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Mansfield GY 460

Post author By Trevor Hallifax
Post date 21 July 2020

Mansfield Built 1897 Mackie & Thomson Govan for Hagerup Doughty & Co Grimsby
04/1906 Registered with Consolidated Steam Fishing & Ice Co
1917 Hired by the Admiralty
1919 Returned
07/1921 Sold to Frederick Ballard in Aberdeen registered as A 685
1929 Sold to J. Ritchie and W. T. Davies of Milford Haven retaining her Aberdeen registration and fished out of the port with a local crew

Her Details are

Official Number 108490
Yard Number 168
GT 165 NT 51
Dimensions 104.2 x 21 x 10.7
Quarter deck 17 Foc’sle 18

Foundered 20 miles from the Coningbeg Light Vessel off the coast of Ireland on 07/04/1934 Her crew was picked up by the trawler Peterborough HL.41 and were landed in Milford

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Man o War GY 396

Post author By Trevor Hallifax
Post date 21 July 2020

Man o War built 09/04/1937 for Earl Steam Fishing Co. Ltd as GY 396
One of Alec Black’s white elephant fleet.
09/1939 Requisitioned as A/P trawler fitted with ASDIC
02/03/1940 Grimsby Registry Closed
04/1940 Assigned to the 21st Strike Force and took part in the Norwegian Campaign
1942 Based at Londonderry with Escort Group
02/07/45 Returned
01/01/1946 Sold to Hull Ice Co Registered as H 181
16/11/1946 Went to Hellyer Bros
18/11/1948 Sold to devon Fishing Co, Hull
15/11/1952 Company changed name to Hellyer Bros Ltd Hull
07/1953 Converted to oil burning
31/05/1963 Laid up
1963 Sold for breaking
09/12/1963 arrived at Inverkeithing

Her Details Are

Official Number 164423
Yard Number 1179
Admiralty Number FY104
Armament 1-4″
Call Sign GZQR
GT 516 NT 285
Dimensions 173.2 x 28.6 x 14.7
Engines T 3cy By Amos & Smith Ltd Hull

Scrapped 1963, 27/07/1964 Registry Closed

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Manorbier Castle GY 1213

Post author By Trevor Hallifax
Post date 21 July 2020

Manorbier Castle built 1898 by Edward Bros North Shields
03/1898 Castle Steam Trawlers Co. Ltd London Registered as LO 164
13/08/1906 Castle Steam Trawlers, South Dock Basin Swansea registered as SA 25
16/12/1908 John Cairns St Margarets Fife & James William Petersen, Edinburgh
15/01/1912 Registered as A 439
10/10/1918 went to Charles Dobson, Fish Docks, Grimsby Registered as GY 1213
27/05/1906 Ran aground at Freshwater West
12/06/1906 Salved by the Rouse family of Hazelbeach Pembrokeshire
06/1915 Requisitioned and converted to a boom defence vessel based at Scapa Flow Orkney then later as a accommodation ship
1920 Returned to owners

Her Details are

Official Number 108322
Yard Number 565
GT 153 NT 53
Dimensions 105.5 x 20.8 x 10.9
Engines 3-cyl 56 rhp by North East Marine Engineering Co Sunderland

12/1921 Broken up

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Manda GY 1097

Post author By Trevor Hallifax
Post date 21 July 2020

Manda was Built 06/1898 by Mackie & Thomson for Orient Steam Fishing Co Originally Named Plato GY 726
02/1911 went to Scottish owners
04/1911 went to Norway renamed Manda
08/1917 went to Grant & Baker re registered as GY 1097
Renamed Manda
1918 Lost

Her Details are

Official Number 109543
Yard Number 229
GT 150 NT 39
Dimensions 100.6 x 20.5 x 10.7
Quarter Deck 18′ Foc’sle 19′

Missing since 23/12/1918

Tags gy-1097, gy-726, ww1-1918-12-23

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Manchester City GY 53

Post author By Trevor Hallifax
Post date 21 July 2020

Manchester City built 19/09/1933 by Smiths Dock Middlesborough for
Consolidated Fisheries Ltd. (Sir John Marsden, Bart.), Swansea
Original Name was Barry Castle
05/1934 Barry Castle GY 53 owned by Consol F
06/1934 Renamed Manchester City 1934
08/1939 Requisitioned as a anti-submarine trawler Renamed Peridot

Her details are

Official Number 144004
Yard Number 958
Admiralty Number FY 198
Call sign GWMS
GT 398 NT 151
Dimensions 155 x 26.4 x 12.2
Quarter deck 84 Foc’sle 25
Engines 3cyl 13.5 22.5 39 x 26in 126 nhp 99 hp

15/03/1940 mined and sunk off Dover.

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Malta GY 325

Post author By Trevor Hallifax
Post date 21 July 2020

Malta ex-Weelsby built 1897 Cochrane & Cooper Beverley for W Grant
11/1914 Requisitioned as auxiliary patrol vessel also decoy trap with submarine C.33
01/09/1915 North Sea Mined in field laid by UC 7 Franz Wäger the day before off Orford Ness 52.01.18N, 01.37.35E
7 Crew Lost

Surname	Forename	Age At Death	Date Of Death	Rank	Boat
BORMAN	HARRY	Unknown	01/09/1915	Engineman	H.M. Trawler “Malta.”
TURNER	THOMAS WILLIAM	Unknown	01/09/1915	Trimmer	H.M. Trawler “Malta.”
HALL	EDWARD	Unknown	01/09/1915	Deck Hand	H.M. Trawler “Malta.”
BAIN	WILLIAM	Unknown	01/09/1915	Deck Hand	H.M. Trawler “Malta.”
MOLLOY	PATRICK	23	01/09/1915	Seaman	H.M. Trawler “Malta.”
PICKERING	WILLIAM	28	01/09/1915	Deck Hand	H.M. Trawler “Malta.”
ARMES	THOMAS	36	01/09/1915	Second Hand	H.M. Trawler “Malta.”

Her Details are

Official Number 108468
Yard Number 183
Admiralty Number FY 700
GT 138 NT 46
Quarter deck 17
Dimensions 94 x 20.5 x 10.7
Engines C D Holmes 40rhp 3 Cyl 10.0 Knots

01/09/1915 Mined off North Shipwash Buoy whilst in Admiralty Service

Tags gy-325, ww1-1915-09-01

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Maloom GY 845

Post author By Trevor Hallifax
Post date 21 July 2020

Maloom Built 1888 Troon Originally registered as a liner
01/1916 Bought by C. Jeffs Grimsby registered as GY 845
08/1917 Sold to J. Adams Grimsby
06/1918 Sold to E. Brown

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