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Name: DERBY
Type: Fishing Vessel
Launched: 03/11/1896
Completed: 11/1896
Builder: Edwards Brothers
Yard: Howdon
Yard Number: 534
Dimensions: 144grt, 46nrt, 104.0 x 20.7 x 10.5ft
Engines: T3cyl (9, 16 & 25.5 x 19.5ins), 45nhp
Engines by: North-Eastern Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Sunderland
Propulsion: 1 x Screw
Construction: Steel
Reg Number: 106683
History:
11/1896 Hagerup, Doughty & Co Ltd, Grimsby
04/1906 Consolidated Steam Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Grimsby
1924 Ascension Island Phosphate & Guano Co Ltd (Charles Gladitz), London
No later history known
Comments: 1896: Allocated fishing registration number GY153 at Grimsby
05/1915: Requisitioned by the Admiralty as a minesweeper
Armed with 1 x 6pdr gun
10/1918: Renamed DEBENEY
1919: Returned to owners & reverted to name DERBY
04/1924: Laid up in the Ascension Islands, no longer fishing
1929: British Register closed


Above photo as DERBY courtesy of Trawlerphotos