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Viviana GY 233

Viviana Built 1936 Cochrane & Sons Selby for Atlas Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby
10/1939 Requisitioned as a minesweeper Based at Grimsby Ungrouped
1943 Transferred to the South African Station and based at Durban for convoy escorts
05/1946 Returned to owners 

Her Details are

  • Official Number 164410
  • Yard Number 1157
  • Admiralty Number FY 238
  • GT 455 NT 219
  • Dimensions 158.8 x 26.6 x 14.2
  • Quarter deck 86 Foc’sle 25
  • Engines 114 HP

Scrapped 12/1962

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Vascama GY 164

Vascama Built 04/1935 Cochrane & Sons Selby for Atlas Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby Registered as GY 164
09/1939 Requisitioned as an anti-submarine vessel
Based at Kirkwall along with the Northern Foam Northern Gift and Kingston Agate Employed on contraband control and anti-submarine patrols between Norway and Greenland
10/1943 On temporary loan to the Portuguese Navy renamed P 6 
08/1944 Returned to the Royal Navy and her original name Employed
on Iceland convoys
11/1946 Bought by the Atlas Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby GY 147
12/1962 Sold to Belgium Owners

Her Details are

  • Official Number 162900
  • Yard Number 1136 
  • Admiralty Number FY 185
  • Armament 1-4 gun 2-20mm AA guns Depth Charges
  • GT 447 NT 200 
  • Dimensions 158.1 x 26.6 x 14.2 
  • Quarter deck 88 Foc’sle 25 
  • Engines 114 HP  

Scrapped 12/1962