The Bosun's Watch

Technical

Official Number: 148219.
Launched: 1917
Gross Tonnage: 273
Net Tonnage: 106
Yard Number: 54
Length: 125.5 ft
Breadth: 23.5 ft
Draught: 12.7 ft
Built: Collingwood Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Collingwood, Ontario, 1917
T.3-cyl and boiler by Collingwood Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Collingwood, Ontario

History

1.1917: Ordered.
1918: Completed by Collingwood Shipbuilding Co Ltd, Collingwood, Ontario (Yd.No.54 or 55) (Canadian “Castle” – “T.R.” class) for The Admiralty (paid for and built under direction of RCN) as TR10 .
16.5.1918: Completed and commissioned in the Royal Canadian Navy.
8.1919: Paid off and laid up.
1921: Accepted offer of Rose Street Foundry & Engineering Co Ltd, Inverness (Captain D. J. Munro) for reconditioning and lay-up prior to sale. Brought over at The Admiralty’s expense.
26.6.1926: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Grimsby (Fred Parkes, manager).
19.7.1926: Renamed Bonthorpe (FD104).
6.1929: Sold to Western Australia Trawling Co Ltd, Perth, Western Australia.
6.6.1929: Sailed Fleetwood for Fremantle, WA (Capt Leslie Caxton).
17.10.1930: Registry noted “Sold out of District”.
1933: Company in liquidation. Laid up at Fremantle with salted boiler.
August 26 1933: Sold to Albany Tug Company, Albany, Western Australia (Capt Clem Douglas) for £200. Converted to a tug.
1939: Sold to Alex Armstrong, Albany, Western Australia.
27.11.1939: Requisitioned for war service (RAN) and fitted out for anti submarine duties.
10.12.1939: Commisioned in RAN (P.No.FY85).
1941: Fitted out for minesweeping duties.
30.6.1944: Purchased by RAN.
17.2.1945: Paid off and laid up.
1946?: Sold to Mark Dakas, Broome, Western Australia.
1949: Sold to Mrs Mary Dakas, Broome, Western Australia.
5.1949: Fleetwood registry closed.
23.5.1949: Registered at Fremantle.
3.4.1951: Sold to Marine Contractors Pty Ltd, Fremantle, Western Australia.
17.9.1951: Fremantle registry closed.
8.10.1951: Registered at Cairns.
18.8.1954: Sold to Marine Contracting & Towing Co Ltd, Cairns, Queensland. Cairns, Queensland.
17.7.1951: Surveyed after fitting out as a barge tug.
1959: Stranded Cairns Inlet. Declared a CTL and broken up in situ.
4.6.1959: Cairns registry closed.

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S.T. Bonthorpe FD104

HMAS Bonthorpe

HMAS Bonthorpe