S.T. Ouse LT572 : The Bosun's Watch

S.T. Ouse LT572

Additional material courtesy of Maurice Voss and George Westwood
Wartime visitor

Technical

Official Number: 113574
Yard Number: 208
Completed: 1900
Gross Tonnage: 168
Net Tonnage: 68
Length: 104.1 ft
Breadth: 21 ft
Depth: 10.7 ft
Engine: 45HP T.3-cyl by Muir & Houston, Glasgow
Built: Mackie & Thompson Ltd, Govan

History

31.7.1900: Launched by Mackie & Thompson Ltd, Govan (Yd.No.208) for James Leyman & Co Ltd, Hull as OUSE.
6.9.1900: Registered at Hull (H514).
9.1900: Completed (James Leyman, manager). Initially with Hull boxing fleet and later fished out of Scarborough.
5.1913: Sold to S.A. Compagnie Nationale des Chalutiers à Vapeur, Ostend. Sailed Scarborough for Belgium (Sk. Dave Naylor).
15.5.1913: Hull registry closed.
5.1913: Registered at Ostend (O202).
3.2.1915: Sold to Paton’s Trawlers Ltd, Glasgow (Charles F. Paton, manager). Ostend registry closed. Registered at Glasgow (GW15).
24.7.1915: Off St. Alban’s Head in collision and sank HMD WATER LILY (BF595).
2.1916: Requisitioned for war service as a boom defence vessel.
1919: Returned to owner.
1919: Sold to Arthur Goulby, Kessingland, Lowestoft.
21.6.1919: Registered at Lowestoft (LT572).
1935: Sold to Mrs Edith C. Burton, Lowestoft.
1941: Sold to Loopey Fishing & Development Co Ltd, Lowestoft (Harold D. Holland, manager).
1943-1945: Fishing from Fleetwood (Sk. V. Buschini Snr).
1945: Returned to Lowestoft.
1950s: Served as an Exhibition ship in Waveney Dock.
10.1954: Sold to Belgium for breaking up.
27.10.1954: Sailed Lowestoft for Belgium towing LORD DUNCAN (LT273) also sold for breaking up.