CHESTNUT

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

Date1914

Object NameFISHING VESSEL

MediumSTEEL

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 88 3/12' x breadth 18 7/12' x depth 10'
Gross Tonnage: 106 ton

Object numberABDSHIP001384

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 498.
Subsequent Name: MAIDA (1939).

Fate: As MAIDA (ex CHESTNUT) Sunk by mine off the East Coast, 16 March 1940.

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Steel screw drifter

Owners:
1914: Westmacott Ltd, Yarmouth, YH6.
1916: Westmacott Ltd, Great Yarmouth and Manager Reginald G. Westmacott, The White House, North Drive, Great Yarmouth. (Mercantile Navy List)
1923: Merchant Navy List gives same owner and managing owner as 1916.
1933: H. F. Eastick, Yarmouth. (Mariner's Almanac)
1936: Rachel Eastick, South Town, Gt. Yarmouth and J. J. Eastick of Gorleston. (Mariner's Almanac)
1939: Owned by the Admiralty and renamed MAIDA.

Notes: Triple expansion engines with 9½", 16" and 26½" cylinders, 18" stroke by A. Hall, 35 H.P.. Boiler 10'0" diameter, 9'0" length, 180 lb. pressure (Builder's List in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)
Whilst Lloyd's Confidential War Losses Register and other war records suggest that MAIDA was sunk in the Nore or off Harwich, SRN Vol 1 suggest she was sunk by a mine off the East Coast of Scotland. All the crew were lost by the sinking. Originally registered at Great Yarmouth and owned by Mrs R. Eastick and Mr H. Eastick.