The Bosun's Watch

Technical

Official Number: 116118
Yard Number: 310
Launched: November 18 1902
Gross Tonnage: 235
Net Tonnage: 95
Length: 125 ft
Breadth: 21.5 ft
Draught: 12 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Charles D. Holmes & Co, Hull
Built: Cochrane & Sons, Selby

History

18.11.1902: Launched by Cochrane & Sons, Selby (Yd.No.310) for The City Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull (John A. Laverock, manager) as NEWLAND.
6.1.1903: Registered at Hull (H713).
1.1903: Completed.
30.1.1908: William Morton, cook, lost overboard and drowned.
1.1915: Requisitioned for war service and fitted out for minesweeping duties and fitted with hydrophone (Ad.No.942).
1919: Returned.
22.12.1924: George Blyth, deckhand, lost overboard and drowned.
1925: Sold to Hans Muff, Esbjerg.
4.3.1925: Hull registry closed.
3.1925: Renamed NAOS. Registered at Esbjerg.
1926: Sold to Neptune Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull (J. W. Storr, manager).
5.11.1926: Registered at Hull (H315).
1927: Sold to J. W. Storr, Hull.
pre1930: Sold to Mons Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull (Elijah Headspith, manager).
1935: Sold to Dalby Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Fleetwood.
7.1.1935: Renamed NEWLAND (H315).
1.1936: Sold to The Hewett Fishing Co Ltd, London & Fleetwood (R. S. Hewett, manager).
9.1.1936: Hull registry closed.
1.1936: Registered at London (LO95).
5.1940: Requisitioned for war service and designated for conversion to a minesweeper.
7.1940: Returned.
31.7.1940: 40 miles SW of Barra Head, picked up Master, twenty-four crew, one gunner and four passengers from steamer JAMAICA PROGRESS (5475grt/1932) sunk by torpedo and gunfire by U-boat (U.99). Landed at Fleetwood. (Chief Officer and sixteen crew members landed at Barra).
1943: Sold to Hull Merchants Amalgamated Trawlers Ltd, Hull.
5.1943: London registry closed.
22.5.1943: Registered at Hull (H553).
1945: Sold to Shire Trawlers Ltd, London (William A. Bennett, manager).
9.1947: Sold to Elkington Estates Ltd, Grimsby (C. Dobson, manager).
9.1947: Hull registry closed.
9.1947: Registered at Grimsby (GY500).
11.1952: Sold for demolition.

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S.T. Newland LO95
Picture courtesy of the Mike Thompson Collection