Hi Hilary, here's the next one on your list.
Many thanks, Clem.
As you and the other regulars might have gathered, I am struggling to keep up here while having no Internet access at home. There are other threads I would love to contribute to as well, but I'm just sticking to this one as best I can.
I have found a way in which I might be able to keep up and contribute a little. I can make a temporary copy of the last page in the thread on my stick, take it home, look in my files and see if I have anything useful, then bring notes back to post the next morning. That's the theory anyway.
So here is my very small contribution to the recent discussions - some of it quite a while ago, but I'll try to improve the turnaround!
The Times, Monday, Apr 10, 1967; pg. 3
INQUIRY INTO TRAWLER SKIPPER’S DEATH
A Board of Trade inquiry will be held tomorrow into how a Grimsby trawler skipper, Mr George Reynolds, aged 50, died while he was helping to deliver a “mini-trawler” for Stenton Trawlers Ltd, of which he had just been made a director. Mr Reynolds went overboard from the trawler Sunningdale as she sailed for home across the North Sea.
The Times, Thursday, Mar 23, 1939; pg. 16
TRAWLER AND STEAMER IN COLLISION
The Hull trawler Sudanese and the steamer Grangemouth (1,419 tons) came into collision during a hail storm 17 miles north of the River Humber yesterday. According to messages from the Sudanese, she had taken off the passengers and crew of the Grangemouth, which was badly holed and was asking for tugs. In response the Grimsby tug Lynx and the Humber lifeboat set out.
GY.3547
I came across this in Cox’s Steam Trawlers and Liners of Grimsby.
“Readers may have seen a photograph of GY.3547, and led to believe it was a Grimsby vessel. Even when used as an illustration, is titled incorrectly, omitting the full stop which is clearly visible in the photograph, probably because the name was not known. Even a casual glance will show there is no name on the bows, no port letters and numbers on the quarter or funnel, as required by the regulations before a vessel can be registered. It was never a Grimsby vessel, being in fact the Admiralty Mersey class vessel Edward Williams, which became the Cape Trafalgar, of Hull. The GY was the port of delivery of the vessel, and the number the Admiralty number of the Edward Williams. The photo was probably taken about 1922, before its journey to Hull.”
Now all you experts can start poring over your pictures of the Cape Trafalgar to see whether you think Cox was right.
Hilary