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Topaz Built 1916 Cochrane & Sons Selby Kingston Steam Trawling Co Ltd Hull 
11/1916 Requisitioned as a minesweeper 
1919 Returned to owners
04/1919 Sold to the Yarborough Steam Fishing Co Grimsby
09/1922 Renamed Valdora 
11/1939 Requisitioned by the Admiralty as an auxiliary patrol vessel 

Surname	Forenames	Age at Death	Date of Death	Rank	Boat
SMITH	OSBORNE	48	12/01/1940	Second Engineman	HMT  Valdora

Her Details are

• Official Number 139304
• Yard Number 661 
• Admiralty number FY 1262 FY 905
• Armament: 1-6pdr AA
• GT 251 NT 98 
• Dimensions 121.8 x 22.6 x 12.2 
• Quarter deck 70 Foc’sle 20 
• Engines 76 HP  

Sunk by aircraft fire near Cromer 12/01/1940