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Author: Trevor Hallifax
Urania GY 242
Urania Built 1890 Earle’s Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd Hull for the Union Steam Fishing & Ice Co Ltd Grimsby
First registered as a liner
12/1910 Sold to owners in Holland
Her Details are
- Official Number 96216
- Yard Number 334
- GT 183 NT 79
- Dimensions 107.4 x 20.5 x 11.4
- Quarter deck 42 Foc’sle 20
Upton Castle GY 1047
Upton Castle Built 1896 Edwards Bros North Shields for Castle Steam Trawlers Ltd Swansea
04/1917 Bought by T. Langley Grimsby
Her Details are
- Official Number 107043
- Yard Number 519
- GT 145 NT 49
- Dimensions 106.5 x 20.9 x 12.5
24/04/1917 Captured then scuttled by a U-boat 60 miles E of Longstone
Unyoro GY 14
Unyoro Built 04/02/1896 Cochrane & Cooper Beverley for the Grimsby Union Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby
10/1912 Sold to P J Aarnoudse St phillipsland Holland
Renamed Maatje PS 2
1917 sold to G Fennell Ijmuiden
1919 Renamed Brittania II
27/07/1920 Foundered in North Sea

Her Details are
- Official Number 105539
- Yard Number 143
- GT 182 NT 80
- Dimensions 108.4 x 21 x 11.5
- Quarter deck 44 Foc’sle 19
- Engines Earles Ship Building & Eng Co 55 rhp 3 cyl 10.0 Knots
27/07/1920 Foundered in North Sea
Unity GY 62
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Unity GY 293
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Unitia GY 924
UNITIA built 1913
12/1914 Requisitioned as a mine sweeper 1919 Returned Served as Portia in WW2


Her Details are
- Official Number
- Admiralty Number 699
- GT 296
- Armament 1-6pdr AA
Union Jack GY 1094
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Unicorn GY 746
Unicorn Built 1895 Edwards Bros North Shields for J. R. Mackrill & Sons Grimsby
01/1907 Bought by owners in Inverness
Her Details are
- Official Number 104195
- Yard Number 498
- GT 134 NT 28
- Dimensions 90.7 x 20.1 x 10.6
- Quarter deck 18 Foc’sle 19
Undine GY 204
Undine built by Cook Welton & Gemmell 1889 for Grimsby Union Steam Fishing Co Ltd of Grimsby.
31/10/1910 sold to N V Zeeviss Maats de ver Wachting Ijmuiden Holland renamed Neeltje Catharina IJM 160
01/1916 the vessel was listed as missing in the North Sea Possibly mined
All Hands Lost
Her Details are
- Official Number 96195
- Yard Number 37
- 163 GT 69 NT
- Dimensions 106.3 x 20.5 x 11.5
- Quarter deck 18 Foc’sle 22
- Engines by C D Holmes 50NHP 10 Knots
01/1916 Posted as missing in the North Sea Lost with all hands