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The Bosun's Watch
S.T. Cloughton Wyke FD46
| Official Number | 143856 |
| Admiralty Number | 3832 |
| Gross Tonnage | 338 |
| Length | 42.18 m |
| Breadth | 7.18 m |
| Draught | 3.86 m |
| 69 hp engine | C D Holmes |
| Built by | Cochrane & Sons Ltd, Selby, 1918 |
| Owner | Dinas Steam Trawling Co Ltd |
| 1918 |
Built as Admiralty Mersey JOHN JOHNSON.
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| 1922 |
Sold to mercantile and renamed CLOUGHTON WYKE and acquired by Dinas Steam Trawling Co Ltd. |
| 1929 | Registered at Fleetwood.
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| 1940 | Purchased by Admiralty as a minesweeper.
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| February 02 1942 | Lost to air attack off the Humber in position 7m NE x N of Cromer.
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| Notes | Cloughton Wyke was converted into a minesweeper and was sunk in the Humber estuary after being attacked by German aircraft. The following quote indicates the severity of attacks at that time.
"That February was indeed the Luftwaffe's swansong over the shipping routes, for it carried out more attacks in Nore Command waters that month (fifty) than since the previous May. All but one were in the Humber and Yarmouth Sub-Commands. The 2nd and the 5th were the worst days. On the former the Grimsby and Yarmouth M/S and patrol trawlers were attacked on station by at least twenty planes, and Grimsby's
CAPE SPARTEL and Yarmouth's CLOUGHTON WYKE were sunk. On the latter a convoy as well as scattered warships were targets. The Harwich A/S trawler KINGSTON OLIVINE was strafed near 54G Buoy, without damage or casualties."
Quote from Battle of the East Coast by J P Foynes.
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