The Bosun's Watch
S.T. Banquo FD99
Picture courtesy of Peter Brady
Picture courtesy of Nicolina (Shipsnostalgia.co.uk)
| Official Number | 181349 |
| Yard Number | 210 |
| Launched | April 09 1948 |
| Gross Tonnage | 604 |
| Net Tonnage | 222 |
| Length | 170.4 ft |
| Breadth | 29.2 ft |
| Draught | 14.3 ft |
| Engine | T.3-cyl by J. Lewis & Sons Ltd, Aberdeen.
Boiler by Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd, Dundee.
Fitted for burning oil fuel, F.P. above 150° F
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| Built at | J. Lewis & Sons Ltd, Aberdeen, 1948 |
| Owner | Wyre Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood |
| April 09 1948 | Launched by J. Lewis & Sons Ltd, Aberdeen (Yd.No.210) for J. Marr & Son Ltd, Hull as THORNELLA . Contract price £84220. |
| 1948 | Completed. Registered at Hull (H582). |
| October 1952 | On a Greenland trip (Sk. Charlie O'Neil). Recovered eight bodies in the sea from NORMAN (H289) stranded on an uncharted reef off the Greenland coast and landed them at Scrabster. |
| 1953 | Returned to Hull with extensive weather damage to wheelhouse. |
| 1954 | Sold to Northern Fishing Co (Hull) Ltd, Hull (Hellyer Bros Ltd, managers). Renamed BANQUO (H582). |
| October 1957 | Arrested by Icelandic gunboat THOR for alleged illegal fishing of Langanes peninsula, NE coast of Iceland (Sk. Joseph Jennings). |
| October 16 1957 | At Reykjavik, Sk. Jennings was fined £1800. |
| 1967 | Transferred within the Associated Fisheries Group to Wyre Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood. Registered at Fleetwood (FD99). |
| September 1967 | Sold for demolition by Van Heyghen Freres S.A., Ghent. (after only one trip from Fleetwood). |
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