Ella Trout (16 November 1896 – 16 June 1952) was a fisherwoman from Hallsands, Devon, England, who helped rescue nine men from a sinking ship.
When their fisherman father, William, became sick, Patience and then Ella gave up school and operated his boat, providing the family's only source of income.
[2] On 8 September 1917, Ella was out in a boat crab fishing with her 10-year-old cousin, William Trout, when they saw the SS Newholm strike a German naval mine, one mile south of Start Point.
Ella and William Trout rescued one sailor, but with the tide and the wind against them, they were unable to row back to shore.
The sisters, with compensation for the destruction of their cottage at Hallsands and their own earnings, built Trout's Hotel on the cliff above the deserted village.