JOHN HIGH

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

Date1916

Object NameFISHING VESSEL

MediumSTEEL

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 117 3/12' x breadth 22 7/12' x depth 13'
Gross Tonnage: 228 ton

Object numberABDSHIP001394

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 508.

Fate: Mined off Mount Sozonova, White Sea, 7 August 1916.

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Steel screw trawler

Owners:
1916: R. Hastie & Sons, North Shields, SN233
01/1916: Requisitioned and converted to minesweeper, armament 1 x 6 pdr, Admiralty No. 3252.
(Gerald Toghill (2004), "Royal Navy Trawlers, Part Two: Requisitioned Trawlers" (Maritime Books, Liskeard), p. 225)

Notes: Triple expansion engines with 13", 21½" and 35" cylinders, 24" stroke. Boiler 13'3" diameter, 10'3" length, 180 lb. pressure (Builder's List in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)