Tag: ww1-1917-02-09

Benbow Built 17/12/1898 Cochrane & Cooper Ltd Beverley for William Grant & H. C. Baker Grimsby

Her Details are 

• Official Number 109486
• Yard Number 226 
• GT 172 NT 62 
• Dimensions 100.2 x 21 x 11 
• Quarter deck 45 Foc’sle 17 

09/02/1917 Captured and sunk by U Boat 25 miles E by S of Bell Rock

Yesso built 1911 for H L Taylor for Henry Lewis Taylor Grimsby
08/1914 Requisitioned as a mine sweeper
09/02/1917 North Sea Skipper Arthur George 
Mined at 0930 laid by UC.29 Ernst Rosenow, sank off Aberdeen 57.10N 02W about 1/2mile NE of girdleness Aberdeen
7 ratings lost 6 survivors picked up by other trawlers

Surname	Forenames	Age at Death	Date of death	Rank	Boat
MORRISON	DAVID	Unknown	09/02/1917	Trimmer	H.M. Trawler Yesso
PALMER	LESLIE	17	09/02/1917	Signalman	H.M. Trawler Yesso
McLEOD	JOHN	46	09/02/1917	Leading Deck Hand	H.M. Trawler Yesso
RENNIE		Unknown	09/02/1917	Engineman	H.M. Trawler Yesso
McKAY	JOSEPH STEWART DAVIDSON	Unknown	09/02/1917	Trimmer	H.M. Trawler Yesso
MACLEAN	JOHN	27	09/02/1917	Deck Hand	H.M. Trawler Yesso
HENDERSON	JAMES	29	09/02/1917	Deck Hand	H.M. Trawler Yesso

Her Details are 

• Official Number 132097
• Yard Number 477
• Admiralty Number FY 166
• Armament 1-6pdr
• GT 229 NT 118
• Quarter deck 66 
• Dimensions 119.2 x 22 x 11.5 

09/02/1917 Sunk by mine off Aberdeen whilst in Admiralty Service