The Bosun's Watch

Technical

Official Number: 113574
Yard Number: 208
Launched: July 31 1900
Gross Tonnage: 168
Net Tonnage: 68
Length: 104.1 ft
Breadth: 21 ft
Draught 10.7 ft
Engine: 45 hp T3 20″ stroke by Muir & Houston, Glasgow
Built: Mackie & Thompson Ltd, Govan, 1900
Owner: Loopey Fishing & Development Co Ltd, Lowestoft

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.
pre 1913: James Leyman, Hull & Others (James Leyman, managing owner).
5.1913: Sold to Belgians.
15.5.1913: Hull registry closed.
3.2.1915: Sold to Paton’s Trawlers Ltd, Glasgow (Charles F. Paton, manager). Registered at Glasgow (GW15).
24.7.1915: Off St. Alban’s Head in collision and sank HMD WATER LILY (BF595).
2.1916: Requisitiond for war service and fitted out for boom defence duties.
1919: Returned.
1919: Sold to A. 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).
1944: 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 demolition.
27.10.1954: Sailed Lowestoft for Belgium towing LORD DUNCAN (LT273) also sold for demolition.

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S.T. Ouse LT572
Picture © Peter Brady