The tug ‘Brenda Fisher’ pulls ‘Churchill’ GY.585 July 1966.

An image taken from an original negative.

‘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.

‘Churchill’ GY.585 was built in 1948 by Alexander Hall & Co. in Aberdeen. She was delivered initially to Amalgamated Trawlers and acquired by Consolidated Fisheries Ltd. in 1952. She was scrapped in Belgium in 1968. The last ‘non-footballer’ in the fleet.