HORACE STROUD

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

DateFebruary 1907

Object NameFISHING VESSEL

MediumSTEEL

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 115 3/12' x breadth 22' x depth 12 3/6'
Gross Tonnage: 202 ton

Object numberABDSHIP001313

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 427.
Subsequent Name: EAST COAST (by 1913, 1910 when another Horace Stroud built).

Fate: Broken up in the U.K. June 1958.

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Steel screw trawler

Owners:
1907: Horace Stroud, Aberdeen, A122.
11/1913: sold by Mr Horace Stroud of Aberdeen to Portuguese buyers for £500 in excess of the original cost when new.
08/1914: Purchased into the Royal Navy and converted to a minesweeper.
1919: Sold to Mercantile.
1920: J. de Coninck, Ostend.
1923: D. Noble, Aberdeen, A935.
1943: Don Tr. Co. Ltd, (Milford), Ltd, Aberdeen.
1944: Requisitioned in 1944 as EAST COAST and converted to an Esso.
1945: Returned to owners. (Gerald Toghill (2004), "Royal Navy Trawlers, Part Two: Requisitioned Trawlers" (Maritime Books, Liskeard), pp. 204-5)

Notes: Triple expansion engines with 11½", 20" and 33" cylinders, 22" stroke. Boiler 12'0" diameter, 10'0" length, 180 lb. pressure (Builder's List in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)