Author: Trevor Hallifax

Dandini GY 1032

Post author By Trevor Hallifax
Post date 30 June 2020

The Dandini was built by A Hall of Aberdeen 1917 for the South Western Steam Fishing Co
04/1917 Requisitioned and converted to minesweeper
09/1917 she was sold to Amaranth Steam Fishing Co
11/1917 Sold to Sleights Steam Fishing Co
1919 Returned to owners
1924 Owned by Regent Fishing Co. Ltd Aberdeen A 18
03/1918 went to Whitby owner R W Millburn

Her details are

Official Number 139939
Yard Number 511
Admiralty Number 1265
212 GT 82 NT
Armament 1-6pdr AA
Dimensions 115.5 x 22.1 x 11.9

Sunk 07/05/1938 following collision with BARBARA ROBB off Shetland during snow shower

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Dandara GY 34

Post author By Trevor Hallifax
Post date 30 June 2020

Dandara Built 1909 Cook Welton & Gemmell Beverley for Hellyer Steam Fishing Co. Ltd Hull Built as Leonato and registered as H 41
1917 Requisitioned as a fishing trawler Fishery Reserve
1919 Returned to commercial fishing
1920 Sold to Jutland Steam Trawling Co Ltd Hull renamed Naval Escort
1925 Bought by Walker Steam Fishing Co Aberdeen registered as A 122
1926 Sold to the Regent Fishing Co Aberdeen and renamed Dandara
1929 Bought by Brand & Curzon Ltd Milford Haven
1938 Sold to Milford Fishing Ltd Milford Haven registered as M 279
1939 Requisitioned as a minesweeper
1940 Returned to commercial fishing
24/04/1941 Sold to Great Northern Steam Fishing Co Ltd Hull and registered as H 417
1943 Bought by the Hellyer Steam Fishing Co. Ltd Hull
1944 Sold to the Kingston Steam Trawling Co Ltd Hull
1945 Bought by the Standard Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby and registered as GY 34
1951 Sold to the Nigg Fishing Co Ltd Aberdeen and registered as A 671

Her Details are

Official Number 129208
Yard Number 178
GT 213 NT 85
Dimensions 111.4 x 22.6 x 12.2
Engines Amos & Smith 45 NHP 10 knots

Arrived at Hamburg on the 16/01/1959 for breaking up

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Dalmatia GY 374

Post author By Trevor Hallifax
Post date 30 June 2020

Details to follow

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Dalmatia GY 435

Post author By Trevor Hallifax
Post date 30 June 2020

Dalmatia Built 1891 Mackie & Thomson Govan for Great Grimsby & East Coast Steam Fishing Co Grimsby 1912 To owners in Blyth

Her Details are

Official Number 99665
Yard Number 45
GT 155 NT 57
Dimensions 100.5 x 20.5 x 10.7
Quarter deck 19 Foc’sle 19

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Dale GY 1133

Post author By Trevor Hallifax
Post date 30 June 2020

Dale built 1900 John Duthie Aberdeen for ‘D’ Line Steam Fishing Co Grimsby
12/1914 Requisitioned as Auxiliary Patrol vessel
06/1915 Returned to owners

Her Details are

Official Number 110930
Admiralty Number FY 823
GT 198 NT 69
Dimensions 112 x 21.3 x 11.7
Quarter deck 46 Foc’sle 24

12/02/1917 Sunk by U Boat 42 miles S by E 1/4 E of North Ronaldshay Orkneys

Tags gy-1133, ww1-1917-02-12

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Daimler GY 224

Post author By Trevor Hallifax
Post date 30 June 2020

Daimler Built 1910 Cochrane & Sons Selby for Pickering & Haldane’s Steam Trawling Co Ltd Hull as S. L. Haldane
Renamed Daimler
04/1919 Sold to J. Smethurst Grimsby and registered as GY 224
01/1920 Bought by owners in Portugal

Her Details are

Official Number 129292
Yard Number 468
GT 257 NT 105
Dimensions 130 x 22.5 x 11.9

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Cyrano GY 1203

Post author By Trevor Hallifax
Post date 30 June 2020

Cyrano Built 1900 Cook Welton & Gemmell Beverley for Alec Black & Walter Olney Grimsby

Her Details are

Official Number 113209
Yard Number 274
GT 179 NT 62
Dimensions 108.7 x 21 x 11.2
Quarter deck 56 Foc’sle 19
Engines Charles D. Holmes 55 NHP 10 knots

04/03/1905 Collision with S.T. DEVONSHIRE GY 766 130 miles NE by N from Spurn Point

Tags 1905-03-04, gy-1203

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Cyrano GY 80

Post author By Trevor Hallifax
Post date 30 June 2020

Cyrano built 08/1905 by Cochranes of Selby for A Black of Grimsby
04/1914 she went to Standard Steam Fishing Co Grimsby
Requisitioned 06/1915 as a mine sweeper based at Penzance
Returned 1919
13/08/1919 Posted as missing

Surname	Forenames	Age at Death	Date of Death	Rank	Boat
GEORGE	SAMUEL VICTOR	22	15/08/1919	Third Hand	Cyrano
WICKS	HENRY	47	15/08/1919	Skipper	Cyrano
LLEWELLYN	JOSEPH	25	15/08/1919	Trimmer	Cyrano
BRUNNING	WILLIAM	40	15/08/1919	Deck Hand	Cyrano
APPLETON	WILLIAM	34	15/08/1919	Deck Hand	Cyrano
DOWSON	HAROLD	21	15/08/1919	Second Engineer	Cyrano
BURKWOOD	GEORGE WILLIAM	44	15/08/1919	Trimmer	Cyrano
DOWSON	JOHN	48	15/08/1919	Cook	Cyrano
TURNER	GEORGE	30	15/08/1919	First Engineer	Cyrano
SPARROW	ROBERT	52	15/08/1919	Deck Hand	Cyrano
COOK	ERNEST	31	15/08/1919	Second Hand	Cyrano

Her Details are

Official Number 122699
Yard Number 347
Admiralty Number 1528
GT 214 NT 77
Armament 1 12pdr
Dimensions 117 x 21.6 x 11.7
Quarter Deck 62′ Foc’sle 19′

Missing since 13/08/1919

Tags gy-80, ww1-1919-08-13

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Cynthia GY 392

Post author By Trevor Hallifax
Post date 30 June 2020

Details to follow

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Cynthia GY 346

Post author By Trevor Hallifax
Post date 30 June 2020

Cynthia Built 1897 Sir Raylton Dixon & Co Ltd Middlesbrough for Mitchell & Allen Grimsby
24/09/1916 Skipper D. Appleyard This trawler was on a fishing voyage 23 miles East by South, half South of Flamborough Head when she was stopped by a German submarine
The crew where told to take to their boats and the trawler sunk by gunfire She was one of 19 trawlers to be captured by a German submarine and sunk while fishing off the Yorkshire coast, during the hours of darkness
U-57 was responsible for at least 16 of the trawlers sank

Her Details are

Official Number 99164
Yard Number 341
GT 167 NT 45
Quarter deck 20 Foc’sle 19
Dimensions 96.5 x 20.3 x 10.7

24/09/1916 Sunk by U Boat 23 miles E by S 1/2 S of Flamborough Head

Tags gy-346, ww1-1916-09-24