Cuckoo Built 1894 Earle’s Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd Hull for Pioneer Steam Fishing Co Grimsby
05/1907 Sold to owners in Milford Haven
07/1917 Bought by R. Hill Grimsby registered as GY 1075
03/1919 Sold to owners in Lowestoft
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Crystal Palace Built 1961 Goole Shipbuilding & Repairing Co Ltd Goole for Consolidated Fisheries Ltd Grimsby and registered to subsidiary company Rhondda Steam Fishing Co
01/1961 First Skipper Sheldon Stoakes This was Skipper Stokes’ first new command
05/12/1978 Sold to the Colne Fishing Co Lowestoft registered LT 393
1992 Sold to Caravel Maritime for scrapping
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Left Lowestoft 02/01/1992 for scrapping at Rainham Medway Kent 1992
Crux Built 1896 Mackie & Thomson Govan for Grimsby & North Sea Steam Trawling Co Ltd Grimsby
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11/01/1912 Stranded Out Newton 4 miles South of Withernsea, Yorkshire
Went to Yarmouth 1896
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30/06/1894 Dandy Collision with BALMORE of Dundee 15 miles E of Spurn Light Vessel
Croxton Built 08/1900 Cook Welton & Gemmell as the Victorian for William Butt & Willie Hill Grimsby
07/1912 went to Loyal Steam Fishing Co
10/1913 went to W Ellis
1915 Requisitioned as a mine-sweeper
12/1915 Renamed Victorian II
09/1918 went to J Coombes
1920 returned and reverted
03/1920 Renamed Victorian
06/1925 went to South Western Steam Fisheries
03/1928 went to TC & F Moss
04/1928 Renamed Croxton
11/01/1940 The Croxon was fishing in the North Sea under command of skipper W. Blythe and his crew of nine
The vessel was attacked by two German aircraft with bombs and machine guns
The Croxton foundered in position 53°20N / 02°40E where the crew abandoned to a small boat
The next day at 9.00 a.m. after twenty four hours in open seas and having rowed sixty miles they sighted a drifter near North Hammond Knoll Buoy and were picked up at 9.45 a.m. by HMD Citron at about 2.00 p.m., and later landed at Lowestoft
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11/01/1940 Sunk in the North Sea by German aircraft
Croxby built 1911 Cook Welton & Gemmell Beverley for William Grant Grimsby
05/1915 Requisitioned as a mine sweeper
1919 Returned to commercial fishing
07/03/1930 Sold to the Rugby Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby
09/02/1934 Bought by H. Robinson Grimsby
25/06/1935 Sank following a collision with trawler Ebor Belle GY 101 off Aberdeen She was later salved
13/05/1940 Sold to the Supreme Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby
05/07/1943 Bought by John Carl Ross Grimsby
23/07/1946 Sold to Grimsby Amalgamated Trawlers Ltd Grimsby
13/05/1952 Bought by Alfred Bannister Trawlers Ltd Grimsby
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Sold for scrap 27/03/1960 to Heuvelman Metaahandel Sloopwerken broken up at Krimpen Ijssel Holland
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Crown Built 1906 Earle’s Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd Hull for Crown Steam Fishing Co Grimsby
05/1907 Sold to owners in Milford Haven
07/1917 Bought by R. Hill Grimsby registered as GY 1075
03/1919 Sold to owners in Lowestoft
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06/11/1906 Stranded approx 1 mile SW of Manghold Head Isle of Man
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