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Sheffield Wednesday GY 519

Sheffield Wednesday Built 1933 Smiths Dock Co Ltd South Bank Middlesbrough for Consolidated Fisheries Ltd Grimsby 
16/06/1937 Left Grimsby this morning bound for her new owners in Ymuiden Holland re-named Erin 
05/1940 Requisitioned as an anti-submarine vessel to the 3rd Auxiliary A/S Group
18/01/1942 The Erin whilst lying in Gibraltar Bay was hit by explosion at 18.00 A fire broke out and she sank soon afterwards


Her Details are

  • Official Number 162876
  • Yard Number 956
  • Call Sign GWLX 
  • GT 394 NT 150 
  • Dimensions 155 x 26.4 x 12.2 
  • Quarter deck 84 Foc’sle 25 
  • Engines Smiths Dock Co.Ltd cylinders 13½ 22½ and 39 x 26in stroke 

Sank after explosion 18/01/1942