PORTIA H24 ( GVRJ )
Built
1956
Smiths Dock Middlesborough
Off Number
186720
Length Ft
195.8
Tons Gross
883
Yard Number
1246
Breadth Ft
34.9
Tons Net
318
Launched
11 07 1956
Hp
1500HP
Registered
Oct 1956
Engine Builder
Knots
K
Registered PORTIA H24 Owners 1956 - 1978 Hellyer Bros Ltd
    Owners Hull Northern Fishing Co Ltd
Fate : Scrapped 1978
 

Fact File

Hulls first Diesel Electric Trawler.

Second to last trawler built by Smiths Dock for the Hull Fleet, the Falstaff for Hellyers been the last.

 

Portia been closely watched by Icelandic Gunboat. Courtesy © Isaac Newton

IN REMEMBERANCE OF
WILFRED THOMPSON
30 JAN 1958
AGED 53
PORTIA H24
SKIPPER

 

Crewmen
       
SKIPPER 1956 / 1957 ASHCROFT - AMBROSE  
  1958 THOMPSON - WILFRED Died aboard vessel
    ASHCROFT - BEN  
    BEAVERS - NEVILLE  
  1972 WHURR - LEN  
       
MATE 1956 ASHCROFT - BEN  
       
DECKHAND Feb 1972 KELLY - MIKE  
    FISHBURN - KEN  
       
       

 

Courtesy © Isaac Newton