BRACONDENE

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

DateFebruary 1916

Object NameFISHING VESSEL

MediumSTEEL

ClassificationsShip

Dimensionslength 121' x breadth 22' 7" x depth 13'
Gross Tonnage: 235 ton

Object numberABDSHIP001396

Keywords

Aberdeen Built Ships

About MeYard: Alexander Hall & Co.
Yard Number: 510.

Fate: broken up in UK, 1960.

Propulsion: Steam
Description: Steel screw trawler

Owners:
1916: Don F. Co. Ltd, Aberdeen, A615
1916: Bracken S.T.C. Aberdeen
02/1916: Requisitioned and converted to minesweeper, armament 1 x 6 pdr, Admiralty No. 3261.
1919: Returned to owners
1920: S. Allen, Aberdeen.
1923: Sam Robford & Co. Ltd, Aberdeen.
1929: W. A. Mackie, Aberdeen.
11/1939: Requisitioned and converted to minesweeper, pennant no FY. 1812.
1940: SO of the 113th M/S group, Grimsby.
08/1946: Returned to owners. Later owned by A. Bruce, Aberdeen.
1955: Class withdrawn
1958-59: Listed as owned by the executors of the late A. Bruce.
(Gerald Toghill (2004), "Royal Navy Trawlers, Part Two: Requisitioned Trawlers" (Maritime Books, Liskeard), p. 57)

Notes: Triple expansion engines with 12", 20" and 34" cylinders, 24" stroke. Boiler 13'0" diameter, 10'9" length, 180 lb. pressure (Builder's List in the Lloyd's Library of the Aberdeen Maritime Museum)