The Bosun's Watch

Technical

Official Number: 163143
Yard Number: 1112
Launched: June 10 1933
Pennant: T.24
Gross Tonnage : 421
Net Tonnage: 162
Length : 152.1 ft
Breadth : 25.6 ft
Draught : 13.6 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Charles D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
Armament: 1 x 4″
Built: Cochrane & Son Ltd, Selby 1933

History

10.6.1933: Launched by Cochrane & Son Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.1112) for Hudson Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull (Hudson Brothers, managers) as CAPE BATHURST.
21.7.1933: Registered at Hull (H496).
25.7.1933: Completed.
1934: Hudson Brothers Trawlers Ltd designated managers.
1935: Sold to The Admiralty.
26.11.1935: Hull registry closed. Fitted out as a “Gem” class anti submarine trawler.
1936: Renamed HMS RUBY (P.No. T.24).
1944: Assigned to Operation Neptune – Normandy landings.
23.5.1944: Convoy escort duties in British waters and across the Channel in support of landings.
3.7.1944: Operation Neptune ended.
18.9.1945: Escorting (Lieut. M. Bishop RNVR) damaged French submarine MINERVE, Liverpool-Cherbourg, in tow of tug ELAN II. In gale conditions in Lyme Bay decided to round Portland Bill and shelter in Portland. Tug lost tow in race and submarine went ashore on the Bill. Returned to scene in very bad weather and sustained extensive minor damage.
26.4.1946: Sold to J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood for £12,650 and re-classed. Renamed CARELLA (FD216).
13.12.1948: Sold to Henderson’s Trawling Co Ltd, Hull (J. Marr & Son Ltd, managers) for £61,000.
12.1949: Fleetwood registry closed.
6.1.1949: Registered at Hull (H4).
8.1949-2.1950: Landing at Fleetwood.
19.10.1951: Sold to Dinas Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Frank Marr, manager).
1952: On passage through the Hebrides ran into a trial of biological agents. Crew subsequently monitored covertly for any signs of plague (Yersinia pestis).
1953: Registered at Fleetwood (FD319).
4.1959: Alleged fishing inside Icelandic 4 mile limit.
1.6.1959: Company taken over by J. Marr & Son Ltd, Fleetwood.
7.11.1959: Sold to BISCO and allocated to West of Scotland Shipbreaking Co Ltd, Troon for breaking up.
18.11.1959: Sailed Fleetwood for Troon.
19.11.1959: Delivered Troon Harbour (draughts 3’9”/15’9”).
23.2.1960: Breaking commenced.
2.3.1960: Beached (draughts 7’0”/10’6”).
9.6.1960: Breaking completed.

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S.T. Carella FD319
Picture courtesy of the Mike Thompson Collection