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Valmont GY 885

Valmont built 1916 Cook Welton & Gemmell Beverley for South Western Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby
05/1916 Requisitioned as a mine sweeper
27/02/1917 Sold to Neal Green Grimsby
04/06/1917 Bought by the Cleethorpes Steam Trawling Co Ltd Grimsby
12/1918 Returned
25/02/1919 Bought by the Victorian Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby 
19/12/1929 Sold to the Lindsey Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby 
29/11/1939 Requisitioned as a minesweeper 
12/1945 Returned to owners 
During her refit the vessel was given the port’s first electric engine room telegraph system 

Her Details are 

  • Official Number 138953
  • Yard Number 340
  • Admiralty Number FY 864
  • Armament 1-6pdr
  • GT 245 NT 108
  • Dimensions 117.3 x 22.5 x13.2
  • Quarter deck 61
  • Engines Amos & Smith 92 NHP 11 Knots

Scrapped in 1961

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Gemini GY 885

Gemini Built 1883 Earle’s Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd Hull for Grimsby & North Sea Steam Fishing Co Grimsby
03/1901 To Norway 
06/1906 To Grimsby & North Sea Steam Fishing Co Grimsby registered as GY 137 
10/1918 Bought by Brent Steam Fishing renamed Bedouin GY 1217 

Her Details are

  • Official Number 87753
  • Yard Number 359
  • GT 127 NT 60
  • Dimensions 95.5 x 20.1 x 10.5
  • Quarter deck 16

Scrapped 06/1924