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Nil Desperandum GY 52

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Neath Castle GY 52

Neath Castle Built 1942 Cochrane & Son Selby Built as Fish Class Trawler for the Admiralty Named Mullet T 311
Commissioned as an A/S Trawler
24/05/1946 Bought by Consolidated Fisheries Ltd and registered to subsidiary Rhondda Steam Fishing Co
02/1947 Registered at Swansea as the Neath Castle SA 49
04/06/1947 Sailed her first trip out of Swansea
03/1958 Sold to Rhondda Fishing Co Grimsby
20/03/1958 Registered in Grimsby as GY 52 
10/06/1960 Sold to BISCO and allocated to Clayton & Davie Dunston for breaking up

Her Details are

  • Official Number 168577
  • Yard Number 1253 
  • GT 380 NT 142
  • Dimensions 147 x 25.1 x 13.2
  • Quarter Deck 81 Foc’sle 25 
  • Engines Amos & Smith 700 ihp 3 cyl 11.0 knots

Scrapped 06/1960 at the River Tyne, Registry closed 05/06/1961

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Lady Estelle GY 52

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Empress GY 52

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Buffalo GY 52

Buffalo built 10/01/1905 Cook Welton & Gemmell Beverley for Henry Morris & Thomas E. Fisher Grimsby
07/1915 Requisitioned as a minesweeper 
12/1915 Renamed Buffalo II 
1919 Returned to owners and reverted to original name 
11/11/1926 Sold to Walter Garrett Grimsby
26/11/1931 Bought by Thomas E. Fisher Grimsby 

24/04/1909


Her details are

  • Official Number 118946
  • Yard Number 65
  • Call Sign HCFP
  • Admiralty number FY 1597
  • Armament 1-6pdr
  • GT 230 NT 92
  • Quarter deck 71 Foc’sle 20
  • Dimensions 122 x 21.5 x 11.4
  • Engines Amos & Smith 65 NHP 10 knots

Arrived at Thornaby for breaking up on the 27/04/1937