PRINCESS ROYAL

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

Date1906

Object NameFISHING VESSEL

MediumSTEEL

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 140 1/3' x breadth 23 1/12' x depth 12 5/6'
gross tonnage: 283 ton

Object numberABDSHIP001311

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 425
Official Number: 117968
Subsequent Names: DIEZ (1914); INSTITUTO DE PESCA NO. 1 (1920); ALDEBARAN (1938)

Fate: unknown, in Lloyd's until 1986.

Propulsion: Sream
Description: Steel screw trawler

Owners:
1906: The Dodd's S.F. Co. Ltd
1913: River Plate Tr. Co. Ltd, Buenos Aires.
1914: F. Dumas, Buenos Aires, and renamed DIEZ.
09/1914: requisitioned and converted to a minesweeper
1919: returned to owners.
1920: the Uruguayan Government.
1938: Servico Oceanografico y De Pasca, Uruguay.

General History:
The ship had electric lighting and refrigerated machinery, a rare thing for a 1906 ship. The master was A. McKenzie. The skipper in 1919 is R. L. Elichiribehety (Montvideo), still listed in Lloyd's 1937. Still listed as previous owners in Uruguay and original engine in Lloyd's reg. until 1986,.

June 1916 went to Elephant Island to join the search for Captain Ernest Shackleton's missing expedition.

Notes: Triple expansion engines with 12½", 22½" and 37" cylinders, 24" stroke. Boiler 13'6" diameter, 10'3" length, 180 lb. pressure (Builder's List in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)