The Bosun's Watch

Wartime Visitor
© Mike Thompson for FMHT

Technical

Official Number: 149099
Yard Number: 994
Launched: 1926
Gross Tonnage: 351
Net Tonnage: 141
Length: 140.3 ft
Breadth: 24.0 ft
Draught: 13.3 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby

History

14.4.1926: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.994) for John McCann, Hull as FOAMFLOWER.
29.6.1926: Completed.
20.10.1926: Registered at Hull (H313) (O.N.149099).
15.11.1926: Sold to Yorkshire Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull (A. Turgoose, manager).
2.1939: Sold by Fishing Vessel Brokers Ltd to Société Anonyme Armement Ostendais, Ostend.
6.2.1939: Hull registry closed.
1939: Re measured 42,79 x 7,32 x 4,1 metres – 337.78Bgrt 129.42n
18.2.1939: Registered at Ostend as EDOUARD ANSEELE (O158).
5.1940: Escaped to England via France. Arrived Fleetwood.
6.1940: Transferred to Belgian Economic Mission, London. Fitted with 1-20mm Oerlikon. Complement increased by one Belgian DEMS gunner. Engaged transporting fish from Iceland to Fleetwood (Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, managing agents).
27.4.1941: Picked up crew of London motor vessel BEACON GRANGE (10119grt/1938) torpedoed and sunk by U.boat (U552) south of Iceland in approx position 62.05N 16.20W. Survivors transferred to HMS GLADIOLUS (P.No.K34) and landed at Londonderry.
8.1945: Returned to Belgium.
24.9.1949: Chartered to “Weser” Hochseefischerei-und Fischnandels GmbH, Bremerhaven.
8.1950: Returned to owners.
9.1950: Sold to “Dalmor” Przedsiebiorstwo Polowow Dalekomorskich Sp.Z.ogr.odp, Gdynia.
16.9.1950: Ostend registry closed.
13.10.1950: Registered at Gdynia as PEGAZ (GDY110).
29.3.1958: Gdynia registry closed sold for breaking up. (13.10.1958: Listed as decommisioned and broken up).

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S.T. Edourd Anseele O158