FORELOCK

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

Date1910

Object NameFISHING VESSEL

MediumSTEEL

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 86 3/12' x breadth 18 7/12' x depth 9 9/12'
Gross Tonnage: 88 ton

Object numberABDSHIP001345

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 459

Fate: Scrapped May 1952.

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Steel screw drifter

Owners:
1910: Barclay & Duthie, Buckie, BCK60.
1913: James Duthie, 201 Portessie (Merchant Navy List)
1915-19: Requisitioned for war service as a boom defence vessel.
1919: Sold to G. Murray (Bodge), Buckie and others.
1923: George Murray, 5 Gordon Street, Buckie. (Merchant Navy List)
03/1937: Preston Harbour Board.
1938: Requistioned by the Admiralty.
1939-47: Served as a boom defence vessel.
1947: G. Geddes and others of Buckie and re-registered in Buckie - BCK 127.
1949: James Geddes, Buckie. (Mercantile Navy List)
1951: Sold for scrap.

Notes: Triple expansion engines with 9¼", 15½" and 26" cylinders, 18" stroke by Hall of Aberdeen 39 H.P. Boiler 9'9" diameter, 9'0" length, 180 lb. pressure (Builder's List in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)

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