S.T. Sea Monarch FD169 | The Bosun's Watch

Technical

Official Number: 139277
Yard Number: 322
Completed: 1915
Gross Tonnage: 329
Net Tonnage: 138
Length: 136 ft
Breadth: 24 ft
Depth: 12.7 ft
Built: Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley
Engine: 70nhp T.3-cyl and boiler by Amos & Smith Ltd, Hull

History

31.5.1915: Launched by Cook, Welton & Gemmell Ltd, Beverley (Yd.No.322) for Humber Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Hull as SEA MONARCH.
17.8.1915: Completed (Richard H. Hobbs, manager).
27.11.1915: Registered at Hull (H411).
2.1916: Requisitioned for war service as a minesweeper (1-12pdr, 1-7.5” A/S Howitzer) (Ad.No.1983). Based Portland.
Post 12.3.1919: Returned to owner at Hull.
16.12.1919: Sold to Fresh Fish Supplies Ltd, Hull (Thomas Nightingale, manager).
8.2.1922: Sold to Thomas Hamling & Co Ltd, Hull (Harold Hall, manager) along with SEA SWEEPER (H171) for £11,500 each.
6.1.1926: Thomas Boyd appointed manager.
4.5.1928: Sold to Dinas Steam Trawling Co Ltd, Fleetwood (Joseph Arthur Marr Jnr, manager) along with SEA SWEEPER (H171) for £7,000 each.
10.5.1928: Hull registry closed.
18.6.1928: Registered at Fleetwood (FD169).
7.1928: Mortgaged to William Deacons Bank Ltd, London.
31.3.1936: Landed from an Iceland trip landed only 1,000 stone of fish, £494 gross.
30.1.1940: Requisitioned for war service as a boom defence vessel (Hire rate £90.9.6d/month).
3.1940: Fitting out at Rosyth at a cost of £17,545 (P.No.Z.115).
5.1940: At Lyness.
23.11.1943: Compulsorily acquired by M.O.W.T.
1.1.1944: Fleetwood registry closed.
1944: Based at Fort William (D. MacBrayne Ltd, Glasgow, agents).
6.1946: Laid up. Estimated cost of re-conditioning £8,750.
31.1.1947: Sold to James N. Connell, Glasgow for breaking up.
28.2.1947: Delivered Clyde.
9.1947: Breaking up completed.

Note: A very fast free running trawler, on Admiralty service in 1916 was capable of 11 knots.

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S.T. Sea Monarch FD169 at Scapa Flow
Picture courtesy of Maggie Jamieson

Changelog
16/01/2009: Page published. 3 updates since then.
31/07/2021: Updated information.