The Bosun's Watch

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Technical

Official Number: 135082
Completed: 1914
Yard Number: 15?
Gross Tonnage: 99
Net Tonnage: 42
Length: 87.80 ft
Breadth: 18.7 ft
Draught: 9.3 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Crabtree & Co Ltd, Gt. Yarmouth
Boiler: Riley Brothers (Boilermakers) Ltd, Stockton on Tees
Built: Livingstone & Cooper Ltd, Hessle

History

1914: Launched by Livingstone & Cooper Ltd, Hessle (Yd.No.15?) for John Thomas Cullen Salmon, Gt. Yarmouth as HERRING SEARCHER.
16.6.1914: Arrived Gt. Yarmouth in tow of HULLMAN for installation of machinery.
23.6.1914: Registered at Yarmouth (YH51).
3.1915: Requisitioned for war service as an A/S net drifter (1-6pdr HA) (Ad.No.2216). Based Aegean Sea.
1919: Returned to owner.
1920: Seasonal fishing from Fleetwood and Padstow.
7.3.1928: Sold to Henry Frederick James Eastick, Gorleston.
18.10.1928: At Yarmouth landed 224 crans of herring.
21.10.1929: At Yarmouth landed 210 crans.
21.4.1939: Sold to Bisset Buchan Coull, Peterhead.
31.5.1939: Yarmouth registry closed.
6.1939: Registered at Peterhead (PD79).
12.1944: Sold to A. Johnston, Gardenstown & Others.
12.1944: Peterhead registry closed.
26.12.1944: Registered at Banff (BF19).
1.1947: Sold to Shoals Fishing Co Ltd, Lowestoft (William Dance, manager).
1.1947: Banff registry closed.
14.1.1947: Registered at Lowestoft (LT276).
1949: Won the Prunier Trophy with a landing at Lowestoft of 253 3/4 crans (Sk. Stanley Turrell).
6.1954: Sold for breaking up.
9.6.1954: Sailed Lowestoft for breakers.
27.5.1955: Lowestoft registry closed.

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S.T. Herring Searcher YH51
Picture courtesy of The Barry Banham Maritime Photo Collection