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The Bosun's Watch
Donna Nook FD237
| Official Number | 139209 |
| Admiralty Number | 1981 |
| Length | 40.34 m |
| Breadth | 7.31 m |
| Draught | 3.86 m |
| 89 hp engine | C D Holmes |
| Armament WW1 | 1 x 12 pdr : 1 x 3 pdr AA : 1 x 7.5 A/S Howitzer |
| Armament WWII | 1 x 12 pdr |
| Pennant nos. | (APV) 4. 132 : (M/S) FY 1559 |
| Built by | Cochrane & Son Ltd, Selby, 1915 |
| Owner | Mount Steam Fishing Co Ltd |
| 1915 |
To Fleetwood as a new vessel then requisitioned by Admiralty).
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| 1916 - 1919 |
Served as an armed trawler. |
| 1921 | Best annual aggregate of landings at Fleetwood (701 ton).
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| 1939 | Requisitioned as a minesweeper. |
| September 25 1943 | Lost off Harwich after a collision with the minesweeping trawler STELLA RIGEL. |
| Notes | On the night of 24/25 September, The Ipswich trawler FRANC TIREUR came across a group of E boats laying a minefield around 52 buoy, near the Shipwash, 12 miles east of Harwich and was torpedoed by Oberleutnant-zur-See Ritter's S96 with the loss of 15 of her crew. Two other trawlers, DONNA NOOK and STELLA RIGEL, hurried to her assistance but, manouvering under helm at high speed, STELLA RIGEL stemmed DONNA NOOK and knocked her onto her beam ends. Her crew were rescued by STELLA RIGEL.
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