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Osako GY 100

Post author By Trevor Hallifax
Post date 23 July 2020

Osako Built 09/1917 Cook Welton & Gemmell as a Non Standard Castle Class for the Admiralty
1919 Registered by the Admiralty as a Trawler LO 484
1922 Completed as a Mine sweeper fitted with Bomb Thrower
1922 Sold to Kingston Steam Trawlers Hull Renamed Iolite H576
08/11/1934 Sold to Diamond Stream Fishing Co Grimsby Renamed Osako GY 100
11/02/1940 Requisitioned as a Mine sweeper
15/12/1945 Returned to owners
21/04/1956 Vessel Sank off the Faeroes after springing a leak in the fish room in Rough Weather
The Grimsby Trawler Thessalonian GY 112 which was fishing nearby Immediately Responded to the call for assistance
The Skipper Realising he could not get close because of the state of the sea Launched Life saving Dinghies and in a dramatic Shuttle Service Floated the dinghies Back and forth until all 13 Crew were Rescued

Her Details are

Offcial Number 145080
Yard Number 374
Admiralty number FY 3609, FY 580
Armament 1-12pdr
GT 273 NT 112
Dimensions 125.4 x 22.7 x 12.2
Quarter Deck 71
Engines Amos &Smith 480 ihp 10.5 Knots

21/04/1956 Foundered off the Faroes

Tags 1956-04-21, gy-100

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Osako GY 600

Post author By Trevor Hallifax
Post date 23 July 2020

Osako Built 12/11/1958 Cochranes of Selby for Diamonds Steam Fishing Co Grimsby
13/11/1958 Registered as GY 600
01/1981 Laid up Surveys overdue
18/01/1982 Registry Closed “as Sold to Kuwait”
1982 Sold to George Crutwell & George Shotton Tyneside for breaking up as due to previous sale not being completed
1983 Sold to CPA Salvage Bromley Kent used to recover electrical cables in the Solent
04/01/1984 Converted for Salvage work
22/11/1984 Sold to Offshore marine Salvage Guernsey
04/1985 Sold by order of the Admiralty Marshal at Ipswich to Joe O’Connor Plymouth on behalf of Anglo Spanish Interests
Restored to a fishing vessel
22/01/1986 Sold to Lasin Cork Irish Republic C 70
26/02/1991 Foundered whilst on Outward bound from Vigo Spain
All Crew rescued

Her details are

Official Number 168604
Yard Number 1432
GT 325 NT 122
Dimensions 128 x 26 x 11.5
Engines Mirrlees 736 bhp 7 cyl 13.0 knots

03/1991 Cork Registry Closed

Tags gy-600

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Orvicto GY 897

Post author By Trevor Hallifax
Post date 23 July 2020

Orvicto built 13/07/1916 Cook Welton & Gemmell for South Western Steam Fishing Co Grimsby 09/1916 Requisitioned as a mine sweeper and Bomb Thrower
08/01/1917 Sold to Aldersyde Steam Fishing Co Grimsby
19/02/1918 went to Great Northern Steam Fishing Co Hull H 603
26/08/1918 went to William Hill Grimsby GY 1179
12/12/1918 Sold to Northern Steam Fishing Co Grimsby
1919 Returned
27/12/1933 sold to Thomas Robinson & Sons Grimsby
19/04/1940 Requisitioned as a Danlayer, A/P vessel
31/10/1945 Returned
1961 Sold to A C Slooten Holland for Scrap

Her Details are

Official Number 138962
Yard Number
Admiralty Number FY 2962, FY 909
Armament 1-6pdr AA 1-7.5in Bomb Thrower
GT 226 NT 109
Dimensions 117 x 22 x 12.7
Quarter Deck 61 Foc’sle 16
Engines Amos & Smith 74 NHP 9.5 knots

03/05/1961 Arrived Wormer for Breaking Up

Tags gy-897

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Orpheus GY 74

Post author By Trevor Hallifax
Post date 23 July 2020

Orpheus built 15/07/1905 Cochranes of Selby for E Bacon & Co Grimsby GY 74
11/1906 sold to Dolphin Steam Fishing Co Grimsby
08/1914 Requisitioned as a mine sweeper
09/1915 Sold to Arctic Steam Fishing Co Grimsby
12/1915 Renamed Orpheus II
1919 Returned and reverted to Orpheus GY 74
27/06/1940 Requisitioned as a Minesweeper based at Great Yarmouth with M/S Group 146
01/1946 Returned
1961 Sold to Ijssel N V Heuvelman Holland for Breaking

Her Details are

Official Number 122695
Yard Number 339
Admiralty Number FY 41, FY 1780
Armament 1-6pdr AA
GT 228 NT 91
Dimensions 120.0 x 21.6 x 11.5
Engines Amos & Smith 69 rhp 3 cyl 10.5 knots

