The Bosun's Watch

In Parkes ownership. Did not fish from Fleetwood.

Technical

Official number: 137026
Yard Number: 181
Completed: 1909
Gross Tonnage: 260
Net Tonnage: 105
Length: 125.3 ft
Breadth: 22.1 ft
Draught: 11.7 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Gt. Central Co-op Engineering & Ship Repairing Co Ltd, Grimsby
Built:

History

7.6.1909: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No181) for G. E. Forum, Esbjerg as KONG FREDERIK III.
27.7.1909: Completed. Registered at Fanö (F145).
4.1915: Sold to Frank Barrett, Grimsby.
4.1915: Fanö registry closed.
15.4.1915: Registered at Grimsby (GY482).
5.1915: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-12pdr) (Ad.No.2659). Renamed KING FREDERICK.
1919: Returned to owner and reverted to KING FREDERI III (GY482).
27.10.1919: Registered at Grimsby as KING FREDERIK III (GY482).
21.1.1920: Sold to Direct Fish Supplies Ltd, London (G. W. P. Margarson, manager).
23.3.1922: Company in voluntary liquidation.
10.8.1922: Placed in compulsory liquidation.
6.9.1922: Sold to Thomas W. Bascomb, Grimsby.
22.3.1928: Registered at Grimsby as MAGNOLIA (GY482).
22.10.1935: Fleet of Thomas W. Baskcomb sold to Fred Parkes, Blackpool.
28.10.1935: Sold to Henry Franklin Ltd & J. Hendry, Grimsby.
31.5.1940: Requisitioned for war service as an aniti submarine trawler. Renamed GLACIER (P.No.4.257) (Hire rate £65.0.0d/month).
9.1941: Employed on balloon barrage.
1944: Sold to East Anglian Fish Selling Co Ltd & Harry Franklin Ltd, Grimsby.
28.6.1944: Returned to owner and reverted to MAGNOLIA(GY482).
19.8.1952: On a North Sea trip (Sk. Stanley Wing) in a heavy swell started to take in water when 45 NE of Spurn Light Vessel. Steam trawler ROSE OF ENGLAND (GY 236) (Sk.Alf Walker), which had just landed left Grimsby with remaining crew (five) and a pump. Found casualty down by stern, transferred pump and connected, but in turning for the Humber seas swept over the stern and pump washed overboard.
20.8.1952: After nineteen hours under tow, started to settle and quickly foundered. Crew jumped in sea to be picked up by ROSE OF ENGLAND, but three men lost*.
8.1952: Grimsby registry closed.

(*Lost – Sk. Stanley Wing; Ch.Eng Albert Forster and deckhand Roland Willis)

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S.T. Magnolia GY482
Picture courtesy of Steve Farrow