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Ullapool Built 1899 Earle’s Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd Hull for the Union Steam Fishing & Ice Co Ltd Grimsby
03/1913 Sold to the Atlas Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby 
04/1913 Renamed Vocates 
12/1913 Sold to the Grimsby North Sea Steam trawling Co Ltd Grimsby
01/1914 Renamed Aphelion 

Her Details are

• Official Number 110922
• GT 197 NT 73 
• Dimensions 110.5 x 21.2 x 11.2 
• Quarter deck 46 Foc’sle 18  

Sunk by U-boat gunfire 20 miles off Flamborough 24/09/1916

Details to follow

24/09/1916 Sunk by U Boat 20 miles E of Flamborough Head
10/08/1916 Towed into the Humber where she was beached. She had been attacked by a sub and the crew put off in their boat after which she was shelled and then set on fire. On board a live shell was found.