The Bosun's Watch

Technical

Official Number: 118937
Yard Number: 330
Completed: 1904
Gross Tonnage: 196
Net Tonnage: 76
Length: 115.5 ft
Breadth: 21.5 ft
Depth: 11.4 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by C. D. Holmes & Co Ltd, Hull
Built: Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby

History

12.10.1904: Launched by Cochrane & Sons, Selby (Yd.No.330) for Walter H. Beeley & Blanchard, Grimsby as MANXMAN.
11.1904: Completed.
16.11.1904: Registered at Grimsby (GY34).
4.1911: Sold to The South Western Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby & Fleetwood (Alick (Alec) Black, Grimsby, manager).
4.1912: Sold to The Marshall Line Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby (Alick (Alec) Black, manager). Fishing from Fleetwood.
12.1912: Sold to Thomas W. Baskcomb, Grimsby & Others.
9.1915: Sold to Sleights Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby.
14.4.1917: Stranded on Westmann Isles.
14.5.1917: Grimsby registry closed.

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Technical

Official Number: 123567
Yard Number: 108
Completed: 1906
Gross Tonnage: 259
Net Tonnage: 111
Length: 128.4 ft
Breadth: 22.0 ft
Depth: 11.8 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by C. D. Holmes & Co, Hull
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd. Beverley

History

14.3.1906: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd. Beverley (Yd.No.108) for Alick (Alec) Black, Grimsby as FORTUNA.
5.1906: Completed (Alick (Alec) Black managing owner).
8.5.1906: Registered at Grimsby (GY140).
16.6.1909: Sold to The South Western Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby & Fleetwood (Alick (Alec) Black, Grimsby, manager).
5.5.1913: Sold to Thomas W. Baskcomb, Grimsby & Others (Thomas W. Baskcomb, managing owner).
27.9.1915: Sold to Spurn Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Grimsby.
29.11.1916: Sold to George F. Sleight, Grimsby (managing owner).
29.5.1917: Requisitioned for Fishery Reserve.
By 11.8.1917: Fitted 1-6pdr HA (in house aft) & W/T.
1919: Released.
Pre 1927: Transferred to the Exors. of Sir George F. Sleight, Bart.
1934: Sold to Dobson Ship Repairing Co Ltd, Grimsby (Charles Dobson).
11.6.1946: Requisitioned for war service as an auxiliary patrol vessel (Hire rate £64.15.0d/month).
2.4.1941: Attacked and sunk by German aircraft off St. Abbs Head. No survivors.

(Lost – Ty/Skipper William T. M. Charlton; Samuel E. Foote, 2nd Hand; William E. Nicholson & Edward Robson, enginemen; Adam H. M. Bruce, Lawrence E Glyde, Henry Jones, William J. Smith, Gilbert J. Whyte, Stanley G. Winsor & Josiah V. Wright, seamen; Ernest E. Harris, O/S; Edward V. Feeney & Sidney Phillips, stokers.)

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Technical

Official Number:123568
Yard Number: 109
Completed: 1906
Gross Tonnage: 259
Net Tonnage: 111
Length: 128.4 ft
Breadth: 22.0 ft
Depth: 11.8 feet
Engine: T.3-cyl by C. D. Holmes & Co, Hull
Built:Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd. Beverley

History

11.4.1906: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd. Beverley (Yd.No.109) for Alick (Alec) Black, Grimsby as INVICTA.
5.1906: Completed.
26.5.1906: Registered at Grimsby (GY146).
11.6.1909: Sold to The South Western Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Alick (Alec) Black, Grimsby, manager).
12.1911: Sold to P. A. Olafsson, Patreksfjördur, Iceland (£6,000/135.000 kronur).
11.12.1911: Grimsby registry closed ‘ Sold to Denmark’.
17.12.1911: Renamed EGGERT OLAFSSON (BA127).
31.1.1913: Sold to Hf. Eggert Olafsson, Reykjavik, Iceland (Elias Stefansson, manager). Patreksfjördur registry closed. Registered at Reykavik (RE156).
1915: Slipped and surveyed at Fleetwood.
1917: Re-measured, 280g 91n.
15.12.1917: Sold to Marine Nationale Francaise (French Navy) (400.000 kronur/£22,000). Patreksfjördur registry closed. Renamed GORILLE.
7.1918: Sold to Maurice Bernard, Boulogne. Slipped at Fleetwood.
1919: Registered at Boulogne as CYCLONE (B778).
1925: Sold to Victor Fourney & Others, Boulogne (Victor Fourney, manager).
1931: Sold to Lachenal et Baule, Boulogne. Registered at Boulogne as Ste. THÉRÈSA de LISIEUX (B778).
1932: Sold to Commandant Baule, Boulogne (Lachenal et Baule, managers).
1936: Sold for breaking up.

