The Bosun's Watch

In Boston ownership. Did not fish from Fleetwood

Technical

Official Number: 108443
Yard Number: 132
Completed: 1897
Gross Tonnage: 162
Net Tonnage: 63
Length: 104.2 ft
Breadth: 20.5 ft
Draught: 10.7 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Muir & Houston Ltd, Glasgow
Built: Mackie & Thomson Ltd, Govan

History

30.12.1896: Launched by Mackie & Thomson Ltd, Govan (Yd.No.132) for Hagerup & Doughty Ltd, Grimsby as LEEDS.
2.1897: Completed.
5.2.1897: Registered at Grimsby (GY207).
4.1906: Transferred to Consolidated Steam Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Grimsby (John D. Marsden, manager) on their formation.
29.5.1917: Requisitioned for Fishery Reserve.
1919: Released.
22.9.1924: Transferred to Lowestoft.
8.1.1925: Grimsby registry closed.
9.1.1915: Registered at Lowestoft (LT131).
9.1927: Owners re-styled Consolidated Fisheries Ltd, Grimsby (Sir John D. Marsden, Bart, manager).
29.9.1941: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood (B. A. Parkes, Cleveleys, manager).
28.11.1944: Sold to William D. Uglow (32 shares) & Samuel F. Uglow (32 shares), Milford Haven (William D. Uglow & Co, managers).
31.12.1946: Sold to Respondo Trawlers Ltd, Milford Haven (J. Yolland, manager).
1947-1948: Laid up in poor condition at North Quay, Lowestoft.
1951: Sold to BISCO for breaking up.

Technical

Official Number: 148967
Yard Number: 620
Completed: 1929
Gross Tonnage: 211
Net Tonnage: 91
Length: 115.3 ft
Breadth: 22.6 ft
Draught: 12.2 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen
Built: A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen

History

18.12.1929: Launched by A. Hall & Co Ltd, Aberdeen (Yd.No.620) for The Don Fishing Co Ltd, Aberdeen as BRACONBRAE.
15.1.1930: Registered at Aberdeen (A84).
2.1930: Completed (J. S. Doeg, manager).
4.1941: Sold to Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Basil A. Parkes, Cleveleys, manager).
20.1.1943: Aberdeen registry closed.
23.1.1943: Registered at Hull (H49).
1944: Sold to Jutland Amalgamated Trawlers Ltd, Hull (E. Cargill, manager).
1946: Sold to David Wood & Others, Aberdeen. Hull registry closed. Registered at Aberdeen (A89).
By 1952: Sold to Alexander C. Bruce, Aberdeen.
By 1956: Sold to Camperdown Fishing Co Ltd, Aberdeen (John Walker, manager).
By1959: Sold to Iver Fishing Co Ltd, Aberdeen (John Walker, manager).
10.1959: Sold to BISCO (£1920) and allocated to Shipbreaking Industries Ltd for breaking up at Charlestown, Fife (Contract No.53E).
13.11.1959: Arrived Charlestown from Aberdeen under own power.
14.11.1959: Delivered.
1.3.1960: Breaking up commenced. Aberdeen registry closed.

Technical

Official Number: 139941
Yard Number: 340
Completed: 1917
Gross Tonnage: 246
Net Tonnage: 97
Length: 117.4 ft
Breadth: 22.0 ft
Draught: 12.7 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Gt. Central Co-op Engineering & Ship Repairing Co Ltd, Grimsby
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley

History

11.1.1917: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.340E) for George W. White & John N. Willows, Grimsby as WAR DUKE.
21.3.1917: Left Hull in tow for Grimsby for machinery to be fitted.
21.4.1917: Completed.
21.4.1917: Registered at Grimsby (GY1037).
5.1917: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-12pdr) (Ad.No.1268). Based Buncrana.
1919: Returned to owner.
30.7.1919: Sold to Yarborough Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby.
25.7.1924: Sold to Harold Bacon, Grimsby.
5.8.1930: Sold to Kottingham Trawling Co, Grimsby (J. N. & H. Bacon, managers).
5.9.1930: J. N. Bacon designated manager.
29.11.1939: Requistioned for war service as a minesweeper (P.No.FY.582) (Hire rate £71.15.0d/month). Based Grimsby.
13.1.1944: Sold to Parkholme Trawlers Ltd, Fleetwood (B. A. Parkes, manager).
12.1944: Employed on miscellaneous Naval duties.
25.4.1946: Returned to owner.
30.7.1949: Sold to Trawlers Grimsby Ltd, Grimsby (Grimsby Industries (Trawler Managers) Ltd, managers).
10.4.1953: Sold to Derwent Trawlers Ltd, Grimsby (Grimsby Industries (Trawler Managers) Ltd, Grimsby, managers).
11.1.1956: Sold to Alfred Bannister (Trawlers) Ltd, Grimsby (Fred Bannister, manager).
1963: Sold to J. J. King & Co Ltd, Gateshead for breaking up.
26.4.1963: Arrived Tyne from Grimsby under own power. Grimsby registry closed.

