Author: Trevor Hallifax

Commodator Built 1917 Cook Welton & Gemmell Beverley for The Admiralty
1919 Registered by the Admiralty as a trawler LO 438 
1922 Bought by Boston Deep Sea Fishing Co Ltd Fleetwood renamed Hagnaby registered  BN 179
1926 Sold to V. Fourny Boulogne France and renamed Professeur Bergonie 
1930 Bought by Boston Deep Sea Fishing Co Ltd Fleetwood renamed Daily Chronicle registered FD 69
1934 Sold to T. L. Devlin Granton renamed Commodator and registered as GN 6 
29/08/1939 Requisitioned as a minesweeper
04/10/1945 Returned to owners 
1943 Sold to Mrs. Breen Granton 
1945 Bought by the Grimsby Merchants Amalgamated Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby registered as GY57
1948 Sold to R. G. Parsley Milford Haven and renamed Lynandi 
1951 Sold for scrap to Thomas W. Ward Ltd 

Her Details are

• Official Number 143809
• Yard Number 382 
• Admiralty Number FY 634
• GT 281 NT 109 
• Dimensions 125.5 x 23.5 x 12.7 
• Quarter deck 72 Foc’sle 21 
• Engines Amos & Smith 480 IHP 10½ knots 

Arrived at Milford Haven on the 27/08/1954 for breaking up

Comitatus Built 24/09/1918 Cook Welton & Gemmell Beverley for The Admiralty as Castle Class trawler John Gulipster Completed as a fishing trawler
1919 Sold to J. Johnson Scarborough renamed Betty Johnson registered as SH 50 
1922 Bought by Prince Fletcher Trawlers Fleetwood registered FD 168 
1928 Sold to Melling Trawlers Ltd Fleetwood renamed Annie Melling 
18/01/1932 Bought by Farrows Steam Fishing Co Ltd Hull renamed Andrew Marvel registered H 399 
23/03/1933 Sold to Hudson Bros Trawlers Ltd Hull 
19/12/1935 Bought by Thomas L. Devlin Leith renamed Comitatus registered as GN 39 
28/08/1939 Requisitioned as a minesweeper 
09/10/1945 Returned to commercial fishing 
09/10/1945 Sold to the Dinas Steam Trawling Co Ltd Fleetwood 
1952 Bought by Queen Steam Fishing Co Grimsby registered GY 228 

Her Details are

• Official Number 143256
• Yard Number 403 
• Admiralty Number FY 633
• GT 290 NT 127 
• Dimensions 125.5 x 23.5 x 12.7 
• Quarter deck 72 Foc’sle 21 
• Engines Amos & Smith 480 IHP 10½ knots 

Sold to Van Heyghen Freres Belgium for scrap 19/06/1956 and broken up at Ghent

COLLINGWOOD Built 11/07/1902 Cook Welton & Gemmell Beverley for William Grant & Harold C. Baker Grimsby
1917 Requisitioned by the Admiralty as a fishing trawler Fishery Reserve
1919 Returned to owners
01/1920 Sold to the Sylvia Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby 
30/08/1922 Bought by the Dobson Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby 
01/02/1931 To C. Dobson Grimsby 
1940 Requisitioned as a boom gate vessel renamed Fieldgate 
1945 Returned to owners 
26/03/1945 Sold to the Wembley Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby 
1949 Sold for scrap to Pounds Portsmouth 

Her Details are 

• Official Number 113229
• Yard Number 324
• GT 172 NT 55
• Quarter Deck 56 Foc’sle 19
• Dimensions 108.7 x 21 x 11.2
• Engines Charles D. Holmes 55 NHP 9½ knots

Registration closed on the 11/06/1949 on advice that the vessel had been broken up