20/03/1961 Arrived New Waterway for Breaking at Krimpen

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Oropesa GY 358

Post author By Trevor Hallifax
Post date 23 July 2020

Oropesa built 10/1914 Cochranes of Selby for A. Bannister Grimsby
11/1914 Requisitioned as a mine sweeper
06/1915 Renamed Oropesa II
1919 Returned
09/1922 Renamed Our Alf
04/1924 Sold to Portugal Renamed Estrella Do Mar
Served in WW2 as Dusk

Her Details are

Official Number 137011
Admiralty Number FY 711
Armament 1-6pdr
GT 324 NT 171
Dimensions 140.2 x 24 x 12.6
Quarter Deck 77 Foc’sle 20

Tags gy-358

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Orontes GY 411

Post author By Trevor Hallifax
Post date 23 July 2020

Orontes Built 04/05/1895 Cochrane & Cooper Beverley for Thomas Hamling & Co Ltd Hull H 282
28/11/1905 Sold to James A Robertson Fleetwood
30/12/1905 Sold to Lancashire Steam Fishing Co Fleetwood FD 54
1912 Sold to Wallis Fisheries Vancouver British Columbia
06/1919 Sold to Northwold Steam Fishing Co GY 411
01/1924 Bought by Robert D Roberts Grimsby & H P Capron Cleethorpes
09/1926 Bought by Orontes Steam Fishing Co Grimsby
01/1933 Sold to A McKay Milford Haven
1935 Sold to R L Hancock Milford Haven

Her Details are

Official Number 105040
Yard Number 125
GT 178 NT 76
Dimensions 111.5 x 21 x 11.5
Quarter deck 20
Engines C D Holmes 60 rhp 3 cyl 10.0 Knots

Scrapped in Holland 09/1937

Tags 1937, gy-411

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Ormonde GY 162

Post author By Trevor Hallifax
Post date 23 July 2020

Ormonde built 1906
08/1914 Requisitioned as a mine sweeper
11/1917 Renamed Ormonde II
1919 Returned

Surname	Forenames	Age at death	Date of Death	Rank	Boat
CUMMINGS	WILLIAM THOMAS	35	16/02/1941	Stoker	H.M. Trawler Ormonde.
CHANNING	DONALD CHARLES	19	16/02/1941	Ordinary Seaman	H.M. Trawler Ormonde.
McCALLUM	JOHN DAVID	20	16/02/1941	Leading Seaman	H.M. Trawler Ormonde.
MURRAY	WILLIAM	28	16/02/1941	Engineman	H.M. Trawler Ormonde.
MAYHEW	HENRY	Unknown	16/02/1941	Ordinary Seaman	H.M. Trawler Ormonde.
WILSON	STANLEY JOHN SHERAM	19	16/02/1941	Ordinary Seaman	H.M. Trawler Ormonde.
PARKER	ROBERT	56	16/02/1941	Seaman	H.M. Trawler Ormonde.
DUNNE	EDWARD	Unknown	16/02/1941	Ordinary Seaman	H.M. Trawler Ormonde.
FIELDSEND	GEORGE ROBERT	Unknown	16/12/1941	Stoker	H.M. Trawler Ormonde.
FOSTER	ROBERT MATTHEW	Unknown	16/02/1941	Stoker	H.M. Trawler Ormonde.
DAVIES	WILLIAM THOMAS	Unknown	16/02/1941	Ordinary Signalman	H.M. Trawler Ormonde.
ELKS	MARK	37	16/02/1941	Seaman	H.M. Trawler Ormonde.
GRANT	FREDERICK	Unknonwn	16/02/1941	Engineman	H.M. Trawler Ormonde.
DUNSMORE	THOMAS GREGORY	25	16/02/1941	Ordinary Seaman	H.M. Trawler Ormonde.
McURICH	EDWIN	36	16/02/1941	Leading Seaman	H.M. Trawler Ormonde.

Her Details are

Official Number
Admiralty Number FY 147
Armament 1-6pdr AA
GT 250

16/02/1941 Sunk by Aircraft off East Scotland whilst in Admiralty Service

Tags gy-162, ww2-1941-02-16

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Ormonde GY 62

Post author By Trevor Hallifax
Post date 23 July 2020

Details to follow

Tags gy-62

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Orlando GY 248

Post author By Trevor Hallifax
Post date 23 July 2020

Orlando built 1907 Cochrane & Sons Selby for Dolphin Steam Fishing
08/1914 Requisitioned as a mine sweeper
14/03/1915 off NW & W Scotland Ran ashore on Sgeir More rock Tarskavaig Point southern Isle of Skye in bad weather and wrecked 58.12N 06.22W
No lives lost

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