The Bosun's Watch

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Technical

Official Number: 146868
Gross Tonnage: 92
Net Tonnage: 39
Length: 86.0 ft
Breadth: 19.8 ft
Depth: 9.8 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Elliott & Garrood Ltd, Beccles
Built: Routh & Waddingham, Winteringham

History

(Wooden drifter/seiner)

1920: Launched by Routh & Waddingham, Winteringham (Yd.No.- ) (“Admiralty drifter”) for The Admiralty as SWELL (Ad.No.4186).
23.6.1920: Completed as a fishing vessel.
14.12.1920: Transferred to Fisheries Board for Scotland for disposal.
3.2.1922: Sold to Grimsby Seine Net Co Ltd, Grimsby (Samuel Franklin, manager). Converted for seine netting.
1.8.1922: Registered at Grimsby as SILVERNIGHT (GY138).
3.6.1932: Sold to Harry Franklin Ltd, Grimsby & R. Cowie, Cleethorpes.
1940-1945: Fishing from Fleetwood.
1948: Sold to Harry Franklin Ltd, Grimsby.
1955: Sold for breaking up.

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Technical

Official Number: 146867
Yard Number: 18
Completed: 1920
Gross Tonnage: 95
Net Tonnage: 40
Length: 86.5 ft
Breadth: 20.0 ft
Depth: 9.9 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by W. Beardmore & Co Ltd, Glasgow

History

(Wooden drifter/seiner)

14.2.1920: Launched by Clapson & Sons, Barton on Humber (Yd.No.18) (“Admiralty drifter”) for The Admiralty as FOUNTAIN (Ad.No.4161).
3.6.1920: Completed as a fishing vessel.
14.12.1920: Transferred to Fisheries Board for Scotland for disposal.
3.2.1922: Sold to Grimsby Seine Net Co Ltd, Grimsby (Samuel Franklin, manager). Converted for seine netting.
18.7.1922: Registered at Grimsby as WHITENIGHT (GY88).
3.6.1932: Sold to Harry Franklin Ltd, Grimsby.
1940-1945: Fishing from Fleetwood.
1949: Converted to a floating nightclub at Grimsby.

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Technical

Official Number: 139821
Yard Number: 544
Completed: 1918
Gross Tonnage: 96
Net Tonnage: 35
Length: 86.2 ft
Breadth: 18.5 ft
Depth: 9.3 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by James Abernethy & Co, Aberdeen
Built: A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen

History

(drifter/trawler) (WW2 and seasonal post war)

1918: Launched by A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen (Yd.No.544) (“Admiralty drifter”) for The Admiralty as SANDSTORM (Ad.No.3907).
31.5.1918: Completed (1-6pdr).
12.7.1920: Transferred to Fisheries Board for Scotland for disposal.
10.1920: Sold to Thomas Gilmour, Aberdeen.
4.11.1920: Registered at Aberdeen as Glenbreck (A381).
9.1923: Repossessed by The Admiralty.
3.9.1923: Aberdeen registry closed “Sold to Admiralty”.
10.1923: Sold to Thomas Thorburn Irvin, Aberdeen.
16.10.1923: Aberdeen registry re-opened.
2.1924: Sold to J. & D. Dougal, Eyemouth.
26.2.1924: Aberdeen registry closed.
2.1924: Registered at Berwick as RIVER EYE (BK3).
1926: Sold to John Dougal, Eyemouth. Registered at Berwick as OLDEN TIMES (BK3).
12.1929: Sold to George Hitcham Catchpole, Lowestoft.
20.12.1929: Registered at Lowestoft (LT127).
31.1.1930: Registered at Lowestoft as SEASONS’ GIFT (LT127).
14.2.1930: Sold to Stanley Edward Catchpole (32/64) & Ernest George Catchpole (32/64), Lowestoft (Stanley Edward Catchpole, manager).
4.2.1931: Sold to Stanley Edward Catchpole, Lowestoft.
7.7.1931: Sold to Sold to Frederick Ernest Beane (32/64), Lowestoft & Isaac Alexander Kemp (32/64), Kessingland (Frederick Ernest Beane, manager).
27.2.1939: Sold to Frederick Ernest Beane, Lowestoft.
26.7.1940: Requisitioned for war service on balloon barrage (Hire rate £32.0.0d/month).
27.4.1940: Returned to owner.
1940-1945: Trawling from Fleetwood.
24.2.1941: In Wyre channel in collision with Icelandic wooden motor fishing vessel HELGI (115grt/1939).
3.1.1942: Frederick Ernest Beane died.
7.4.1943: Transferred to Mrs Margaret Beane, Lowestoft.
1946-1950: Seasonal trawling from Fleetwood.
1954: Sold to Belgian shipbreakers.
17.5.1954: Sailed Lowestoft for Antwerp.
12.8.1954: Lowestoft registry closed.

