PELICAN I

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

Date1908

Object NameFISHING VESSEL

MediumSTEEL

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 125 1/3' x breadth 22 1/12' x depth 12 3/6'
Gross Tonnage: 247 ton

Object numberABDSHIP001333

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 447.
Subsequent Name: CEVIC (1929).

Fate: Scrapped in 1957.

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Steel screw trawler

Owners:
1908: Chant & Paddon, Plymouth.
11/1914: Requisitioned and converted to minesweeper.
1919: Returned to owners.
1920: Red Rose Steam Trawl. Ltd, Fleetwood.
1929: Cevic Steam Fishing Co. Ltd, Fleetwood in 1929.
01/1943: Requisitioned
08/1944: Returned to owners.
1957: J. W. Johnstone, Aberdeen, A722.

General History:
Requisitioned in January 1943 and converted to Esso. Deployed to Mediterranean.
Returned to the UK in March 1944 and converted to water carrier. Took part in Operation Neptune, the D-Day landings in June.
(Gerald Toghill (2004), "Royal Navy Trawlers, Part Two: Requisitioned Trawlers" (Maritime Books, Liskeard), p. 352)

Notes: Triple expansion engines with 12½", 21" and 34" cylinders, 24" stroke. Boiler 12'6" diameter, 10'3" length, 180 lb. pressure (Builder's List in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)