The Bosun's Watch

Technical

Official Number: 127408
Yard Number: 362
Launched: October 02 1907
Gross Tonnage: 239
Net Tonnage: 73
Length: 120.3 ft
Breadth: 21.6 ft
Draught: 11.6 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by MacColl & Pollock Ltd, Sunderland
Built: Smith’s Dock Co Ltd North Shields

History

2.10.1907: Launched by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd North Shields (Yd. No.362) for John Thomas Milford Haven (managing owner) as BEATRICE.
11.1907: Completed.
30.11.1907: Registered at Milford (M212).
8.1914: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-3pdr) (Ad.No.362). Based on the Tyne.
12.1914: Renamed BEATRICE II.
16.10.1917: Sold to The Wyre Steam Trawling Co Ltd Fleetwood.
14.3.1918: Sold to Walter Harold Beesley, Grimsby.
8.4.1918: Milford registry closed.
10.4.1918: Registered at Grimsby as BEATRICE (GY1114).
1919: Returned to owner.
3.1919: Sold to Middleton Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hartlepool.
4.4.1919: Grimsby registry closed.
4.1919: Registered at Hartlepool (HL16).
1927: Re-measured 236g 71n.
1927: Sold to N.V. Maats Petten, IJmuiden (L & J Schager, managers).
1927: Hartlepool registry closed.
1927: Renamed Bergen (IJM16).
By 1930: N.V. Vissch. Maats Petten, IJmuiden (L & J Schager, managers).
2.10.1907: Launched by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd North Shields (Yd. No.362) for John Thomas Milford Haven (managing owner) as BEATRICE.
11.1907: Completed.
30.11.1907: Registered at Milford (M212).
8.1914: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-3pdr) (Ad.No.362). Based on the Tyne.
12.1914: Renamed BEATRICE II.
16.10.1917: Sold to The Wyre Steam Trawling Co Ltd Fleetwood.
14.3.1918: Sold to Walter Harold Beesley, Grimsby.
8.4.1918: Milford registry closed.
10.4.1918: Registered at Grimsby as BEATRICE (GY1114).
1919: Returned to owner.
3.1919: Sold to Middleton Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hartlepool.
4.4.1919: Grimsby registry closed.
4.1919: Registered at Hartlepool (HL16).
1927: Re-measured 236g 71n.
1927: Sold to N.V. Maats Petten, IJmuiden (L & J Schager, managers).
1927: Hartlepool registry closed.
1927: Renamed Bergen (IJM16).
By 1930: N.V. Vissch. Maats Petten, IJmuiden (L & J Schager, managers).
6.1940: Requisitioned for war service under Dutch Naval Control (P.No.6C).
8.1940: Fitting out at Milford.
9.1940: Attached to 66th MS Flotilla based Holyhead.
11.1941: Flotilla moved to Milford.
1.6.1942: Flotilla moved to Portsmouth under Admiralty control (P.No.FY.932).
7.1942: Paid off.
9.1942: At Southampton as a minesweeper fitting out with oropesa sweeps.
03-04.1943: Not listed.
5.1943: Fitting out as a single line gate vessel.
6.1943: Last recorded still fitting out.
1945: Laid up in Southampton (did not return to IJmuiden).
1947: Sold for demolition.

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S.T. Beatrice M212
Picture courtesy of Jan Hartveld

Technical

Official Number: 149099
Yard Number: 994
Launched: 1926
Gross Tonnage: 351
Net Tonnage: 141
Length: 140.3 ft
Breadth: 24.0 ft
Draught: 13.3 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby, 1926

History

14.4.1926: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.994) for John McCann, Hull as FOAMFLOWER.
29.6.1926: Completed.
20.10.1926: Registered at Hull (H313).
15.11.1926: Sold to Yorkshire Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull A. Turgoose, manager).
2.1939: Sold by Fishing Vessel Brokers Ltd to Société Anonyme Armement Ostendais, Ostend.
6.2.1939: Hull registry closed.
18.2.1939: Renamed EDOUARD ANSEELE (O158).
5.1940: Sailed to England via France.
9.1940: Based at Fleetwood as a fishing trawler (Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, managing agents).
27.4.1941: Picked up crew of London motor vessel BEACON GRANGE (10119grt/1938) torpedoed and sunk by U.boat (U552) south of Iceland in approx position 62.05N 16.20W. Survivors transferred to HMS GLADIOLUS (P.No.K34) and landed at Londonderry.
8.1945: Returned to Belgium.
24.9.1949: Chartered to “Weser” Hochseefischerei-und Fischnandels GmbH, Bremerhaven.
8.1950: Returned to owners.
9.1950: Sold to “Dalmor” Przedsiebiorstwo Polowow Dalekomorskich Sp.Z.ogr.odp, Gdynia.
16.9.1950: Ostend registry closed.
13.10.1950: Renamed PEGAZ (GDY110).
29.31958: Gdynia registry closed sold for demolition.

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S.T. Edourd Anseele O158
Permission requested

Technical

Official Number: 102966
Launched: 1894
Yard Number: 112
Gross Tonnage: 152
Net Tonnage: 62
Length: 102.8 ft
Breadth: 20.7 ft
Draught: 11.0 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull

18.8.1894: Launched by Cochrane & Cooper, Beverley (Yd.No.112) for Pickering & Haldane’s Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull as LAPWING.
3.9.1894: Registered at Hull (H258).
5.9.1894: Completed.
9.1906: New boiler fitted
1.1915: Requisitioned for was service as a minesweeper (1-6pdr AA) (Ad.No.1206).
5.1915: Renamed LAPWING II.
4.12.1917: Sold to John Ellis, Scarborough.
10.1918: Returned to owner and reverted.
1919: Sold to Cornish & South Wales Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Lowestoft.
9.2.1920: Hull registry closed.
11.2.1920: Registered at Lowestoft (LT847).
1923: Sold to J. Sladden, Lowestoft.
21.8.1925: Lowestoft registry closed.
1925: Re-measured 104.2 ft – 150g 29n
24.8.1925: Sold to Fred Parkes, Blackpool (Basil A Parkes, Grimsby, manager). 24.8.1925: Registered at Grimsby (GY317).
11.1925: Sold to Herbert Cavelier-Reaux, Pere et Fils, Dieppe.
12.11.1925: Grimsby registry closed. Renamed MICHEL THÉRÈSE (B34).
1931: Sold to Hérbert & Cie, Dieppe.
1932: Sold to Lemaitre Guérillon & Le Gonidec, Dieppe.
1936: Sold to Guérillon, Lemaitre & Le Gonidec, Dieppe.
1950: Sold for demolition.

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Isles Class - 1943
Picture courtesy of John Lambert - Ships Monthly magazine (1983)

Isles Class - 1944
Picture courtesy of John Lambert - Ships Monthly magazine (1983)

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Round Table Class
Picture courtesy of John Lambert - Ships Monthly magazine (1983)