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Fortuna Built 1906 by Cook Welton & Gemmell for A Black Grimsby
16/06/1909 Sold to the South Western Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby
05/05/1913 Bought by Thomas W. Baskcomb Grimsby
27/09/1915 Sold to the Spurn Steam Trawling Co Grimsby
10/1915 owned by Spurn Steam Fishing Co
29/11/1916 Bought by George F. Sleight Grimsby
1917 Requisitioned as a fishing trawler Fishery Reserve 
1919 Returned to commercial fishing
12/12/1929 Crew J H Foster Lost
28/11/1933 Sold to the Dobson Ship Repair Co Ltd Grimsby
11/06/1940 Requisitioned as an auxiliary patrol vessel 

Surname	Forename	Age At Death	Date Of Death	Rank	Boat
JONES	HENRY	26	05/04/1941	Ordinary Seaman	H.M. Trawler Fortuna.
NICHOLSON	WILLIAM EDWARD	62	05/04/1941	Engineman	H.M. Trawler Fortuna.
WHYTE	GILBERT	Unknown	05/04/1941	Seaman	H.M. Trawler Fortuna.
CHARLTON	WILLIAM TODD MATTHEWS	37	02/04/1941	Skipper	H.M. Trawler Fortuna
FEENEY	EDWARD VICTOR	21	05/04/1941	Stoker	H.M. Trawler Fortuna.
HALL	GEORGE OLIVER	21	05/04/1941	Stoker	H.M. Trawler Fortuna.
WINSOR	STANLEY GEORGE	Unknown	05/04/1941	Seaman	H.M. Trawler Fortuna.
PHILLIPS	SIDNEY	Unknown	05/04/1941	Stoker	H.M. Trawler Fortuna.
ROBSON	EDWARD	23	05/04/1941	Engineman	H.M. Trawler Fortuna
WRIGHT	JOSIAH VICTOR	34	05/04/1941	Seaman	H.M. Trawler Fortuna.
BRUCE	ADAM HUBERT MURRAY	41	05/04/1941	Seaman	H.M. Trawler Fortuna.
FOOTE	SAMUEL EDWARD	33	05/04/1941	Second Hand	H.M. Trawler Fortuna.
HARRIS	ERNEST EDWARD	32	05/04/1941	Ordinary Seaman	H.M. Trawler Fortuna.
GLYDE	LAWRENCE ERIC	23	05/04/1941	Seaman	H.M. Trawler Fortuna.
SMITH	WILLIAM JAMES	42	05/04/1941	Seaman	H.M. Trawler Fortuna.

Her Details are

• Official Number 123567 
• Yard Number 108
• GT 259 NT 111 
• Dimensions 128.4 x 22 x 11.8 
• Quarter deck 68 
• Engines Charles D. Holmes 63 NHP 10.75 knots 

Sunk by German aircraft off St. Abb’s Head 03/04/1941 All of her crew were lost