Author: Trevor Hallifax

Galleon Built 1930 Cook Welton & Gemmell Beverley for Perihelion Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby
1938 Sold to the Premier Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby renamed Calvi 
13/09/1939 Requisitioned as a minesweeper 
Based at Dover for sweeping work in the Channel
1940 Took part in the evacuation of Dunkirk Operation Dynamo 

Surname	Forenames	Age at Death	Date of Death	Rank	Boat
Bartlett	Walter	21	30/05/1940	Stoker	Calvi

Her Details are

• Official Number 160994
• Yard Number 553
• Admiralty Number FY 715
• GT 363 NT 173
• Dimensions 145.9 x 24.2 x 13.1
• Quarter deck 76 Foc’sle 21
• Engines Amos & Smith 91 NHP 11 knots

Sank by German aircraft bombs whilst embarking Allied troops at Dunkirk 29/05/1940

Galatia Built 1896 Cochrane & Cooper Beverley for Great Grimsby & East Coast Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby
28/03/1917 Stopped by UC 47 whilst fishing 30 miles SSW of Buchan Ness
Sunk by explosive charges

Her Details are

• Official Number 106686
• Yard Number 170
• GT 150 NT 63
• Dimensions 97.4 x 20.5 x 11
• Quarter deck 17 Foc’sle 18
• Engines C D Holmes 40rhp 3 Cyl 10.0 Knots

28/03/1917 Sunk by U Boat 30 miles SSW of Buchan Ness

Fulmar Built 1899 Cook Welton & Gemmell Beverley for Pickering & Haldane’s Steam Trawling Co. Ltd Hull H 25
10/09/1912 Sold to William J. Barrett Grimsby registered as GY 769
14/03/1913 Sold to G. E. Forum Denmark 
This was a nominal owner to allow the vessel to fish in Moray Firth as all other British trawlers had been banned from the area
31/03/1915 Back to William J. Barrett Grimsby registered as GY 470 

Her Details are

• Official Number 110694
• Yard Number 223 
• GT 231 NT 93 
• Dimensions 128.9 x 21.2 x 11.2 
• Quarter deck 20 
• Engines Charles D. Holmes 58 NHP 10½ knots 

Sank by a mine in the Gulf of Sollum 17/01/1916

Fulmar built by Cook Welton & Gemmell 23/02/1899 for Pickering & Haldanes Steam Trawling Co Hull
10/09/1912 sold to William J Barrett GY 769
14/03/1913 sold to G E Forum Denmark
31/03/1915 sold to William J Barrett GY 470
Requisitioned 05/1915 as a minesweeper 

Her Details are

• Official number 110694
• Yard number 223
• Admiralty number FY 1756
• GT 205 NT 68
• Armament 1 3pdr
• Dimensions 116.9 x 21.2
• Engines by C D Holmes 58 NHP 10.5 Knots

17/01/1916 Sunk by mine off Gulf of Sollum whilst in Admiralty service (possible British Mine)

Fuchsia Built 1896 Edwards Bros North Shields for C. Morley & W. D. G. Goff Milford Haven
09/1915 Sold to R. D. Clarke
26/10/1916 The crew of the Fuchsia after three weeks of anxiety have been reported as being Prisoners of War.

Her Details are

• Official Number 107045 
• Yard Number 524 
• GT 145 NT 54 
• Dimensions 106 x 20.7 x 11  

Captured by a U-boat in the North Sea 26/09/1916