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Shipbuildervessel built by Alexander HALL & Co. (Footdee, Aberdeen)

Date1892

Object NameFISHING VESSEL

MediumSTEEL

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 102 7/12' x breadth 21' x depth 11 3/12'
gross tonnage 151 tons

Object numberABDSHIP001230

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 343
Official Number: 91776

Fate: Driven ashore on Riddle Skerries near New Castle of Slains, Cruden Bay, 6 December 1915. Four crew got ashore by breeches buoy, six others washed away and drowned.

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Steel screw trawler

Owners:
1892: Fraserburgh Steam Fishing Co. Ltd
Later the Fraserburgh and North of Scotland Steam Fishing Co. Ltd.
1908: Cameron & MacFarlane, Dundee.
1915: W. H. Dodds, Aberdeen, registered in Aberdeen, fishing number A376

Masters:
1896: Master H. Jones

Note: Compound engines with 18" and 34" cylinders, 24" stroke. Boiler 10'6" diameter, 10'9" length, 100 lb. pressure. (Builder's List in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)