The Bosun's Watch

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Technical

Official Number: 123389
Launched: 1907
Yard Number: 435
Gross Tonnage: 222
Net Tonnage: 46
Length: 115.7 ft
Breadth: 22.6 ft
Draught: 12.0 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Hall, Russell & Co Ltd, Aberdeen
Built: Hall, Russell & Co Ltd, Aberdeen, 1907

History

9.1907: Completed by Hall, Russell & Co Ltd, Aberdeen (Yd.No.435) for Wetherly’s Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Aberdeen as GRACE WETHERLY.
6.9.1907: Registered at Aberdeen (A160).
1913: Remeasured 231g 54n
9.1913: Sold to Bakker & Dijksen, IJmuiden.
29.9.1913: Aberdeen registry closed. Renamed JOHANNA HENRIËTTE (IJM201).
17.5.1919: Sold to J. N. Klein, N. Parlevliet & J. M. Barneveld, IJmuiden. Renamed JOHANNA N. KLEIN (IJM201).
1924: Sold to N.V. Vissch. Maats. “Noorderlicht”, IJmuiden (W. H. de Voogd, manager).
1926: Company taken over by Bank (Scheepsverbandbank, Amsterdam). Laid up.
1927: Sold to N.V. Vissch. Maats. “Heemstede III”, IJmuiden (P. J. Bakker, manager). Renamed P. AZ. TIMMERS (IJM201).
1932: Laid up.
4.1935: Sold to Mrs Annie I. Fraser, Aberdeen (J. MacDonald Fraser, manager).
1935: Remeasured 211g 92n
1.5.1935: Renamed AVENUE (A283).
1937 –38: Fishing from Fleetwood (Alex Keay managing agent).
1938: Sold to Thos. W. Ward Ltd, Sheffield for breaking up at Preston.
23.11.1938: Aberdeen registry closed “Broken up”.