A black plaque commemorates the HMT Bedfordshire, an Arctic trawler built in 1935 by Smith's Dock Co. of Middlesbrough, England, in 1939, sold to the Admiralty and converted to an armed trawler. In 1942, it was one of the 24 trawlers loaned to the U.S. Navy for coastal patrol, armedament, one 4' gun, and one machine gun and depth charges.