Tug ‘Brenda Fisher’ alongside Arsenal GY.48 c1964.

From a 35mm negative.

‘Arsenal’ was built in 1957/1958 by Cook, Welton & Gemmell for Consolidated Fisheries Ltd., Grimsby. She was scrapped at Fleetwood in 1975.

‘Brenda Fisher’ was launched at Harkers Shipyard, Knottingley in 1955. The tug was lunched by Brenda Fisher herself, a famous long-distance swimmer from Grimsby. In 1951 she broke the women’s world record for swimming the English Channel. Brenda is the daughter of a Grimsby trawler skipper.