Tag: gy-170

Harwich Built 1896 Mackie & Thomson Govan for Hagerup Doughty & Co Grimsby
18/12/1896 Arrived in Grimsby from the builders 
04/1906 Registered to Consolidated Steam Fishing & Ice Co 

Her Details are

• Official Number 106690 
• Yard Number 128 
• GT 163 NT 63 
• Dimensions 104.2 x 20.5 x 10.7 
• Quarter deck 17 Foc’sle 19  

12/02/1913 Collision with SS ASK of Denmark 44 miles E by S of Spurn Lightship

Ceylonite Built 07/07/1917 Cook Welton & Gemmell Hull for The Admiralty as Non-Standard Castle Class trawler Thomas Buckley
Originally ordered by the Kingston Steam Trawling Co Ltd Hull but purchased by the Admiralty whilst the vessel was still on the stocks
28/05/1919 Loaned to the United States for minesweeping duties in the North Sea 
03/10/1919 Returned to owners 
1919 Registered by the Admiralty as a trawler LO 276
1922 Sold to the Kingston Steam Trawling Co Ltd Hull renamed Ceylonite registered as H 724 
29/01/1930 Bought by the Taylor Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby registered as GY 170
1939 Sold to the St. Andrews Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby
09/04/1940 Requisitioned as a minesweeper
22/05/1946 Returned to owners 
1947 Bought by Joe Croan Newhaven Edingburgh registered as LH246 

Her Details are

• Official Number 144317 in 1919 
• Yard Number 340P 
• Admiralty Number FY 3607 FY 1853
• GT 173 NT 72 
• Dimensions 114.4 x 20.9 x 10.7 
• Engines Amos & Smith 480 IHP 10½ knots 

Scrapped at Charlestown on the 14/06/1960