GRIMSBY TRAWLERS

LYNX/II

LYNX GY 133

ON 123570

Built 1906  Cochranes Shipyard, Selby; Yard Nr 364

For The Grimsby & North Sea Fishing Company.

250 grt; 103 nrt; 127 ft x 22 ft x 114 ft; 76 hp 

1910 Renamed LYNX II

Requisitioned 1914; Converted to Minesweeper

Armament 1 x 6 pdr AA

Admiralty Nr 31

Returned to her owners 1919;

October 1919  Scarborough owners.

December 1926 bought by Sir Thomas Robinson .

1926 Registered as GY 401

1939 Mercantile Loss; sunk by U-59; 28^th October, with no loss of life.

The first Grimsby trawler sunk in WWII

 

28^th October 1939

03.15 German submarine U-59 stopped Hull trawler ST. NIDAN.

Warning shots were fired and the crew were ordered to leave.

04.25 LYNX II appeared, heading towards the fishing grounds.

U-59 fired three shots at the bridge.

LYNX II stopped and the crew left in the boat.

06.55 LYNX II was sunk with demolition charges; Position 59°50N : 04°20W

08.30 ST NIDAN was sunk with charges.

 

Lynx II

 

 

Thanks to Steve Farrow for the picture

 

 

 

Raymond Forward