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Violet GY 90

Violet Built 1896 Cochrane & Cooper Beverley for Arctic Steam Fishing Co Ltd Grimsby 
07/1905 Sold to The Ceylon Company of Pearl Fishers Ltd Colombo Celon
1919 Removed from Lloyds Register 

Her Details are

  • Official Number 106661
  • Yard Number 164
  • GT 150 NT 57
  • Dimensions 95.3 x 20.6 x 11
  • Quarter deck 17

1919 Removed from Lloyds Register 

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Pollux GY 1184

Pollux built 08/1900 Mackie & Thomson of Govan for The Great Grimsby & North Sea Steam Fishing Co Grimsby

Her details are

  • Official Number 113189
  • 182 GT 58 NT
  • Dimensions 108.9 x 20.7 x 10.7
  • Quarter deck 49′ Foc’sle 19′

24/08/1914 Captured and sunk by torpedo boat in the North Sea whilst fishing

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Lobelia GY 93

Lobelia Built 28/07/1896 Cochranes of Selby for North Eastern Steam Fisheries
24/08/1914 Captured whilst fishing in the North Sea by German Torpedo Boat V 155 and Sunk
Crew taken Prisoner

Her Details are 

  • Official Number 106663
  • Yard number 159
  • 147 GT 53 NT
  • Dimensions 95.6 x 20.4 x 11.2
  • Quarter Deck 17′
  • Engine C D Holmes 40HP 3 Cyl 10.0 Knots

Captured and sunk by a torpedo boat in the North Sea 24/08/1914

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Harrier GY 1192

Harrier built 08/1900 Cochrane & Cooper Ltd Beverley Selby for T Bascomb
11/1914 sold to T W Bascomb 
24/08/1914 Captured and sunk by a Torpedo Boat in the North Sea 

Her details are

  • Official Number 113198
  • Yard Number 266
  • 208 GT 83 NT
  • Dimensions 117 x 21.5 x 11.2
  • Quarter Deck 48′ Foc’sle 20′

Lost after attack by a Torpedo Boat 24/08/1914 Captured and sunk in the North Sea whilst fishing

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Chameleon GY 105

Chameleon built 09/1896 Mackie & Thomson of Govan for Grimsby & North Sea Steam Fishing Co
25/08/1914 Samuel Francis Gladstone Coles captured by the Germans whilst fishing on the steam trawler Chameleon
23/11/1918 Interned in Ruhleben POW Camp until
Other members of the crew were Cornelius Betts, Edgar Boyce, Edward Burman, Frank Hanneman, Thomas Patchitt, C Rodgers, George Williamson, Benjamin Wilson

Her Details are

  • Official Number 106666
  • Yard Number 115
  • 132 GT 45 NT
  • Dimensions 99.3 x 20.1 x 10.4
  • Quarter Deck 17′ Foc’sle 19′

24/08/1914 Captured and sunk by torpedo boat in the North Sea whilst fishing


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Argonaut GY 189

Built 22/09/1906 by Cochranes of Selby for Consolidated Steam Fishing & Ice Company Being registered on 30/01/1907
Her registry was closed 09/1914 but this was in error.  06/08/1914 Captured by the German torpedo boat G 173 54 41N 07 45E   24/08/1914 Reported Sunk
29/02/1915 She was taken to Cruhaven After a court in Hamburg ruled she went to Dieppe where she was renamed JEAN MAX owned by Denos Lebreton Dieppe France 1919 She went to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co. Ltd. Boston. Renamed Ewerby BN 158
1935 she was sold to J.C. Douglas and Renamed CLOUGHSTONE, registered as A 257
12/1940 Requisitioned as a Barrage Baloon Vessel Pennant 4.446
1943 She went to Northern Trawlers of Grimsby
1944 She was converted to an Esso Vessel
1945 She was returned to owners
Later that year she was sold to Lord Line of Hull. Registered as H 374
1949 she went to Milford Fisheries, Owner O.W. Limbrick She was still owned by them in 1953

Her Details are

  • Official Number 125044
  • Yard Number 384
  • Call Signs OJYP / GDDX
  • GT 225 NT 106
  • Dimensions 117.2 x 22 x 11.6
  • Quarter Deck 66′ Foc’sle 18′
  • Engines by C.D. Holmes of Hull Triple expansion 67 HP

24/08/1914 Sunk by torpedo boat in the North Sea see above Finally Scrapped 1955