Author: Trevor Hallifax

Derwent Built 1898 Cochrane & Cooper Ltd Beverley for East Coast Steam Trawling Co Hull H387
26/10/1899 Sold to Northwold Steam Fishing Co. Ltd Grimsby 31/10/1899 Renamed Limewold GY 1125
12/1914 Requisitioned as a Minesweeper
1919 Returned
11/1924 Sold for Breaking Up

Her Details are

• Official Number 109014
• Yard Number 212
• Admiralty Number 771
• Armament 1 6pdr 
• GT 189 NT 67 
• Dimensions 112.6 x 21 x 11.6 
• Quarter deck 20  

Scrapped in 11/1924

Derby County Built 1915 Smiths Dock Co Ltd South Bank Middlesbrough for Consolidated Fisheries Ltd Grimsby
The Derby County was the first trawler to be side-slipped on the new slipway facility at Grimsby
08/1939 Bought by the Admiralty as an Anti-Submarine vessel
03/1946 Returned fishing bought by Hull Ice Co registered as GY 194
11/1946 Consolidated Fisheries Ltd

Her Details are

• Official Number 162873
• Yard Number 954 
• Call Sign GWLY 
• Admiralty Number FY 171
• GT 399 NT 150 
• Dimensions 155 x 26.4 x 12.2 
• Quarter deck 84 Foc’sle 25 

Scrapped in Belgium in 02/1964

Derby built 1896 Edwards Bros North Shields for Hagerup Doughty & Co Grimsby
04/1906 Registered to Consolidated Steam Fishing & Ice Co
05/1915 Requisitioned as amine sweeper 
10/1918 Renamed DEBENEY 
1919 Returned 
04/1924 Laid up in the Ascension Islands no longer fishing

Her Details are 

• Official Number 106683
• Yard Number 534
• Admiralty Number 1779
• Armament 1-6pdr
• GT 144 NT 46
• Dimensions 104 x 20.7 x 10.5
• Quarter Deck 18 Foc’sle 18
• Engines by Sunderland works of N E Marine Co Triple expansion 9, 16, 25½ x 19½ in 45rhp

Dentaria built 1908 Charlton & Doughty Grimsby for North Eastern Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby
Requisitioned 09/1914 as a mine sweeper 
1919 Bought by T. W. Baskcomb Grimsby
1920 Returned
10/1935 Sold to F. Parkes 

Her Details are

• Official Number 127822
• Admiralty Number FY 610
• Armament 1-12pdr 1-7.5in Bomb Thrower
• GT 259 NT 103
• Dimensions 130.5 x 22.5 x 10.5

Scrapped in 08/1936