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

DateMay 1904

Object NameFISHING VESSEL

MediumSTEEL

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 110 3/12' x breadth 21 1/12' x depth 12'
gross tonnage 178 ton

Object numberABDSHIP001296

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 410.
Subsequent Names: ROWLAND (by 1920); RECENIA (by 1929)

Fate: Scrapped c.1945.

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Steel screw trawler

Owners:
1904-17: John S. Boyle, Glasgow
10/1915: Requisitioned and converted to boom defence vessel.
1919: Returned to owners.
1920: Owned by Soc. Anon Pecheries a Vap. 'Zeester' Ostend.
1929: P. Hancock & Sons, Milford.
1940: Boston D S F & T Co. Ltd, Milford.
1941: Parkholme Trawlers, Milford.

Notes: Triple expansion engines with 11½", 18" and 31" cylinders, 22" stroke. Boiler 11'6" diameter, 9'6" length, 180 lb. pressure (Builder's List in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)

Source: 'Royal Navy Trawlers'
Source: Lloyd's Register of Shipping