Author: Trevor Hallifax

Rochester built 1898 Mackie & Thomson Govan for Hagerup Doughty & Co. Grimsby
04/1906 Registered to Consolidated Steam Fishing & Ice Co.
10/1914 Requisitioned as a mine sweeper
1919 Returned
01/1925 Transferred to Lowestoft. 
Lost 27/07/1944. Struck a mine 27 miles East-North-East of Withernsea Light House 53 54N 00 42 30E whilst steaming home with 20 kits of fish aboard.
Evidently, the vessel sank very close to that position. Eleven members of her crew were rescued but one lost

Her Details are 

• Official Number 109529
• Yard Number 174
• Admiralty Number FY 642
• Armament 1-3pdr
• GT 165 NT 51
• Quarter Deck 17 Foc’sle 18
• Dimensions 104.2 x 21 x 11.7
• Engines 3 cyl 10, 16 7/16 27 in x 20 in 45 RHP by Muir & Houston Glasgow

Lost 27/07/1944 Struck a mine

Details to follow

10/12/1940 Mined off Iceland