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The Bosun's Watch
S.T. Wyre FD132
| Official Number | 109673 |
| Admiralty Number | 962 |
| Pennant Number | Z. 198 |
| Registered | 161474 |
| Gross Tonnage | 182 |
| Length | 110 ft |
| 52 hp engine | NE Marine Engineering |
| Armament | 1 x 12 pdr |
| Built at | Smiths Dock Co Ltd, Middlesborough, 1900 |
| Owner | M Hudson |
| 1900 |
To Fleetwood from new as WYRE for the Wyre Steam Trawling Co Ltd.
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| 1911 |
Sold to M Hudson and renamed FLORENCE DOMBEY. |
| Aptil 1915 | Requisitioned and converted to a M/S. Fitted with listening hydrophones.
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| 1919 | Returned to owners. |
| 1920 | Sold to Aberdeen as A264.
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| May 05 1933 | Sailed from Aberdeen under skipper Jack Hague with a crew of 10. After a brief stop at Granton she set course for the Longstone Light and the fishing grounds.
As they arrived the Chief discovered water pouring in through the main bunkers. The pumps were unable to stem the flow and the Aberdeen trawler, AURORA came alongside and took off the crew before FLORENCE DOMBEY eventually sank, 6 miles north of the Longstone in position 55.45N x 01.37W, thirty-five minutes after the leak was discovered.
AURORA brought the crew into Anstruther where they were put up in a boarding house until the morning..
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