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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 69. Chapters: Humber-built ships, Islands of the Humber, Ports and harbours of the Humber, Tributaries of the Humber, Kingston upon Hull, Humber Bridge, Spurn, River Ancholme, River Hull, River Ouse, Yorkshire, River Trent, Grimsby, Port of Hull, Immingham, HMS Bounty, PS Lincoln Castle, Hessle, Barrow Haven, SS City of Cairo, SS Empire Boy, HMS Ardent, MV Ricardo Manuel, Japanese corvette Kong, HMS Otter, USS Lodona, SS Dresden, Sir Winston Churchill, ST Empire Ace, Sunk Island, AHS Tasman, ST Empire Birch, PS Wingfield Castle, New Holland, North Lincolnshire, Humber Keel, Read's Island, HMAS Gull, Humber Forts, RFA Sea Salvor, Humberhead Levels, HMT Gulland, Immingham Dock, HMS Prometheus, HMS Perseus, HMS Endymion, New Holland Pier railway station, HMS St George, HMT Firefly, HMS Bullfinch, HMS Dove, HMS Snapper, HMS Salmon, RFA Salvalour, Killingholme, Spurn Lightship, Ravenser Odd, River Freshney, Humber the Hun, Humber Yawl Club, North Wall. Excerpt: Connection Timeout Grimsby (or archaically Great Grimsby) is a seaport on the Humber Estuary in Lincolnshire, England. It has been the administrative centre of the unitary authority area of North East Lincolnshire since 1996. According to legend, Grimsby was first founded by Grim, a Danish fisherman, 'By' means 'village' in Old Norse and 'city' or 'town' in the modern Danish language and Norwegian language. The A180 is the main route into Grimsby (from the west)The town was previously titled "Great Grimsby" to distinguish it from Little Grimsby, a village about 14 miles (22 km) to the south, near Louth. People from Grimsby are called Grimbarians. The town itself has a population of 87,574.. It is physically linked to the adjoining town of Cleethorpes, and 11,000 of its inhabitants live in the village of Scartho which was absorbed into Grimsby before laws on the green belt wer...
