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The Bosun's Watch
LO 33 Red Gauntlet
| Official Number | 163160 |
| Yard Number | 578 |
| Pennant | T 01 |
| Launched | September 06 1933 |
| Registered | October 12 1933 |
| Gross Tonnage | 422 |
| Length | 154.6 ft |
| Breadth | 25.6 ft |
| 111 nhp engine | C D Holmes |
| Speed | 11.4 knots |
| Armament | 1 x 12 pdr |
| Built by | Cook,Welton & Gemmell, Beverley, 1933 |
| Owner | Iago Steam Trawlers Ltd |
| 1935 |
Built as ARAB for Hellyer Bros Ltd, Hull (H516).
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| November 10 1935 |
Sold to RN for conversion to Berberis class minesweeper T01 and renamed Cedar. |
| 1946 | Sold to Iago Steam Trawlers Ltd, London and renamed RED GAUNTLET.
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| August 10 1947 | Wrecked on a reef at South Cape, Spitzbergen. All 20 crew and 2 Norwegian gutters safely taken aboard the Grimsby trawler NORTHERN SPRAY (GY 190 655 grt built in 1936). |
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