‘Guy Thorne’ GY.465 c1930
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‘Guy Thorne’ GY.465 c1930.

Grimsby Fish Docks

From the original, large format negative. A very rare photo, taken between 1928 and 1934, showing her as ‘Guy Thorne’ GY.465.

A steam trawler built in 1914 by Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Beverley for S. T. White & Co. Ltd., Hull 1915 Registered as ‘Seaward Ho’ H.312. 1915 Requisitioned by the Royal Navy as a bomb thrower / minesweeper No. FY.1512. Renamed (1918) ‘Attentive III’. 1919 Returned and reverted. 1920 Sold to Newington Steam Trawling Co. Ltd., Hull. Renamed ‘Guy Thorne’. 1927 Stranded on the north-west coast of Norway. Later salvaged. 1928 Sold to J. E. Rushworth, Grimsby. Reregistered as GY.465. 1930 Sold to Dale Steam Fishing Co. Ltd., Grimsby. 1933 Sold to J. E. Rushworth, Grimsby. Renamed ‘Winooka’ in 1934. 1935 Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing Co. Ltd., Fleetwood. 1936 Sank following a collision with ‘Ethel Taylor’ FD.363 off the west coast of Scotland.