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

Date1909

Object NameFISHING VESSEL

MediumSTEEL

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 86.5' x breadth x 18.7' x depth 9.0'
Gross Tonnage: 87 ton

Object numberABDSHIP001337

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 451
Subsequent Name: DELIVERER (1920)

Fate: Scrapped in November 1950.

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Steel screw drifter

Owners:
1909: William Campbell & others, Inverness, INS 21.
1916-19: Requisitioned for miscellaneous service by the Admiralty.
1920: W. Gardiner, Cullen, re-registered, at Banff, BF 67.
1939-43: Requisitioned for harbour duties by the Admiralty.
1943: Released from Admiralty service.
1944: J. Pirie Portknockie.

Notes: Cost £3,300.
Compound engines with 12" and 27" cylinders, 18" stroke. Boiler 9'9" diameter, 9'0" length, 130 lb. pressure (Builder's List in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)

(Jim Tarvitt (2004), 'Steam Drifters: A Brief History" (St Ayles Press))
(Acknowledgement to J. Reid 'Steam Drifters Recalled').