The Bosun's Watch

Technical

Official Number: 123567
Launched: 1906
Yard Number: 108
Gross Tonnage: 259
Net Tonnage: 111
Length: 128.4 ft
Breadth: 22.0 ft
Draught: 11.8 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by C. D. Holmes & Co, Hull
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd. Beverley
Owner: The South Western Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby & Fleetwood

History

14.3.1906: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd. Beverley (Yd.No.108) for Alick Black, Grimsby as FORTUNA.
5.1906: Completed.
8.5.1906: Registered at Grimsby (GY140).
16.6.1909: Sold to The South Western Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby & Fleetwood (Alick Black, Grimsby, manager).
5.5.1913: Sold to Thomas W. Baskomb, Grimsby & Others.
27.9.1915: Sold to Spurn Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Grimsby.
29.11.1916: Sold to George F. Sleight, Grimsby.
29.5.1917: Requisitioned for Fishery Reserve.
1919: Returned.
Pre 1927: Transferred to the Exors. Of Sir George F. Sleight Bart.
1933: Sold to Dobson Ship Repairing Co Ltd, Grimsby (Charles Dobson).
11.6.1946: Requisitioned for war service and fitted for auxiliary patrol duties (Hire rate £64.15.0d/month).
2.4.1941: Attacked and sunk by German aircraft off St. Abbs Head. All crew lost.

(Lost – Ty/Skipper William T. M. Charlton; Samuel E. Foote, 2nd Hand; William E. Nicholson & Edward Robson, enginemen; Adam H. M. Bruce, Lawrence E Glyde, Henry Jones, William J. Smith, Gilbert J. Whyte, Stanley G. Winsor & Josiah V. Wright, seamen; Ernest E. Harris, O/S; Edward V. Feeney & Sidney Phillips, stokers.)