The Bosun's Watch

Pictures from an old postcard. MOULMEIN berthed inboard of MINO

Technical

Official Number: 104239
Yard Number: 503
Launched: May 25 1895
Gross Tonnage: 151
Net Tonnage: 40
Length: 100.6 ft
Breadth: 20.6 ft
Draught: 11 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by N.E. Marine Engineering Co Ltd, Sunderland
Built: Edwards Bros, North Shields, 1895
Owner: Kelsall Brothers & Beeching Ltd, Fleetwood.

History

25.5.1895: Launched by Edwards Bros, North Shields (Yd.No.503) for George Beeching & Co, Hull & Fleetwood as the MOULMEIN.
6.1895: Completed.
26.6.1895: Registered at Fleetwood (FD132).
1897: Transferred to Kelsall Brothers & Beeching Ltd, Fleetwood (John E. A. Kelsall, manager).
1899: Transferred to Hull.
30.3.1899: Registered at Hull (H61).
12.5.1899: Fleetwood registry closed.
22.10.1904: The Dogger Bank Incident. Shelled and damaged by Russian Navy Baltic Fleet while fishing on the Dogger Bank. Russians on passage to the Pacific in the darkness opened fire on the trawlers (approx 45 vessels) under the impression that they were about to be attacked.
pre1908: George Beeching, Hull & John E. A. Kelsall, London appointed managers.
1913: Sold to George Clarkson, Fleetwood.
7.7.1913: Hull registry closed.
8.7.1913: Registered at Fleetwood (FD187).
1.1.1914: Tonnage altered to 59.04 net under provision of Merchant Shipping Act 1907
6.8.1913: Sold to Devon Steam Trawling Co, Fleetwood (George Clarkson, manager).
18.11.1916: Sold to Henry Smethurst, Grimsby.
13.12.1916: Fleetwood registry closed.
23.12.1916: Registered at Grimsby (GY1007).
28.3.1917: Stopped by U-boat (UC77) with a shot across the bows whilst fishing 25 miles NE of Longstone Light and scuttled by opening seacocks and scuttles.

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S.T. Moulmein FD132
Picture courtesy of Mike Thompson

S.T. Moulmein FD132

Russians open fire

S.T. Mino
Picture courtesy of Mike Thompson