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Shipbuilder (Footdee, Aberdeen)
Date1910
Object NameSALVAGE VESSEL
MediumCOMPOSITE
ClassificationsShip
Dimensionslength 87 3/12' x breadth 19 5/6' x depth 9'
Gross Tonnage: 113.28 ton
Object numberABDSHIP001343
About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 457.
Subsequent Name: JESSE WALLWORK (1933).

Fate: unknown

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Composite steam salvage vessel

Owners:
1910: UK insurance, Aberdeen
1933: Upper Weaver and Mersey Navigation Commission, registered at Runcorn.
1975: Manchester Ship Canal (as a diver support vessel).
Sold to Salvesen Diving Co. Liverpool.

Masters:
1910-21: Master W. Main.

Notes: Compound engines with 13" and 28" cylinders, 18" stroke. Boiler 10'3" diameter, 9'0" length, 120 lb. pressure (Builder's List in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)
Later converted to a house boat and renamed Sun Risen.
"Thermopylae" - Clipper Ship
Aberdeen White Star Line (George Thompson & Co)
1868
THYATIRA
Walter Hood & Co.
August 1867
ASCALON
Walter Hood & Co.
April 1868
NEW GAMECOCK
Alexander HALL & Co.
1 March 1930
BARRANCA
Alexander HALL & Co.
October 1869
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
19 March 1881
AGNES BLAIKIE
Walter Hood & Co.
1841
EMPIRE JANE
Alexander HALL & Co.
1944
THOMAS BURNHAM
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
9 September 1918
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
1910
MIST
John Lewis & Sons
1918
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
April 1872
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
11 August 1900
LOCH AVON
DUTHIE
1906
ARCHIMEDES
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
July 1874
Alexander HALL & Co.
January 1870
Hall, Russell & Company, Limited
13 June 1918
Alexander HALL & Co.
November 1866
Alexander HALL & Co.
June 1867