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Olearia GY 331

Olearia Built 01/08/1899 Cochrane & Cooper of Selby for North Eastern Steam Fishing Co Grimsby
Registered 12/08/1899
23/05/1917 Stopped by UC33 commanded by Martin Schelle and sunk 65 miles WSW of North End of Sydero 
No reported casulaties

Her Details are 

  • Official Number 110898
  • Yard Number 253
  • GT 209 NT 76
  • Dimensions 117 x 21.5 x 11.2
  • Quarter Deck 48′ Foc’sle 20′
  • Engines by C D Holmes 60 RHP 3 cyl 10 Knots

23/05/1917 Sunk by U Boat on Faroe Bank Registry Closed 13/06/1917

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Gladstone GY 331

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British Guiana GY 331

British Guiana Built 1936 Cochrane & Sons Selby for Grimsby Motor Trawlers Grimsby 
11/1939 Requisitioned as an anti-submarine vessel 
1940 Transferred to Anti-Submarine duties
1945 Ownership of the vessel passed to F. E. Catchpole 
03/1946 Returned to owners Became Sunlight Waters LT 93 Later in the year she was sold to Torbay Trawlers Ltd and then transferred to Allen & Cooke Trawlers Ltd
1947 Sold to Milford Steam Trawling Ltd where she became Milford Knight M 176 
1949 Sold to G. D. Claridge and renamed British Guiana LT 52
She was later transferred to Claridge Trawlers Ltd part of the Colne Group Lowestoft 


Her Details are

  • Official Number 164419
  • Yard Number 1160
  • Call Sign GYVW 
  • Admiralty Number FY 271 
  • GT 146 NT 53 
  • Dimensions 101.2 x 21.1 x 10.3 
  • Quarter deck 57 Foc’sle 17 
  • Engines 6 cylinder 360hp Ruston 

Sold for scrapping to T. G. Darling Oulton Broad 1968