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WELBECK built 1915 Cochranes of Selby for E C Grant
20/03/1915 Registered at Grimsby GY 455
05/1915 Requisitioned as a mine layer based at Portsmouth
01/08/1916 Sold to Welbeck Steam Fisheries Grimsby
07/02/1919 Sold to Yarborough Steam Fishing Co
03/1919 Post war Service
12/1919 Sold to F & T Ross Hull
20/12/1919 Grimsby Registry Closed
1920 Returned
21/02/1920 Registered at Hull as Ohm H 128
08/1939 Requisitioned as a minesweeper Based at Aberdeen with M/S Group 37
10/1940 on miscellaneous Duties
1941 Transferred to Ardrossan with M/S Group 37
1942 Based at Grimsby with M/S Group 37
22/12/1945 Laid Up
31/05/1946 Returned
16/03/1946 Sold to Westward Trawlers Milford Haven
10/04/1946 Hull Registry Closed
20/04/1946 Registered as Westcar M 110

Her Details are

• Official Number 137020
• Yard Number 627
• Admiralty Number N 4A and N 8A, FY 561
• Armament 1-6pdr HA
• GT 302 NT 157
• Dimensions 135 x 23.5 x 12.3
• Engines C D Holmes 84rhp 10.5 knots

22/07/1960 Sold to Haulbowline Industries Co Cork for Breaking Up

Welbeck built 09/1921 Cochranes of Selby for Pickering & Haldane Hull Lord Carson Then Named William Ram Mersey Class
30/09/1921 Sold to Pickering & Haldane Hull H302
28/10/1921 Registered as H302 Lord Carson
12/1929 Sold to J Rushworth Grimsby GY 165
09/01/1930 Registered as Welbeck GY 165
10/1935 Sold to Harry Franklin Grimsby
01/06/1940 Requisitioned as a Auxiliary Patrol Vessel
05/1941 Fitted out as a Minesweeper Based at Lowestoft /Yarmouth
1944 Towed London Barges to South Coast in Preparation for D-Day
09/1944 Sold to Shire Trawlers London
04/1950 Sold to Northern Trawlers London
1951 Sold to Ship Breakers

Her Details are

• Official Number 144409
• Yard Number 757
• Admiralty Number 3550, FY 1609
• Armament 1 12pdr W/T
• GT 324 NT 130
• Dimensions 138.5 x 23.7 x 12.8
• Engines Cooper & Greig 87hp 11.0 Knots

Wellard Built for Earl Steam Fishing Co by Cook Welton & Gemmel
Original Name EL Capitan GY 450
07/1938 went to Crampins Steam Fishing Co
10/1939 Requisitioned as A/S Name unchanged
Joined the 21st A/S Strike Group, Took part in the Norwegian Campaign
02/1942 Loaned to USN
10/1942 Returned and was transferred to the South African Station.
1945 Returned
1946 Acquired by Crampins registered as GY 300
My Grandfather sailed on the Wellard for 3 months in 1946 as a deck hand,before being reunited with her in 1950
20/04/1950 to 18/09/1950 Signed on as a 3rd hand  
25/01/1951 His next trip with the Wellard signed on again as 3rd hand until 16/05/1951
06/12/1951 but as a deck hand until 24/04/1952
18/05/1952 His last time with the vessel until 11/10/1952 again as deck hand 
She was one of 6 sister boats named after well known Race Horses of that period. When it was sold to Crampins the companies policy was to name the trawlers after Cricketers with all names having 7 letters
After being returned in 1942 she had undergone work on the engines and someone left a hammer in one of the cylinders so when it was started up it smashed the engine which took quite some time before being repaired and ready for sea.
It had been noted by various skippers that she was terrible at being handled at sea being unstable

Her Details Are

• Official Number
• Admiralty Number FY137
• Dimensions 173 X 28.6 X 14.6
• Quarter deck 89′ Fo’scle of 37′
• Engines 135 NHP, Triple Cylinder 15″, 25″ & 42″ x 27″
• Boiler 1 SB 220lb Spt, Producing 12.8 Knots by Amos & Smith.
• Funnel yellow C on Blue band between yellow and black top
• Hull black with white line red boot topping

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