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Lionheart GY 222

Lionheart Built 1930 Smith’s Dock Co. Ltd Stockton-on-Tees For Consolidated Fisheries Ltd Grimsby
1941 Purchased from Consolidated Fisheries to replace pilot cutter Prudence that had been requisitioned Converted into a pilot cutter by Charles Hill of Bristol, placed in service London Pilotage district 
Served during WW2, Southend Harwich Sunk pilot station and Ramsgate Dumpton station
After WW2 she served on both Sunk and Dungeness stations 
1952 Sold to Dutch trawler owners in Holland where she became Jacoba 
Sold later in the year to Dutch owners renamed Gelria registered to the port of Ijmuiden


Her Details are

  • Official Number 160991
  • Yard Number S925 
  • GT 367 NT 145 
  • Dimensions 141.7 x 25.5 x 13.6  
  • Quarter deck 78 Foc’sle 23 
  • Engines 3Cyl 13.5, 24, 39 in x 27 in 107 NHP by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd Middlesbrough 
  • Call Sign GQNK

Broken up by Frank Rijsdijk Holland B.V. Hendrik Ido Ambacht 04/1963

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Chrysolite GY 260

Chrysolite built 1916 Cochranes of Selby for Kingston Steam Trawling Co Hull H 513
18/11/1916 Registered as H 513
24/12/1916 Requisitioned for War service as a Mine sweeper
Based at Dover
27/09/1919 Taken off Hire
16/02/1928 Sold to John Stewart
13/03/1928 Sold to J Stewart Hull
15/07/1930 Went to Beeley & Sleight Grimsby
18/07/1930 Registered as GY 260
24/08/1940 Requisitioned as a Minesweeper
Based at Aberdeen with M/S Group 70
10/01/1946 Returned
06/1946 Sold to Grimsby Merchants Amalgamated Trawling
05/1952 Sold to Forward Steam Fishing Co
1963 Sold to Clayton & Davie Dunston For Breaking Up

Her details are

  • Official Number 139305
  • Yard Number 662
  • Admiralty Number 2982 WW1 FY 1827 WW2
  • Armament 1 6pdr
  • 251 GT 98 NT
  • Dimensions 121.8′ x 22.6′ x 12.2′
  • Quarter deck 70 Foc’sle 20
  • Dimensions 121.8 x 22.6 x 12.2
  • Engines by C D Holmes 76 rhp 3 cyl 11.0 knots

04/1963 Scrapped