The Bosun's Watch

Technical

Official Number: 163952
Yard Number: 1128
Launched: September 22 1934
Gross Tonnage: 413
Net Tonnage: 162
Length: 152.8 ft
Breadth: 25.6 ft
Draught: 13.6 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Charles D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby, 1934

History

22.9.1934: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.1128) for W. B. Wiley & Sons Ltd, Hull as MENDIP.
7.11.1934: Registered at Hull (H114).
11.1934: Completed.
1938: Hudson Brothers Trawlers Ltd became managers.
1939: Sold to East Riding Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull.
9.1939: Requisitioned for war service.
11.1939: Sold to The Admiralty (£23,505).
9.12.1939: Hull registry closed. Fitted out as an anti-submarine trawler (P.No.FY.249).
9. 2.1940: Renamed HMS SPHENE.
4.1945: Sold to Hull Ice Co Ltd, Hull (Charleson-Smith Trawlers Ltd, managers). Renamed MENDIP (H202).
1946: Sold to Charleson-Smith Trawlers Ltd, Hull. Renamed STELLA DORADO (H202).
1948: Sold to Saint Andrew’s Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull (Basil A. Parkes, manager). Renamed HACKNESS (H202).
1955: Sold to Fern Leaf Co Ltd, Fleetwood (William Newton, manager). Registered at Fleetwood (FD120).
12.11.1958: Fishing off Latrabjarg, Iceland, ordered by Icelandic coastguard THOR to stop, HMS RUSSELL intervened and escorted outside 12 mile fishing limit.
pre1959: Sold to Alvis Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood (Newton & Sons Ltd, managers).
1.1.1959: Sold to The Sun Trawling Co Ltd, Fleetwood (M. A. Munby, manager).
24.7.1959: Sold to Jacques Bakker & Zonen, Bruges for demolition.
27.7.1959: Arrived Bruges from Fleetwood under own power.

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S.T. Hackness FD120

S.T. Hackness FD120
Picture © Mike Thompson Collection

S.T. Hackness H202
Picture courtesy of The Mike Thompson Collection