Being pedantic it is only boats from Hull would sail down the Humber.
Sailing from Grimsby Spurn point is passed after a couple of miles and then you are in the north sea. Both Hull and Grimsby were large fishing ports. Grimsby was arguably the largest and busiest fishing port in the world, at its peak in the 1950s. Figures quoted mention 500 vessels out of Grimsby and 350 out of Hull.
Loss of life still occurred at the height of the industry. A total of 40 crewmen of the vessel Roderigo and the J. Marr owned ship the Lorella, were both lost following a tragic accident. The accident occurred on the 26 January 1955 during severe weather condition 90 miles of the North Cape of Iceland.
Another huge disaster occurred in 1968 when three trawlers were lost with the loss of 58 lives’. The St Romanus went down on 11 January, just 110 miles off Spurn Point. The Kingston Peridot perished on 26 January. And the Ross Cleveland sank during a storm off northern Iceland on 4 February with only one survivor.
in the past 10 years, a total of 94 of the UK's approximately 12,000 commercial fisherman have died at sea across the UK; 529 fishermen have suffered serious injury; and 210 fishing vessels have been lost.
Fishing is still ranked one of the most dangerous occupations in the UK.
Having being sat in the middle of the north sea when the great gale(hurricane) of 1987 occurred it would seem to me only a raging lunatic would long to fight the bitter night and battle with the swell Even our standby boat scuttled off for cover that night and very sensible he was , too!(That was after having some of his bridge windows stoved in)