The Bosun's Watch

Technical

Official Number: 113609
Launched: 1901
Yard Number: 281
Gross Tonnage: 191
Net Tonnage: 80
Length: 110.7 ft
Breadth: 21.0 ft
Draught: 11.2 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
Built: Cochrane & Cooper Ltd, Selby, 1901

History

1901: Launched by Cochrane & Cooper Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.281) for Peter Hancock, Milford & W. F. Harris, Hull as MAUDE.
5.1901 Completed.
25.5.1901: Registered at Hull (H527).
8.1901: Sold to France.
16.8.1901: Hull registry closed.
1902: Sold to M. Louis Bigot, Lorient. Renamed LORAINTAIS (L232).
1902: Re-measured 33,73 x 6,40 x 3,41 metres – 183g 58n
1903: Sold to Le Chalutier à Vapeur Lorientais, Lorient.
1905: Sold to M. Mallet, Lorient.
1908: New boiler fitted
2.4.1914: At Boulogne as a training ship.
27.8.1919: Auctioned at Brest but failed to reach reserve.
9.1919: Sold by private treaty to M. Noblanc, Lorient for F152,000.
16.2.1920: Taken in hand for refurbishment to return to fishing. Delays.
6.1920: Sold to André & Henry Ledun, Fécamp for conversion to a drifter. Lorient registry closed.
17.8.1920: Renamed Maurice et Jean (F445).
7.1925: Sold to Soc. Anon. de Pêche et d’Armement, Dieppe. Fécamp registry closed.
1.9.1925: Renamed MADELEINE et MADELEINE (DI937).
23.12.1925: In a seaway, Ch. Eng. Alexis Lhorset, lost his balance and fell into engine crank and died as a result of injuries.
5.9.1926: Laid up.
1.7.1927: Sold to Augustin Le Borgne et Cie, Honfleur.
1928: Refitted as a drifter/trawler (Desnos, Lebreton et Tourasse, Dieppe, agents).
1929: Dieppe registry closed. Renamed EPAGNEUL (HO828).
1929-1936: Took part in herring fishery.
1931: Returned to trawling out of season otherwise laid up at Honfleur or Fécamp between herring seasons.
10.1936: Sold to Jean Prentout, Fécamp placed under Charles Prentout ownership. Honfleur registry closed. Registered at Fécamp (F806). Laid up.
1938: Sold to Fred Parkes, Blackpool. Fécamp registry closed.
4.1938: Sold to German shipbreakers.
6.4.1938: Sailed Fécamp under “English flag” to Germany.