LAPWING

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

Date1896

Object NameFISHING VESSEL

MediumSTEEL

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 96 3/12' x breadth 19 7/12' x depth 10 7/12'
gross tonnage 124 tons

Object numberABDSHIP001248

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 361
Official Number: 94026
Subsequent Name: GOLDEN THOUGHT (1929).

Fate: Scrapped at Yarmouth in 1937.

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Single deck steel screw trawler.

Owners:
1896: Caithness Steam Fishing Co., Wick, fishing number WK610
29/06/1901: Sold to Steam Herring Fleet Ltd, Aberdeen and re-registered A424.
1912: Sold to Alexander K. Ritchie, Torry and others.
1926: Managing owner given as Thomas Walker, Aberdeen.
1928: A. Walker and J. Freeland, Aberdeen.
1929: A. Gouldby, Kessingland and R.A.E. Gouldby, Lowestoft, LT110.

Masters:
1897: Master A. Thain

Notes: Compound engines with 13 1/2" and 30" cylinders, 21" stroke. Boiler 10' diameter, 9'" length, 130 lb. pressure, by Alexander Hall, Aberdeen, 45H.P. Boiler by Alexander Hall, Aberdeen, 125 P.S.I. (Builder's List in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)

With acknowledgement to Mr J. Reid "Steam Drifters Recalled":