned as a minesweeper Renamed as Rushcoe 
04/07/1917 Sold to Neal Green Grimsby 
1919 Returned to commercial fishing 
26/06/1919 Renamed Ceresio 
10/02/1920 Sold to Harold Bacon Grimsby 
26/03/1920 Bought by Trawlers White Sea & Grimsby Ltd Grimsby 
21/03/1922 Sold to Hellyer Bros Ltd Hull registered as H 447 
05/09/1939 Requisitioned as a minesweeper FY 524 
1945 Returned to commercial fishing 
08/05/1947 Sold to Lord Line Ltd Hull 
1948 Bought by Jens P Bager Marstal Denmark converted to a cargo vessel She was lengthened to 156.3 feet 360 gross tons and fitted with a 4-cylinder Burmeister & Wain diesel engine 
1960 Bought by I/S Bothe & Hermansen Marstal 
1973 Sold to Gunnar Jensen Partrederi Marstal 
1976 Bought by I M Jann Kingstown St Vincent West Indies renamed Kelvin and Clide 
31/10/1983 Vessel converted to a storage hulk at Port of Spain Trinidad 

Her Details are

  • Official Number 137030
  • Yard Number 319
  • Admiralty Number FY 1546 FY 1760 FY 524
  • Armament 1-4in 1-12pdr 1-3pdr
  • GT 338 NT 189
  • Quarter deck 76 Foc’sle 22
  • Dimensions 140 x 25 x 13
  • Engines C D Holmes 88 NHP 10 knots

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Jehovah Jireh GY 1110

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Jedburgh GY 451

Jedburgh Built 1897 Mackie & Thomson Govan for Hagerup Doughty & Co Grimsby 
13/12/1897 The Jedburgh arrived in Grimsby from the builders 
04/1906 Registered to Consolidated Steam Fishing & Ice Co 

Her Details are

  • Official Number 108487
  • Yard Number 165 
  • GT 165 NT 51 
  • Dimensions 104.2 x 21 x 10.7 
  • Quarter deck 17 Foc’sle 18 
  • Call Sign MGPR 

Lost 21/04/1917 Captured by U-boat and sunk by bombs 35 miles NNW from Foula Island The vessel was outward bound from Grimsby at the time of the attack

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Jedda GY 326

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Jean Eva GY 104

Jean Eva Built 1934 Smiths Dock Co Ltd South Bank Middlesbrough for Consolidated Fisheries Ltd Grimsby
12/04/1938 Renamed Wolves 
Writing to the Secretary of Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club Sir John Marsden explained that the company had “recently renamed one of our trawlers after your club namely Wolves, Usually we paint a replica of the clubs crest and colours on the bows” He went on to ask for a copy of the club crest in order that this may be done.
20/04/1942 Crampins bought the trawler which was still in Navy service 
04/1947 The Bunch Steam Fishing Company bought the Wolves 
06/1947 The vessel was renamed Pataudi 


Her Details are

  • Official Number 162891
  • Yard Number 977
  • Call Sign GYCP
  • GT 442 NT 161
  • Dimensions 157 x 26.7 x 12.3
  • Quarter deck 84 Foc’sle 27

Scrapped 05/1961

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Jasper GY 1062

Jasper Built 1891 Cochrane Cooper & Schofield Beverley for the Kingston Steam Trawling Co. Ltd Hull H 176
29/05/1917 Requisitioned For Fishery Reserve
09/06/1917 Bought by J. L. Green
12/06/1917 Registered as GY 1062
1919 Released
04/1919 Sold to G. Lane Grimsby
08/1921 Acquired by C. Legard Grimsby
11/1921 Bought by Loraine Fishing Co. Ltd Grimsby
08/1922 Renamed Polemarch GY 1062

Her Details are

  • Official Number 99543
  • Yard Number 65
  • GT 150 NT 64
  • Dimensions 100.5 x 20.5 x 11
  • Quarter deck 19 Foc’sle 17

Lost on the 01/01/1924 No Survivors

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Jason GY 828

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Jardine GY 301

Jardine Built 1935 Cochrane & Sons Selby for the Crampin Steam Fishing Co. Ltd Grimsby 
Scuttled by the Allies following an attack by aircraft off Norway Coast whilst on Admiralty service 
25/04/1940 The Germans succeeded in salving her and returned her to service as the Cherusker

Her Details are

  • Official Number 164405
  • Yard Number 1151
  • GT 452 NT 191
  • Dimensions 161.8 x 27.1 14.2
  • Quarter deck 88 Foc’sle 28

30/04/1940 Scuttled by our forces after damage by Aircraft West Coast of Norway

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Japan GY 28

JAPAN built 1904 Cochrane & Sons Selby for H L Taylor
08/1914 Requisitioned as a mine sweeper
16/08/1915 North Sea Lt Richard Harcourt RNR in command Harwich-based sailed from Lowestoft sweeping with HMT Touchstone for UC-laid mines
Both vessels clearing sweeps at 19:15, Winch boat Japan heaved in sweep wire and saw it was fouled by a mine laid by UC.6 Matthias Graf von Schmettow only 30yds away by the time the winch-man’s warning had been heard and acted on the mine was only 3-4yds distant
Headway was kept using the trawler’s engines
Mine blew up port-side between bridge and foremast sinking her within 30 sec off S end of Shipwash shoal off Harwich 51.53.28N 01.34.29E5
Ratings killed, two of the bodies were picked up by HMT Lord Roberts and Touchstone and landed at HMS Ganges
Survivors rescued from the water 
MOISEY, Harold, Deck Hand
RICHARDSON, Thomas H, Deck Hand
WESTCOTT, James W, 2nd Hand
WING, Charles H, Deck Hand
WOOLDRIDGE, Thomas, Petty Officer

Her Details are

  • Official Number 118932
  • Yard Number 327
  • Admiralty Number FY 42
  • GT 205 NT 78
  • Quarter deck 58 Foc’sle 19
  • Dimensions 114 x 21.6 x 11.2

16/08/1915 Mined off Shipwash Light vessel whilst in Admiralty Service