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Escallonia built 1911 Cook Welton & Gemmell Beverley for North Eastern Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby
03/1915 Requisitioned as a mine sweeper
1919 Returned
02/12/1919 Sold to Thomas W. Baskcomb Grimsby
22/10/1935 Sold to Fred Parkes Grimsby 
1937 Sold for scrap to Thomas W. Ward Ltd Preston 

Her Details are 

• Official number 132101
• Yard Number 209
• Admiralty number FY 43
• Armament 1-12pdr
• GT 285 NT 123
• Quarter Deck 73
• Dimensions 132 x 22.5 x 11.7
• Engines Charles D. Holmes 80 NHP 10½ knots

Registration closed on the 26/01/1938 on advice that breaking up was completed

Eroican built 1914 Cook Welton & Gemmell Beverley for North Western Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby
08/1914 Requisitioned as a minesweeper 
1920 Returned to commercial fishing 
02/11/1915 Bought by Harold Croft Baker Grimsby 
20/04/1920 Sold to the Savoy Steam Fishing Co. Ltd Grimsby 
24/05/1928 Bought by Harold Croft Baker & Sons Ltd Grimsby 
09/02/1937 Sold to the Dominion Steam Fishing Co. Ltd Grimsby 
1940 Requisitioned as a minesweeper later a fuel carrier 
1949 Returned to commercial fishing 

Her details are

• Official number 136001
• Yard Number 288
• Admiralty number FY 294 FY 518
• Armament 1-3pdr
• GT 225 NT 112
• Quarter Deck 61 Foc’sle 16
• Engines Amos & Smith 68 NHP 9½ knots

Arrived at New Waterway 15/06/1961 for breaking up

Erne Built 1899 Mackie & Thomson Govan for Great Northern SS Fishing Co. Ltd Hull
11/1918 Bought by Harold Croft Baker Grimsby 
01/1919 Bought by H. Wood Grimsby 
02/1919 To J. Bacon Grimsby 
07/1919 To H. Wood Grimsby 
11/1919 Sold to the Mayfair Steam Fishing Co. Ltd Grimsby 
02/1923 Bought by C. Dobson Grimsby 

Her Details are

• Official Number 110725
• Yard Number 254
• GT 168 NT 66
• Dimensions 104.2 x 21 x 10.7
• Quarter deck 17 Foc’sle 18

25/12/1923 Collision with SS BOVIS of Norway off Dover