The Bosun's Watch

Technical

Official Number: 164927
Yard Number: 1156
Launched: April 08 1936
Gross Tonnage: 466
Net Number: 178
Length: 161.3 ft
Breadth: 26.6 ft
Draught: 14.1 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby, 1936

History

8.4.1936: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.1156) for Pickering & Haldane’s Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull as LORD HOTHAM.
5.1936: Completed.
26.5.1936: Registered at Hull (H309).
9.1939: Sold to The Admiralty (£25,676).
15.11.1939: Hull registry closed. Fitted out for anti-submarine duties (P.No. FY.133).
9.1945: Sold to Lord Line Ltd, Hull (Thomas W. Boyd, manager).
1946: Registered at Hull (H231).
1.1948: Converted for burning oil fuel, F.P. above 150° F
1950: Owners re-styled Associated Fisheries Trawling Co Ltd, Hull (Thomas W. Boyd, manager).
25.11.1952: Escorted into Tromsö by Norwegian destroyer for alleged fishing in territorial waters. Sk. Niels M. Pedersen refused to pay a fine and elected to go to court.
28.11.1952: At a court in Tromsö, Sk. Pedersen was fined in total £4450.
1953: Owners reverted to Lord Line Ltd, Hull (Thomas W. Boyd, manager).
4.1.1962: Transferred within the Associated Fisheries Group to Wyre Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood. Registered at Fleetwood (FD64).
1967: Sold to Jos. de Smedt, Antwerp for demolition.
21.3.1967: Delivered Antwerp from Fleetwood under her own power.

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S.T. Lord Hotham FD64
Picture courtesy of the Mike Thompson Collection

S.T. Lord Hotham FD64
Picture courtesy of Robert123

S.T. Lord Hotham H231
Picture courtesy of the JJ collection