BRACONLEA

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

Date1913

Object NameFISHING VESSEL

MediumSTEEL

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 115 3/12' x breadth 22 1/12' x depth 12 9/12'
Gross Tonnage: 205 ton

Object numberABDSHIP001370

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 484.
Subsequent Name: JAVELIN (1914).

Fate: Mined off Longsands, Tynemouth, 17 October 1915.

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Steel screw trawler

Owners:
1913: the Don Fishing Co.
09/1914: the Don Fishing Co. sold this vessel to the Admiralty which converted it to a minesweeper.
(Gerald Toghill (2004), "Royal Navy Trawlers, Part Two: Requisitioned Trawlers" (Maritime Books, Liskeard), p. 222)

Notes: Triple expansion engines with 12", 20" and 34" cylinders, 24" stroke. Boiler 12'9" diameter, 10'9" length, 180 lb. pressure (Builder's List in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)