The Bosun's Watch

Technical

Official Number: 148401
Yard Number: 461
Completed: 1924
Gross Tonnage: 352
Net Tonnage: 144
Length: 140.3 ft
Breadth: 24 ft
Draught: 12.9 ft
Engine: 96NHP T.3-cyl and boiler by Amos & Smith Ltd, Hull
Speed: 11 knots
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Beverley

History

8.5.1924: The Board of Kingston Steam Trawling Co Ltd decided to build two new trawlers for the Iceland fishery. Contracts were signed with Cook, Welton & Gemmell to build the ships at £7,500 each and C. D. Holmes to make the engines and boilers at £6,125 each. Total cost £13,625 each. The names chosen for the vessels were ANDALUSITE and ALALITE.)
16.9.1924: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.461) for Kingston Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull as ANDALUSITE.
1.11.1924: Registered at Hull (H90).
10.11.1924: Completed trials and accepted (Walter Scott, manager).
24.3.1925: John Lown appointed managed.
13.11.1924: Sailed on maiden trip to Icelandic grounds.
1.12.1924: Landed 1032 kits grossed £2740.
13.9.1933 : Sold to J. Marr & Son, Fleetwood (Geoffrey Edwards Marr, manager) for £7600.
13.9.1933: Hull registry closed.
15.9.1933: Registered at Fleetwood (FD195).
14.12.1933: Registered at Fleetwood as CORENA (FD195).
10.7.1934: Transferred to The City Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Hull on the company acquisition (Leslie James Marr, manager).
9.9.1937: Transferred to Fleetwood.
8.1939: Sold to The Admiralty (£9,500).
9.8.1939: Fleetwood registry closed. Fitted out as a minesweeper (1-12pdr) (P.No. FY.709). Based Harwich with M/S Group 4.
24.7.1940: In North Sea (Ty Sk. A. E. Fisher RNR). Picked up survivors of HM Trawler FLEMING (H3) which foundered after attack by German aircraft.
3.1946: Refitted and re classed at Hull.
4.1946: Sold to Craig Fishing (Aberdeen) Ltd (Joseph Craig, manager). Registered at Aberdeen (A198).
10.1948: Bound Greenland fishery (14 crew) ran into icebergs and fog, stranded 6 miles north of Frederikshaab, Greenland. Crew took to boat and some hours later a motorboat with a rescue party of local fishermen arrived and towed them to Frederikshaab. From there, a Danish gunboat picked them up and transferred them to Feringhavn. Faroese smacks called nine days later and took them to Torshavn where they obtained passage to Aberdeen. Salved and broken up.

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S.T. Corena FD195
Picture courtesy of The Mike Thompson Collection