The Bosun's Watch

Technical

Official Number: 132092
Yard Number: 206
Launched: September 06 1910
Gross Tonnage: 214
Net Tonnage: 98
Length: 118.8 ft
Breadth: 21.5 ft
Draught: 11.5 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley, 1910

History

6.9.1910: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.206) for William Grant, Grimsby (managing owner) as RIBY.
13.12.1910: Registered at Grimsby (GY594).
15.12.1910: Completed.
6.1915: Requisitioned for war service and fitted out for boom defence duties (P.No.NI).
2.1919: Returned after survey and restoration at Grimsby.
6.1927: Sold to William Grant & Sons, Grimsby.
13.3.1930: Sold to Rugby Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby (William Grant & Sons, managers).
19.3.1929: Arrived Hull from fishing grounds and reported loss of Sidney Smith (28) washed overboard and drowned.
2.5.1933: Sold to The Connie Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Scarborough.
12.10.1939: Sold to Filey United Trawlers Ltd, Scarborough.
22.2.1940: Attacked by German aircraft off East Coast; driven off, no casualties.
23.12.1941: Sold to J. Bennett, Grimsby. Directed to Fleetwood under wartime controls.
2.11.1944: Sold to Pickering & Haldane’s Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull.
19.6.1945: Sold to H. B. Ingram, Fleetwood.
1950: Laid up.
1950: Sold to BISCO and allocated to Thos. W. Ward Ltd, Sheffield for demolition at Preston.
6.1.1951: Demolition completed.
15.3.1951: Grimsby registry closed.

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S.T. Riby GY594
Picture courtesy of George Westwood