PLETHOS

Owner East Coast Steam Fishing Company (Aberdeen) Limited (Aberdeen, Scotland)

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

DateApril 1913

Object NameFISHING VESSEL

MediumSTEEL

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 115 3/12' x breadth 22 7/12' x depth 13'
gross tonnage: 210 ton

Object numberABDSHIP001372

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Hall, Russell & Co.
Yard Number: 486.

Fate: Mined off Montrose, 23 April 1918.

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Steel screw trawler.

Owners:
1913: East Coast Steam Fishing Company Ltd., Aberdeen, A545.
09/1913: Requisitioned and converted to minesweeper, Admiralty No. 468. Converted for minesweeping, armed with 1 x 12 pdr, 1 x 6 pdr.
(Gerald Toghill (2004), "Royal Navy Trawlers, Part Two: Requisitioned Trawlers" (Maritime Books, Liskeard), p. 362)

Notes: Triple expansion engines with 11½", 20" and 34" cylinders, 23" stroke. Boiler 12'6" diameter, 10'3" length, 180 lb. pressure (Builder's List in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)