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The Bosun's Watch
S.T. Gaul FD143
| Official Number | 121030 |
| Yard Number | 64 |
| Admiralty Number | 733 |
| Launched | November 24 1905 |
| Registered | January 30 1906 |
| Gross Tonnage | 270 |
| Length | 130 ft |
| Breadth | 22 ft |
| Draught | 133.7 ft |
| 80 hp engine | Amos & Smith |
| Speed | 10.5 ft |
| Armament (WWI) | 1 x 12 pdr : 1 x 7.5" Bomb Thrower (A/S Howitzer) |
| Built by | Cook Welton & Gemmell, Beverley |
| Owner | New Docks Steam Trawling Co. Ltd. |
| 1905 |
Launched for Imperial Steam Fishing Co. of Hull as H 761.
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| 1915 |
Requisitioned as M/S. |
| 1920 | Returned to owners.
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| 1925 | Chartered for use as a fish carrier to the halibut fishery in the Davis Strait of Greenland. |
| March 29 1926 | Wrecked on the beach at Traigh Bail a Mhuillin in north west Tiree. Seven of the crew of nine were lost when their lifeboat was overturned by breaking seas.
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