Author: Trevor Hallifax

Wolseley Built 1903 J. T. Eltringham South Shields for North Shields owners
06/1917 Bought by H. Croft Baker Grimsby registered as GY 1067
11/1917 Bought by W. Hill Grimsby
12/1918 Sold to Northern Steam Fishing Grimsby
07/1920 Bought by owners in Aberdeen
1935 Sold to owners in Lowestoft Registered as LT 410
1945 To the Great Grimsby & East Coast Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby registered as GY 23
1946 To Grimsby group owners Grimsby
1946 Sold to the Danesbury Steam Fishing Company Grimsby

Surname	Forenames	Age at Death	Date of Death	Rank	Boat
COLLRIDGE	JAMES	51	23/09/1944	Deck Hand	Wolseley
FOX	ARTHUR FREDERICK	40	23/09/1944	Trimmer	Wolseley
CLARK	ARTHUR EDWIN	58	23/09/1944	Mate	Wolseley
FLOWERS	JOSEPH	47	23/09/1944	Third Hand	Wolseley

Her Details are

Official Number 114529
GT 159 NT 61
Dimensions 105.2 x 20.6 x 11.3

To Holland 1950 presumably for scrap

Tags 1950, gy-1067, gy-23

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Witham GY 283

Post author By Trevor Hallifax
Post date 31 July 2020

Witham originally built as Stephen Kennedy Built 1919 Abdela & Mitchell Queensferry Built as Strath Class Trawler for the Admiralty
04/1923 Acquired by Consolidated Steam Fishing & Ice Co Grimsby renamed Witham
09/1927 Registered to Consolidated Fisheries Ltd

Her Details are

Official Number 128772
Call Sign GLTW
GT 205 NT 93
Dimensions 114.8 x 22.1 x 12.1
Engines 12, 20 34 in x 23 in 75 NHP by I.J. Abdela & Mitchell Ltd Gloucester

Scrapped 10/1955

Tags 1955-10, gy-283

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Witch of the Wave GY 492

Post author By Trevor Hallifax
Post date 31 July 2020

Details to follow

Tags gy-492

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Wisteria GY 302

Post author By Trevor Hallifax
Post date 31 July 2020

Wisteria built 04/1891 A W Robertson Canning Town London for North Eastern Steam Fishing Co.
Original name LYNTON with the same registration
02/1903 Renamed to Wisteria
01/1915 Requisitioned as a minesweeper
12/1915 Renamed Wisteria II
1919 Returned to owners
12/1919 Sold to T W Bascomb
10/1935 sold to F Parkes and moved to Lowestoft Registered as LT 97
10/1935 sold to Consolidated Fisheries Ltd
07/02/1939 Left Lowestoft
1939 sold to C Valkenburg of Antwerp

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