FRIGATE BIRD

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

Date1905

Object NameFISHING VESSEL

MediumSTEEL

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 82' 2" x breadth 18' 5" x depth 8' 8"
Gross Tonnage: 84 ton

Object numberABDSHIP001299

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 413.

Fate: Sunk following a collision off Mars, Sirocco, in the Mediterranean, 11 March 1918.

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Steel screw drifter

Owners:
1905: George Murray (Bodge), Buckie, registered at Banff, BF24.
1910: Same owner re-registered the vessel in Buckie, BCK68.
1913: George Murray, 5 Gordon Street, Buckie. (Merchant Navy List)
1915-18: Requisitioned for war service as an anti-submarine net vessel; (Pennant No. 2276) fitted with a 57mm machine gun.

11/03/1918: Sunk whilst on war service following a collision off Mars, Sirocco, in the Mediterranean. People's Journal, Aberdeenshire Edition lists the Moray Firth fishermen who died when the ship was sunk as: George Geddes (Skipper), James Cowie (Deckhand), William Cowie (Mate), George Reaich (Engineer), Joseph Geddes (Deckhand) and William Murray.

Notes: Compound engines with 11¼" and 25" cylinders, 26" stroke. Boiler 9'6" diameter, 8'6" length, 100 lb. pressure by Alex. Hall, Aberdeen, 32 H.P. (Builder's List in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)
Boiler by A. Hall, 140 p.s.i.

With acknowlegement to Mr J. Reid 'Steam Drifters Recalled'.