The Bosun's Watch

Technical

Official Number: 65810
Launched: 1871
Gross Tonnage: 65
Net Tonnage: 48
Length: 70.4 ft
Breadth: 18.25 ft
Draught: 10.1 feet
Built: ??,Sandwich, Kent, 1871
Owner: John D. Gibson, Fleetwood

History

1871: Completed ??, Sandwich, Kent as YOUNG WALKER.
1889: Sold to John D. Gibson, Fleetwood (managing owner).
22.5.1889: Registered at Fleetwood (FD47).
24.10.1898: Sold to Robert Westby, Fleetwood.
9.12.1904: Abandoned 10m N of Great Orme’s Head and subsequently foundered.
24.6.1905: Fleetwood registry closed.

Technical

Official Number: 63932
Launched: 1870
Gross Tonnage: 38
Net Tonnage: 25
Length: 57 ft
Built: John Gibson, Fleetwood, 1870
Owner: Thomas Leadbetter, Fleetwood & Others

History

16.12.1870: Completed by John Gibson, Fleetwood for Thomas Leadbetter, Fleetwood & Others as WONDER. Registered at Fleetwood (FD68).
1881: Census at Fleetwood – John Leadbetter (36), b-North Meols, master; John Leadbetter (38), b-North Meols, mate; Spencer Sumner (26), b-Warton, AB; William Leadbetter (15), b-Fleetwood, AB: Robert Leadbetter (13), b-Fleetwood, cook.
24.10.1887: Sold to John Leadbetter, Fleetwood & Others (John Leadbetter, managing owner).
1918: Sold to Thomas W. Dixon, 38 James Street, Whitehaven (managing owner).
23.2.1922: Fleetwood registry closed. Transferred to Whitehaven.
1929: Same.

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Wonder FD68
Picture courtesy of Alan Hirst

Technical

Official Number: 109670
Launched: 1900
Gross Tonnage: 44
Net Tonnage: 41
Length: 59.4 ft
Breadth: 17.2 ft
Draught: 8.6 ft
Built: ??. Freckleton, 1900
Owner: Richard Leadbetter & Others, Fleetwood

History

1900: Completed by ??. Freckleton for Richard Leadbetter & Others, Fleetwood (Mary Ellen Leadbetter managing owner) as White Rose.
14.3.1900: Registered at Fleetwood (FD21).
31.12.1907: Tonnage altered to 24.80 net. New Fishing Certificate issued.
1910: William Leadbetter, North Church St, Fleetwood managing owner.
30.7.1920: Fleetwood registry closed. Sold to foreigners (Belgian subjects).

Technical

Official Number: 51224
Launched: 1864
Net Tonnage: 52
Rig: Ketch
Built: ??, Rye, 1864
Owner: Charles H. Saunby, Fish Market, Fleetwood

History

1864: Completed by ??, Rye as VIVID.
Pre1891: Sold to Charles H. Saunby, Fish Market, Fleetwood (managing owner). Registered at Fleetwood (FD57).
18.2.1892: Sold to ??.
18??: Fleetwood registry closed.

Additional information courtesy of Barry Banham

Technical

Official Number: ??
Launched: 1897
Gross Tonnage: 22.69
Net Tonnage: 8.68
Length: 39.6 ft
Breadth: 14.3 ft
Draught: 8.58 ft
Built: ??, Porthleven, 1897
Owner: Ralph Stockman Dugdall, 57 Esplanade, Fleetwood

History

1897: Completed by ??, Porthleven for ??, ?? As VICTORIA II.
1917: Sold to William Henry Fransham, 4 Gwili Road, Hakin; Henry James Hewer, 75 Waterloo Road, Hakin and Thomas Legget, 59 Waterloo Road, Hakin.
27.4.1917: Registered at Milford (M112).
1918: Auxiliary motor installed.
22.4.1918: Sold to Carrie Cranford c/o Ralph Dugdall, 18 The Bartons, Bristol (Fishing from Brixham?).
28.7.1938: Sold to Walter Chapman & Emily Chapman, 462 North Drive, Cleveleys. 15.9.1938: Sold to Ralph Stockman Dugdall, 57 Esplanade, Fleetwood.
18.9.1940: Sold to Brixham Trawlers Ltd, Wyre Dock, Fleetwood (Ralph S. Dugdall, manager).
17.5.1941: Sold to E. G. Wright, 75 Poulton Road, Fleetwood.
29.5.1946: In thick fog about 16 miles NNE of Bar Light Vessel run down by Liverpool tug CARLGARTH on passage Liverpool – Barrow. Vessel quickly foundered with only one survivor, Nicholas Grundy, Shakespeare Road, Fleetwood.
26.6.1946: Milford registry closed.
(Lost – Sk Lesie Hall; Thomas Wright, mate & Thomas Blundell Wright, deckhand, all Fleetwood)

The Times, Thursday, May 30, 1946; pg. 2; Issue 50465; col C
News in Brief
fishing smack rammed
When the tug CARLGARTH, of Liverpool, rammed and sank the Fleetwood fishing smack VICTORIA II in the Irish Sea, about 16 miles N.N.E. of Liverpool, early yesterday, only one member of the fishing boat crew, Nicholas Grundy, of Shakespeare Road, Fleetwood, was saved. Captain Leslie Hall, master of the vessel, Thomas Wright, and Thomas Blundell Wright, all of Fleetwood, are missing. The tug was on its way to Barrow-in-Furness to assist at the launching of the HINEMOA, the first passenger liner to be built in this country for the Dominions since 1939.