‘Arsenal’ GY.48 and ‘Ross Leopard’ c1970
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‘Arsenal’ GY.48 and ‘Ross Leopard’ c1970.

Grimsby Fish Docks

From an original print.

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

‘Ross Leopard’ GY.491 was built in in 1957 by Cochrane & Sons Ltd., Selby for Derwent Trawlers Ltd., Grimsby. She had a number of owners and, in 1985, Cam Shipping Co. Ltd. of Grimsby converted her to the oil rig support ship, ‘Cam Leopard’. In 1992, she was converted to night club, berthed at the Albert Embankment, London. (She was operated at Ross Leopard Ltd. by owners Andrew Standring, Jeremy Clinton and Toby Flitton.) In September 2002, she was towed to a temporary mooring by Battersea Railway Bridge. By 2003, she was a floating nightclub in Ostend. She was moored here for several years. In 2008, she was laid-up at Ostend. Broken up at Ghent, Belgium in 2010.

‘Littondale H’ was a tanker power barge built by John Harker Shipyards of Knottingley in 1948.