The Bosun's Watch
S.T. Pasages FD119
Source: Dictionary of Shipwrecks off the Isle of Man by Adrian Corkhill c2001.
| Official Number | 148221 |
| Gross Tonnage | 273 |
| Length | 125.7 ft |
| Breadth | 23.5 ft |
| Draught | 12.7 ft |
| 62 hp engine | National Steam Boat Co. Ltd. Goderich, Ontario |
| Built by | Thor Iron Works, Toronto 1917 |
| Owner | Boston Deep Sea Fishing & Ice Co Ltd |
| 1917 |
Built as Canadian Castle TR 14.
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| 1920 |
Paid off and returned to the RN and sold. |
| 1926 |
Renamed PASAGES and registered at Fleetwood. The vessel was named for the Spanish fishing port of Pasages and is often, wrongly, referred to as PASSAGES. |
| December 03 1931 | A severe south-south-west gale swept over the Isle of Man on the 2nd and 3rd of December 1931. when PASAGES was returning from fishing for herring off the north-west coast of Ireland when she ran into the storm. She sustained a terrible beating and her skipper, W. James, was totally blinded by the driving rain and the huge seas that swept the vessel from stem to stern. As the skipper cautiously felt his way along the ship suddenly stopped dead with a grinding noise as she ran aground on soft sand at Jurby. Despite putting the engines full astern the vessel remained fast and in a very dangerous position.
Distress rockets from the stricken vessel were spotted from the shore and the Ramsey Rocket Brigade were mobilised. PASAGES was found to have beached in the shadow of a steep headland and to reach the beach the rescuers had to drag their apparatus across sodden fields and make a very dangerous descent of the headland.
PASAGE' cook, Norman Platt, took a light line and managed to swim to the shore and the remainder of the crew were hauled to safety by breeches buoy. Passages sank deeply into the sandy beach and became a total loss.
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