OR 1919: Sold to ??, La Rochelle. Renamed CYCLONE. Registered at La Rochelle.
1921: Sold to Maurice Bernard, Boulogne. La Rochelle registration closed. Renamed Ste. THÉRÈSA de LISIEUX (B778).
1922: Sold to Maurice Dubois, Boulogne.
1925: Sold to M. Watteau, Boulogne (Victor Fourney, manager) Renamed CYCLONE (B778).
1931: Sold to Delepierre et Fils, Boulogne. Ste. THÉRÈSA de LISIEUX (B778).
1932: Owners in liquidation.

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Technical

Official Number: 110889
Yard Number: 228
Completed: 1899
Gross Tonnage: 186
Net Tonnage: 75
Length: 110.0
Breadth: 21.2
Depth: 11.2 ft
Engine: 310ihp T.3-cyl and boiler by C. D. Holmes & Co, Hull
Built: Cochrane & Cooper Ltd, Selby

History

1899: Launched by Cochrane & Cooper Ltd, Selby (Yd.No.228) for Thomas Baskcomb (64/64), Grimsby as MERLIN.
22.6.1899: Completed.
23.6.1899: Registered at Grimsby (GY190). Thomas Baskcomb appointed manager.
26.6.1899: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to William Nainby, Thorganby Hall (A).
17.1.1911: Mortgage (A) discharged.
20.1.1911: Sold to The South Western Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Fleetwood.
21.1.1911: Alick (Alec) Black, Grimsby appointed manager.
28.1.1911: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to London City & Midland Bank Ltd, London (B).
10.1912: New boiler fitted.
10.12.1912: Mortgage (B) discharged.
19.12.1912: Sold to Thomas William Baskcomb (64/64), Grimsby.
21.12.1912: Thomas W. Baskcomb appointed manager.
21.12.1912: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to Barclay & Co Ltd, London (C).
5.1915: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-3pdr) (Ad.No.1794).
13.10.1915: Mortgage (C) discharged.
29.2.1916: Sold to The Earl Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
27.3.1916: Alick (Alec) Black appointed manager.
10.8.1916: Sold to Henry Croft Baker (64/64), Cleethorpes.
10.8.1916: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to London Joint Stock Bank Ltd, London (D).
11.8.1916: Henry Croft Baker sold (16/64) shares to John Lawrance Green, Grimsby; (11/64) shares to Caroline Shute, Cleethorpes; (3/64) shares to John Nutley, Cleethorpes; (4/64) shares to Ernest Mumby Nutley, Grimsby; (4/64) shares to Arthur Jackson Nutley, Cleethorpes and (10/64) shares to Cyril Bernard Christy, Cleethorpes.
11.8.1916: Henry Croft Baker & John Lawrance Green appointed managers.
19.9.1917: Mortgage (D) discharged.
23.10.1917: Henry Croft Baker sold (4/64) shares to Claude Harold Goude, Grimsby.
27.12.1917: Caroline Shute mortgaged (11/64) shares to London City & Midland Bank Ltd, London (E). Based Egypt.
1.10.1918: Mortgagee re-styled London Joint City & Midland Bank Ltd, London.
14.1.1919: John Nutley died.
1920: Returned to owner at Grimsby.
12.4.1920: Mortgage (E) discharged.
12.4.1920: Caroline Shute sold (11/64) shares to Rowland Hill, Grimsby.
19.4.1920: Claude Harold Goude sold (4/64) shares to Henry Croft Baker, Grimsby.
20.8.1920: Ernest Mumby Nutley sold (4/64) shares to Rowland Hill, Grimsby.
20.8.1920: Arthur Jackson Nutley sold (4/64) shares to Rowland Hill, Grimsby.
3.9.1920: Probate for will of John Nutley granted to sole executrix Rosina Victoria Nutley (3/64), Grimsby.
1.6.1922: Rosina Victoria Nutley died.
21.11.1922: Probate granted to sole executor Fred Skelton (3/64), Cleethorpes.
15.12.1922: Fred Skelton sold (3/64) shares to Henry Croft Baker, Cleethorpes.
15.12.1922: Cyril Bernard Christy sold (10/64) shares to Henry Croft Baker, Cleethorpes.
29.12.1922: Henry Croft Baker, Cleethorpes & John Lawrance Green appointed managers.
29.12.1922: Henry Croft Baker (24/64), John Lawrance Green (21/64) and Rowland Hill (19/64) sold shares to Savoy Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
9.1.1923: Henry Croft Baker & John Lawrance Green appointed manager.
17.10.1924: Savoy Steam Fishing Co Ltd sold shares to Henry Peregrine Capron (16.64), Cleethorpes; Joseph Shephard (16/64), Cleethorpes; Robert Daniel Roberts (16/64), Cleethorpes and Edmund Percy Peters (16/64), Grimsby.
18.10.1924: Henry Peregrine Capron appointed manager.
26.8.1926: Henry Peregrine Capron (16.64), Cleethorpes; Joseph Shephard (16/64), Cleethorpes; Robert Daniel Roberts (16/64), Cleethorpes and Edmund Percy Peters (16/64), Grimsby shares sold to Orontes Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Grimsby.
7.9 1926: William Hollingsworth Johnston appointed manager.
11.2.1932: Vessel mortgaged to William H. Johnston, Grimsby for the sum of £500 with interest at 5% (F).
17.11.1932: Mortgage (F) discharged.
17.11.1932: Sold to Filey United Steam Fishing Co Ltd (64/64), Scarborough.
22.11.1932: Richard Ferguson Cammish, Filey appointed manager.
31.5.1933: Vessel mortgaged (64/64) to National Provincial Bank Ltd, London (G).
18.11.1936: Mortgage (G) discharged.
3.1937: Sold for breaking up.
25.3.1937: Grimsby registry closed “Vessel broken up”.