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Technical

Official Number:132096
Yard Number: 478
Completed: 1911
Gross Tonnage: 195
Net Tonnage: 87
Length: 115.3 ft
Breadth: 21.5 ft
Depth: 11.5 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
Built: Cochrane & Sons, Selby

History

2.2.1911: Launched by Cochrane & Sons, Selby (Yd.No.478) for Henry Croft Baker & Arthur Grant, Cleethorpes (joint owners) as BERU.
22.2.1911: Completed. (Builders’ Certificate signed).
25.2.1911: Registered at Grimsby (GY611).
11.1914: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-3pdr) (Ad.No.30).
29.2.1916: Sold to Arthur Grant (32/64), Cleethorpes; Alick Black (16/64), Grimsby and John Cash Store (16/64), Grimsby.
13.2.1917: Sold to Arthur Grant (64/64), Cleethorpes.
1919: Returned to owner.
7.4.1931: Sold to Arthur Grant & Son Ltd, Grimsby.
26.7.1932: Mortgaged (64 shares) to National Provincial Bank Ltd, London (A).
11.1939 Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (Hire rate £48.15.0d/month).
10.2.1940: Returned to owner.
27.9.1940: Mortgage (A) discharged.
30.9.1940: Sold to John Sherrif Ellis, Scarborough.
10.2.1941: Sold to Scarborough Pure Ice & Cold Storage Co Ltd, Scarborough.
24.9.1941: Mortgaged (64 shares) to Barclay Bank Ltd, London (B).
6.4.1943: Mortgage (B) discharged.
3.5.1943: Mortgaged (64 shares) to Midland Bank Ltd, London (C).
16.4.1945: Mortgage (C) discharged.
18.4.1945: Sold to James Johnson & John William Johnson, Scarborough (joint owners).
20.4.1945: John William Johnson designated manager.
21.8.1950: Sold to Scarborough Pure Ice & Cold Storage Co Ltd, Scarborough.
25.8.1950: John William Johnson designated manager.
4.1953: Sold to BISCO and allocated to James A . White, St Davids, Fife for breaking up.
4.1953: Delivered (Sk. Jack Mann) to Leith from Scarborough. Transferred to St Davids for breaking.
25.8.1953: Letter from BISCO stating “… vessel has been completely demolished”.
4.9.1953: Grimsby registry closed “Vessel broken up”.

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Technical

Official Number: 146456
Yard Number: 767
Completed: 1922
Gross Tonnage: 97
Net Tonnage: 35
Length: 85.2 ft
Breadth: 19.1 ft
Draught: 9.0 ft
Engine: (As built) C.2-cyl by International Engine Works, Amherst, Nova Scotia to a Goldie & McCulloch Co Ltd, Galt, Ontario design
Boiler: International Engine Works, Amherst, Nova Scotia
Replacement engine: T.3-cyl by S. Richards & Co Ltd, Lowestoft
Boiler: Riley Bros (Boilermakers) Ltd, Stockton-on-Tees
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby

History

(All machinery new 1917 and ex Canadian wooden Admiralty drifter CD.19)

14.2.1922: Launched by Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.767) for John McCann, Hull (Pickering & Haldane’s Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull) as TELIA.
24.3.1922: Completed.
24.4.1922: Transferred to Pickering & Haldane’s Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull (John McCann & Edward Cartwright, managers).
25.4.1922: Registered at Hull (H477).
17.3.1925: Sold to T. Baskcomb, Grimsby (T. W. Baskcomb Ltd, managers).
20.3.1925: Hull registry closed.
23.3.1925: Registered at Grimsby (GY299).
12.3.1929: Grimsby registry closed.
13.3.1929: Sold to W. J. Westgate, Lowestoft.
5.6.1929: Re engined and boilered by S. Richards & Co Ltd, Lowestoft. (T.3-cyl by S. Richards & Co Ltd, Lowestoft, Boiler by Riley Bros (Boilermakers) Ltd, Stockton-on-Tees)
28.6.1929: Registered at Lowestoft as PEACE WAVE (LT47).
1930s: Seasonal trawling from Padstow, Milford and Fleetwood (Lowestoft Fish Selling Co Ltd, Lowestoft, managing agent).
10.2.1932: In heavy weather lost man overboard and drowned.
19.4.1937: W. J. Westgate died.
16.6.1937: Sold to Ernest Edward Butcher & Ernest Herbert Holland, Lowestoft (joint owners).
21.9.1937: Sold to P. W. Watson & Sons Ltd, Lowestoft.
1943-1945: Fishing from Fleetwood.
1.10.1943: Sold to Jubilee Fishing Co Ltd, London (Samuel Stewart, manager).
11.1.1945: Change of company address.
6.1955: Sold to Jas. de Smedt, Antwerp for breaking up.
13.7.1955: Sailed Lowestoft for Antwerp in tow of Landbreeze (LT1296) also sold for breaking up.
3.8.1955: Lowestoft registry closed.

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