The Bosun's Watch

Technical

Official Number: 128762
Yard Number: 523
Admiralty Number: 975
Launched: April 03 1912
Gross Tonnage: 237
Net Tonnage: 93
Length: 120 ft
Breadth: 21.5 ft
Draught: 11.8 ft
Engine: 58 hp T.3-cyl by Charles D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby, 1912
Owner: Mason Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood

History

3.4.1912: Launched by Cochrane & Sons, Selby (Yd.No.523) for David Pettit, Hakin as CYELSE.
20.5.1912: Registered at Milford (M138).
6.1912: Completed.
24.6.1912: Arrived Milford.
1912: Transferred to David Pettit Ltd, Milford Haven (Mrs Elizabeth A. H. Pettit, Hakin, manager).
11.12.1912: Leaving Milford at 5.30pm for fishing grounds in thick rain and blowing hard. (Sk.Edward Gibbs). When between Thorne Island and Stack Rock Fort, collided with steam liner EAGLE (M64) inbound which sank with the loss of five crewmen.
19.2.1913: At BoT formal investigation at Milford, the Court found Sk. Gibbs guilty of failing to keep a proper look out and suspended his ticket for nine months. The Second Hand, William Blockwell was found guilty of unsatisfactory conduct in attempting to save life and his ticket suspended for three months.
1915: Requisitioned for war service.
9.2.1915: Commissioned.
10.2.1915: Arrived Devonport. Fitted out for minesweeping duties (Ad.No.975). Fitted as Leader.
1919: Returned.
25.2.1934: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood (F. Parkes, manager).
30.2.1934: Sold to Mason Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood (T. Cardwell, manager).
30.10.1934: Milford registry closed
11.12.1934: Registered at Fleetwood (FD67) (R. W. Mason, manager).
1939: R. H. Bagshaw appointed manager.
22.8.1940: Requisitioned for war service and designated for minesweeping duties.
23.8.1940: Returned.
12.3.1943: Requisitioned for war service and fitted out for water tank duties (boiler feed) (P.No. Y.7.8) (Hire rate £59.5.0d/month).
1943: Forecastle head added.
1944: Fitted out as a fuelling trawler (33ton tank for refuelling diesel landing craft) (P.No.Y.7.16).
5.1944: Assigned Operation Neptune-Normandy Landings.
23.5.1944: Assigned as a fuelling trawler to Force G.
3.7.1944: Operation Neptune ended.
1944: Reverted to water tank duties.
3.1946: Returned after restoration and re-classification at Belfast.
4.3.1949: Wrecked at Castlebay, Barra (Sk. J. C. Smith).

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S.T. Cyelse FD67

S.T. Cyelse FD67 in wartime livery