ALERT

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

Date1907

Object NameFISHING VESSEL

MediumSTEEL

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 88 3/12' x breadth 18 7/12' x depth 9 9/12'
Gross Tonnage: 96 ton

Object numberABDSHIP001320

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 434.
Subsequent Names: ALERT III (1915); ALERT (1920).

Fate: Sold for scrap and broken up at Charlestown, in Fife, April 1938.

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Steel screw drifter

1907: Cowe & Bruce, Peterhead, fishing number PD506.
1913: Managing Owner as Alexander C. Bruce, 14 Auldmanythie Road, Peterhead (Merchant Navy List).
1915-20: Requisitioned for war service and temporarily re-named ALERT III (Pennant No. 2199) as an anti-submarine-net vessel.
1919: Sold to A. Buchan (Alex. Cherry) and others, Peterhead.
1923: Alexander Buchan, Vine Villa, Peterhead with Manager James B. Stephen, 41 Roanheads, Peterhead. (Merchant Navy List)
1924: Sold to G. C. McRobbie (Grocer) and A. Findlay, Portsoy, Banffshire and re-registered in Banff, BF70.
1934: H. Findlay, Portsoy.

Notes: Compound engines with 12" and 37" cylinders, 18" stroke by Alex. Hall of Aberdeen, 36 H.P.. Boiler 9'9" diameter, 9'0" length, 120 lb. pressure (Builder's List in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)

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