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Technical

Official Number: 113194
Yard Number: 265
Completed: 1900
Gross Tonnage: 195
Net Tonnage: 62
Length: 113.6 ft
Breadth: 21 ft
Depth: 11.2 ft
Engine: T.3-cyl by Amos & Smith, Hull
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Hull

History

25.6.1900: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell, Hull (Yd.No.265) for William Butt & Willie Hill, Grimsby as VICTORIAN.
23.8.1900: Registered at Grimsby (GY1189).
24.8.1900: Completed.
10.7.1912: Sold to The Loyal Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby (Walter W. Butt, manager).
3.10.1913: Sold to William Ellis, Grimsby.
1915: New boiler fitted.
8.1915: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-6pdr HA) (Ad.No.1841). Renamed VICTORIAN II.
3.9.1918: Sold to William Coombes. Grimsby.
1919: Returned. Reverted to VICTORIAN (GY1189).
15.2.1921: In bound in the Humber (Sk.Neale) in collision with GADRA (GY485) (Sk. A. Ellis) which subsequently foundered in position 63/4 cables from Middle Lightship. (Subsequently refloated and returned to service).
4.6.1925: Sold to South Western Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Sir Alec Black, Bart, Grimsby, manager).
2.11.1925: Earl Steam Fishing Co Ltd, Grimsby (Sir Alec Black, manager).
29.3.1928: Sold to T. C. & F. Moss Ltd, Grimsby. Renamed CROXTON (GY1189).
11.1.1940: Fishing in the North Sea (Sk. W. Blythe); nine crew. Attacked by two German aircraft with bombs and machine guns, foundered in position 53°20N/02°40E, crew abandoned to boat.
12.1.1940: At 9.00 a.m. after twenty four hours in open seas and having rowed sixty miles, sighted drifter near North Hammond Knoll Buoy and picked up at 9.45 a.m. by HMD CITRON (FR439) (P.No.FY.1872). At about 2.00 p.m. landed at Lowestoft.
8.3.1940: Grimsby registry closed.

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