NORTH SEA FISHERS AND FIGHTERS 



Grimsby Ice Company and the Grimsby Co-operative 

 Ice Company. The factory, which began work on 

 9th October 1901, is built alongside the Fish Dock, 

 and by means of the latest overhead appliances fishing- 

 vessels can be supplied direct from the factory, which 

 can produce 300 tons of block-ice daily. 



At the close of the year 1910 there were registered 

 at Grimsby the following fishing-vessels : 



At the present time the total number of steam fishing- 

 vessels registered at the port approaches 700, with a corre- 

 sponding increase in the total number of hands employed. 

 The following table shows at a glance the enormous 

 increase in the fish traffic which has been sent away 

 from Grimsby since 1854. Before that year the town 

 had little or no fish traffic : 



Year 



1854 

 1860 

 1870 

 1880 

 1890 

 1900 

 1910 



Tons 



453 



4,537 



26,324 



46,931 

 71,382 



i33>79i 

 179,792 



