TARTAR

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

Date1904

Object NameFISHING VESSEL

MediumSTEEL

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 85 3/12' x breadth 17 1/12' x depth 11'
Gross Tonnage: 103 ton

Object numberABDSHIP001294

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 408.
Subsequent Name: HERCULE (1910).

Fate: unknown, no information after 1937

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Steel screw trawler.

Owners:
1904: Thomas Milward, Swansea.
1910: Soc. Anon. De Remorq Hercule (C. Lhommet, manager), Fecamp, France, now registered as a tug.
1920's: Soc. Dunkerquise De Remorqs De Savetast (Dunkirk).

Notes: To change a ship from trawling to a tug would have been no easy task to undertake as there would involve a lot of alterations to the superstructure and all the rivets has to be cut out by hammer and chisel. No welding or burning in those days.
Notes: Compound engines with 17" and 34" cylinders, 24" stroke. Boiler 11'0" diameter, 10'0" length, 120 lb. pressure (Builder's List in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)