Erimo Built 1930 Cochrane & Sons Selby for Diamonds Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby
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Scrapped in 04/1961
Erimo Built 1962 Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co Ltd Goole for Diamonds Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby
1980 Acquired by the Admiralty for target practice
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Erillus built 1914 Smiths Dock Co Ltd South Bank Middlesbrough for Consolidated Steam Fishing & Ice Co Grimsby
11/1914 Requisitioned as a mine sweeper
1919 Returned
09/1927 Registered to Consolidated Fisheries Ltd
11/1939 Requisitioned as an Auxiliary Patrol vessel
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Scrapped in 10/1955
Equity Built 1896 Mackie & Thomson Govan for Great Northern Steam Fishing Co Ltd Hull
07/1917 Sold to Strand Steam Fishing Co Grimsby registered GY 1086
01/1918 Bought by the Amaranth Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby
03/1919 Sold to Icelandic Fisheries Grimsby
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Scrapped in 06/1925
Equitable Built 1920 Cochrane & Sons Selby for Equitable Steam Fishing Co. Ltd Grimsby
03/1923 Sold to owners in Portugal where she became Glauco later Alvor
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Equinox Built 1899 by Earles Ship Building & Engineering Co Hull for Grimsby Union Steam Fishing Co
08/1899 Renamed Ulundi
04/1913 sold to Anchor Steam fishing Co and Renamed Catalus
12/1913 sold to Grimsby & North Sea Steam Fishing Co Renamed Equinox
06/1915 Requisitioned as a minesweeper for duties at Dover
29/09/1916 Officially given up as lost with a crew of nine. She left Grimsby on the 25th August.
| Surname | Forenames | Age at Death | Date of Death | Rank | Boat |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BRIGGS | JOSEPH ROBERT | 55 | 25/08/1916 | Steward | Equinox |
| JENKINS | HENRY | 54 | 25/08/1916 | Second Hand | Equinox |
| TAYLOR | GEORGE ALFRED | 23 | 25/08/1916 | Third Hand | Equinox |
| WAITE | ARTHUR ARCHIBALD | 18 | 25/08/1916 | Apprentice | Equinox |
| LITTLEHALES | CHARLES HENRY | 21 | 25/08/1916 | Deck Hand | Equinox |
| DAY | SAMUEL WILLIAM | 19 | 25/08/1916 | Deck Hand | Equinox |
| SMITH | JOHN | 40 | 25/08/1916 | Second Engineer | Equinox |
| MORTLOCK | ARTHUR | 53 | 25/08/1916 | First Engineer | Equinox |
| GLENTWORTH | HERBERT | 46 | 25/08/1916 | Skipper | Equinox |
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25/08/1916 Sunk by mine 39 miles S E by E of Humber Light Vessel
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Equator Built 1899 Mackie & Thomson Govan for Great Northern Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull
12/1918 Sold to J. Bryant Grimsby registered as GY1260
01/1919 Bought by H. Wood Grimsby
02/1919 To J. Bacon Grimsby
07/1919 To H. Wood Grimsby
11/1919 Sold to the Mayfair Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby
02/1923 Bought by C. Dobson Grimsby
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Scrapped in 02/1934
Epine Built 1929 Cook Welton & Gemmell Beverley for J. Stewart Trawling Co. Ltd Hull
Built as Solway Firth H 107
08/01/1931 Sold to the Firth Steam Trawling Co. Ltd Hull
20/06/1931 Bought by H. W. Hall Thomas Hamling & Co. Ltd Hull
09/01/1931 Sold to the Premier Steam Fishing Co. Ltd Grimsby renamed Epine registered as GY 7
03/09/1939 Requisitioned as a minesweeper
01/1946 Returned to commercial fishing
13/03/1948 Wrecked on rocks at Snæfellsnes, Faxafloi west coast of Iceland in a severe gale and blizzard
An Icelandic rescue party got a line to the vessel and took four of her crew off by breeches buoy
One other crew member managed to swim ashore but fourteen of her crew were lost as heavy seas swept the wreck Clinging to the bridge skipper Alfred Loftis was heard to shout
“I do not mind what happens to me so long as the boys are all right Look after the boys”
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13/03/1948 Wrecked on rocks at Snæfellsnes, Faxafloi west coast of Iceland in a severe gale and blizzard
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