Ebor Belle Built 1909 A. Hall Aberdeen for Owners in Aberdeen Built as Granuweal 12/1922 Bought by S. Chapman Grimsby registered as GY 101 02/1931 Bought by owners in Aberdeen
Her Details are
Official Number 127163
GT 174 NT 65
Dimensions 110 x 21.6 x 11.5
25/06/1935 Foundered 8 to 10 miles off Aberdeen after a collision with S.T. Croxby
Eastbourne Built 1896 Mackie & Thomson Govan for Hagerup Doughty & Co Grimsby 04/1906 Registered to Consolidated Steam Fishing & Ice Co 12/1916 Sold to new owners in Fleetwood 1917 Requisitioned 1919 Returned
Earl Warwick Built 1905 Cook Welton & Gemmell Beverley for Earl Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby 19/01/1909 Sold to Christian M. Evensen Færoe Islands and renamed Thora 10/03/1915 Bought by Earl Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby renamed Earl Warwick registered GY 446 03/1915 Requisitioned as a minesweeper 24/09/1915 Bought by the Rushworth Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby 22/03/1918 Sold to the Yarborough Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby 1919 Returned to commercial fishing 28/05/1919 Bought by the United Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby 21/11/1919 Sold to the Vincent Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby 24/08/1923 Bought by the Great Central Co-op Engineering and Ship Repairing Co Ltd Grimsby 15/06/1928 Sold to Harold Bacon Grimsby 26/09/1930 Bought by T. C. & F. Moss Ltd Grimsby 11/04/1931 Renamed Clacton
Her Details are
Official Number 122694
Yard Number 74
Admiralty Number FY 2652
GT 208 NT 77
Dimensions 117 x 21.6 x 11.4
Quarter deck 59 Foc’sle 19
Engines Charles D. Holmes 60 NHP 10 knots
Arrived in Bruges on the 02/10/1954 for breaking up
Earl Lennox built 1914 Cook Welton & Gemmell Beverley for Earl Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby 04/1915 Requisitioned as a mine sweeper Renamed Erling TN 258 later Earl Lennox 1915 Sold to the Strand Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby 23/10/1917 off SW Scotland Skipper George William Taylor RNR Escorting ammunition carrier Dunarea through the Sound of Islay with trawler Davara Earl Lennox was mined forward at 1300 the mine laid by U 79 Otto Rohrbeck She broke up and sank off the entrance to the Sound separating Islay and Jura islands 55.44.30N 06.00W 7 ratings lost Believing the explosion to be a U-boat attack Davara lowered a boat to assist but continued to escort Dunarea through the Sound On returning only four survivors had been found
Surname
Forename
Age At Death
Date Of Death
Rank
Boat
HARTLEY
JOHN FOSTER CRAWFORD
23
23/10/1917
Deck Hand
H.M. Trawler “Earl Lennox.”
COATES
THOMAS
41
23/10/1917
Deck Hand
H.M. Trawler “Earl Lennox.”
DALTON
OLIVER JAMES
53
23/10/1917
Engineman
H.M. Trawler “Earl Lennox.”
BORMAN
WALTER WILLOUGHBY
40
23/10/1917
Engineman
H.M. Trawler “Earl Lennox.”
LUCAS
WILLIAM THOMAS
21
23/10/1917
Trimmer
H.M. Trawler “Earl Lennox.”
HUBBARD
ALBERT
17
23/10/1917
Deck Hand
H.M. Trawler “Earl Lennox.”
ELLARBY
CHARLES EDWARD
51
23/10/1917
Second Hand
H.M. Trawler “Earl Lennox.”
Her Details are
Official Number 137014
Yard Number 306
Admiralty Number 1441
Armament 1 6pdr
GT 226 NT 109
Dimensions 117 x 22 x 12.7
Engines Charles D. Holmes 75 NHP 10 knots
23/10/1917 Mined off enterance to Sound of Islay whilst