In Parkes ownership. Did not fish from Fleetwood.

Technical

Official Number: 117704
Yard Number: 709
Completed: 1903
Gross Tonnage: 178
Net Tonnage: 67
Length: 110 ft
Breadth: 21.0 ft
Draught: 11.4 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl and boiler by McColl & Pollock Ltd, Sunderland
Built: Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, North Shields

History

1903: Launched by Smith’s Dock Co Ltd, North Shields (Yd.No.709) for The Western Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Bristol as WEYMOUTH.
1903: Completed. Frederick Joshua Sellick, Milford, manager. Registered at Bristol (BL11).
10.12.1905: While sheltering in Corunna Bay (Sk. Longthorpe), five men and five from the MANORBIER CASTLE (LO164) also sheltering, went ashore. Two hours later when the boat was expected back, cries were heard. Sk. Longthorpe put off in the boat and found that the returning boat had been swamped in the surf and seven men washed out; three remained in the boat and one swam ashore
14.12.1905: Arrived Milford and reported that six men had drowned*.
8.6.1905: At Bantry Bay Petty Sessions, Sk. George Medway was fined £50 for poaching in Bantry Bay. Nets were confiscated.
27.12.1909: Off the Blasket Islands, Co. Kerry (Sk. Woodgate) connected with Cardiff trawler MONARCH (CF9), disabled after condenser explosion and commenced tow to Milford.
29.12.1909: Delivered Milford with seven crewmen.
16.11.1910: Reported that Mate, Frank Whittimore had been washed overboard and drowned.
By 1911: Sidney Morgan Price, Milford appointed manager.
2.1915: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-6pdr). Renamed WEYMOUTH II (Ad.No.939).
2.4.1915-20.10.1917: Based Milford Haven.
28.6.1915: Off the Smalls, picked up crew of Glasgow barque DUMFRIESHIRE (2622g/1890) torpedoed by Uboat (U24) 25 miles SW of the Smalls while on passage San Francisco-Dublin with barley. Landed at Milford.
1919: Returned and reverted to Weymouth (BL11).
8.1919: Sold to Oliver Curphy, Hakin (22 shares); Charles Ingram Hole, Milford (21 shares) and Frederick Llewellyn & Harry Llewellin, Milford (joint 21 shares) (Oliver Curphy, manager).
8.1919: Bristol registry closed.
12.8.1919: Registered at Milford (M64).
24.11.1919: Sold to North Lincoln Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby (T. Sowerby, manager).
3.1926: Sold to F .D. & W. G. Jeffs, Grimsby (G. W. Jeffs, manager).
8.3.1926: Milford registry closed.
11.3.1926: Registered at Grimsby (GY386).
1926: Sold to Walter Garratt, Grimsby.
8.1931: Sold to Thomas W. Baskcomb, Grimsby.
22.10.1935: Fleet of Thomas W. Baskcomb sold to Fred Parkes, Blackpool.
11.1935: B. A. Parkes, Fleetwood appointed manager.
3.1936: Sold for breaking up.
31.3.1936: Grimsby registry closed.

(Lost*- All Milford unless stated. Weymouth – Samuel Knight, Second Hand; William Seymour, Brixham, Bosun; William Holman, 2nd Eng; Alfred Brown, deckhand & William Varley, trimmer. Manorbier Castle – Jack Garnett, Hull, Third Hand).

In Parkes ownership. Did not fish from Fleetwood

Technical

Official Number: 135957
Yard Number: 277
Gross Tonnage: 225
Net Tonnage: 112
Length: 117.4 ft
Breadth: 22.0 ft
Draught: 12.7 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley

History

22.7.1913: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.277) for North Western Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby as THE TETRARCH.
10.1913: Completed.
14.10.1913: Registered at Grimsby (GY945).
8.1914: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-3pdr) (Ad.No.254).
11.10.1915: Sold to Thomas W. Baskcomb, Grimsby.
1919: Returned to owner.
22.10.1935: Fleet of Thomas W. Baskcomb sold to Fred Parkes, Blackpool.
24.10.1935: Sold to Dobson Ship Repairing Co Ltd, Grimsby (Charles Dobson, manager).
24.12.1940: Sold to Perihelion Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby (Herbert G. Crampin, manager).
30.11.1941: Foundered off 20T buoy, Coquet Island following collision with Aberdeen steamer KOOLGA (1110g/1910). Nine crew lost.
28.2.1942: Grimsby registry closed.