Grimsby Fishermen at Work and War \u2013 James Clifford (1878-1950) and his family<\/a><\/strong>
This is the extensively illustrated story of James Clifford, who left Derby aged 15 in 1894 and became a \u2018fisherlad\u2019 apprentice in Grimsby. Read about life at sea, the local girl he married and their family, the streets they lived in, the trawlers he skippered and the growing international fears that they would have shared. James continued to fish in the dangerous waters of the Great War that began in 1914. Many of his fellow fishermen used their trawlers to clear explosive mines from the sea and hunt for U-boat submarines. James joined an armed trawler for the final weeks of 1918. The story includes the parallel life in the Royal Navy of James\u2019s brother Charles, great grandfather of the author, including his wartime service in the North Sea. Read on to discover the family\u2019s life and work during the difficult economic conditions of the 1920s and \u201930s. Towards the end of his working life, James was a quayside watchman and \u2018fish lumper\u2019 at the dock. One of his sons was among trawler crews that hunted U-boats in the Second World War, during which the family and their Grimsby neighbours endured the Blitz. (118 pages with 97 illustrations)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Copyright Ownership.<\/em><\/small>
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The trawlers that sailed out of the Port of Grimsby 1876 – 1976 Any Photo’s gratefully acceptedInformation supplied by other sources will be accredited to them and their work A Very special Thanks to Phil Thurtle for all his accurate and painstaking dive into the Newspaper’s finding out all the Trawler StoriesThanks to the Benjidog […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/template-cover.php","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"full","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-22","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"coauthors":[],"author_meta":{"author_link":"https:\/\/www.deepseatrawlers.co.uk\/index.php\/author\/quildra\/","display_name":"Quildra"},"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 6 years ago","modified":"Updated 9 months ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on 28 April 2020","modified":"Updated on 28 July 2025"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on 28 April 2020 9:22 pm","modified":"Updated on 28 July 2025 8:28 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","featured_img":"https:\/\/www.deepseatrawlers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/unnamed-1200x717.jpg","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deepseatrawlers.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deepseatrawlers.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deepseatrawlers.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deepseatrawlers.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deepseatrawlers.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/www.deepseatrawlers.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20483,"href":"https:\/\/www.deepseatrawlers.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions\/20483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deepseatrawlers.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deepseatrawlers.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}